Grantland Made Everyone Think Gene Hackman Was Dead

After Grantland.com published an article online titled, “The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge”, rumors started that Hackman had died. He didn’t. A Facebook memorial page was started in his honor and actor Dylan McDermott was one of the people that tweeted condolences.

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McDermott deleted the tweet and then got pissed.

Grantland has now changed their headline to The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is “Retired” But Still in Charge.

The site also hopes the title of a new piece they’re doing called “Kirk Douglas: 6 Feet Under and Still Kicking” isn’t too misleading.

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