Ben Gazzara

...fails to break new ground "Looking for Palladin" meanders around Antigua (Guatemala) at a leisurely gait and enjoys the presence of Ben Gazzara in its central role. That's about all there is to find, however. A short-tempered, Ugly...

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...Palladin," from Polish-born writer-director Andrzej Krakowski ("Triumph of the Spirit"), pits 1960s movie star Jack Palladin (Ben Gazzara), who fled the high life and personal problems for anonymity in Antigua, Guatemala, against...

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...orders at people back home and shows complete disdain for the laid-back locals. Ross is on a mission to find Jake Palladin (Ben Gazzara), a two-time Oscar winner who now works in the kitchen of a restaurant in Antigua, a quaint colonial...

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...27th 2009 at 2:29pm Andrzej Krakowski pegs his water-treading labor-of-love indie to the always cool but here too blithe Ben Gazzara, playing a reclusive screen legend dodging a pushy agent. Guatemalan location-shooting is the only...

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...Moscow), a self-absorbed Hollywood talent agent in his 30s, lands in Guatemala, "looking for Palladin," Jack "Jake" Palladin (Ben Gazzara), a two-time Oscar-winning movie star of... Josh Ross (David Moscow), a self-absorbed Hollywood talent...

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...by flying to London in search of life's meaning. For several weeks, Cassavetes rehearsed scenes and created a script with co-stars Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk, but improvisation remained his specialty as he allowed each actor to create with...

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...New York City. Decked out in furs, they were groaning at the then aggressively hyped screen combination of John Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara upchucking in a men's room. Well, one can empathize: Writer/director Cassavetes' angst epic...

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Some 40 years on, John Cassavetes' actor-friendly film can still both exasperate and enthrall. Peter Falk, left, Ben Gazzara and John Cassavetes star in "Husbands," which is now 11 minutes longer on DVD. (Sony Pictures Home...

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...film began as a novel ("End as a Man") by Calder Willingham, who made it into a play that was mounted by the famed Actors Studio. Ben Gazzara played the lead, and the director was Jack Garfein. The stage version was strong enough that Gazzara...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Ben Gazzara to be honored by Jimmy Stewart museum In this Sept. 22, 2005 file photo, Ben Gazzara is shown at the San Sebastian film festival in San Sebastian, Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro...

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