Actress Karen Black passed away

[Beaverhausen]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57597691/karen-black-five-easy-pieces-star-dead-at-74/

Karen Black, 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.

It is with great sadness that I have to report that my wife and best friend, Karen Black has just passed away, only a few minutes ago," he wrote on Facebook. "Thank you all for all your prayers and love, they meant so much to her as they did to me."

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. She was a prostitute who takes LSD with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969's "Easy Rider," a breakthrough that helped get her the role as a waitress who dates an upper-class dropout played by Jack Nicholson in 1970's "Five Easy Pieces." Black won an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Award for that performance.

[pinboy3niner]

1. AP: 'Five Easy Pieces' Star Karen Black Dead at 74

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/easy-pieces-star-karen-black-dead-74-19910442

[spanone]

10. she was amazing in that film.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-actress-karen-black-dead-at-74--20130808,0,1998067.story

Cross gently, Karen.

[joeybee12]

3. Aw, that's sad...RIP Karen...nt

[PoliticAverse]

4. I'll always remember her for Trilogy of Terror.....

[sarisataka]

12. That movie scared me for years

I still won't take a necklace off a doll

[PoliticAverse]

13. Yeah I always have remembered that segment. Very good special effect for the time. n/t

[msanthrope]

16. Holy crap...I saw that movie when I was a kid and peed myself. nt

[PCIntern]

5. Oh Christ...

I can't believe that what seems like a few years ago she and Susan Anspach were in that movie. Couldn't get my eyes off the screen...

Gettin' old...shit.

[CBGLuthier]

6. She was the last Hitchcock blonde

Admittedly her character was wearing a long blonde wig as a disguise but still she counts as the last in Family Plot. She really brought something to her many performances. Magnificent in Five Easy Pieces.

[johnp3907]

7. Great actress.

Pretty good singer too.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. How sad. I always liked her.

[Raine]

9. Sad news ... I'll always remember her in Easy Rider

I love that film, saw it not long ago. R-I-P Karen

[tridim]

11. Sad.. See ya this weekend when TCM airs "Airport 75" (I assume).

It's almost as funny as Airplane.

[Tikki]

14. RIP Darlin'....she was uniquely pretty and a good actor...

I remember seeing "Five Easy Pieces", first run, and being so proud of myself for totally getting it..


Tikki

[blogslut]

15. She could do things with her face that were just...

I really dug her.

Anybody remember Burnt Offerings?