Talk:Karen Black

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Contents 1 Original article 2 birth year 3 Scientology 4 Gay icon 5 filmography

[edit] Original article

Karen Black is not Canadian. She was born July 1, 1942 in Park Ridge, Illinois. She has spent her entire career in the United States and has never lived in Canada. If you're interested in Canadian actors visit http://www.northernstars.ca

The above was the article on Karen Black before I removed it to the talk page. Honestly, it does not make a lot of sense to me. --KF 01:25 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] birth year

The IMDB Database says she was born 1 July 1939. Her official Website says she was born 1945. Probably she is shaving years off her age. I cannot find any source that says 1942. I think this is in error. Overdubbed 13:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Actual the IBDB database says 1942 [1], so that adds more to the confusion. --rogerd 20:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

There seems to much discrepancy about when Karen Black was born. IBDB states that she was born on July 1st, 1942, as does AOL (http://television.aol.com/celebrity/karen-black/82001/main)... "Name: Karen Black Birth Date: 7/1/1942." It seems as if this year is most certainly correct as both encompassing Birth years (1939 and 1945) have a median year of 1942. In film reference.com (http://www.filmreference.com/film/10/Karen-Black.html) there is also some confusion about when she was born: "Original name, Karen Blanche Ziegler; born July 1, 1939 (some sources say 1942)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wlaucks (talk • contribs) 22:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scientology

I am removing the reference that says Karen Black has denounced Scientology until a citation can be shown. The problem with leaving it like this, is that people will assume its true and report it in other places and then the citation creates itself, when the fact of the matter is that it doesn't appear that Karen Black has left Scientology at all.

According to my sources Karen Black is currently on level OT5. She married one of the Eckleberry boys and her mother-in-law, Renee Duke is also a long time Scientologist living in Scientology Mecca, Clearwater, Florida. Ms. Duke is also a friend of Beck's mother (another Scientology family). Her 17 year old daughter Celine is also currently taking Scientology courses.

Now I don't propose to add my original research to the article, but I do expect those that wish to disavow Mrs. Black from Scientology provide some reference for the claim. Vivaldi 19:48, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

She mentioned in several interviews over the course of the 1990s that she had left Scientology. Perhaps she returned to Scientology?

[edit] Gay icon

I was wondering why she is considered a gay icon.

[edit] filmography

I deleted the "filmography" as it was merely the IMDB listings cut and pasted. It was not in any wikipedia format with internal wikilinks or even external IMDB links. the IMDB is also a dynamic database, by cutting and pasting the material, you have defeated the purpose of active linking. The IMDB link is already at the bottom under extermal links. Perhaps someone would add filmography that lists the highlights of her career. EraserGirl (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)