Word: brando
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marion Brando rode off into the sunset Friday night, ending an era at the Nameless Coffee House. The Brando Flick was the last in the Nameless's regular series of Friday night movies...
Jack Kerouac's "barbaric yawp" broke into the American consciousness in the middle years of Eisenhower. At roughly the same time, Marlon Brando, adenoidal and inarticulately glowering, careered through adolescent daydreams astride a Harley-Davidson. From the perspective of the late '60s, the old rebellions and spontaneities seem as touchingly quaint as the shock they elicited at the time. Kerouac's vision was compounded of Buddhism, booze (of all bourgeois things) and a chaotic lowlife that he worked into exuberant underground literature. When he wrote of casual sex or marijuana, they were still exotic and forbidden fruits...
...ordinary theatergoer, the new season brings the hope of reliving some enchanted theatrical evening of the past. For the actor, the new season holds out the hope of a breakthrough to fame -after which he tends to abandon the theater like a Brando or a Burton. The producer nourishes the hone of a croupier to rake in the chips. The backer, that garishly garbed seraph who roots for his cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches...
...typical one-man itinerant series is . . . Then Came Bronson (NBC), a motorcycle version of Route 66. The star, Michael Parks, 31, has for several years been called Hollywood's next James Dean or next Marlon Brando, probably because he doesn't talk much. In the premiere, Parks laconically brought an autistic child to his senses in a scenic Wyoming camp for disturbed children and then varoomed off, presumably toward a less tearjerking episode...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Sophia Loren is The Countess from Hong Kong (1967) who takes advantage of rich American Ambassador Marlon Brando by stowing away in his stateroom. Charles Chaplin wrote and directed the film...