Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gene Hackman would have likely died "long ago" without the help and support of his loving wife, Betsy Arakawa, a close friend of ...

Gene Hackman believed his wife Betsy Arakawa was the reason he lived as long as he did, according to one of the actor’s longtime friends. “She was very protective of him,” Tom Allin recently told The ...