In the eighties TV only seemed to show films from the decade before and they nearly always starred Karen Black. She was just one of those faces you knew growing up, so it was sad to wake up today to the news of her death. She worked with some great people - Hitchcock, Coppola, Altman and starred opposite Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson and the like. She was in some American classics - “Easy Rider’, ‘Five Easy Pieces’, ‘Nashville’ and some straight to video crap but never stopped working. To most she will be remembered as the brave stewardess who flies the jumbo jet to safety in ‘Airport ‘75’. To me she will be best remembered for ‘Burnt Offerings’ a haunted house horror that scared the life out of me at an impressionable age.
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