Posted on 07/02/2004 4:43:00 AM PDT by The G Man
Edited on 07/02/2004 8:30:32 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
[Note: While it took a while to find confirmation, Fox News says Brando's lawyer has confirmed. LM]
(CBS 5 News)--The man called the greatest actor of all time has died.
CBS 5 News has learned Marlon Brando passed away Thursday in Los Angeles.
Brando may be best known for his roles in "The Godfather" and "On the Waterfront". He won oscars for his work in those 2 films.
The cause of death is still unknown.
I heard a rumor that michael moore sat on him.I also heard moore done him in for the last piece of KFC.
I love Larry King........Usually very good shows.
Sad to see Marlon Brando died.....One of the greats, has passed. I have not felt this sad since Katharine Hepburn died...A TRUE legend.
Now thats just gross.
The "National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes"?
Like Rodney said in "Back to School":
"...Pound for Pound, he's our finest American Actor!..."
Not only is Wallach alive, he spoke at Tony Randall's funeral. There is no one nicer or more amusing than Mr. Wallach!
Considering how sudden this was, his private affairs being embarassingly publicized yesterday, and the family being tight lipped, I'm not discounting my speculation that this may have been a suicide.
One of my teenage crushes after I saw him in "On The Waterfront". In my memory he will always be that hunky guy in the white t-shirt, black leather jacket, riding a Harley.
R.I.P., Mr. Brando.
More DeNiro, less Pacino; always a good thing.
Lonesome Dove was made for TV.
Still excellent, though.
I believe it's because they help to fill a vacuum. The spiritual vacuum which exists in so many people today. The desire to worship, adore or to be more exact in the case of actors, "idolize" something or someone, is innate to the human race. When the authentic object of man's adoration (i.e. God) is removed from our lives, we fill it with some other mortal entity.
Glamorized, glorified and beamed into our homes and falsely portrayed by the secular media as something we'd all like to be, these frail human beings have come to symbolize eternal beauty and bliss. That's too bad.
In case anyone thinks I'm about to say bad things about Mr. Brando, let me say that his passing into eternity deserves our prayers and condolences as would the passing of any man. It's just that I find his death no more deserving of my attention than I do those present in the obits of today's paper sitting here on the table in front of me. In fact, quite the contrary. I see young mothers taken by cancer with children left behind. I see military people who've died in heroic circumstances. And so on.
May he be blessed for whatever good he did and may he have repented and be pardoned of whatever evil.
I saw half of the Godfather II. Now I want to see the first. Which one in your opinion is better?
Godfather 1, definitely. For my money, the best movie ever made.
OK I give up I don't get it.
Thanks!
Appy, of course we are not to question a person's relationship with God, but he certainly didn't do anything to endear himself with that spectical in the court room. IMHO, that was uncalled for.
Um, yeah, I believe you're really overthinking this.
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