Throughout his childhood, he would see hundreds of movies a year, studiously recording his opinions of each one on a note card.
May he rest in peace.”īorn in Kingston, N.Y., on July 30, 1939, Bogdanovich grew up as the son of immigrant parents from Austria and Serbia. “He’ll keep making them laugh up there too. “Peter always made me laugh!,” Barbra Streisand, star of “What’s Up, Doc?,” wrote Thursday. Among them was a best-picture nomination.
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The film also earned two trophies - supporting actor and actress - for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman, respectively, plus an additional four nods. “The Last Picture Show” earned two 1972 Oscar nods for Bogdanovich, for director and for writing of a screenplay based on another medium, which he shared with author Larry McMurtry. The interesting stuff has moved to TV, and movies have become more like, ‘What can I blow up next?’ There’s a terrible cancer at the heart of that.” I don’t know if we can get it back - I think we can. “Movies used to be something powerful,” Bogdanovich told The Times in 2015. Oren Segal, the two-time Oscar nominee’s manager, confirmed Bogdanovich’s death from natural causes. Revered as the director of touchstone 1970s movies such as “The Last Picture Show,” “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon,” Bogdanovich died Thursday at his Los Angeles home at age 82. “It’s been a very up-and-down existence,” he told The Times on the eve of the release of “She’s Funny That Way,” his final feature film. Broke, he declared bankruptcy and slumped out of Bel-Air.īut Hollywood loves second acts and Bogdanovich had his later in life with a run of well-received films, a pair of acclaimed books and a reoccurring role on ”The Sopranos” as Elliot Kupferberg, the therapist for Tony Soprano’s overworked psychiatrist. His new films largely flopped and his personal life was in tatters - upended by the slaying of Dorothy Stratten, his Playboy playmate-turned actress girlfriend, and then ostracized when he married her younger sister. By the mid-1970s, Peter Bogdanovich was riding high in Hollywood with a string of critically acclaimed films and living in an estate with Cybill Shepherd, whom he’d nurtured to stardom in “The Last Picture Show.”īy the next decade, it was all gone.
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