Jack was a family friend, and I've been thinking about him a lot these past couple days, which brought me here. He tried to convince my Mom to get me into acting, but she thought I was too young. Now in my 30s, I'm pursing it. It has a lot to do with Jack. I miss him dearly.
Megan Faver Hey there Megan, I can only begin to imagine the stories Jack told you & family ! They don't make them like that anymore ( a real man's man ) You should at least give acting a shot & set your goals high....there's no shame in trying......All the best & greetings from Australia ! ( we all miss Jack :=)
As a young guy in New York , I saw him passing by on the sidewalk. I said " hey Jack Palance ! " . Perhaps I was just a bit too enthusiastic. He kind of looked at me and and growled . Haha. Never forget it .
@@joeblow26 this happened in mid Town Manhattan in 1979. True story. There are celebrities all over Manhattan. Sorry to interrupt your coloring book session.
Probably the best 3 minutes in the Academy Awards ever! What a class act, and to think he did those pushups when he was 72 years young! What an amazing man…lived to be 87 and died of natural causes. 🎉
@@christofferjenzen78 I didn’t know that; I thought that his face became disfigured while bailing out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber during a training flight over Southern Arizona (where he was a student pilot).
@@xenolambrose7261 What? No come on,I crafted a decent joke there,getting shot in the face in Compton is dying of natural causes cause....it´s Compton? But the stuff you mentioned,man... I gotta read up on this guy. Seems like he led a fascinating life.
Jack Palance was obviously a very happy man at this moment lol. I remember I was happy he won. A movie legend getting recognized like this after all those years he brought to us. Priceless.
I think Jack didn't have enough 'Merit' for an Honorary Award - He was an Icon, but his career wasn't the greatest - so they gave him this one as a consolation. Better than nothing, I guess.
For those that don't know. Jack Palance is a WWII veteran. He served in the Army Air Corps and was injured. He was burned on his face partially disfiguring him. Palance was tough as nails as they say.
On his deathbed he said the story of him being burned was "hogwash" "they'd have given me a better face if they had" A great wonderful actor, greatly missed and unrepeatable.. A giant of a man who wrote and read poetry.
Naaa Mate you're memory fails you in old age.@ Martin White got the VC for extreme heroism saving that wimp "Limeballs " I think his name was@@@fookinspork1566
May Jack Palance R.I.P. Passed away 11/10/2006 age 87 from natural causes. I remember him hosting Ripley’s Believe it or not 1982-1986. Thanks for the lifetime memories.
@@waynej2608 There's a clip from an interview with Billy Crystal on TH-cam where he says he wrote the part specifically for Jack Palance and pushed to get him for the role of Curly.
It's characteristic and usual to quote a line from the movie you won with. I was surprised he didn't say he had gotten his one thing by winning the Oscar.
It's awesome that he won that Oscar for an early 90s comedy, and I just saw it last night during a snow storm, and it was very funny and heart warming. 👍👍
Had the honor of meeting him once at a Ukrainian event - he being a proud Ukrainian- and I was a young performer at the event. I was star struck as he complimented me. 🤩
I had the great honor of being with Jack that night. We went to the Mondrian Hotel on the Sunset Strip afterwards. While there, he did a short piece with ABC News. On the way back to his seat, a hand grabbed his shoulder and a voice said --"Jack...you did one for the old guys." It was Martin Landau who would win his own 3 years later. (By the way, that's his daughter, Holly, sitting next to him at Oscars.) The next day he was was working on "Legends of the West," a documentary TV series.
Landau and Palance did two low budget horror movies in the 80s (Without Warning and Alone in the Dark) and its fun to see two great actor AND future Oscar winners try to out batshit crazy each other. That's a recommendation!
@@happiscotsman5135 Chuck Norris is cool on the internet because it's fun and trendy. Jack Palance is cool just cus. Man doesn't need memes or your thumb up 👌🤗😎
He lived 1919 through 2006, he enjoyed all the best years America could give. No wonder he was still dancing in the 90s on stage. Fit as a fiddle. He was so lucky and what an expressive human being very smart but humble at same time. ❤
One of the most memorable Oscar moments. Firstly, a veteran Hollywood Star, getting the recognition he truly deserved. Actions speak louder than words, and doing press ups on stage, in his seventieth year, in front of an audience of close on a billion. Your not going to forget that in a hurry.
