Ben Gazzara, Risk-Taking Actor, Is Dead at 81
The stage and screen legend succumbed to pancreatic cancer Friday in New York City. Ben Gazzara died on Friday, at the age of eighty-one. He. Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and [...]