Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
What is more, at a cost of about $1.5 million, he was cheap. As Spielberg points out, Marlon Brando gets about three times as much. And E.T. will earn his keep with the usual spinoffs: candy, dolls, T shirts, an alarm clock, a toy game to be made by Texas Instruments, whose Speak & Spell game is part of the device E.T. makes to re-establish contact with his spaceship. "Phone home," the little lost spaceman learns to say plaintively, and this dictates the single TV commercial that Spielberg will allow him to make. Naturally, it will be for the Bell...
...popularity of actor-writers is as mysterious as other movie trends. Kosinski's explanation is probably as good as any: television talk shows have turned writers into market able stars, recognizable to even the nonliterary. "Our photographs are every where," he maintains. "I have a portfolio that rivals Brando's. I'm routinely stopped by people who say, 'I saw you on a talk show.' I'm known." More modestly he adds: "There are also some people who have read our books who will come to see us out of curiosity...
...lounged around the main street until some boys from the Elks' Lodge poured beer on them from their second-floor meeting room. The infuriated bikers terrorized the town, riding their cycles into bars and through the lobby of the old Hartman Hotel. The tumult inspired a Marlon Brando movie, The Wild...