Yeah, he was a contender
Rest in peace
Tom Hagen, Corleone family consigliore
The man's personal and political life was a disaster, but his movies will live forever. He will always be the "godfather".
Just wanted to say something nice about him...
Carry on..
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Fox news reporting cause of death is being withheld.
According to friends, he died suddenly.
He should have left Krypton.
God made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
His performance in the Godfather set the standard for gangster movies. I've got the entire set on DVD.
Freepers are first with breaking news AGAIN!
I guess I have to put my flag back down to half-fast.
KUDOs, sorry for the skeptism and we're in DEBT to you! ;)
The Howard Hughes of Hollywood has conked out? The greatest mumbler of all time? The most overrated carney?
One suspects, that aside from the persona he could project onscreen, Marlon Brando's personal life was a morass NOBODY wanted to step into.
Jack Nicholson seems to be downright sunny in comparison.
Some of the news agencies interupted Bush's speech about how our future lies in small business, most of which go belly up in three years, and how the millions of misplaced textile workers in Carolina and else where, are being trained for hundreds of jobs in the medical field. Everything is good.
RIP Mr. Brando
News wires have been stating the Brando dead at 80. Just reading the other day that he was on the verge of bankruptcy and was hiding his Oscar statutes so the IRS could not find them and auction them off. Guess he doesn't have to worry about that now....
I heard a rumor that michael moore sat on him.I also heard moore done him in for the last piece of KFC.
Like Rodney said in "Back to School":
"...Pound for Pound, he's our finest American Actor!..."
Considering how sudden this was, his private affairs being embarassingly publicized yesterday, and the family being tight lipped, I'm not discounting my speculation that this may have been a suicide.
R.I.P., Mr. Brando.
I believe it's because they help to fill a vacuum. The spiritual vacuum which exists in so many people today. The desire to worship, adore or to be more exact in the case of actors, "idolize" something or someone, is innate to the human race. When the authentic object of man's adoration (i.e. God) is removed from our lives, we fill it with some other mortal entity.
Glamorized, glorified and beamed into our homes and falsely portrayed by the secular media as something we'd all like to be, these frail human beings have come to symbolize eternal beauty and bliss. That's too bad.
In case anyone thinks I'm about to say bad things about Mr. Brando, let me say that his passing into eternity deserves our prayers and condolences as would the passing of any man. It's just that I find his death no more deserving of my attention than I do those present in the obits of today's paper sitting here on the table in front of me. In fact, quite the contrary. I see young mothers taken by cancer with children left behind. I see military people who've died in heroic circumstances. And so on.
May he be blessed for whatever good he did and may he have repented and be pardoned of whatever evil.