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>His name wasn't on the flight logs but is there anything about visitors to his ranch? Bet he died first and she took poison. I don't know but it's a weird coincidence.

Gene Hackman Interview: On His Retirement, Acting, And Writing Westerns

Gene Hackman

by Chris Hewitt | Updated on30th January 2020 at 1.04pm

In a way, Hackman grew into words. His father was a printer on the local newspaper, the Commercial-News in Danville, Illinois, while both his grandfather and uncle were reporters. So becoming a writer would seem like a natural development. Yet, a cursory glance at his voluminous CV reveals that, over the course of a career that spanned some 44 years and 80 films, not once does Hackman’s name appear as a writer. Not for the lack of trying, mind you. After all, if there’s one thing that a pre-PlayStation generation actor can do while noodling around in his trailer, waiting for his close-up, then it’s sit down at his desk and put some thoughts down on paper.

“I wrote a lot of little short pieces, almost like audition pieces, for actors,” he recalls. “My son thought he wanted to be an actor at one time and was in New York and I wrote him a couple of little monologues. I guess that’s where I started. I really enjoyed it. Ideas would just pop into my head and I would write them down.”

There’s a tremendous difference between writing for fun, or writing something that you know only a handful of people will hear or read, andwriting something that could be experienced by millions. That was Hackman’s next step – in the late ‘80s, he bought the rights to a best-selling crime novel, and set about the tricky task of adapting it himself, with a view to possibly directing and playing the standout role of a psychopathic killer who specialises in playing mindgames with the Feds from inside his prison cell. “I was so respectful of the book that I was into it 100 pages, and had about 300 pages of the script!” says Hackman, his laugh sounding exactly like it does on film; a warm and cheeky chuckle from the back of the throat. “So I could see that I didn’t have the experience to do that kind of thing at that point,so I let the project go, kinda regretfully.”

Small wonder, for the project was The Silence Of The Lambs which, in case you didn’t know, went on to gross $273 million worldwide, become an enduring classic and win Oscars for Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally and Anthony Hopkins in the categories that Hackman had earmarked for himself – directing, writing and the role of Hannibal Lecter. “At least I had a good eye for the material,” laughs Hackman who, with two Oscars on his mantelpiece already, can afford to be sanguine about the experience. “I really wasn’t very inventive about the process. I was more concerned about the description of the scene process, and it just got to be overlong. I didn’t think within the time I had on the option I had bought on the thing, that I could develop it properly.”

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/gene-hackman-archive-interview-retirement-acting-novels/

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>Small wonder, for the project was The Silence Of The Lambs which, in case you didn’t know, went on to gross $273 million worldwide, become an enduring classic and win Oscars for Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally and Anthony Hopkins in the categories thatHackman had earmarked for himself – directing, writing and the role of Hannibal Lecter.

But all that extra time on his hands had to be filled, so Hackman threw himself headlong into a secondary career as an author. Well, co-author, to be exact, teaming up with his neighbour and friend, Daniel Lenihan,on a series of historical adventure novels. And, in a way, to say that it’s a brand-new career is somewhat disingenuous. After all, the first, Wake Of The Perdido Star, came out in 1999, when Hackman was still making flicks like Under Suspicion and The Replacements, while the second, the courtroom drama Justice For None, was released in 2004, just after Hackman had hung up his acting spurs.

Bowed, but not broken by his incompatibility with the strictures of a screenplay, Hackman gave it another go, adapting a book called Ada Blackjack: A True Story Of Survival In The Arctic. “It was the true story of an Inuit woman who had gone on an expedition in the Arctic, and everybody on the expedition had died,” he explains. “She was on her own for six months up there – it was kind of a fascinating story in some ways, but I couldn’t quite lick it. I couldn’t quite get it to come alive. I didn’t have any confidence in it.”

