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He was superb in Southern Comfort, The Emerald Forest, and many others. I only wish he had had more leading roles in films.
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Sad to hear. Rest in Peace.
I can remember him mostly from his portrayal of Jim Jones in a TV Movie about the Guyana Tragedy and later in RED DAWN and EXTREME PREJUDICE. He also had a brief cameo selling Al Pacino a scarf or bandana in CRUSING.
Great menacing bad guy film presence.
yeah guyana tragedy on tv was my first experience of him. I watched it to record elmers music on cassette but watched it through. All those best seller dramas were well made with good cast. Yes, Booth had a dark and booding presence on screen. A good actor. Rip.
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Sad to hear. Rest in Peace.
I can remember him mostly from his portrayal of Jim Jones in a TV Movie about the Guyana Tragedy and later in RED DAWN and EXTREME PREJUDICE. He also had a brief cameo selling Al Pacino a scarf or bandana in CRUSING.
Great menacing bad guy film presence.
yeah guyana tragedy on tv was my first experience of him. I watched it to record elmers music on cassette but watched it through. All those best seller dramas were well made with good cast. Yes, Booth had a dark and booding presence on screen. A good actor. Rip.
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May 15, 2017 - 1:48 AM
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Powers Boothe was a regular supporting player (as "Whalen") on the television series "Skag". The series starred Karl Malden as "Pete Skagska," a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill. At a time when mills were failing throughout America, Skagska was a simple man trying to keep his family together.
The series began as a 3-hour NBC television movie that aired on January 6, 1980 (as an installment of The Big Event). A little over a week later, it then premiered as an hour-long weekly series, on Thursdays at 10/9c, replacing the cancelled series "Kate Loves a Mystery." "Skag" was opposite "20/20" on ABC and what NBC may have thought was a weak "Barnaby Jones" (in its last season) on CBS. But CBS moved "Barnaby Jones" up an hour to 9 PM and installed "Knots Landing," the #28 rated show of the season, opposite "Skag." "Skag" couldn't get any traction, and was cancelled after 5 episodes.
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May 15, 2017 - 2:17 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Powers Boothe had a career-defining role, appearing as the title character in the two-part, 4-hour television movie GUYANA TRAGEDY: THE STORY OF JIM JONES. The film told the real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide in November 1978. CBS aired the film on the nights of 15 and 16 April 1980.
The dialogue used in the mass suicide/murder scene near the end of the film was taken almost word-for-word from an audio cassette found in a portable tape recorder under Jim Jones' chair. The tape recorder had weak batteries and was running at a much slower than normal speed, allowing the entire event to be recorded.
The film received 4 Emmy Nominations, for Best Drama Special, Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special (William A. Graham), Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special, for Powers Boothe. Boothe was the only winner for the film, beating out such luminaries as Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, and Tony Curtis in his category. Interestingly, of the 52 acting nominees that year, Boothe was the only actor in any category to attend the awards ceremony, since the Screen Actors Guild was boycotting the event during a strike. He went on stage to an ovation from the appreciative crowd in the partially empty auditorium. Boothe had planned not to attend, but changed his mind late that afternoon. The unreleased score for the film was by Elmer Bernstein.
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May 15, 2017 - 12:30 PM
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Boothe's role as "Jim Jones" led directly to his appearance in the 1981 film SOUTHERN COMFORT. Boothe was cast after director Walter Hill and producer David Giler saw him in the television mini-series GUYANA TRAGEDY. Boothe co-starred with Keith Carradine as two seasoned soldiers who go on a training mission with their platoon in the Louisiana bayou.
According to Walter Hill, the concept of Keith Carradine's character, "Lee Spencer," "was that he was one of nature's aristocrats - graceful, confident of his own ability and able to separate himself from other people with an amusing remark", whereas the character played by Powers Boothe, "Charles Hardin," "is much more the rational, hardworking, self made individual" and as a result "just cannot believe the nature of the situation at first" whereas Carradine's can.
Ry Cooder's score for the film has not had a release.
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May 15, 2017 - 3:54 PM
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One of the lesser-known Rutger Hauer films was 1984's A BREED APART. The film has a distinguished cast that includes Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, and Donald Pleasence, and concerns a conservationist (Hauer) and a widow (Turner) who hire a mountain climber (Boothe) to steal bald-eagle eggs to keep them away from a crazed millionaire egg collector (Pleasence). (That description alone is probably sufficient to explain the film's lack of appearance on a Region 1 DVD.)
Philippe Mora directed the action drama. Aside from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, A BREED APART is the only film to have a dramatic underscore composed by Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. It has not had a release.
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May 15, 2017 - 4:26 PM
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1984's RED DAWN posits the beginning of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces. Powers Boothe plays "Lieutenant Colonel Andy Tanner," a downed American fighter pilot, who is found by "Erica" (Lea Thompson). He joins the group, which is led by "Jed" (Patrick Swayze). When Erica finds the airman, she tries to ascertain his nationality by asking him to identify the capital of Texas. When he says Austin, Erica incorrectly says Houston. The incorrect answer is an in-joke; Powers Boothe was a Texas native, and Patrick Swayze was from Houston.
Charlie Sheen had his first major part in the film, as "Matt," Jed's brother. According to Powers Boothe, Sheen came up to him during one scene and asked if he was doing a good job. Boothe reassured him that he was doing fine. John Milius directed the film. Basil Poledouris' score was the first LP release by Intrada, who issued an expanded CD in 2007.
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