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Julius Caesar. Brando and the I--dahs of March. At Emerson Hall 105, on Friday and at the Mather House Dining Hall on Saturday, both days...
Sumptuous sounded more accurate to me. Powerful. "Cleopatra," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Reflections in a Golden Eye" where she takes a whip to Brando's face. There were times when she'd made us squirm, uncomfortable with the guts of her performance, shown us the violent capacity of human emotions...
Isadora (Marian Seldes) acts it out at the front, along with just about every one else who marched by during the first quarter of this century. Even Stanislavsky has a walk-on, mimicking Marlon Brando's Stanislavsky-inspired Stanley Kowalski. Isadora dutifully responds as Blanche DuBois: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...
...Jenkins' Ear will be playing at the neighborhoods. Leading the attack is Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Viet Nam War itself. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse is about a mad Green Beret commander, played by Marlon Brando, who wages his own war in a remote Vietnamese province. Shooting in the jungles of the Philippines has been rather hellish for the cast-which also includes Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen. Most have had a bout or two with dysentery, and many scenes have been played knee-deep...
...problem, however, proved obdurate: Brando's weight. Instead of looking like a Green Beret commander, trim and tough, Brando, who was paid $2 million, panted through the paddies like Sidney Greenstreet vainly looking for the way to Rick's Bar. Coppola's solution was to film only Brando's face and hands in closeup and to use a suitably slim, 6-ft. 5-in. double for long shots. Even Coppola's inventiveness had no remedies, however, for the two typhoons that ripped up his sets...