For decades, Gene Hackman was a titan of American cinema—one of those rare, greatest-of-all-time screen presences whose name on the poster promised ... the contemporary-movie-star mold but ...

But over the next 50-odd years, Hackman would become the greatest, coolest, earthiest star of what’s now known as New Hollywood: an everyman who defined a generation of moviemaking better than anyone ...

Two decades earlier, as Popeye Doyle ... was “not a sentimental guy” and did not keep movie memorabilia in his home – apart from a poster of Errol Flynn. He wasn’t even sure what had ...

Actor Gene Hackman signs a chair for a fan while also signing posters from his movie "The French Connection" at a Borders book store in Chicago April 28, 2000. Hackman was in Chicago to sign ...

New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael praised Mr. Hackman ... drama — a study in moral ambiguity as Mr. Hackman’s Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle is revealed to be as dirty, racist and reckless ...

Charli XCX called out ITV at the Brit Awards after winning artist of the year, claiming that the broadcaster was “complaining about my nipples.” The “Guess” singer, who rocked a sheer black dress to ...

Four years later, the Academy would name him Best Actor for The French Connection, in which his work as the New York cop Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle characterized the real-world grit he brought to ...

Two decades earlier, as Popeye Doyle, Hackman had found having to ... He said he was “not a sentimental guy” and did not keep movie memorabilia in his home – apart from a poster of Errol Flynn. He ...

And there, parked proudly out front, is a vintage car that looks like it drove straight out of a black-and-white movie. Slide into a booth or belly ... Red and black checkerboard floors, celebrity ...