Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dunaway, and Marlon Brando...
...Juans must suffer the pangs of a thwarted love. As the film opens, Depp is perched atop a billboard, attempting to join his missing love in the afterlife. Enter Marlon Brando as Jack Mickler, a psychiatrist sleepwalking his way to retirement...
...Brando plays Jack as a passive voyeur, listening intently to Depp's recounting of the amorous exploits as if he is bestowing some machismo title to the younger actor. He even gives Depp his trademark hug and kiss on both cheeks, as if to bring him into the family...
...kids have successfully styled themselves away from comparisons to the Brat Pack, they have also distinguished themselves from prior generations of movie stars. They don't have the smoldering rebelliousness of '50s stars like Brando, Clift and Dean. Nor are they throwbacks to the glamorous Hollywood stars of the '30s and '40s. What this generation has done is create its own kind of understated, unaffected sophistication-Bette Davis and Cary Grant in mussed bobs and basketball sneakers. These actors have nothing against grownups; they're just not ready to be them...
...They are at least 650 pages long, with a minimum of 100 pages of end-notes. The author has spent a minimum of 12 years in the archives researching his subject. Fat True Books can be about political types (Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao) or artistic types (Mark Rothko, Marlon Brando). They need not be about anyone you've ever heard...