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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities confirmed Thursday.

Foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is ongoing.

Hackman, a revered actor known for The French Connection and Unforgiven, retired from Hollywood two decades ago and spent his later years writing novels.

He lived in New Mexico since the 1980s, remaining largely out of the public eye. His death comes just days before this year’s Academy Awards.

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    20 hours ago

    You say this but up here in the PNW electric power isn’t very reliable at all. Look up Washington lake. This past year during the holidays everyone around the entire length of the lake lost power for a week. The week after power got restored we started getting into the low 30’s and hitting the freezing mark a few times. Everyone got lucky. But still lost food and it was a pain in the ass because it 5pm but its pitch black outside your house. We burnt wood in the chimney to keep cold as fuck but not freezing. Meanwhile the politicians keep peddling the removal of gas lines. I’m totally fine if they do. I’ll just ger myself a large battery bank, a generator, a solar panel etc. Having backup power is important. Gas makes it so much easier to keep massive amounts of power ready to go when the grid goes down. Otherwise agree with most comments about point of use heaters that are electric as well as heat pumps which are crazy good.