Jack Palance dies at age 87

When Palance accepted his Oscar for best supporting actor he delighted viewers of the 1992 Academy Awards by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess.

"That's nothing, really," he said slyly. "As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn't make a difference whether she's there or not."

Yezzir, he was all right.

I really liked Jack Palance, and I am very sorry to hear that, M.A.

Loved him in this version of the movie:

One hell of a voice, one hell of a face....so long Jack.

I thought he died years ago.

ah man....

I remember him from City Slicker - great role!

Well, he's lived a long life, may he continue wherever he is.

I'll never forget when he won his Oscar. Billy Crystal was the host and after Jack surprised everyone with his one-armed push-ups, it was as if Billy Crystal threw away his script and just rode on that for the rest of the night. Palance was 70! So outrageous. It was great.

I remember that, eoe and dys...


trouble is, people get remembered in the week after they died. Sometimes I hear about someone I thought was dead, that happened this week..

but waning years can be very lonely for those famous, infamous, and not well known.

I wish there was some impetus to follow up on how people are when they are are older and probably struggling, famous or not... but also possessed of some kind of savvy and possibly salient views if anyone cared, on history. We, speaking only of the US culture I know, tend to dump most elders, at least in contrast to some other cultures.

Like many actors who used to play screen villains seemed to shine when they turned to comedy: Lee Marvin, Walter Mathau, Leslie Neilson, etc.

I can't decide whether I loved him more as Curly or as the bad guy in Young Guns.