Word: brando
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then meet the King's court (or Marlon Brando's, as the case may be) dressed in business suits and equipped with guns as well as with daggers, who proceed to play out Shakespeare's story of greed, murder and revenge with an urgency heightened by the references made to modern times...
...Jessica Lange as the desperate, delusional Blanche DuBois and Alec Baldwin as her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, the feral hunk who rapes her in body and mind. From the moment they meet, there should be a sense of yearning and of doom, as when Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando legendarily created the roles. Alas, there are no sparks between the current team...
...first version as a seduction, the second as a rape: the dialogue in both versions is identical, suggesting that the question of literal consent remains problematic. Raz contends that popular culture pretends that consent is not problematic: "Stanley is a big bad hero, infamously protrayed by Marlon Brando. But a lot of our literary heroes depend on power and sexual control...
...want | to play classic roles, work with particular directors or co-stars, or demonstrate talent in a way films do not allow. Baldwin, for example, spurned a reported $1 million for a sequel to The Hunt for Red October to take on Stanley Kowalski, the role that made Marlon Brando. Says Baldwin: "It's thrilling...
...life devoted to boxing, he has attracted mentors, sportswriters and, yes, Givens with evidence of softness, hints of heart: the odd fluty pitch of his voice, the stabs at elaborate rhetoric, even his love for pigeons -- a fancy he shared with another damaged boxing hero, the Marlon Brando coulda-been contender in On the Waterfront. It was Tyson's mention of the pigeons that briefly beguiled Miss Rhode Island, she testified last week...