Marlon Brando

Saturday, 27 November 2021

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Film-makers remain innovative but something has gone wrong in the engine room

The Irish Times 27 Nov 2021

Never trust an old geezer who thinks culture has gone to hell. I don’t believe that. Pop music is as vibrant as it has been in decades. Television has just reached the 12th iteration (or so) of its post-millennial golden age ... Every generation feels this ... Far from it ... Well, maybe ... Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris 1972. Photograph ... .

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‘You can’t act!’ 26 co-stars who did not get along in real life

Belfast Telegraph 26 Nov 2021

“Cruel!”, “Completely disgusting!”, “Candy ass!” – these are just some of the barbs that Hollywood stars have unleashed upon each other over the years. But which actors said them? And about whom? ... Hatcher ... Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando ... My Life, she recounted the experience of filming the romantic comedy A Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando ... .

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Jenkins shares real, lived-in performance in 'The Humans'

Messenger-Inquirer 26 Nov 2021

NEW YORK — For a long time, it bothered Richard Jenkins that he didn't look or come off like the movie stars he grew up with. How could he, the son of a dentist from DeKalb, Illinois, measure up in the same business as Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy?. “It’s really hard to believe that you’re enough ... “Sometimes I still don’t ... I do ... .

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True-crime TV fuels 'missing white woman syndrome.' Two new docs aim to change that

The Bryan Eagle 26 Nov 2021

Off the top of your head, try to recall the names of the women behind the most notorious missing persons cases ... population. Another statistic ... "When white children disappear, they're called victims," they explain ... Rating ... Sacheen Littlefeather made history at the 1973 Academy Awards when she accepted the award for Best Actor on behalf of Marlon Brando.

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The 100 best drama movies of all time, according to critics

Business Insider 26 Nov 2021

"The Godfather Part 2" ... Endgame" and "Black Panther ." ... "Vertigo" (1958) ... 99 ... "Brando's performance as Stanley is one of those rare screen legends that are all they're cracked up to be." ... "It's hard to deny that Marlon Brando's performance as a dock worker and ex-fighter who finally decides to rat on his gangster brother (Rod Steiger) is pretty terrific."

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The Human: Richard Jenkins’ real, lived-in performances

Federal News Radio 25 Nov 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — For a long time, it bothered Richard Jenkins that he didn’t look or come off like the movie stars he grew up with. How could he, the son of a dentist from DeKalb, Illinois, measure up in the same business as Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy?. “It’s really hard to believe that you’re enough ... ‘You’re it, buddy ... ___.

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No thanks, Thanksgiving . . . National Day of Sorrow . . . Mourning

Dissident Voice 25 Nov 2021

Yep, a broken record, or to update that, another one of a million cries in the dark digital dungeon to relearn history, and unlearn the rotten past ... That’s a whole other story ... Full of military industrial complex disease, and forget about American Indian Movement or Joan Baez or Leonard Peltier or even that guy, Marlon Brando ... Vine. ... Time ... ... ... .

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The real reason why Dean Martin refused to attend JFK’s 1961 inauguration

Newsner 25 Nov 2021

Dean Martin lived virtually his entire life in the entertainment business. He started his career before he’d turned 18, and went on to become known as one of the Rat Pack members, alongside Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra ... At the same time, he also continued working in films, starring with Marlon Brando in the 1958 film The Young Lions ... Share ... .

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The Human: Richard Jenkins' real, lived-in performances

Star Tribune 24 Nov 2021

... Olivier, Marlon Brando and Spencer Tracy? .

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Black Friday Sale: Certified Fresh Movies

Rotten Tomatoes 24 Nov 2021

(Photo by Marvel Studios./ courtesy Everett Collection) Black Friday Sale. Certified Fresh Movies. Some places want to get you out of the house for their Black Friday sales, but our friends at Vudu want you to shop right from the comfort of the couch ... #67. Selma (2014). 99%. #67. Adjusted Score ... #66 ... Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano.

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Dilip Kumar deviated from Raj Kapoor’s path, preceded Marlon Brando’s ‘method’, writes Saira Banu

Indian Express 24 Nov 2021

Actor Dilip Kumar’s widow, Saira Banu, has written a remembrance on the sidelines of the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa ... She continued, “He has clearly stated that he began his search for a ‘method’ in his own interpretation of characters long before Marlon Brando came up with method acting.” ... Tags. Dilip Kumar Saira Banu ... .

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How D.B. Cooper and the Golden Age of Air Piracy Changed Aviation Fiction

Quillette 24 Nov 2021

More than 80 percent of the country had never once been on an airplane. ~Derek Thompson, the Atlantic, February 28th, 2013. I ... D.B ... II ... III ... She dated several wealthy Frenchmen in the film industry and became a good friend of Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando’s co-star in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 cause célèbre, Last Tango in Paris.

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Faribault school didn't fit Brando's script

Post Bulletin 23 Nov 2021

“Brando in Faribo” would be a clever, cinematic title for a documentary about the actor Marlon Brando as a schoolboy in southern Minnesota ... “I have wonderful, warm memories of breaking the rules,” Brando wrote of Shattuck in his autobiography ... He was born in 1924 in Omaha, where his father, Marlon Brando Sr., was a pesticide manufacturer.

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Bernard Judge, architect who turned Buckminster Fuller dome into Hollywood house, dies

The Los Angeles Times 23 Nov 2021

There are few people who could say they met Buckminster Fuller, lived in Rudolph Schindler’s house, then helped preserve it, and then camped out on a private South Pacific atoll to build a rustic lodge for Marlon Brando ... designing a series of rustic bungalows on Tetiaroa, an uninhabited atoll owned by Marlon Brando in French Polynesia.

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Tampa Indicts Six in Classic Waterfront Corruption Case

The Maritime Executive 23 Nov 2021

Prosecutors in Tampa, Florida announced the first indictments in a long-running waterfront corruption scheme that could have been a scene in the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront” where Marlon Brando works in a corrupt longshoremen’s union ... Department of Labor ... The U.S ... ....