{"id":1543225,"date":"2022-07-07T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543225"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:19:16","slug":"hollywood-reacts-to-death-of-ultra-conservative-james-caan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-reacts-to-death-of-ultra-conservative-james-caan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Reacts To Death Of \u2018Ultra-Conservative\u2019 James Caan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhollywood-reacts-to-death-of-ultra-conservative-james-caan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\">Hollywood<\/a> community is reacting to the death of actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">James Caan<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/death\">died<\/a> on Wednesday evening at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo sorry to hear the news,\u201d Rob Reiner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robreiner\/status\/1545095955485052928\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cI loved working with him. And the only Jew I knew who could calf rope with the best of them. Love to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Caan. Loved him very much. Always wanted to be like him,\u201d comedian Adam Sandler shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSandler\/status\/1545110158153461760\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cSo happy I got to know him. Never ever stopped laughing when I was around that man. His movies were best of the best. We all will miss him terribly. Thinking of his family and sending my love.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u201cRIP James Caan, 82. Brilliant actor \u2014 loved him as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather, such a ferocious, menacing, magnificent performance. Met him once at a party in LA and he was a very funny &#038; highly entertaining man. Sad news,\u201d Piers Morgan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/1545100918668025857\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery sad to hear the news that James Caan has died. Heartbroken for his family &#038; his friends. Wonderful to know him &#038; call him a pal,\u201d actor Gary Sinise of \u201cForrest Gump\u201d fame, wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarySinise\/status\/1545106549131075585\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cJimmy was so supportive of Gary Sinise Foundation &#038; my work w\/ our veterans. He will be missed. Thank you my friend. Rest In Peace. God bless you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Caan always had the funniest stories. Once he told me [Francis Ford] Coppola had the habit of grabbing food off his plate &#038; eating it, so one day he made a sandwich with very hot jalape\u00f1os between two pieces of buttered bread, &#038; waited outside Coppola\u2019s airstream\u2026\u201d Jennifer Tilly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferTilly\/status\/1545113625723011072\">shared<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were lucky enough to work with\u00a0 James Caan on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,\u201d Hollywood producer Christopher Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrizmillr\/status\/1545111419359617026\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cHe brought a pathos and authenticity to the role of Tim Lockwood that held the film together. RIP to a legend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caan was best known for his role in \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his work on the iconic mafia drama. He had a cameo appearance in \u201cThe Godfather Part II.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Caan was also an unapologetic conservative who said he supported Donald Trump in 2016. \u201cI\u2019m an ultra conservative,\u201d he said at Moet &#038; Chandon\u2019s 6th Annual Hollyshorts Film Festival Opening Night Celebration in Los Angeles, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/james-caan-refuses-to-be-the-typical-hollywood-liberal\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not a G**damn Hollywood liberal, I\u2019m not,\u201d he continued, swearing he only watched Fox News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared in other major films, including the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy \u201cElf\u201d and as a voice actor in \u201cCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caan\u2019s family released a statement announcing his death via his Twitter profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6. The family appreciates the outpouring of love and heartfelt condolences and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time,\u201d it read.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood community is reacting to the death of actor James Caan, who died on Wednesday evening at the age of 82. \u201cSo sorry to hear the news,\u201d Rob Reiner wrote. \u201cI loved working with him. And the only Jew I knew who could calf rope with the best of them. Love to the family.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1547017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}