Posted on 07/02/2004 8:55:05 AM PDT by nypokerface
CNN) -- Marlon Brando, the stage and screen actor whose performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather" earned him plaudits as one of the greatest actors of all time, has died, his attorney told The Associated Press. He was 80.
Brando died in Los Angeles. The cause of death is unknown.
Brando shot to fame in the late 1940s with his groundbreaking performance in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" as the brutal, animalistic yet shy Stanley Kowalski.
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OMG! Have you seen him lately? HUGE!
But I watch Celebrities Uncensored on E! And when the paparazzi catch him on the street going into a restaurant, he yells at them "GET THE F*** OUT OF MY FACE." Several times, they would catch him on the street in Hollyweird, and he would really get nasty with them.
A good actor in his day - and let's not forget his hilarious reprise of his role as The Godfather in the 1980 comedy, "The Freshman."
In his will Marlon specified that Sacheen Littlefeather would actually be buried in his grave.
Great actor, bad man... food made him an offer he couldn't refuse
> The cause of death is unknown.
Hardly.
He was clearly on the Michael Moore Diet (TM).
Moore, by the way, gets bigger with each film.
If he makes one more, he'll explode.
It only seems fitting that he be laid out in a double-wide styrofoam casket.
(James B. Dean --- 1931 - 1955) "Take another hit on that crack pipe."
LOL!
Although in doggy-years he was old...
I've always thought of him in pretty much the same way. Whenever I see Rebel Without a Cause and Dean's character (brain fart, can't think of the character's name) says "You're tearing me apart!" I always think of how easily Brando would have fit the role.
I don't smoke crack, never have. I understood alloysteel to mean that, if Dean had survived into old age, he may have turned out quite a bit the way Brando did. I think that's true. I think Dean would still have played great characters and I think his personal life would have been a train wreck.
You better check out "Wild Ones".
A few days ago there was an article posted about how Brando was having severe financial problems and was in danger of losing his house.
I'm wondering if it's possible he took his own life.
When this brand new Porsche bit the dust in 1955, Dean was in it.
In related news, fast food stocks fall sharply!
No you didn't. You said "James Dean, survived into old age". I think your beeber is stuned. Don't worry, it's a long weekend.
FMCDH(BITS)
Or so we hope.
I hope when that S.O.B. dies it will be in a GM car with a gun and a plate of Hostess snowballs at his side.
Quirky and dark about whatever inner flame fills his soul...
In a cheap dive with Brando...
Like broken, bitter, caged curs...
Snapping and growling at life...
And even then, some might not get it.
"Dean would have turned out to be like Brando -- basically, a sad, pathetic mean individual..."
I know you are just interpreting (correctly) what the other poster meant. But it makes me think. James Dean's death was really a life cut short. Of all the famous celeb types who have died young I think James Dean, Jimi Hendrix and (maybe) Jim Morrison were the real losses. I'd say Janis Joplin too, but I think she may have really been a lost cause.
I'm sorry Marlon Brando has died, he always seemed to be such an unhappy person. But I am also amazed at how old he was, so for all his dyspepcia he lived a long life.
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