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MARLON BRANDO HAS DIED (Fox News Alert- Lawyer confirms death)
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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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brando; corleone; godfather; marlon; marlonbrando; obituary; orca; passthebutter; so; stelllla; waterfront; whale
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To: marshmallow
Why is it that we gush and gawk over those of a theatric persuasion? People who earn a handsome living pretending they're something which they're not.

You are correct -- when all is said and done, Marlon Brando was only an actor -- an excellent one, yes, but still just an actor. He served no useful function in society.

Any society that holds playactors and athletes as their greatest heroes is seriously decadent.

501 posted on 07/04/2004 5:16:15 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: Liberty Wins
A pox on all of Hollywood, Jews or otherwise. They started out during the Golden Era just sleeping with each other. For the past forrty years they have been screwing America. Look back through the old movies up to the present and you will see that America has been adopting the morals of Hollywood at just about the rate of ten years after. Hollywood sets the trend for a new depravity and voila, ten years later we're all doing it.

There were some exceptions who tried to set a good example. But for the most part they were selfish, mindless hedonists.

Even in the 1910s, '20s and early '30s, many films were racy and glorified gangsters, bootleggers and prostitutes. The fear of boycotts and legal action (anti-obscenity laws were still enforced) drove Hollywood to clean up its act and pressure its performers to outwardly behave themselves. The much-maligned Hayes Code kicked into operation in 1934 and lasted until 1966, when the ratings system replaced it.

502 posted on 07/04/2004 5:27:56 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: Ridgway99
Charlton Heston is my type of actor and certainly a much better man then Marlon.

Definitely. He had a larger-than-life quality about him and frequently played larger-than-life heroes such as Moses, Ben-Hur and El Cid. He also was a very rare movie star untouched by scandal and remained married to the same woman. Mr. Heston was also recently President of the NRA.

503 posted on 07/04/2004 5:40:17 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: Larry Lucido
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.

Pat Buttram, who played Mr. Haney, and Alvy Moore, who played Mr. Kimball, both died in the 1990s. Tom Lester played Eb and is still alive. Green Acres is one of my favorite TV shows.

504 posted on 07/04/2004 5:45:11 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: SunnySide
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.

Nowadays, anyone over 25 or so usually only goes to movies when accompanying a child.

There recently was an article about the movie industry in The Wall St. Journal which, among other things, pointed out that studio executives claim that the "average" (whatever that is) movie only makes 30% of its take at the boxoffice. DVDs account for 40%, 15% pay TV and the other 15% from such things as broadcast TV.

505 posted on 07/04/2004 5:50:47 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: AppyPappy

I heard he had to audition for the Godfather. The audition was held in his home, and he was told they just wanted to see if kleenex in the jowls would work for the look they were after.


506 posted on 07/04/2004 3:47:59 PM PDT by SnarlinCubBear (I am tag-line challenged....somebody HELP me!)
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To: The G Man

...but he'll show up for the shooting of his next starring role just the same--provided that the director can accomodate his changed circumstances.


507 posted on 07/04/2004 7:17:51 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
I could never look at butter the same way since that film.

I guess he took its name literally.

<]B^)

508 posted on 07/04/2004 10:12:12 PM PDT by Erasmus
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To: Bambino
I stand self-corrected.
509 posted on 07/05/2004 6:07:55 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: RightWingAtheist

Whom do you esteem the greater scientist for your everyday world: The guy that puts a radio controlled vehicle on Mars to photgraph goatberries, or the guy that slaves in the lab to brew a better beer?

I rest my case.


510 posted on 07/05/2004 7:56:47 AM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: The G Man

511 posted on 07/05/2004 9:52:24 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: sully777

Well, if the guy brewing a better beer is James Joule... :-)


512 posted on 07/05/2004 11:05:27 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Ni Jesus, Ni Marx..OUI REAGAN!)
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To: SnarlinCubBear

In the end it took more than Kleenex in the jowls; the Don Corleone "look" was primarily the work of make-up man Dick Smith, the true Godfather of Movie Make-Up.


513 posted on 07/05/2004 11:08:34 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Ni Jesus, Ni Marx..OUI REAGAN!)
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To: RightWingAtheist
What I find amazing about Brando is the guy was 80 years old, won an oscar 32 years ago, stopped being a major box office star about 40 years ago, and everybody acts like his death was great cultural loss and tragedy.

The guy was a washed up has-been. Politically speaking he was an selfish left-wing clown, who never did anything, except march with MLK, that was good for this country.

Yes, he was a good actor 30 or 40 years ago, but so what?

No doubt when Babs dies 20 years from now, we'll be hearing about what a great women she was, how she changed music forever, etc. - Oy vey!
514 posted on 07/05/2004 3:51:38 PM PDT by rcocean
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To: beckett
The sycophantic Charlie Rose interviewed Sean wanna be Brando la di la Penn and a more digusting self pitying self aggrandizing tribute to Brando cannot be imagined. Shameful exploitation of theater, a dead actor, an our tax monies especially so since Rose is broadcast on PBS.

In short, Brando was good in some movies and in the most talented hands of most capable directors such as Kazan and Coppola especially Kazan who directed him in Streetcar and was a seminal part of the Actor's Studio, the drama school that Brando came out of.

But to go overboard on Brando as a "genius" based on a body of work that is very uneven betrays the fatal attraction that Hooywood types have for self destructive anti social and and so called anti establishment types.

515 posted on 07/05/2004 4:54:46 PM PDT by eleni121 (Mt. Rushmore welcomes the Gipper!)
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To: eleni121
The sycophantic Charlie Rose interviewed Sean wanna be Brando la di la Penn and a more digusting self pitying self aggrandizing tribute to Brando cannot be imagined...

I had the TV on while Penn was on Rose, but in the interest of good mental health (my own), the volume was off. I noticed the self-conscious suffering on his face, though, and the bad boy cigarette between his fingers. He's a tiresome bore. The whole anti-hero thing that Brando (and Dean) ushered in, while it may have once had its uses, has gone stale. And Penn is the proof.

516 posted on 07/05/2004 5:12:18 PM PDT by beckett
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To: beckett

Oh I'm glad you watched it... it was hilarious! Absolutely friggin pathetic. At one point Penn lit up a cigarette (yes!) and did a Bogart imitation...but could barely hold it or puff it. Rose almost fainted in his desperate attempt to please Mr. Bad boy...what a laugh!


517 posted on 07/05/2004 5:16:20 PM PDT by eleni121 (Mt. Rushmore welcomes the Gipper!)
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To: eleni121
Rose almost fainted in his desperate attempt to please Mr. Bad boy...what a laugh!

Rose's style can be pathetically sycophantic, as you noted, but a certain percentage of the time he has interesting guests on the show. I decided not to watch him when he has leftist ideologues, their apologists in the media, or entertainers on the show, so I figure I see about one out of five shows.

With Rose it's useful to remember that Bill Moyers was his rabbi, the man who first hired him and mentored him in the business in his formative years. Rose is not quite the lefty Moyers' is, but his roots as a liberal run deep.

518 posted on 07/05/2004 5:28:45 PM PDT by beckett
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To: MindBender26
She seduced a young actor/student of hers when he was 12 and kept him as a lover for years. Although she denied it, he might have been Brando's father. He was sort of a "big brother" to Brando as Brando was growing up. His name was Henry Fonda!

DNA tests would be really interesting........

519 posted on 07/05/2004 9:13:34 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: The G Man

"I made him an offer he couldn't refuse" - God


520 posted on 07/06/2004 7:14:16 AM PDT by Free_at_last_-2001 (is clinton in jail yet?)
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