Zendaya’s striking all-white suit and hat at the 2025 Met Gala gave new life to a bizarre TikTok meme known as the “Zendaya Big Hat Theory.” Zendaya is something of a style icon, known for ...

Doyle's call sign is Popeye, taken from the character of Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the movie "The French Connection." It is the same call sign used by his late father, an Air Force ...

The film’s protagonist is Popeye Doyle, a corrupt and racist New York City detective who’ll stop at nothing to get his man. Hackman’s barroom scene inspired Eddie Murphy’s parody in “48 ...

A big part of that came down to how Hackman dressed onscreen, his peculiar talent for inhabiting the otherwise unassuming clothes of his characters—“Popeye” Doyle from The French Connection ...

He was a force of nature, whether he was playing tough street cop Popeye Doyle in “The French Connection” or being beyond funny in movies like “The Birdcage.” He showed us the ugliness of ...

Hackman is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the tough and vulgar New York cop Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 crime thriller "The French Connection." Its five-and-a-half-minute car chase ...

Perhaps most memorable, though, was Hackman’s performance as grizzled detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in William Friedkin’s 1971 crime drama The French Connection – and despite it being ...

Hackman was forever associated with his breakout role: the crude, relentless narcotics cop Popeye Doyle – a grim-faced bloodhound in a porkpie hat – in the hit 1971 film “The French ...

Hackman won his first Academy Award as the violent, racist narcotics detective, Popeye Doyle, in the 1971 film, "The French Connection." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE FRENCH CONNECTION") GENE HACKMAN ...