[eleni121]

The sycophantic Charlie Rose interviewed Sean wanna be Brando la di la Penn and a more digusting self pitying self aggrandizing tribute to Brando cannot be imagined. Shameful exploitation of theater, a dead actor, an our tax monies especially so since Rose is broadcast on PBS.

In short, Brando was good in some movies and in the most talented hands of most capable directors such as Kazan and Coppola especially Kazan who directed him in Streetcar and was a seminal part of the Actor's Studio, the drama school that Brando came out of.

But to go overboard on Brando as a "genius" based on a body of work that is very uneven betrays the fatal attraction that Hooywood types have for self destructive anti social and and so called anti establishment types.

[beckett]

The sycophantic Charlie Rose interviewed Sean wanna be Brando la di la Penn and a more digusting self pitying self aggrandizing tribute to Brando cannot be imagined...

I had the TV on while Penn was on Rose, but in the interest of good mental health (my own), the volume was off. I noticed the self-conscious suffering on his face, though, and the bad boy cigarette between his fingers. He's a tiresome bore. The whole anti-hero thing that Brando (and Dean) ushered in, while it may have once had its uses, has gone stale. And Penn is the proof.