[Old School Hound]

I really DID tear up.  I've taken care of a few folks in my extended family that had Alzheimer's or dementia.  They are very child like.  It really bothers me to know how famous Hackman was, yet didn't have anybody in his life that would check on him in a two week span.  It's truly heartbreaking.

That was my thought, too. Why didn't someone check on him? I guess his wife/caretaker was all he had. Once, one of the best known actors in the world, he became old, and sick, and slipped away into irrelevance... and , at the end, no one cared. Terrible.