One of the all-time weirdest acceptance speeches, which is what made it one of the best! At age 73 and a veteran of almost as many films, he'd earned the right to say whatever he wanted! But it's the push-ups that everybody remembers; now if only this video included some of Billy Crystal's improvised commentary that those push-ups inspired . . .
Yeah, lots of things about this Man is indelible for me. Hey, I googles, but can you point me in the direction the Billy Crystal Material you mentioned? Thanks
@@BitcoinCorporation I don't think the clips are available anywhere. However, here's Billy Crystal talking about the Oscars that night and Jack Palance. th-cam.com/video/VDw299krFhA/w-d-xo.html
One of my favorite moments in Oscars history. I remember my parents EXPLODING at how cool they thought he was. My mother was SO PROUD of him being half Ukrainian. Ill never forget those TV nights sitting by the couch with my parents watching legends like this STILL have it!
Your correct. He should have won for Shane or Sudden Fear. Tommy Lee Jones should have actually won for JFK, but I understand Palance winning. Also Bill Nunn should have been nominated at least for best supporting actor for Regarding Henry!
to share the revelation of Van Gogh with another human honest in his humanity. You are indeed fortunate. Great art is created in suffering, and only in honesty may it truly be appreciated (imeho). Good for you. What a thing.
An acceptance speech that absolutely DEFIED all others before or since. Truly one of the funniest, most off-the-cuff zaniest speeches of all time from an established actor with a resume longer than his poop who won for one of the most hilarious performances of all time in City Slickers. Well done Mr. Palance may you RIP.
The country was on a one-hand push up craze for at least a week after Jack did this as various celebrity hosts etc tried their hand at one hand push ups. TV crews were out at local gym goading hapless members into trying it!
When i was a kid back in 1970’s me and my friends watched tons of spaghetty westerns. And our very favor bad tough guys were Jack Palance and Fernando Sancho. Two of the greatest the cinema produced. Love those days
I watched this live when i was in high school, and always remembered the pushups, but i didn't remember him being so funny. Maybe i was too young to get it. A class act.
Such a likeable macho "every man". Exactly what Hollywood is missing nowadays. I love how his speech was entertaining and not just a list of people to thank and endless praise for dead grandparents etc. RIP Jack.
City Slickers one of my favorite films and for a long time I questioned why Jack Palance got the Oscar nod, he probably has a total of 15 minutes screen time. But as I got older I realized, you truly believed that man was a badass cowboy, no questions asked.
I remember watching this live while visiting LA. Guys like Palance are a reminder of more masculine actors, with tons of personality, from a different era.
Handsome when young, in a hard kind of way, he was an ideal heavy in films. Of UKRAINIAN heritage, from a coal miner father, he was one of several actors having served in WW2. Most were patriots, and by that era's standards, were real men...having character and toughness. Yes, he did a few pushups..and probably could have done more. But he was 73 at the time, and there are more than a few (relative) men in their 70's (and even beyond) who can do those basic strength exercises. You just have to stay fit. On the other hand, in society today, where men and boys have become feminized, here may be much younger men who can't do what Mr. Palance did on that stage. Wish there were more actors like him today.
I remember seeing when Jack did them push-ups for his age. on Tv back in 92.I was amazed that he was still in good shape in his 70s guy half his age only can wish they could.
What a man, what an actor, not to talk about Billy Cristal - living in such a country like mine, I just can dream of him coming to our FEST! Jack was an inspiring genius, let's not let personalities like him to be forgotten too soon for our benefit!
1:20 to 1:33. OMG LOL! That may be one of the most hilariously awesome things I've ever seen at an Oscar ceremony. You did us proud, Jack. Rest in peace, dude.
