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. >> to lex luthor in superman. >> thanks to the generous help of the united states government, we are about to be involved in the greatest real estate swindle of all time. >> to the movies that won him oscars. >> all right, shut up, damn it! shut up! >> anybody want a milkshake? >> the french connection and unforgiven. >> i didn't see you there. >> no, no. >> woman. no. two gun shooters. >> hollywood. this morning, remembering gene hackman found dead alongside his wife, betsy arakawa, and their dog at their new mexico home yesterday. the sheriff saying overnight, i want to assure the community and the neighborhood that there is no immediate danger to anyone. the sheriff not providing details on cause of death. hackman was 95. his wife 64. they had lived in new mexico since the 1980s. years ago, hackman was asked by gq magazine how he wanted to be remembered as a decent actor. he said, as someone who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest fashion. authorities in santa fe say they will give more information about hackman's death later today. perry russom, abc news, new yor

then superman, i mean, lex luthor. come on, baby, $138 million. again, not such a good guy. but then what i love about gene hackman, you know, we talk about some films. he was the good guy, some films. he was the bad guy. sometimes he played a serious role. sometimes he played a comedic role. the birdcage, of course, he was the senator in that film, in which he kind of came around on gay rights. so quite a fun little film there. >> i can't believe that, like you don't have on there, unforgiven, which is, of course one of my favorites as well. mississippi burning, you got the royal. i could go on and on, but the firm, i'm with you there. i love his character there. and of course, it's one of the classic tom cruise's sprinting scenes. we all know what happens next. so i've got to ask you, harry, because i know you just can't resist telling me what is your favorite gene hackman movie. >> you know, we we started with him being in a coach role. we'll end with him being in a coach role. my favorite gene hackman film, the replacements, only 41%. on rotten tomatoes. but i got to tak

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he did so as superman's arch nemesis, lex luthor, in three films. >> you were great in your day, superman from the set of superman four. >> you have a little kids come up to you on the street and say you're the evil guy, and that's kind of fun. >> he was a mainstay in the 80s and 90s with movies like enemy of the state with will smith, as they worked together to prove smith's character's innocence. >> you're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid. >> and he would captivate a younger generation in wes anderson's the royal tenenbaums. but many will remember him as the coach who always knew how to get the best out of his team, rallying his high school basketball players in hoosiers. >> if you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be, i don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. in my book, we're going to be winners. >> he was both equal, like this cuddly teddy bear, but also sinister at the same time. he was the chameleon of an actor that we don't get very often. he doesn't phone it in. he gives his all every singl

and playing lex luthor in three superman films and a right wing senator forced to dress in drag in "the birdcage." in 2000 he downplayed his skills in an interview with cbs. >> i feel in some ways my efforts of being an actor are so all instinctive and that i hadn't really maybe paid my dues in terms of my contribution. >> reporter: but many are now honoring hackman's lifetime of contributions to cinema. >>> family members of the menendez brothers say they have a glimmer of home after governor gavin newsom ordered the parole board to investigate their case to determine if convicted murderers erik and lyle menendez pose a public risk if released. relatives say it is a step in the right direction. >> it is a huge sigh of relief that someone in the seat of power is paying attention to what we have seen up close since erik and lyle have been incarcerated. we have seen their rehabilitation over the last few decades with no hope of release until now. >> the menendez brothers are serving life sentences for the murders of their parents in 1989. they say it was an act of self-defense after years

. >> he also stood out as lex luthor in superman and a beloved basketball coach in hoosiers. >> if youput your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be, he had that presence that filled up every inch of the screen. so the minute gene hackman came into a scene, your eyes were drawn to him. >> years ago, hackman was asked by gq magazine how he wanted to be remembered, and he said, quote, as a decent actor, as someone who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest fashion. melissa don, abc news, los angeles. a glorious round table pepperoni pizz... huh? behold, the pepperoni, grilled chicken and bacon pizza from round table! three magnificent toppings. try it at round table pizza! alright. what's the definition of character to you? umm... would you be a superhero or a supervillain? if you could say one thing to big tobacco, what would it be? it's so important in this time of change that we reclaim our sacred ways. i had to open my eyes. you can't continue to do this. deep breath. i'd want to ask them “why?” (♪) people's union usa is

