MARLON BRANDO HAS DIED (Fox News Alert- Lawyer confirms death)

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[The G Man]

[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.

[NYCVirago]

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.

I hate to say it, as it's sad if true, but I think you're right.

[NYCVirago]

That was Frankie Pantangelli, the acting head of the Corleone family in NYC. He did indeed survive and became a government witness against Michael Corleone.

He was the Clemenza-lite for Godfather II, as the actor who portrayed Clemenza in the first one made too many contractual demands for the sequel. So Coppola killed him off, and came up with this character, who is never mentioned in the original film.

[foreshadowed at waco]

When will it stop? When we take our place among the dead...

Great...I had hoped it was just a phase I was going through!

[Robert DeLong]

Who cares? Not me.

[rwfromkansas]

I don't know why the media is making this their big news of the day.

People die.

[nmh]

"That's the first and LAST Brando movie I ever saw...and I didn't even watch the whole thing. YUK. Brando has always pegged my creep meter."

Same here. It was sooo boring, I slept through most of it. It was a disgusting movie. Brando was another confused soul that was exploited by Hollywood.

[sully777]

If the ADL condemned him, I guess he is OK then.

There are no non-Jews controlling Hollywood.

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Where are you going with this line of thought?

[sully777]

Genes? Environment? Combination of both? Hebrew school? Who knows? But it is what it is.

How about hard work?

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The "six days shall you work"-bit and Gen 49-bit TALK ABOUT PERFORMANCE PRESSURE FROM YOUR BOSS. Yeah, it's a conspiracy alright

but by Whom?

[Valin]

Greatest movie. Ever?

I think not

02/07/1959 - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," premieres

[Revolting cat!]

Brando's dead? Shoot, I wuz hoping he'd make another Rocky pitcher!

[kinghorse]

What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? I think it is only fitting that the occassion of my passing be marked by a flamewar on free republic.

[Ruth A.]

I hate to tell you this, Sam, but it means we're moving into the old side of life.

[beckett]

Terry Teachout says something here that needs to be said about actors and throwing around the word "genius" too cavalierly. I've heard it used several times today regarding Brando.

Brando was a mesmerizing actor, but acting itself, as he often willingly admitted, is not all it's cracked up to be. Actors interpret, and sometimes in that interpretation there is a certain amount of creativity, but the real creators are the playwrights, screenwriters and novelists. Some of them may deserve the accolade "genius," but actors never do. And Brando certainly doesn't.

Someone said today that without Olivier, Pacino and Brando, Shakespeare would still be a genius. The reverse cannot be said. Actors without great material are empty vessels.

[sully777]

Responding to ceaseless Jews Rule Hollywood/Neo-Cons Rule The White House/Jews Rule The World (in this thread we read the musings of appypappy, SunnySide, and Pharmboy -- a Jew by admission though he hasn't shown us the self-evident scars via jpg -- OIY)

Dr. Eckleburg makes a stunning factual revelation regarding the three man "Jews Rule" relay: "That's wrong. Hollywood was created by WASP money. Ever hear of William Fox? Nelson Rockefeller owned RKO. Howard Hughes. Joseph Kennedy. Darryl Zanuck. Lots more up through the present."

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It is my contention that THE MICK RULES THE WORLD not the Jew! I HAVE FACTS THAT REVEAL THAT THERE IS INDEED A CONSPIRACY. THE DRUNKEN MICK, DEVOID OF SOUL FROM YEARS OF CATHOLIC INDOCTRINATION BY JESUITS, SEEKS TO RULE THE WORLD AND DEFILE YOUR WOMENFOLK!

Fact: Ronald Wilson Reagan was Irish. He was A MICK running the greatest nation on earth. His cabinet was mostly Irish, including CIA Director Wm. Casey! Did you know Reagan joked that he started a nuclear holocaust? EVIL MICK!

Fact: William Jefferson Clinton is Irish. He wants to rule a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT FOR MICKS ONLY! COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT.

Fact: President Andrew Jackson was A MICK that sent the Five Civilized Tribes on the Trail of Tears. Jackson ignored the US Supreme Court and took over all Indian lands east of the Mississippi River. Jackson was a nasty SON OF A MICK.