Curly (Jack Parlance) asks Mitch (Billy Crystal), “Do you know what the secret to life is?” Then Curly holds up one finger, looks at it, and says, “This.” Mitch responds, “Your finger?” Curly shakes his head, then replies, “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean (anything).” Giving Curly his full attention, Mitch asks, “That’s great, but what is the ‘one thing’?” Then Curly smiles and answers, “That’s what you have to find out.” As he walks off and out of scene. Memorable acting moment. RIP Jack Palance.😢
I saw this real time. Coolest acceptance I have ever seen. I watched him on Jay Leno afterwards. He said that since he was called so early in the program, he hadn't had time to prepare anything to say. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, and Jack Elam, classic, top tier, bad guys we loved to hate.
I seem to remember he was Walter Jack Palance in the classic movie ''Shane''. He was as scary as hell and the performance stands out to this day as an absolute classic. That had to be his greatest performance. I think it was in the early fifties.
Charles Bronson almost played Curley when Jack had a scheduling conflict, but Bronson was angry that his character died, so he refused the role. Jack was able to do it after all and the rest is history!
This is sooooooooo unique and one of the best Oscar winning things ever! Better then the same old crap of "I wanna thank blah blah blah!" He didn't thank anybody, which wasn't boring and was awesome!
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Jack was a family friend, and I've been thinking about him a lot these past couple days, which brought me here. He tried to convince my Mom to get me into acting, but she thought I was too young. Now in my 30s, I'm pursing it. It has a lot to do with Jack. I miss him dearly.
Megan Faver Hey there Megan, I can only begin to imagine the stories Jack told you & family ! They don't make them like that anymore ( a real man's man ) You should at least give acting a shot & set your goals high....there's no shame in trying......All the best & greetings from Australia ! ( we all miss Jack :=)
+Megan Faver Are you from Ukrainian community?
+Megan Faver I don't blame you! Mr. PALANCE must've been quite an inspiration. I hope you succeed in your acting career.
+Megan Faver You could not ask for a better role model. NEVER give up. My best to you Megan.
Hey, MEGAN! What kinds of parts are you playing? What kinds of parts would you love to play?
thats one of the best Oscar speeches ever - short, entertaining and humble. RIP Jack. One of the greats!
I saw this live as a teen and it still remains one of the most badass things I've ever seen on TV.
Same lol
Calisthenics
ME TOO!!
As a young guy in New York , I saw him passing by on the sidewalk. I said " hey Jack Palance ! " . Perhaps I was just a bit too enthusiastic. He kind of looked at me and and growled . Haha. Never forget it .
@Bubbha 1 Yeah there's a lot of these stories on here that are very unprovable! People just looking for thumbs up!
Great!
@@joeblow26 this happened in mid Town Manhattan in 1979. True story. There are celebrities all over Manhattan. Sorry to interrupt your coloring book session.
That man was 72 and doing one arm pushups like he was 32, that man really was a badass.
Very handsome even as an old man. Such beautiful bone structure.
It's crazy how much older people used to look back in the day. Nowadays, a 72 year old can look like a 52 year old from 30 years ago.
They don't make em like anymore
And he so easily popped back up.
@@773SleepyHollow and one of the sexiest men in the world. He could check you out and not offend you, but you were REALLY checked out.
Probably the best 3 minutes in the Academy Awards ever!
What a class act, and to think he did those pushups when he was 72 years young! What an amazing man…lived to be 87 and died of natural causes. 🎉
Yes,he lived in Compton in his later years and he sadly got shot in the face.
@@christofferjenzen78 I didn’t know that; I thought that his face became disfigured while bailing out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber during a training flight over Southern Arizona (where he was a student pilot).
@@xenolambrose7261 What? No come on,I crafted a decent joke there,getting shot in the face in Compton is dying of natural causes cause....it´s Compton? But the stuff you mentioned,man...
I gotta read up on this guy. Seems like he led a fascinating life.
@@xenolambrose7261 turns out that was a bs story, made up by a publicist. Palance even said so later on
Show us your evidence of this Compton story
It took more than forty years to recognize Jack Palance, one of the best character actors ever, rip
One of the best if not THE BEST acceptance speech ever ! Loved you Mr Palance !!!!
