Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. On Saturday at the Egyptian, there will be a screening of John Cassavetes’ 1980 “Gloria,” which subverts many tropes of the gangster film as Rowlands plays a woman forced to protect a young boy. But it happened in 1964.” Points of interest ‘Heathers’ Shannen …
US actress Gena Rowlands, whose six-decade career garnered Oscar nominations and other acclaim, died Wednesday at age 94. The humour and heartache of Gena Rowlands No official cause of death was immediately given, but her son Nick Cassavetes said earlier this year she had been battling Alzheimer's disease for five years. In what many consider her finest role, Rowlands captured …
NEW YORK — The celebrated actor and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, has revealed. “We spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes said. And it’s so crazy — we …