. >> he also stood out as lex luthor in superman and a beloved basketball coach in hoosiers. >> if you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be, he had that presence that filled up every inch of the screen. so the minute gene hackman came into a scene, your eyes were drawn to him. >> years ago, hackman was asked by gq magazine how he wanted to be remembered, and he said, quote, as a decent actor, as someone who tried to portray what was given to them in an honest fashion. melissa don, abc news, los angeles. >> actor the family of eric and lyle menendez today addressed the recent updates in their attempts to free the brothers from prison. the brothers have been behind bars for murdering their parents for more than 30 years. their family says that's enough time. reporter rob hayes from our sister station in los angeles with the latest. >> when it takes 35 years to spark a get out of jail crusade, it's important to not lose momentum. family members of lyle and erik menendez, determined to keep the spotlight on the brothers as they try

first guest is a very talented writer, director and actor, whose resume includes the super villains lex luthor an excellent movie about cousins. "a real pain" is on hulu now. please welcome jesse eisenberg. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thanks for coming. i know you live in new york, right? >> yes, but i was able to fly out here. >> jimmy: oh on a plane? >> yeah, exactly. [ laughter ] i was going to do a boat, but they said the canal would take too long to be on the show. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: we're going to reclaim that canal, and don't worry, it will go by like that. >> exactly. if this was next week, i think i could do the canal. they wanted me here the day after. >> jimmy: are you a good traveler? are you good on -- >> i'm a fine traveler. i'm not like in general a fine person. going through normal stuff, i don't excel. but traveling -- maybe traveling's an exception. a lot of people are nervous travelers. but because i know there's nervous people on the plane, for some reason, it comforts me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh. >> you know, as opposed to like the rest of life. when i'm sitt

hackman was well known for his roles as lex luthor in superman the french connection and unforgiven. hackman was 95. his wife was 64. santa fe authorities say they will be giving more information later today. >> to. la la la la la la la la la la. >> happening today, thousands of uc health care workers will be back on the picket line for a second day of a strike. two unions representing uc service and patient care workers are demonstrating at all ten uc campuses and uc medical facilities. nearly 10,000 workers are on the picket lines at ucsf campuses. union members say they have been dealing with a staffing crisis. they're also demanding annual across the board wage increases. >> we want to take care of our patients. we want to get back in the labs. we want to take care of the students. but we can't do that until they come and come back to the table. address the crisis, provide us the data that we've requested, and stop trying to put barriers in our way. >> uc officials say they have offered each union a meaningful wage increases, as well as health care premium reductions. ucsf health

more iconic roles would follow his take on lex luthor in superman. >> you were. >> great in your day.perman. >> i wouldn't play superman for anything. you don't envy christopher getting into the cape. well, he uses my body, of course. of course. >> to coach norman dale in hoosiers. >> i don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. in my book, we're going to be winners. >> another oscar nomination for his portrayal of fbi agent rupert anderson in mississippi burning. a best supporting actor win in 1993 for his performance as sheriff little bill in the dark western unforgiven. more than 80 films spanning some six decades. through all the work, all the accolades. hackman just saw himself as an actor. >> your name goes above the title, but are you a star? >> no. you know, warren beatty is a star. >> you know, robert. >> redford is a star. brad pitt i never think of myself that way. >> oh, but he. >> was a star, all right. you know, there were so many memorable roles, it was hard to get them all in there. young frankenstein, the royal tenenbaums. i mean, and another point. y

he was lex luthor, westerns. unforgiven, he's opposite clint eastwood and morgan freeman, action movies. he's opposite will smith in enemy of the state, and the movie that i will always remember him for, because my freshman basketball coach at chantilly high school, mark wayne, quoted his speech about the baskets being ten feet high. wherever you go, norman dale in hoosiers, gene hackman was an actor for every occasion, for every film, and for every one. it didn't matter. his, in fact, opposite denzel washington in crimson tide. there's a story where women would stop him. black women would stop him in the grocery store and say, you the man that hit denzel. we don't like that. but that's who gene hackman was. everybody loved the gene hackman movie. he will be sorely missed. >> he really will. and everybody has one that they love. or 3 or 4. and it is just such a he is such an emblem of a time in the film industry where you could have a six decade career and play all of these types of characters. so many of the mov