Jack Palance was 70 when he did those pushups.
He was always one of my favorite actors, ever since "Shane." One of a kind!
Even more impressive: He was actually 73.
Best Jekle and Hyde 1968
Prove it……………..
Jack Palance was obviously a very happy man at this moment lol. I remember I was happy he won. A movie legend getting recognized like this after all those years he brought to us. Priceless.
All that and more. But an Oscar for City Slickers? Really?
I think Jack didn't have enough 'Merit' for an Honorary Award - He was an Icon, but his career wasn't the greatest - so they gave him this one as a consolation. Better than nothing, I guess.
Jack deserved the recognition. I really liked him in, The Big Knife. A real solid, consistent actor.
@@Daremo6969
You're really dense.
@@Daremo6969 it was one of those things where they wanted him to win. When you get that age the Academy is very kind.
For those that don't know. Jack Palance is a WWII veteran. He served in the Army Air Corps and was injured. He was burned on his face partially disfiguring him. Palance was tough as nails as they say.
On his deathbed he said the story of him being burned was "hogwash"
"they'd have given me a better face if they had" A great wonderful actor, greatly missed and unrepeatable.. A giant of a man who wrote and read poetry.
so that deserves an oscar? Phhtt
@@martinwhite7053 got burned bailing out while he was still in flight school,people were saying it happened during a mission and all kinds of stuff
Naaa Mate you're memory fails you in old age.@ Martin White got the VC for extreme heroism saving that wimp "Limeballs " I think his name was@@@fookinspork1566
That's made up to sell him as an actor. Read his bio
I love that the aged actors up for the award were obviously genuinely happy for Palance when they said his name. Sportsmanship ftw.
May Jack Palance R.I.P. Passed away 11/10/2006 age 87 from natural causes. I remember him hosting Ripley’s Believe it or not 1982-1986. Thanks for the lifetime memories.
"Billy Crystal, God, I crap bigger'n him": Most surprising and best Oscar opening line !
Well, to be fair, it was written by someone else, since it was line from his movie, City Slickers, which he just won the Oscar.
And the two got along real well during filming. Crystal really seemed to admire Palance.
@@waynej2608 There's a clip from an interview with Billy Crystal on TH-cam where he says he wrote the part specifically for Jack Palance and pushed to get him for the role of Curly.
It's characteristic and usual to quote a line from the movie you won with. I was surprised he didn't say he had gotten his one thing by winning the Oscar.
That was his line about him in the movie
City Slickers is a comedy classic and Jack Palance is a legend. Thank you.
Everyone needs to have City Slickers in their collection! Palance, Crystal and Stern had me laughing throughout the movie. 🤗
Awesome actor. Amazing he could do that at his age.
It's awesome that he won that Oscar for an early 90s comedy, and I just saw it last night during a snow storm, and it was very funny and heart warming. 👍👍
How old was he at this time?
@@chrisballesteros6181 76
@@DTSsince2016 no,he was 72
@@marioalejandrodizeo ok, thank you
And thanked absolutly no one lol,accepting an oscar like a boss.
yes indeeed !!!
stellastey hahahahahaha
John Cleese did quite the same but in opposite manner
That’s right!! He did the work no need to thank anybody.
So true what he said about the executives looking for someone younger and then winning the Oscar! No need to thank those bastards
One of my favorite actors and one of the best moments ever at the Oscars. R.I.P. Mr. Palance. You are missed.
Rest in powerful peace 🙏
Volodymyr Palahniuk
18 February 1919 ~
10 November 2006⚘
Jack Palance single handedly brought the house down on that one!
The best moment in Oscar history!
I agree...!!!
YES!!!!!!😎
Totally agree!! Reminded me of Fred Astaire's dance in 1970!
Because of This Very Clip, I subscribed to this channel today!
And Chaplin honorary O ❤️
Need guys like him again in Hollywood! Absolute star! Rip Jack, you are missed very much
Had the honor of meeting him once at a Ukrainian event - he being a proud Ukrainian- and I was a young performer at the event. I was star struck as he complimented me. 🤩
💙💛
Jack........old school and brilliant!
