Harry Dean Stanton - SNAP/KCRW, Santa Monica, California, June 24, 1987

Harry Dean Stanton - SNAP/KCRW, Santa Monica, California, June 24, 1987I watched Partly Fiction, Sophie Huber’s Harry Dean Stanton documentary, last week and it was a beautiful, intimate portrait of the late/great character actor, who would’ve turned 100 a few weeks back. Even if he was appearing in a cruddy movie, Harry Dean was always worth watching, finding moments within moments, speaking volumes with just his eyes. The dude just had what they used to call “screen presence”! In the doc, Stanton sings a lot — and for a lifelong smoker (not to mention other vices), his voice was in remarkably great shape all the way up to the end, whether he was tackling old ranchera ballads or David Allan Coe. Harry notes that he didn’t properly pursue a career in music, but of course, he brought music into many of his best-known roles, from Cool Hand Luke to Paris, Texas to Twin Peaks: The Return. And whenever I watch Cisco Pike, I find it incredibly disappointing that he and Kris Kristofferson…