Word: brando
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ugly American. Marlon Brando arrives in mythical South Sarkhan (or possibly South Viet Nam) to take over the embassy, and walks smack into a revolution triggered by his old wartime buddy, a native named Deong. As an ambassador, Brando looks like something out of an old Grace Moore movie, but he seems cut out for the job: his Sarkhanese is better than his English...
Susskind is no shy credit-taker himself. He speaks of the three movies produced with his money--Edge of the City, Raisin in the Sun, and Requiem for a Heavyweight-- as "my pictures." And he regards the art of television as something akin to artistic portraiture. "That Brando interview," he said of an Open End show which will soon run in Boston, "was a really masterful portrait of a human being...
Susskind is proud that he "created the atmosphere of candor" in this show. The first hour of the interview is devoted to Brando's interests, particularly the Far East. "If I had come right out and asked him, 'Why are you suing the Saturday Evening Post?' he would have thought of me as some kind of gossip and wouldn't have talked. But after an hour he felt comfortable. He regarded me as his friend. And he said, 'Of course I'll tell you why I'm suing them, David....'" As an afterthought Susskind added; "It's like the seduction...
Under Mr. Susskind's control, the discussion assumed the chatty quality of his television show, "Open End." He look on almost all the panelists in minor arguments. At one point he faulted Marlon Brando's diction, and Miss Strasberg, which trained Brando, challenged: "They don't teach anyone to mumble, I'll take you on in non-mumbling...
...Ugly American. Marlon Brando arrives in mythical South Sarkhan (or possibly South Viet Nam) to take over the embassy, and walks smack into a revolution triggered by his old wartime buddy, a native named Deong. As an ambassador, Brando looks like something out of an old Grace Moore movie, but he seems cut out for the job: his Sarkhanese is better than his English...