Word: brando
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1950s to the 1980s had not been seen in 20 years?that The Godfather and Some Like It Hot and Psycho and The Great Escape were kept alive only in the memories of those who had attended the theaters where they first played, that the young charisma of Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn and Jack Nicholson was known only through gossip and old photographs...
...sinewy of frame. She lacks those soft features that Blanche wants caressed by soft lights; Vivien Leigh's lingering luster, in the first London production and in the 1951 movie, convinced audiences well into the third act that Blanche was right about the world, and the brute Stanley Kowalski (Brando) was wrong. Close's angularity telegraphs from her first entrance that Blanche is not who she wants the world to think...
...Corleone family as a way to make some money when he was broke at the midpoint of his career. Random House hopes the new book will be turned into a movie like the memorable first Godfather film, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Marlon Brando. Proposals for possible story lines are due on Nov. 4, and Karp and the Puzo estate will choose the winner. If they really wanted to make some money, they'd turn the search into a competition and air it in weekly installments on TV. Right after The Sopranos...
...Jackass team is pumped. For them, this is like Brando nailing a scene. When Knoxville comes to, they walk him outside the swap meet and prop him up against a wall. "I'm Johnny Knoxville. Come see the movie, and you'll see why I have to get stitches," he says clearly, in what turns out to be his last completely lucid moment of the day. That's when Cindy Mendoza, 15, spots him. "Dude, it's Jackass. Dude, I watch your show every night at 10. How come you didn't bring Steve-O? Dude...
...dockworker's job has long been dirty and dangerous, as memorialized in the Marlon Brando movie On the Waterfront. Workers have struggled against shipping magnates and corrupt union bosses alike to improve working conditions and push full-time wages up to an average of $106,000 a year. But in the proud history of the longshoremen, this is surely the first time ports have been shut down to preserve the right of a few hundred unionized shipping clerks to keep using pencils and clipboards instead of computers and electronic scanners...