The death of the 90-year-old actor leaves behind a career filled with indelible moments, from Seinfeld to Magnolia to Boogie Nights
aybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure. We’re too old to change the world. But what about that kid sitting down, opening a book right now in a branch of the local library, and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn’t he deserve better? Look, if you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you’d better think again.
But it was Paul Thomas Anderson who repeatedly gave Hall the great and memorable movie roles of his career, particularly in that downbeat cult classic which was Anderson’s feature debut and the movie that conversations about Hall, and about gambling in movies, always returns: Hard Eight, from 1996. He is an impossibly wise, worldly Vegas gambler, who is also self-contained and discreet in the way of veteran gambling survivors.
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