Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
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Jan 29, 2015 · John Cassavetes. In a 1984 interview with People magazine, writer-director-actor John Cassavetes said, “I’ve had a lot to drink in my life, and my liver just went bananas.”
May 29, 2014 · Cavett recalls the drunken antics of John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara on a 1970 episode of his show.
John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American filmmaker and actor. He began as an actor in film and television before helping to pioneer modern American independent cinema as a writer and director, often producing and distributing his films with his own money. [2]
Feb 4, 1989 · John Cassavetes, the innovative film maker deeply admired by some but scorned by others for such off-center movies as “A Woman Under the Influence” and “Faces,” died Friday at Cedars-Sinai ...
Aug 17, 1997 · Alcohol, a recurring motif in Cassavetes's films (and life: he died of complications of cirrhosis of the liver), and mental illness helped to destabilize the characters further, and plunge them...
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Feb 6, 2006 · Cassavetes died fairly young—just shy of 60—in 1989. He’d contracted hepatitis in 1967, and was always something of a functioning alcoholic—toward the end, he was downing a bottle of vodka ...
Nov 3, 2014 · Cassavetes never made a Film About Addiction in the vein of "Leaving Las Vegas," "Requiem For A Dream" or "The Lost Weekend." Many of his characters are heavy drinkers, but I doubt they think of themselves as alcoholics.
Dec 9, 2016 · Marked by pitch-perfect performances from Cassavetes (the brother) and his wife Gena Rowlands (the sister), it follows an alcoholic playboy and his sister, both with estranged kids from ex-partners, as they guide each other through a whirlwind of emotion.
Aug 29, 2014 · Cassavetes, a lifelong smoker and drinker, was told by doctors when he started shooting Love Streams that he had only six months to live. So he rewrote the script as a wistful final expression ...
