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James Caan was the ultimate New Yorker

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about the actor making a comeback after a brief absence from Hollywood. Caan, a 40-something pistol, spoke fondly about his rebellious early years in the movie business.“If there’s any one thing I could attribute my success to, it’s that I said ‘No.’ You’d go to an audition and they were always very cordial and nice and ‘How do you do, sir?’ And if I didn’t like the job, I’d turn it down,” he said.“You were angry in those days?” Ebert asked.“I was just New York, is all.”Caan, who died Thursday at age 82, always screamed New York.

Having grown up here, he lived and breathed NYC throughout his life, and the five boroughs fed his legendary performances like the Hudson feeds the Atlantic.The actor was born in the Bronx in 1940, raised in Sunnyside, Queens, and studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in Manhattan.(That’s three out of five, but we’ll also give him Staten Island, because that’s where the wedding scene in “The Godfather” was shot.)His human, confrontational, unpretentious approach to acting — much the same as friend and “Godfather” co-star Marlon Brando — was entirely the result of his years spent here living, working and training.He got his start on small stages, performing off-Broadway in a 1960 revival of the sexually charged “La Ronde” at Theatre Marquee on East 59th Street.His first Broadway part was as an understudy in James and William Goldman’s 1961 play “Blood, Sweat, and Stanley Poole” at the Morosco Theatre. (It’s now the Marriott Marquis hotel if you wanna make a pilgrimage.) The drama starred another young gun making his Broadway debut: Peter Fonda.His Gotham guts surely gave the Jewish Caan the gumption to say, “You touch my sister again and I’ll kill ya!”.

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