Actor, singer, poet and painter. His name was ART.
I found his book of poetry "The Forest of Love" - signed by the man himself - today. Didn't realize he was an artist and poet.
John Wayne, Robert Mitchem Lee Marvin rolled into one man.
There's a lot of tough guys out there, but Jack had tons of personality and a great sense of humour.
Jack started as a boxer so I guess you could say he was an authentic tough guy.
"42 years later he was right"! lol, you 've got to love him!
City Slickers is one of the best comedy/drama movie ever. Thanks for all, Jack :(
Hail from Italy.
I had the great honor of being with Jack that night. We went to the Mondrian Hotel on the Sunset Strip afterwards. While there, he did a short piece with ABC News. On the way back to his seat, a hand grabbed his shoulder and a voice said --"Jack...you did one for the old guys." It was Martin Landau who would win his own 3 years later. (By the way, that's his daughter, Holly, sitting next to him at Oscars.) The next day he was was working on "Legends of the West," a documentary TV series.
Landau and Palance did two low budget horror movies in the 80s (Without Warning and Alone in the Dark) and its fun to see two great actor AND future Oscar winners try to out batshit crazy each other. That's a recommendation!
Wow!!!
❤
Even better is how Tommy Lee Jones actually smiles (literally grinning) when Jack is announced as the winner.
Thanks for pointing that out ! That’s a nice moment he seems genuinely happy for him !
Well, of course. It's not much of a secret that Tommy Lee Jones sizes pretty much everybody up.
That’s why he’s Two-Face
It's a huge shame that he wasn't given more roles especially in comedy. He's a natural.
RIP JP.
Whenever Chuck Norris makes a move, he asks Jack Palance for permission.
@Kevin Justin Could be.
And Clint Eastwood!
Chuck Norris craps bigger than Jack Palance...
@@happiscotsman5135 Chuck Norris is cool on the internet because it's fun and trendy. Jack Palance is cool just cus. Man doesn't need memes or your thumb up 👌🤗😎
The hell with Chuck Norris! Jack Palance didn't do push-ups!, He pushed the world down! lol!
With one arm!
He lived 1919 through 2006, he enjoyed all the best years America could give. No wonder he was still dancing in the 90s on stage. Fit as a fiddle.
He was so lucky and what an expressive human being very smart but humble at same time. ❤
One of the most memorable Oscar moments.
Firstly, a veteran Hollywood Star, getting the recognition he truly deserved.
Actions speak louder than words, and doing press ups on stage, in his seventieth year, in front of an audience of close on a billion.
Your not going to forget that in a hurry.
He was 73.
i miss Jack Palance
One of the all-time weirdest acceptance speeches, which is what made it one of the best! At age 73 and a veteran of almost as many films, he'd earned the right to say whatever he wanted! But it's the push-ups that everybody remembers; now if only this video included some of Billy Crystal's improvised commentary that those push-ups inspired . . .
Yeah, lots of things about this Man is indelible for me. Hey, I googles, but can you point me in the direction the Billy Crystal Material you mentioned? Thanks
@@BitcoinCorporation I don't think the clips are available anywhere. However, here's Billy Crystal talking about the Oscars that night and Jack Palance. th-cam.com/video/VDw299krFhA/w-d-xo.html
One of my favorite moments in Oscars history. I remember my parents EXPLODING at how cool they thought he was. My mother was SO PROUD of him being half Ukrainian. Ill never forget those TV nights sitting by the couch with my parents watching legends like this STILL have it!
My Mom observed that he had those Slavic/ Asian eyes..Dead giveaway for a Ukie!!
He should have gotten the Oscar for Shane and the Emmy for Requiem For A Heavyweight.
Yes Arbeedubya Jack was amazing in Shane ---that kind of acting deserves an Oscar.
prove it
Totally agree 100%
Your correct. He should have won for Shane or Sudden Fear. Tommy Lee Jones should have actually won for JFK, but I understand Palance winning. Also Bill Nunn should have been nominated at least for best supporting actor for Regarding Henry!
