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To: HenryLeeII
I love his response to a reporter who asked him what he's protesting against: "Whaddya got?"

Yowza! This quote is becoming like the claim by many that they let somebody else have a seat on Buddy Holly's ill fated airplane. It's been attributed to James Dean, Elvis Presley and now Bob Dylan? Actually it originated in the 1954 film The Wild One with Marlon Brando:

In perhaps the film's most memorable exchange, a girl asks the gang leader, "Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?" Replies Brando with a world-weary sigh, "What've you got?" ... continued

147 posted on 09/27/2004 8:27:21 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: Revolting cat!
Well, I've never seen The Wild One so I'll take your word that Brando spoke that line, but I have seen a film clip of Dylan using it on a reporter.
156 posted on 09/27/2004 8:58:30 AM PDT by HenryLeeII (sultan88, R.I.P.)
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