The Great Gene Hackman

Tonight I was late for both my political meeting, meditation class and bookclub. No, I wasn't planning on doing all three! Two days ago I planned on going to the bookclub but I didn't start the book. Last night, I was planning on going to my political meeting but I didn't do the homework and I was too late for my meditation class tonight so instead I went to Borders to see Gene Hackman. He has a new book co-written with a friend of his, Daniel Lenihan, Escape from Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War. I had no intention of buying the book and I have no intention of ever reading it. I just wanted to see the real Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey is no Gene Hackman!) in person. He was just walking by when I got to the Borders event area and I thought "oh, that's Gene Hackman". It's quite fun to see someone in person that you're used to seeing on the big screen. Gene has done some great movies-some of my favorites:

Mississippi Burning (on my top ten list)
Superman
The Conversation
Bonnie and Clyde
The Birdcage (he was so funny in that!)
The French Connection
Get Shorty

He was very funny but I got the feeling from what he said that he is pretty much done with Hollywood and his acting career. He basically said that he's getting too old for Hollywood.