Posted on 07/02/2004 4:43:00 AM PDT by The G Man
Edited on 07/02/2004 8:30:32 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
[Note: While it took a while to find confirmation, Fox News says Brando's lawyer has confirmed. LM]
(CBS 5 News)--The man called the greatest actor of all time has died.
CBS 5 News has learned Marlon Brando passed away Thursday in Los Angeles.
Brando may be best known for his roles in "The Godfather" and "On the Waterfront". He won oscars for his work in those 2 films.
The cause of death is still unknown.
Sasheen Littlefeather was the native person Brando sent up to accept his Oscar for his role in the Godfather at the Academy Awards. She then went on a tirade about Indians and their treatment. She was not well received by the Oscar crowd that night.
But of course, you must be ready to hear that the Sons of Erin that you mention were just frontmen for...you guessed it...THE JOOS! But, then again, I am HAPPY to share the blame (for everything) with my Celtic cousins...
I think the ADL is the handmaiden of the DNC.
You Jews promised me control of Hollywood if I converted. I'm suing.
You STILL gotsta start in the mailroom...circ or no circ (unless daddy owns the studio).
-Now that I understand your little dig I'll answer you-
No That was Praise for FR getting the news scoop on Brando's death This post beat the Majors by three hours.
That is a scoop.
RB
"Terry Teachout says something here that needs to be said about actors and throwing around the word "genius" too cavalierly. I've heard it used several times today regarding Brando"
It is ONLY entertainment industry peers, insiders, lacky minion fanatics, journalists and biographers who over hype actors to genius status. Brando admitted that he put too much (likely all) of himself on film and regretted it. His biographer contradicted himself last on the news by admitting that Brando was a genius but would sit on the street by a phone booth "observing" people hence actors observe, study, THEN mimick human behavior. They "copy". Nothing genius about parroting other people for a role.
Genius are the people who got the space craft to pass through the rings of Saturn this past week after a 7 YEAR JOURNEY! Genius is the doctor who invented the heart replacement pump. Genius are the people who came up with DNA testing. Pretending to be other people is not genius it IS entertainment.
"Fact: The Irish are everywhere. The breed like rabbits. They control everything."
Gee you write that likes it's a bad thing. Grin
All is well while Eddie Albert is alive. He's 96!
If that's true, Eddie was already a (young looking) fifty-something during his Green Acres days. I hear that Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball) is in his 90's, and stays in touch with Pat Butrram (Eb). Both are reportedly evangelical Christians. I remember Eddie doing his dramatic readings of Bible verses on the Ed Sullivan show.
" Sasheen Littlefeather was the native person Brando sent up to accept his Oscar "
And many people have said that she was just another actress hired by Marlon for that little stunt. She wasn't even American Indian. Hmmm
" "Novelty Acts" you don't have to have any talent with "High Tech Special Effects"
What movies do the best? Raw Talent or Special Effects?
SHREK 2 should give you the answer...
no talent and if they look cute enough or trashy enough they might be the next Brittney Spears or Eniem...(Whatever his goofy name is)
Hollywood is not what it started out any longer, frankly it's a Major Bore, why do you think the Computer and Internet Industry does so darn well...) "
I totally agree.
"Most people do wait for DVD, and many studios loose money since the costs out-weighs the profits. ie: The Alamo "
True. I probably average going to a movie theater once a year if that. And then I go to the cheaper afternoon matinee. I refuse to pay $10.00 to see fluff entertainment and specifically refuse to fund doped up/repeat rehabbed arrogant entertainers who greedly take our money only to turn around and insult us nonstop during their very public political stompings.
To all of you liberal actors, "Bite me!"
"Lemme tell you what. It's not an obsession. It's not "spiritually empty" (and who the hell are you to tell me I'm not morally sufficient), it's entertainment. It's a break every now and then from the painful drudgery of day to day life. I drink alcoholic beverages on the weekends too"
Thanks for making my point. It's not anyones fault but your own that YOUR life is so painfully dragging day after day that you need to "escape".
"You remind me of that bitter, lunk-headed fraud Jerry Fallwell--somebody who humiliates Christianity in an ill-fated attempt to promote it. That's not the way: You'll catch more flies with honey, you know."
I didn't need honey to catch your attention here, day after day did I. I rest my case. Ciao ;)
" I hardly would put Brando and his problematic life as in-valubale as Ted Bundy, Andrea Yates, John Gacy and Saddam Hussein.."
Neither did I. You listed those names as comparisons not I. Please don't put words into my mouth.
Sadly, Alvy Moore passed away a few years ago. Most people remember him as absent-minded Hank Kimball. But he was also famous in the sci-fi underground. He produced the weird 1974 cult film "A Boy & His Dog", about a young man (Don Johnson before Miami Vice fame) and his high IQ psychic dog, wandering around post-atomic apocalypse America and fighting various mutants. Alvy Moore also acted in that film. He was highly regarded by sci-fi fans.
Sorry about that )
I too agree with your posts...
News Flash: Hollywood movie studios are owned and operated largely by Jews. Have been for a long time. This is just a fact. It is not anti-semitic. No individual or group has done more to foment anti-semitism than the ADL.
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