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Hal Landers Biography (1928-1991) Born June 26, 1928, in Chicago, IL; died of cancer, December 12, 1991, in LosAngeles, CA; married; wife's name, Urve; children: Jody Claire, Jay Isaac. Nationality
Margo Howard is the daughter of Eppie Lederer, who wrote an advice column as Ann Landers for over 40 years, until her death in June 2002. Howard, following in her mother's footsteps, spent...
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Once Paul Kersey and his wife Joanna return home to New York City from a vacation in Hawaii, they start adjusting back to city life. One day Joanna, Paul, and Joanna's daughter, Carol, went shopping for groceries at D'Agostino's where the Freaks were wreaking havoc in the store. They find Paul's and Joanna's address after Joanna asks that her groce...
Charles Bronson as Paul KerseyHope Lange as Joanna KerseyVincent Gardenia as Lt. Frank OchoaStephen Keats as Jack TobyOriginally, Sidney Limut was to have directed, and Jack Lemmon as Paul until the original producer was replaced by Italian film mogul Dino De Laurentiis and was marketed by Paramount Pictures. Death Wishwas first released to American audiences in July 1974. It was The film was rejected by other studios because of its controversial subject matter an...
Multiple Grammy award winning Jazz musician Herbie Hancock produced and composed the original score for the soundtrack to the original Death Wish movie. This would be his third film score, behind the 1966 movie Blow-Up and 1973's The Spook who sat by the Door. Michael Winner said, "Dino De Laurentiis said: Get a cheap English band. Because the Engl...
Critical reception to Death Wishwas mixed to positive, but it had an unexpectedly large impact on U.S. audiences and began widespread debate over how to deal with rampant crime. The film's graphic violence, particularly the brutal rape scene of Kersey's daughter as well as the explicit portrayal of Bronson's premeditated slayings, was considered ex...
Death Wish remains a milestone in cinema history, considered the first urban film to depict a civilian taking up arms against criminals. While this concept existed in many previous westerns, Death Wishwas the first to place it in a modern setting. The film had unexpected resonance in cities like New York and Los Angeles, where crime had reached inc...
Oct 16, 2014 · But Margo Howard — daughter of the late Ann Landers and the niece of Landers’ twin sister Dear Abby (née Esther and Pauline Friedman) — had to marry four times before she finally felt she’d...
His wife (Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter is gang-raped into a near-comatose state by a gang of thugs (one played by then unknown Jeff Goldblum!). He slowly becomes a vigilante–going out late at night and shooting and killing any muggers and thieves that attack him.
Sep 30, 2014 · Howard’s mother, Eppie Lederer, was the original Ann Landers, and her mother’s twin sister was Dear Abby (those two didn’t exactly get along, but that’s another story).
Oct 23, 2003 · Mrs. Lederer's husband of 36 years left her for a 29-year-old nurse, her daughter was married four times and her identical twin, Pauline Phillips, known as Popo, who wrote the competing Dear...
