Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Maybe his wife was so busy taking care of Gene she had no time to clean if you do get time in a big house it might take 2 or 3 days just to clean one room or get it close to pristine perfect condition.

If there are a lot of windows probably a ton of dust from the sunshine.

Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Dust from the sunshine?

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It happens in my house where the furniture and TV have particles or dust accumulated from the sun shining inside the house.

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I don't think anyone is confused about the idea that a house can get dirty and cluttered. I think it is surprise that they were not paying people to clean the house. That goes to some kind of mental instability on the wife's part that nobody knew about.

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I don't buy that. It's not like she was a working mom. Sure, she took care of Gene - but she has plenty of time throughout the day to manage/clean the house. I know people who were in the same boat and their house was well kept.
It shouldn't have gotten to that point in the first place, but even then - if you just spend 20-30 minutes a day for however long it takes... it'll get done.
She was obviously a slob and/or lazy.

I'm baffled at how hard maintaining a neat home is to some people.

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Are you also baffeld that people suffer from depression? People don't want to live in filth, or live an unhealthy lifestyle it's always despression, not lazyness. In this case it's just obvious. They had the resources for payed help and didn't allow them into the house.

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I didn't know that was the case here. My comment was outside of the scope of depression (which I should've added as an exception).
Not everyone who keeps a messy house is depressed. Hell, we have someone on this forum who gets barraged all the time about his living situation - but I don't think I've heard anyone dismiss it as depression.

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I don't know that she was depressed, but if you eat, drink, hord... too much, it's always a way to cope with depression. It's not that they don't want to exercise, get sober or have a clean apartment.

Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Or they were cheap with their finances.

My dad would get mad when I would vacuum a lot and consume power and that is better than the alternative and being a filthy slob?

Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Gene Hackman was paid more to make one movie than most people earn in a lifetime. If his wife was "cheap with their finances" to the point that they lived in squalor rather than pay some maid service next to nothing, then she had some sort of psychological problem.

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If Gene was suffering from dementia, she might not have wanted anyone to come into the house and she couldn't keep up with cleaning and decluttering herself?

Or, yeah, she might have just been too cheap to employ a housekeeper. One thing I've learned is that rich people can be really weird with their money. They'll throw money at certain things like crazy, then, for others, they're literally counting pennies.

Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Since they had hired help outside the house, probably for gardening, I wouldn't say it's likely they didn't want to pay anyone. Either way Gene Hackman lived to be 95, it's not that his living conditions robbed him of his golden years. At 95 every day can be the last.

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I know this post is a little late. But, TCM has a Gene Hackman marathon tonight. If you're not a cord cutter, there are a few movies that you may want to catch or record.

I know Night Moves is not on a subscription streaming service. Only paid VOD.

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I set my DVR to Night Moves last week since it got mentioned a lot here in this forum and did not want to buy it on media or do a pay per view rental.

Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Interesting choices. And all great. But Gene was a supporting role in "Bonnie and Clyde". I would have picked the following: "The French Connection", "The Conversation", "Hoosiers", "Mississippi Burning" and "The Firm".

Re: Gene Hackman Appreciation Thread (1930-2025)
 

Bonnie and Clyde is one of the most TCM catalog movies that I can think of, however. Second only to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.