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...film. Leading a seductive tango or impressing a film producer with his wit, Larry is as adept as any young actor could hope to be. And he is even better at impersonation. Waiting on an open-air subway platform in the middle of the night, he comically plays Brando, Edward G. Robinson, his mother, and himself accepting an Oscar to rounds of imaginary applause. But Baker can't play without posing--his mouth freezes into the armored look of detachment...
...regulation issue for U.S. sailors and was called a skivvy shirt during World War II. It became popular with the public in 1947, when Marlon Brando wore one over rippling muscles in A Streetcar Named Desire. But no swabbie or civilian of the 1940s, suddenly confronted with the 1976 variety, would now recognize the T shirt-something that millions of Americans want to get on their chests...
...properly duded up. The lighting for the act also helps to create this image: during some songs, the stage is hazily backlit, giving the impression that Springsteen is hanging out on a corner under a street-lamp in the early morning, trying his best to be like Brando or James Dean; during others, garishly bright colored lights are used, lie at an amusement park along the Boardwalk...
That mumbling, groping way that Don Corleone talked in The Godfather may not have been due entirely to the Stanislavsky method. "I found it helpful," said Marlon Brando on a Mike Douglas Show to be broadcast this week, "not to know one single line and to have lines written on the boards ..." "And on the pocket and the body of another actor," interrupted Godfather Director Francis Ford Coppola. On one occasion, Coppola added, he wondered why Brando was handling a melon in such a strange, reflective way. "Then I saw," he said, "that some of Brando's dialogue...
Acting is by no means essential, of course. Actors have walked through movies before and still come out great. A Brando or a Bogart in a dumb macho role could breeze through, thinking of what he'll do after work, and still steal the show. They are great actors even when they're not, because they're screen actors-the closer the camera, the more vibes they transmit, naturally. Olivier couldn't sleep through a picture-his face isn't revealing enough, and he needs a stage of gestures and intense dialogue to make his talents felt. Steve McQueen...