Gene Hackman is a character actor. We say that sometimes and it doesn’t seem to mean much. It’s code for they could never play lead, or they weren’t attractive enough to become movie stars. But in Gene Hackman’s case...
In 1986 there were two films released. One was Top Gun which topped the box office. The other was David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. I was just a young woman then, barely out of high school when it landed in...