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Even the last-minute preparations for the Pope's arrival in Nicaragua turned into a political tug-of-war between church hierarchy and state. Managua's Archbishop Miguel Obando y Brando, an outspoken critic of the regime, complained that the Sandinista government's plans to use publicly-owned transportation to shuttle Nicaraguans to sites along the papal route were an attempt to control who would be able to see John Paul. Some parish priests urged the faithful to ignore government timetables determining when they could leave for the Mass and instead to form their own religious processions...
...LAST THING moviegoers heard from Southeast Asia was Apocalypse Now, in which Robert Duvall glored in early morning napalm raids and Marlon Brando muttered T.S. Eliot as the flames of the Vietnam War engulfed him. In that ill-fated reworking of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola confirmed the capacity of great directors for self-indulgence, as he frantically flailed to capture all the anguish and horror of a decade...
...actress Vanessa Redgrave won in academy award for her performance in "Julia." She used her acceptance speech, tradition a forum for thanking colleagues and friends much as Marlon Brando had used his a few years before; to air for political sympathies with an approved and homeless people. When Brando refused his best actor award, he did so in support of the American Indians. When Redgrave got up to accept her statuette, she voiced her support for a terrorist organization, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and attacked "Zionist hooligans" for probating her appearance peacefully outside the auditorium...
...between the lowest paid and the highest paid around the world is naturally huge. At $40 a year, agricultural workers in Cameroon are among the worst-paid people anywhere. On the other hand, Marlon Brando got $2.75 million for just eleven days' work in the movie The Formula...
...stood at the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art two weeks ago, surrounded by co-stars and dignitaries, facing the Instamatic strobe pops of several hundred noisy admirers. "This is just like a scene from the movie," he pronounced, in a voice that echoed Marlon Brando's punchy Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront. Rocky did roadwork on the museum steps in the first picture. In III he unveils a statue of himself on the same spot, his gift to the city. Now Stallone was preparing to do the same in reality...