“FIVE EASY PIECES”, “EASY RIDER” Hollywood legend KAREN BLACK gone at 74. Video tribute
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“FIVE EASY PIECES”, “EASY RIDER” Hollywood legend KAREN BLACK gone at 74.
Her husband made the sad announcement via Facebook .
Black was diagnosed with ampullary cancer in November 2010 and had one-third of her pancreas removed. She had two more operations this year to minimize the cancer, and her husband, Stephen Eckelberry, said she was “mostly bed-bound” and down to 96 pounds from 156.
The couple turned to a crowd-funding website and raised tens of thousands of dollars to pay for an experimental treatment in Europe, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Born Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Ill., on July 1, 1939, she dropped out of high school to marry but soon divorced. At 15, she enrolled at Northwestern University to study drama.