get him two lex luthor opposite christopher reeve in superman. >> mind over muscle. >> and after thatremarkable run of iconic roles in dozens of films, winning over audiences with movies like hoosiers and crimson tide. >> mr. hunter. >> i made the decision. i'm captain of this boat. >> you're relieved of your position. >> and critics with a second oscar win with unforgiven. >> he's got one. battle left. >> he kept working even after heart surgery in 1990, turning to mostly comedic roles. >> it was against the. >> law until his retirement in the early 2000. hackman and his wife moving to santa fe. he continued to work as a novelist, publishing his fifth book in 2013, though the two were occasionally spotted together. hackman largely preferred to stay out of the public eye in recent years. while audiences remember him through a remarkable on screen career. now, police investigating the screen legend's death. >> you know. tributes are pouring. >> in, even though there. >> are these mysterious circumstances that are. >> being investigated, it's worth looking at. >> the fact. >> that not o

tough as nails good cop popeye doyle in the french connection, which earned him his first oscar to lex luthor>> mind over muscle. and after that, a remarkable run of iconic roles in dozens of films, winning over audiences with movies like hoosiers and crimson tide. >> mr. hunter. >> i made a decision. i'm captain of this boat. >> you're relieved of your position. >> and critics with a second oscar win with unforgiven. >> he's got. >> one barrel left. >> he kept working even after heart surgery in 1990, turning to mostly comedic roles. >> it was against the law. >> until his retirement in the early 2000. hackman and his wife moving to santa fe. he continued to work as a novelist, publishing his fifth book in 2013, though the two were occasionally spotted together. hackman largely preferred to stay out of the public eye in recent years. while audiences remember him through a remarkable on screen career. >> that's it. >> for this hour. all in with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight on all in. >> grocery price g

he went from french connection to superman playing the ultimate villain, lex luthor.e was an extraordinary actor. and then the way he, the wife, and the dog were found dead was extremely macabre. if it was some kind of suicide pact, uh, which is what it sounds like to me, though i hate to speculate, but i don't think it was a three way suicide pact. i doubt the dog had much say in the whole thing, but in any case, it's a very creepy thing of the type that would end up in a book like hollywood babylon, where they tell you the dark side of hollywood. uh, gene, did. >> i do, i do, i do, michael, i do need to clarify. we don't we don't have any of those details. we haven't. you know, all we know at this point is that foul play is not suspected. we don't know the ultimate cause of death. so i just want to be careful not to speculate. i would like to get your take. i'd love to get your take on, you know, as elizabeth noting he really stepped away from hollywood in 2004. he had also sat down with larry king in 2004. and part of that interview really stood out. i want to play

franchise, uh, that people come back to generation after generation will have seen his performances as lex luthor. um, and that was, uh, something, uh, much more sort of, uh, comedic and light, you know, very different from a lot of his other work. but as you know, we've said in this tribute, whatever the challenge you lay down. gene hackman could rise to it. very impressive stuff. what a life. what a legacy. >> truly. sandra bonetti, thank you so much. i really appreciate you this morning. all right. ahead, a critical meeting soon at the white house between president trump and the british prime minister. can he get the president to agree to security guarantees for ukraine? and breaking overnight, the supreme court granting trump's request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments. as we learn new details about the scale of the administration's planned cuts to u.s. aid. and an apology from meta this morning after graphic and violent videos showed up on users instagram reels, unwanted. >> cooked books, corporate fat cats, swindling socialites, doped up cyclists and yes, more crooked poli

more iconic roles would follow his take on lex luthor in superman. >> you were great. >> in your day,n. >> i wouldn't play superman for anything. you don't envy. >> christopher getting into the cape. >> well, he uses my body, of course. >> of course. >> to coach norman dale in hoosiers. >> i don't care what the scoreboard says. >> at the end of the game. >> in my book, we're going to be winners. >> another oscar nomination for his portrayal of fbi agent rupert anderson in mississippi burning. a best supporting actor win in 1993 for his performance as sheriff little bill in the dark western unforgiven. more than 80 films spanning some six decades. through all the work, all the accolades. hackman just saw himself as an actor. >> your name. >> goes. >> above the title. >> but are you. >> a star? >> no. you know, warren beatty is a star. you know, robert redford is a star. brad pitt i never think of myself that way. >> jason carroll, thanks for that reporting. still ahead on cnn this morning, air traffic controllers in high demand. how the faa and elon musk are trying to bolster the ranks

