Gena Rowlands and the Great 'Notebook' Debate
Social media had some feelings about what film Rowlands should be synonymous with
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Actress Gena Rowlands passed away August 14th at the age of 94. The star of stage and screen left behind an amazing body of work that, if you’ve been on social media the last week, nearly everyone has celebrated. Though it was Rowlands work with husband John Cassavetes that tended to dominate the conversation online. But if you read several of the obits written in the wake of Rowlands passing they tended to cite one movie: her role as the elderly Ali in her son, Nick Cassavetes, 2004 romantic drama The Notebook. People online had….opinions.
(Still kinda shocked that Carrie Coon entered the chat here and considered this moment a loss of our collective dignity.)
