Peter Bogdanovich, director of '70s classics such as 'Last Picture Show,' dies at 82
LOS ANGELES — Peter Bogdanovich, the revered director of touchstone 1970s films such as “The Last Picture Show,” “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon,” died Thursday at his Los Angeles home. He was 82.
Oren Segal, the two-time Oscar nominee’s manager, confirmed Bogdanovich’s death from natural causes.
“Movies used to be something powerful,” Bogdanovich told the Los Angeles Times in 2015. “It’s been a bit ruined now. I don’t know if we can get it back — I think we can. But it’s lost its innocence. The interesting stuff has moved to TV, and movies have become more like, ‘What can I blow up next?’ There’s a terrible cancer at the heart of that.”
“The Last Picture Show” earned two 1972 Oscar nods for Bogdanovich, for best director and writing of a screenplay based
