"This breaking news just in, Marlon Brando is still dead."
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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Yep. He's dead alright, Jim.
"This breaking news just in, Marlon Brando is still dead."
When he was young, he was a gorgeous man. And boy! Could he act!
But I watch him on the E! Channel when they catch him "out in public," and he became so grotesque and just the meanest foul mouth guy! His attitude sucked in his old age.
But.......God rest his soul.
Godspeed, Marlon.
Even though he was a complete flake in real life, IMO, he was one of the best actors ever to grace the screen.
ONE EYED JACKS was his greatest movie by far.
And then he apparently discovered Taco Bell.
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SAM REUBEN, KTLA-TV Channel 5 Los Angeles Morning News Entertainment Reporter, reported the "Possible" Death of MARLON BRANDO as reported by DRUDGE about 2 hours after DRUDGE.
He then said that DRUDGE has been both WRONG & RIGHT in reporting big stories.
About 30 Minutes later SAM REUBEN came on to announce AP's confirming the Death of BRANDO ..without noting that DRUDGE was right this time as SAM reported word for word the top of DRUDGE's BRANDO Headline.
SAM REUBEN often rips the Internet and the FoX News Channel as Junk Mail.
Some Junk..?
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"Get up, Get up ..you stinking Tub of Guts" =
...BRANDO's Cowboy in "ONE EYED JACKS"
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Interesting juxtaposition of words. You don't suppose he shot himself?
James Dean, survived into old age. Quirky and dark about whatever inner flame filled his soul. Marlon was about as close to a sociopath as one could get without being either institutionalized or imprisoned.
Was he involved in some way with murder and the covering up of same? He certainly had a dreadful track record on his personal relationships.
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James Dean--1931-1955
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Interesting that in the last few weeks we have lost 3 large figures, yet with Reagan and Ray Charles, they talked about the geratness of the men themselves and their work as an offshoot of that.
You will not hear the word "beloved" used in reference to Brando. They will talk about his work but they will tiptoe around the fact that as a human being he was petty awful.
Sad legacy if you ask me.
Take another hit on that crack pipe.
Sad. He could have been a contender.
Watch out, there is a competion here for the Master of the Obvious title!
I think he means, Dean would have turned out to be like Brando -- basically, a sad, pathetic mean individual -- had Dean not mashed himself in that car wreck and died so young.
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