The Firm

Gene Hackman and Tom Cruise in The Firm

That lack of confidence in his writing might explain why, when Hackman finally decided to pick up a pen (he writes longhand, and his wife gets it all typed up) again, he didn’t go it alone. When he was preparing to star alongside Tom Cruise in The Firm, and needed to learn how to scuba dive, he was put in touch with Lenihan, a local marine biologist and accomplished diver. “In Santa Fe, there’s not a lot of scuba diving,” chuckles Hackman. “But Daniel took me to this public swimming pool – it had a depth of nine feet or something like that – and I got my first introduction to scuba through him.”

From there, the two got chatting about authors they liked – Melville, Hemingway, “all the traditional adventure type writers” – and tentatively decided to try writing together. “I said to him, ‘Hey, I’ve never written anything…’” says Hackman. “So I went home and I made up a scene about a young man up in the sheets in a forerigged sailing ship in a storm, and that was the start of it.”

That became the basis for The Wake Of The Perdido Star, and the formation of an unusual writing process, whereby they would each write separate chapters, focusing on a particular character, so in Escape From Andersonville, Lenihan would focus on the lead, Nathaniel Parker, while Hackman would write chapters featuring the roguish Southern soldier, Marcel La Farge. They also learned never to write in the same room. “The process grew out of some long, painful nights of pounding away at this partnership,” admits Hackman. “We had a good writing relationship, though.”

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>eaming up with his neighbour and friend, Daniel Lenihan,

Daniel Lenihan

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Daniel Lenihan (US delegate to ICUCH 1991-2004)

Themes of special interest – Underwater Archaeology

Professional biography

While finishing his MA degree and teaching anthropology at Florida State University in 1973, Dan was hired as assistant project director for a shipwreck survey conducted by theUS National Park Service (NPS). There, he met Cal Cummings, who was building an NPS Cultural Resources Center inSanta Fe, New Mexico.Cal asked Dan to lead the Center’s efforts in underwater archaeology. NPS is the nation’s lead agency in Historic Preservation and houses its oldest nonmilitary diving program (1960). Cal had Dan first concentrate on reservoir areas where dam-construction agencies had flooded thousands of archaeological sites. By 1976, those agencies had contributed a million-dollars for Dan’s team of NPS diving archaeologists to revisit and evaluate flooded sites—the National Reservoir Inundation Study (NRIS).

The NRIS ended in 1980 with a 1500-page Final Report offering hard conclusions affecting all land archaeology done in US river-drainage systems. In 1980, the NPS made NRIS principals into the agency’s Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU) with Lenihan as Chief. This included all underwater archaeology in the NPS. In late 1999, its name was changed to Submerged Resources Center (SRC) and Larry Murphy became Chief, allowing Lenihan to focus on writing. Dan retired in 2009 and SRC moved to Denver led by Dave Conlin. At this 2018 writing, SRC has ranged the National Parks and former Trusts for 38 years. Counting its NRIS roots, the team is 43 years old.

Dan is most known for leading were the Isle Royale shipwreck Study, USS Arizona study in Pearl Harbor and assessing Atomic-bombed ships at Bikini Atoll. His personal book about his early diving and the work of SCRU/SRC is entitled Submerged. He was the US Rep. to ICUCH from 1991 to 2004. He hosted a meeting in Hawaii in 1995 (chaired by Graeme Henderson) that developed an early draft for much of what is now incorporated in theUNESCOConvention.

> https://icuch.icomos.org/

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>Daniel Lenihan (US delegate to ICUCH 1991-2004)

Mrs. Arakawa Hackman met Gene in the early 80’s at a gym where she worked and he was a member. Betsy and Hackman began dating in 1984, they got married in December, 1991. Betsy is a former classical pianist andco-owner of Pandora’s Inc. a home furnishings store in Santa Fe with her friend Barbara Lenihan. - See more at:

>https://www.famousfix.com/topic/betsy-arakawa

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didn't dare put their names on the doxxing article

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>ELON YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THIS