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Because he was an authentic human being but also an authentic performer. this is someone who will be regarded as one of the best character actors of all time. i mean his characters that he brought to life were very intentional that he selected in the first place but they stuck with you and stayed with you and there's a reason he's being honored the way he's being honored today. i would venture to guess up through the next week and a half by the time we get to the emmys, he was already a front-runner to when his first emmy award for "love craft country." obviously there are those of us who beli...

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Charles Durning 1923 – 2012 The man who played the pope, the governor of Texas, Dustin Hoffman’s Tootsie suitor, four different Santa Clauses, and a bumbling Mel Brooks-inspired Nazi colonel has died. Charles Durning, known in the business as the King of Character Actors, died Christmas Eve at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. Born in Highland Falls, NY into an Irish family of ten children, the first years of his life were a struggle. His father, wounded in WWI, could not work, and Charles lost five sisters to smallpox and scarlet fever. Durning eventually joined the Army and was among t...

Greg: out in a movie in theaters this weekend it is called getting brave what is it about? >> a teenage girl dying of cancer and she goes to the funeral home to find out but then ends up teaching the funeral director how to sell life it is a film how to accept every day like it is new and amazing. >> you are one of hollywood's busiest character actors. are you leading me in? >> i did have to write and direct and produce saving