Mimsey Borogrove
Crusader
http://news.yahoo.com/five-easy-pieces-star-karen-black-dead-74-220015982.html
Karen was a long time Scientologist, for perhaps more than 40 years - When I was first on staff in the mid 60's, I was told she was a scio and dating our org's Ethics Officer. I never met her, but I did see her in person at an event at the valley org a few years ago that Drew was giving - she had volunteered to be his guinea pig for some demo he was giving - nice person... Mimsey
Karen was a long time Scientologist, for perhaps more than 40 years - When I was first on staff in the mid 60's, I was told she was a scio and dating our org's Ethics Officer. I never met her, but I did see her in person at an event at the valley org a few years ago that Drew was giving - she had volunteered to be his guinea pig for some demo he was giving - nice person... Mimsey
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Karen Black, the prolific actress who appeared in more than 100 movies and was featured in such counterculture favorites as "Easy Rider," ''Five Easy Pieces" and "Nashville," has died.
Black's husband, Stephen Eckelberry, says the actress died Wednesday from complications from cancer. She was 74.
Known for her full lips and thick, wavy hair that seemed to change color from film to film, Black often portrayed women who were quirky, troubled or threatened. Her breakthrough was as a prostitute who takes LSD with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969's "Easy Rider," the hippie classic that helped get her the role of Rayette Dipesto, a waitress who dates — and is mistreated by — an upper-class dropout played by Jack Nicholson in 1970's "Five Easy Pieces."
Cited by The New York Times as a "pathetically appealing vulgarian," Black's performance won her an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Award. She would recall that playing Rayette really was acting: The well-read, cerebral Black, raised in a comfortable Chicago suburb, had little in common with her relatively simple-minded character.
"If you look through the eyes of Rayette, it looks nice, really beautiful, light, not heavy, not serious. A very affectionate woman who would look upon things with love, and longing," Black told Venice Magazine in 2007. "A completely uncritical person, and in that sense, a beautiful person. When (director) Bob Rafelson called me to his office to discuss the part he said, 'Karen, I'm worried you can't play this role because you're too smart.' I said 'Bob, when you call "action," I will stop thinking,' because that's how Rayette is.'"
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