And an Emmy for his Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde. Awesome.
A Real Man of his time. God love him.
And with that he cemented himself in showbiz history forever.
Not many guys get to do that towards the END of their careers.
That man was, and still is, a legend.
When I viewed Van Gogh's Starry Night in New York, I found I was sharing the experience, to my immediate right, with Mr. Palance.
cool.
New York, there'll never be anyplace like it. Such events as you describe could only happen there.
to share the revelation of Van Gogh with another human honest in his humanity. You are indeed fortunate. Great art is created in suffering, and only in honesty may it truly be appreciated (imeho). Good for you. What a thing.
once upon a time
Whoa. Palance, Van Gogh, Starry, Starry Night, NYC..now, that is some intensity. Must've been a surrealistic experience. Sounds great.
its hard to believe men like these are no longer in this world,missing but not forgotten
An acceptance speech that absolutely DEFIED all others before or since. Truly one of the funniest, most off-the-cuff zaniest speeches of all time from an established actor with a resume longer than his poop who won for one of the most hilarious performances of all time in City Slickers. Well done Mr. Palance may you RIP.
What a great actor, and a great speech. one of the best tough guys in Hollywood.
The country was on a one-hand push up craze for at least a week after Jack did this as various celebrity hosts etc tried their hand at one hand push ups. TV crews were out at local gym goading hapless members into trying it!
He made a point about ageism without pontificating.
Great actor.
When i was a kid back in 1970’s me and my friends watched tons of spaghetty westerns. And our very favor bad tough guys were Jack Palance and Fernando Sancho. Two of the greatest the cinema produced. Love those days
Jack Palance was a GREAT man. I was and still am such a big fan of his . Just a great person and actor. Sorely missed. .
Amazing how that man conjured admiration within just a few seconds.
When men were men ... Legend!
Now we have men that don't conform to an outmoded definition of the term.
Yep, the Me Too movement would have crucified anybody who did this today.
Just watch the 'Gillette ad' if you want to see how pathetic our gender has become these days! Sickening leftist bullshit
F*cken’ aye! From a time when “peoplekind” weren’t triggered or micro-aggressed.
Nathan Wood we are in a completely different age....
Many people can't do even one, with both arms.
A true legend of the silver screen.
I watched this live when i was in high school, and always remembered the pushups, but i didn't remember him being so funny. Maybe i was too young to get it. A class act.
He can do a one arm push up and yet I can't.
Except this guy spent his early years working hard in mines every day. Just keep on exercising regularly and you'll get to that point eventually.
Keep trying
Never say never,.. keep watching Jack and power though. 👌👍
Such a likeable macho "every man". Exactly what Hollywood is missing nowadays. I love how his speech was entertaining and not just a list of people to thank and endless praise for dead grandparents etc. RIP Jack.
Jack was 73 at the time - impressive. I haven't done a push-up since my 30th birthday and don't plan to ever.
One of the most original
A classy man, a class act
I always loved Jack Palace, the original tough guy. RIP.
A marvelous man and very underrated but finally got his glory what a man !!!
Best speech ever on Academy Awards! God Bless Ole'Jack, Rest in Peace
Man I can't imagine him dropping "son of a bitch" on live TV at that time when they still censored "damn" and "Hell".
Brilliant screen presence in countless movies. Great in Shane. Tough but affable. Greatly missed.
While I don't watch the Oscars, I remember seeing this. Jack was 73 at the time. A role model for real men. RIP.
This shocking but brilliantly funny speech and Don Ameche,s 1986 acceptance speech are by far the best the academy has ever seen or heard!!!!!
I am 20, I tried to do the same thing Palance did and I smashed my chin on the floor! :D
When Greats were genuinely GREAT . RIP Mr. Palance .
City Slickers one of my favorite films and for a long time I questioned why Jack Palance got the Oscar nod, he probably has a total of 15 minutes screen time. But as I got older I realized, you truly believed that man was a badass cowboy, no questions asked.
Amazing speech!!!!
