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Peter Bogdanovich, the writer/director of classic films like 1971’sThe Last Picture Showand 1973’sPaper Moon, has died at age 82, multiple outlets report.
Bogdanovich received high praise and acclaim forTheLast Picture Show, including Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The coming-of-age movie helped springboard the careers of stars like Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn and Cybill Shepherd.
Along with Ryan and Tatum O’Neal inPaper Moon, Bogdanovich directed stars like Cher, Sam Elliott and Laura Dern in 1985’sMask, plusJennifer Anistonand Owen Wilson in 2014’sShe’s Funny That Way.
Tatum, now 58, won an Oscar at 10 years old forPaper Moon. She remembered the directoron InstagramThursday, writing, “Peter was my heaven & earth. A father figure. A friend. FromPaper MoontoNickelodeonhe always made me feel safe. I love you, Peter.”
Fellow filmmaker Guillermo del Torotweetedthat Bogdanovich “became a close friend” of his “and was active and brilliant to the end.” Del Toro added that he was “working on a beautiful screenplay and to talk about the craft and ideas for it was delightful.”
Bogdanovich had a turbulentpersonal life as well. He left Platt to move in with Shepherd after casting the model inTheLast Picture Show, her star-making project. By 1978, Shepherd and Bogdanovich broke up. He later met one-timePlayboyPlaymate of the Year Dorothy Stratten in 1978 and cast her in his 1981 filmThey All Laughed. She moved in with him in summer 1980.
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He remained close to Stratten’s family and later married her younger sister Louise in December 1988 when she was 20 (she had been 12 when Stratten was murdered). Louise made her film debut in Bogdanovich’sIllegally Yours(1988). They later got divorced in 2001.
BogdanovichtoldNew Yorkmagazinein March 2019 about the lingering effects Stratten’s murder had on him.He said, “You don’t get over a thing like that, you know. I got a bad case of PTSD.”
“My mother used to say to me,” he added, " ‘If you have a thousand people watching your movie and one of them understands what you’re trying to do, you’re lucky.’ That sounds almost pretentious, but I know what she meant."
source: people.com
