Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There Belushi blossomed into an archangel of the grotesque. His face-round and blandly menacing in repose, like a middle-level Mafioso's-could contort into semblances of slashing samurai, killer bees, Joe Cocker or Marlon Brando. Belushi's body, stolid as a '53 Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic...
...President Jack Valenti's letter [Jan. 4] must be answered. No one in this country is better compensated than the actors and writers in Hollywood, and no one in any other profession gets paid over and over for the same job. But just how many times should Marlon Brando receive a million dollars for a week's work? Once is enough...
...smarts and the go-get-'em will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer belly peeking through a towel toga, Hank looks like the last of the Caesars-Sid, playing late Brando. The apogée of their romantic arc is long in the past, almost beyond memory. And so, to the cadences of Tom Waits' bluesy songs 'performed by Waits and Crystal Gayle), these restless lovers find spirits to incarnate their once-in-a-nighttime, winnertake-all hopes. For Frannie...
...MARLON BRANDO once said of his good friend Clifford Odets, "To me, he was the '30s." Author of plays like "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake and Sing," and champion of the innovative "Group Theater", Odets was virtually unrivaled as the great voice of Great Depression liberalism. By age 29, he had three plays running simultaneously on Broadway. At 32 he was on the cover of Time magazine for an article entitled "White Hope...
...Brando's remark testifies to Odets's incredible success in capturing the Zeitgeist of the 1930s, it also gives a hint of tragic flaws buried beneath the success. Although Odets would live and write well into the early 1960s, he strived, unsuccessfully, to break out of the role of spokesman for a decade that was over before he had turned...