The most memorable acceptance speech I have ever seen! One handed push-ups. only 42 years to win an Academy Award!!!
I think if you win an Oscar when you have passed 70 you thank no one but yourself, because you're that brilliant.
R.I.P Volodymyr Palahniuk.
You're a legend, Mr. Palance.
R.I.P., Jack.
I remember watching this live while visiting LA. Guys like Palance are a reminder of more masculine actors, with tons of personality, from a different era.
Как искренне радуются все остальные номинанты 👍👍👍
Handsome when young, in a hard kind of way, he was an ideal heavy in films.
Of UKRAINIAN heritage, from a coal miner father, he was one of several actors having served in WW2. Most were patriots, and by that era's standards, were real men...having character and toughness.
Yes, he did a few pushups..and probably could have done more. But he was 73 at the time, and there are more than a few (relative) men in their 70's (and even beyond) who can do those basic strength exercises. You just have to stay fit. On the other hand, in society today, where men and boys have become feminized, here may be much younger men who can't do what Mr. Palance did on that stage.
Wish there were more actors like him today.
I remember seeing when Jack did them push-ups for his age. on Tv back in 92.I was amazed that he was still in good shape in his 70s guy half his age only can wish they could.
JACK PALANCE 4EVER.
wow.. this is the guy Darkseid was fashioned from.
What a man, what an actor, not to talk about Billy Cristal - living in such a country like mine, I just can dream of him coming to our FEST! Jack was an inspiring genius, let's not let personalities like him to be forgotten too soon for our benefit!
One handed pushups at 73. How can you not love this guy?
1:51 gets me every time. Good one, Jack
1:20 to 1:33.
OMG LOL! That may be one of the most hilariously awesome things I've ever seen at an Oscar ceremony. You did us proud, Jack. Rest in peace, dude.
Curly (Jack Parlance) asks Mitch (Billy Crystal), “Do you know what the secret to life is?” Then Curly holds up one finger, looks at it, and says, “This.” Mitch responds, “Your finger?” Curly shakes his head, then replies, “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean (anything).”
Giving Curly his full attention, Mitch asks, “That’s great, but what is the ‘one thing’?” Then Curly smiles and answers, “That’s what you have to find out.” As he walks off and out of scene.
Memorable acting moment.
RIP Jack Palance.😢
I saw this real time. Coolest acceptance I have ever seen. I watched him on Jay Leno afterwards. He said that since he was called so early in the program, he hadn't had time to prepare anything to say. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, and Jack Elam, classic, top tier, bad guys we loved to hate.
Ted Levine should've been nominated and won for The Silence of the Lambs.
Agreed. I always wondered why he wasn't nominated. Especially since that film swept the Oscars that year.
Agreed and Samuel L. Jackson for Jungle Fever. Perhaps two best performances that year.
Arghhhhh
I seem to remember he was Walter Jack Palance in the classic movie ''Shane''. He was as scary as hell and the performance stands out to this day as an absolute classic. That had to be his greatest performance. I think it was in the early fifties.
I love the old-school tough guys Jack Palance and Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson almost played Curley when Jack had a scheduling conflict, but Bronson was angry that his character died, so he refused the role. Jack was able to do it after all and the rest is history!
this is possibly the best oscar speech ive ever seen! hilarious and proving the point that old age doesn't mean someone should be any less relevant
What a character and all the shameless selfie posers you get now. yep 42yrs long time to wait but it's worth it....
This is sooooooooo unique and one of the best Oscar winning things ever!
Better then the same old crap of "I wanna thank blah blah blah!"
He didn't thank anybody, which wasn't boring and was awesome!
City slickers is one of the best dramatic comedies
Thanks for the post...I cracked up when he done the push-ups...He was funny when need be and that he was...
Hahaha that was great, never seen that before. A real true talent, sadly missed. Go Jack!
like a boss
City Slickers 1 and 2, great films
He looked great at 73...Very funny here and on "Ripley's Believe it or Not"...
One of the greatest moments in Academy Award history. Now I can't even watch it with how politicized it's become.