Word: brando
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...opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando-like waterfront tough. During a pas de trois romp with Dancer Gwen Verdon, they hoisted her up onto their shoulders, then discovered that she was facing away from the audience. Said Nureyev: "The great thing about America is that you can laugh at yourself when things go wrong. In Russia...
Armand Hammer, 82, millionaire businessman, on Marlon Brando's portrayal of a Hammer-like character in the movie The Formula: "If Brando gets $250,000 per day, I'd be glad to play the part myself. Or any part, for that matter...
Mahler's "Tragic" symphony ends like Apocalypse Now. It is perhaps the most terrifying chord in all music. Mahler (1860-1911) gave more than a ten-minute appearance however (unlike Brando). His wife Alma said in her letters that the Sixth is autobiographical, like most of his other symphonies. Mahler has the last word in romantic program music--music that suggests events and images. No other composer has chosen the same hero...
...transformation during the hour-and-a-half of Abbado's new Deutsche-Grammophon recording with the Chicago Symphony warps the texture of adventure, love and almost militant drive and power until the five angels ascend, Wormwood falls, locusts emerge from the great pit, or--is it possible to compare--Brando gets what he deserves. The Pentagon might object to this violent death, or respond by sending in troops of its own. Mahler, who became a Roman Catholic in 1997, seven years before he completed the symphony, does not even give his hero a priest for the last rites...
...intended to make acting his profession. As far back as 1926, he confided to a reporter from his Omaha high school newspaper: "It's just a hobby." But at the urging of Actress Dorothy Brando, who was then raising Baby Marlon, young Henry Fonda had joined the Omaha Community Playhouse and soon had the leading role in Merton of the Movies. Over the next half century, his "hobby" took him to Hollywood and well beyond, but his heart remained in Omaha. In 1955, along with Daughter Jane Fonda, who was then making her acting debut, he starred...