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Marlon Brando dies at 80
CNN ^ | 07/02/04

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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To: F16Fighter
And then he apparently discovered Taco Bell.

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.

21 posted on 07/02/2004 9:55:09 AM PDT by SheLion (Please register to vote! We can't afford to remain silent!!)
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To: nypokerface
"Marlon Brando dies - Pork belly futures decline sharply on decreased demand"
22 posted on 07/02/2004 9:57:55 AM PDT by austinite
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To: mhking

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."


23 posted on 07/02/2004 9:58:40 AM PDT by Gigantor (Bread and circuses -- the time-proven antidote to reality. Until it's too late.)
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To: nypokerface

In his will Marlon specified that Sacheen Littlefeather would actually be buried in his grave.


24 posted on 07/02/2004 9:59:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: nypokerface

Great actor, bad man... food made him an offer he couldn't refuse


25 posted on 07/02/2004 10:02:31 AM PDT by meandog ("Do unto others before they do unto you!")
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To: nypokerface

> 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.


26 posted on 07/02/2004 10:03:28 AM PDT by Boundless
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To: SheLion
"OMG! Have you seen him lately? HUGE!"

It only seems fitting that he be laid out in a double-wide styrofoam casket.

27 posted on 07/02/2004 10:11:20 AM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: A.A. Cunningham; alloysteel
"James Dean, survived into old age."

(James B. Dean --- 1931 - 1955) "Take another hit on that crack pipe."

LOL!

Although in doggy-years he was old...

28 posted on 07/02/2004 10:15:24 AM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: alloysteel
James Dean, survived into old age.

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.

29 posted on 07/02/2004 10:35:00 AM PDT by grellis (All the iron turns to rust, all the proud men turn to dust)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

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.


30 posted on 07/02/2004 10:40:45 AM PDT by grellis (All the iron turns to rust, all the proud men turn to dust)
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To: Vinomori

You better check out "Wild Ones".


31 posted on 07/02/2004 12:09:04 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Hey Slick Willy.....Pogue Mahone!)
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To: nypokerface
Marlon Brando...highly overrated. Didn't really make too many movies either.

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.

32 posted on 07/02/2004 12:46:55 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Boundless
Cause of death


33 posted on 07/02/2004 1:41:23 PM PDT by al baby
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To: alloysteel
Take a close look, alloysteel.

When this brand new Porsche bit the dust in 1955, Dean was in it.

34 posted on 07/02/2004 2:40:57 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: SheLion

In related news, fast food stocks fall sharply!


35 posted on 07/02/2004 3:42:11 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Bonaparte; A.A. Cunningham; nothingnew
Apparently some people have totally misunderstood my post, James Dean, survived into old age. I did NOT say James Dean survived, and I knew perfectly well he died on that day in 1955. What I said, was that had Dean lived as long as Marlon Brando, he would have been just as much of a piece of emotional wreckage as Brando.
36 posted on 07/02/2004 4:27:42 PM PDT by alloysteel
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To: alloysteel
What I said, was that had Dean lived as long as Marlon Brando, he would have been just as much of a piece of emotional wreckage as Brando.

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)

37 posted on 07/02/2004 4:35:27 PM PDT by nothingnew (KERRY: "If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!")
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To: Boundless
Moore, by the way, gets bigger with each film. If he makes one more, he'll explode.

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.

38 posted on 07/02/2004 4:44:22 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Ronald Reagan - Greatest President of the 20th Century.)
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To: alloysteel
Sorry about that, alloysteel. But you've got to admit, when you use arcane constructions and sentence fragments, there is a risk of being misunderstood. This, IMO, would be less risky:
    James Dean, surviving into old age...

    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.

39 posted on 07/02/2004 9:56:49 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Malacoda

"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.


40 posted on 07/03/2004 12:57:22 AM PDT by jocon307 (Nor forgive!)
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