Fact: General Sherman was Irish. Need we say more?

Fact: US Grant, Wm. McKinley, and Jas. Buchanan were Presidents but more importantly IRISH MICK PRESIDENTS!

Fact: Most of the politicians in DC and your state capital have Irish surnames. Most of the police and military have Irish surnames. Some of the world's greatest poets, writers, thinkers, and yes drinkers are Irish. SOME SAY IT'S THEIR ABILITY. I SAY IT'S A CONSPIRACY TO KEEP THE OTHERS DOWN AND THE EVIL MICK UP.

Fact: Irish people are boozers. Alcohol is the reason for all evil in the world. Irish people are EVIL MOONSHINERS THAT DRINK WHISKEY OUT OF DIRTY NUN'S SHOES WITH THE BLOOD OF PROTESTANT BABIES.

Fact: The greatest business men of the 19th and 20th centuries were/are Irish such as CARNEGIE, MELLON, Ford, Farrell, Kelly, Murray, Sullivan, Mackay, O'Neill, Doheny and of course William F Buckley Jr's fortune coming from his father's businesses. IRISH PEOPLE ARE MONEY HUNGRY, LAND-GRABBING SCUM! In fact, Marlon Brando lived on Mulholland Drive. William Mulholland is the Irish engineer that built modern Southern California taking valuable water away from cacti in Nevada.

Fact: The Kennedy Family is Irish and liberal. Really really really really liberal. So is the IRA, and they're terrorists that may have trained with Osama Bin Laden. I THINK IT'S ALLLLLLLL CONNECTED.

Fact: The Irish are everywhere. The breed like rabbits. They control everything.

Fact: The powerful Irish control a great deal of California and (gasp) Hollywood. MICKS such as Joe Kennedy Sr., Howard Hughes, John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Gary Cooper, and on and on and on were Irish sympathizers, granting large sums of money to the IRA to blow up British soldiers and knit socks out of the hair of French schoolgirls.

Isn't it fascinating that Irishmen were considered second or third class citizens (lower than your common roach) but at every opportunity took full advantage of openings through hard work, pluck, Providence, and some say UNFAIR FAMILIAL PATRONAGE until they "took over" NYC, Boston, etc..

At turn of the century newspapers bemoaned the MICKS taking over everything. Papers said Irish are nothing better than thieving, drunken whoremongering rebels. And if you were Irish Catholic, they called you Catholic Scum, Roman, and Papist and considered even lower than Irish protestants. Now, dear men (and women) please change "the Irish" to "the Jews" and you got yourself a bonafide anti-semitic argument that THE JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD. But change "the Jews" to "the Irish" and you got yourself a cause to party, which for the Irish comes all too often. The "Jews Control Hollywood" argument is illogical on its face. Nuff said.

Support FreeRepublic's campaign to *Zot the Nazi*

[Ruth A.]

It wasn't even a screen test, as I recall. Someone was sitting in the room with him suggesting the role, and he just started playing the part. He poured some water from a vase into his hands and smoothed his hair, and used black shoe polish in it to make it streak, then he put the tissue in his cheeks.

How fortuitous to have black shoe polish handy. This sounds like some story Slick Willy would tell. I'm not blaming the teller, its just that my skepticism wouldn't let it pass.

[kstewskis]

Ok, there are no non-Jews in power positions in Hollywood

Hey, what about this guy?

[sully777]

Mel Gibson is an Australian MICK, no doubt his family were all drunken convicts that sailed into Sydney and Perth. Now he rules Hollywood. Conspiracy or coincidence--you decide.

[kstewskis]

Mel Gibson is an Australian MICK, no doubt his family were all drunken convicts that sailed into Sydney and Perth. Now he rules Hollywood. Conspiracy or coincidence--you decide.

Already decided. Shows you what you know. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York in 1956.

He's American. As is his father.

[hummingbird]

*sigh*

[ChiMark]

All the great ones have passed except Elvis. Did Brando ever meet Elvis? "On The Water front" is my favorite. Every actor did their best to over act in that film. "One eyed Jacks" is seldom screened but definitely a good film though a little long.