i believe he was lex luthor in those early superman opposite christopher reeve.again, as i keep saying, a movie that he was in. there's a costar that he played opposite that is also a big actor. and we remember gene hackman. so i the this woke me up out of bed like it's two in the morning in los angeles. and we're having this conversation because the oscars are later this weekend. and one of hollywood's greatest actors, where you think, like, he could play anyone and resembled everyone is gone. and the circumstances are so are so shocking. >> yeah. it's the circumstances are certainly shocking. and we're going to wait to get more information on that. it is, um, it is, it is. it's tough to lose somebody like that. as you mentioned, he did retire from acting back in 2009. but but again, just kind of thinking to just to lose somebody like that, that can play as you mentioned, anybody with such believability that you really buy into it. it also speaks of a different era for film that we are really seeing transition at this moment, that we've seen transition over the

and so his performance as lex luthor in that will have been, to many people, their introduction to him. um, and then they'd go and watch him in other great movies like, uh, unforgiven and, and mississippi burning. uh, but for me, it's superman, because even though he played the villain, he was a superman and definitely a super actor. >> that's a very nice point to end it on. sandra, we really appreciate your thoughts. and as you say, we will look ahead to how this year's oscars shape up, reflecting the life and times of this great actor. thank you very much. and we will have more coverage coming up with cnn after the break. stay with. >> us. >> cookbooks, corporate fat cats, swindling socialites, doped up cyclists then yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running out of those anytime soon. >> a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper, march 9th on cnn. they are trying to shut down this legal loophole to get 100mg generic viagra or 20mg generic cialis, delivered to your door for just $0.87 in less than two minutes. do this first, scan the qr code t

. >> lex luthor, possibly. you've heard the name, the greatest criminal. >> mind. >> on earth. >> often playing the villain or beloved anti-hero. hackman won his second oscar for his role in clint eastwood's 1992 western unforgiven. >> when he fires that, take out your pistols and shoot him down like a mangy scoundrel. he is. >> known for his more intimidating roles. he was also beloved for his comedic ones. >> are you getting divorced? >> it doesn't look good. >> i've loved every. >> minute of my career, i really have. >> then in the early 2000, hackman quietly retired from hollywood. >> nothing. there's no script in front of you. no one's calling gene hackman. >> no. >> it's probably all over. >> jensen huang. >> and of course, here in santa fe, investigators behind me at the sheriff's department are now running yet another high profile investigation. this was the same team that investigated the fatal shooting on the set of the movie rust involving alec baldwin. we just got some new information in from the sh

lex luthor and superman. a crooked lawyer in the firm. >> you think i'm talking about breaking the law? >> an uptight senator in the birdcage. >> this is a man. >> what? >> hackman's career spanned half a century. his big break came when warren beatty cast him as his brother and fellow bank robber. in 1967, bonnie and clyde, which earned him his first oscar nomination. from there, his list of credits reads like a monument to american blockbusters. the movie i was obsessed with as a kid, the poseidon adventure. >> this little hole, as you call it, is going to get us out of here and up to broadway. we've climbed four decks so far. we've got two more to go. this is the only way out. >> no way out. mississippi burning crimson tide. hackman could play a volcanic everyman. >> i don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. in my book, we're going to be winners. >> an ice cold president and everything in between. among his awards two oscars, 1 in 1972 for the french connection and in 1993 for unforgive

it's a big fan in the early 80s, you talk about lex luthor and superman, late 80s. he did in unforgiven, the 2000. my favorite movie thus far of the 2000 royal tenenbaums. you talk about a guy that was iconic for generations. i mean, it's quite a talent. >> yeah. and such a as not just the duration of his career, but the breadth and the different roles that we talked about. his, you know, ventures into comedy. also the birdcage, he's in that, you know, he of course, the drama he was in crimson tide and the conversation, the list goes on and on. he has a filmography that's as as strong as anyone's, willie. and, you know, someone who also made a decision about 15, 20 years ago to walk away to retirement to head to new mexico. but certainly, you know, will be long, long remembered for he'll be remembered for as long as we have movies. >> let's take a look back now at his career with nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz. >> if the car chase scene in the french connection set the gold standard for all hollywood chases to follow, then it star. gene hackman has come to def

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