Actress Karen Black has died

[J.A.W.]

Actress Karen Black has died. She was 74.

She was a favourite of mine.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57597691/karen-black-five-easy-pieces-star-dead-at-74/

[John L]

RIP. She was a very good actress.

[Teasing the Korean]

She was awesome in Burnt Offerings and Trilogy of Terror, two Dan Curtis productions.

RIP.

[sidewinder]

Sad news - RIP. Seemed to me to ubiquitous in films from the 1970s onwards albeit always in a positive way.

Edited August 9, 2013 by sidewinder

[Head Man]

Sad news....I loved her in "Five Easy Pieces".

[Neal Pomea]

RIP Connie White!

[clifford_thornton]

A major figure. RIP.

[T.D.]

Sad news - RIP. Seemed to me to ubiquitous in films from the 1970s onwards albeit always in a positive way.

+1...Well said, I was getting ready to post almost the same thought.

[Teasing the Korean]

I'm sure I'm biased, but it seems like now all the major and semi-major young(ish) actresses all have this cookie-cutter look. It's interesting that not so long ago, you could have actresses like, say, Karen Black and Barbara Steele, who had very striking features and didn't fit neatly into any generic western ideal of female perfection.

RIP Karen.

[JSngry]

I'm sure I'm biased, but it seems like now all the major and semi-major young(ish) actresses all have this cookie-cutter look. It's interesting that not so long ago, you could have actresses like, say, Karen Black and Barbara Steele, who had very striking features and didn't fit neatly into any generic western ideal of female perfection.

She had a vaguely duckish mouth, which I found appealing, although ducks per se do nothing for me except as cooked.

[etherbored]

i would have thought drew to praise her work in 'airport 75'....

[flat5]

"We used to read each other poems and limericks and tried to catch me on my vocabulary," she later said of Hitchcock. "He once said, `You seem very perspicacious today, Miss Black.' I said, `Oh, you mean "keenly perceptive?" `Yes.' So I got him this huge, gold-embossed dictionary that said `Diction-Harry,' at the end of the shoot."

[Teasing the Korean]

[Carl Baugher]

Sorry to hear this. She was great in "Five Easy Pieces" and very good in a number of other roles. Her chemistry with Nicholson was obvious. She was also outstanding in "Drive, He Said."