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The Biggest Star ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 5Apr 2014 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/06/2014 12:54:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan

SteynOnline celebrated Doris Day's 90th birthday on Thursday, and several readers wrote to point out that April 3rd 1924 was also the late Marlon Brando's birthday. You could hardly ask for two more dissimilar stars, so I thought it would be appropriate to make Brando the subject of this week's Saturday film feature:

A few years back, The New Yorker published a cartoon in which two ladies discussed the appeal of Marlon Brando: "He plays galoots really well," suggested the first woman.

"No, he's not a galoot," says the second. "Like in On The Waterfront, he's much more sensitive than a galoot."

"He's a sensitive galoot," offers the first.

"Isn't that our ideal?" says the second. "A sensitive galoot?"

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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To: GOPJ
Please be serious.

FReepers can't come on this web site and bemoan the awful state of American education and then commit grammatical errors that are taught in third grade. Nobody is asking for publication quality posts in informal writing, but a minimum of self-respect requires that a post be well enough written to at least be intelligible. His wasn't. Stop making excuses.

81 posted on 04/06/2014 10:22:24 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: TheOldLady

I’ve seen it lots of times, “don’t ever reply to me again”, while writing ridiculous stuff on an open forum. “Don’t ever reply to me again”, is supposed to cut off all debate is it?

If someone tells me that, I’ll never quit responding, within the confines of F.R. rules.


82 posted on 04/06/2014 10:35:09 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Brando destroyed MGM with Mutiny on the Bounty. His bizarre performance wrecked the film although I love the moment when he settles down for a moment, slaps Trevor Howard and says: “You bloody bastard.” It was as if he suddenly decided to drop the campy stuff for a moment and “live in the moment” as actors say.

Missouri Breaks is one of his weirdest performances. I must admit I never made it through. I’m sorry your friend had his screenplay so messed up. Writers are always destroyed by Hollywood!

You may be right about Capote and their differing tastes. But the quotes contained in the essay are painful to read. Brando never forgave Capote. Well, he came to an even worse end than Brando.

I recommend a movie Steyn ignores because it came earlier than Streetcar: The Men. A beautiful movie about paralyzed vets in a VA hospital. Brando is very young and very good.

Also, see if you can find a You Tube video of Edward R. Murrow interviewing Brando. It’s standard stuff until Brando’s father appears. He lauds his son’s talent and then says something along the lines of “But I have no respect for him as a person.” This was very early in Brando’s career - long before he went off the deep end. It’s sad to see Brando’s hurt and shocked expression after this little bit of tv history.

I also wish Steyn had knocked off the fat stuff.


83 posted on 04/06/2014 10:35:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

No mention of Stallone?


84 posted on 04/06/2014 10:37:28 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
Thank you. Brando is so overrated it's not even worth talking about his later career. Frankly, I put him in the same category as Humphrey Bogart [same character every time], Marilyn Monroe ["comedic genius?" seriously?], and Orson Welles [probably the most overrated man in Hollywood.]

In some circles you just can't say anything negative about Brando and the other three, and all four of them are made of the same fabric as an Emperor's New Clothes.

85 posted on 04/06/2014 10:37:57 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: A CA Guy

Why would I mention Stallone?


86 posted on 04/06/2014 10:39:11 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Fightin Whitey
An acquaintance of mine wrote the screenplay for Missouri Breaks ...

What a small world. A friend of mine went to high school with the girl who played Randy Quaid's fat gal at the dance.

87 posted on 04/06/2014 10:47:59 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: eartrumpet
girl who played Randy Quaid's fat gal

Really? Were they Montana kids? Actually I don't even know anymore where they filmed that movie, now that I think about it..

At any rate the girl is probably lucky she didn't end up with Randy Quaid, as he sort of went off the deep end..

88 posted on 04/06/2014 11:10:09 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Cyber Liberty; CatherineofAragon; TheOldLady

ee cummings!

All that is missing is someone to write stream of consciousness with no punctuation like Joyce.

I wish I had known about FR when I was a poor TA in grad school. You should have seen some of the papers I had to read. The Viking kitties would have had lots and lots of paper to shred and use as cat litter and to wrap their lutefisk in. The majority were, for lack of a better word, awful.


89 posted on 04/06/2014 11:20:42 AM PDT by Gefn (All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
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To: miss marmelstein

I don’t know why “Breaks” struck a chord with me.

Maybe because I grew up just down the Missouri from the country in the film.

But I really rather enjoyed Brando playing the lunatic Western dandy.

And I always enjoyed Nicholson and his romance with (I have to look up her name) Kathleen Lloyd, who more or less rightly figures Nicholson is after sex, and after tempting him for some while goes through a long lament about it telling him “Well I won’t give it to you.”

He yelps back, “Fine—keep the damn thing. I don’t want it!”

At which point she cries and all becomes well.

But the rough seedy crew around Nicholson and Harry Dean Stanton is thoroughly convincing, and Nicholson’s eventual battle with Brando is tight with tension as well.

‘Course that could just mostly for the kid who never gets over a good cowboy story, right?


90 posted on 04/06/2014 11:21:28 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey
Really? Were they Montana kids? Actually I don't even know anymore where they filmed that movie, now that I think about it..

He went to school in Darby and also Dillon and I think they filmed around Billings. They would have been out of high school by then so she had probably moved away from home and she told him they picked some locals for extras and happened to need a chubby girl for the dance scene. Poor thing was embarrassed at the high school reunion.

91 posted on 04/06/2014 11:26:34 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Fightin Whitey

Cowboy movies are good. I am devoted to American westerns.


92 posted on 04/06/2014 11:27:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Graybeard58
I’ve seen it lots of times, “don’t ever reply to me again”

It's a silly thing to say. If you want someone to stop talking to you, just don't talk to them. Works every time.
93 posted on 04/06/2014 11:28:34 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Gefn
There is a web page somewhere of really bad metaphors written by college students....

"She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open."

Oh, here it is....

94 posted on 04/06/2014 11:37:06 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty

Oh that’s brilliant!!!! I love it.

I had a student write “It’s a dog e dog world” once.

I hope this pleases the Viking Kitties.


95 posted on 04/06/2014 11:46:59 AM PDT by Gefn (All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

You have been called pedantic. This comes, as I’m sure you know, from the word pedant: a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details. Also, obsolete: a male schoolteacher.

Think is, the errors were not small, nor the details minor.

Oh, well, try to help some people, and what do they do?


96 posted on 04/06/2014 11:51:16 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Gefn; TheOldLady; Graybeard58
LOL!

I've had this bookmarked for a while now....looks like fun.

"Do not post to me"

97 posted on 04/06/2014 11:52:48 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Gefn

Did you notice the name of the gal who wrote that article?


98 posted on 04/06/2014 11:55:11 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: dsc

No good deed...goes unpunished.


99 posted on 04/06/2014 11:55:30 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Yes, it’s as good a time as any to trot that out and dust it off. The Admin Lecture Series threads are always good.


100 posted on 04/06/2014 11:58:45 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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