Word: brandos
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Perhaps we are all blind to the limitations of those we love. Dona Leonor (Luisina Brando), a proud widow in a South American town in the '30s, certainly loves her daughter Charlotte (Alejandra Podesta). She is beguiled by Charlotte's grace, her easy imperiousness, her ease with languages, her virtuosity at the piano. And she refuses to accept what is evident to all: that Charlotte, now on the cusp of womanhood, is a dwarf. The townspeople pretend to ignore it. But one fellow, the aging stranger Ludovico D'Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni), sees Charlotte's disability as a sweet eccentricity, like...
...expect Marlon Brando's new autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, to have a lot to say about acting and politics. You wouldn't expect it to have a lot to say about oral hygiene...
...know its chemical composition but her ((Brando's Danish governess Ermi)) breath was sweet, like crushed and slightly fermented fruit...
Show Business: Marlon Brando takes the money and runs...
...friends, and oh, his foes, he gave a lovely light! In works like A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, Brando mobilized a raw and unprecedented behavioral truthfulness; heedlessly, he challenged the blandness and piety of the times. If you were young with pretensions to hipness, he seemed to speak your thoughts. And he drove the old Eisenhower crowd nuts. But what we read then as rebelliousness was really confusion. Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother -- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous -- and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict. Elia Kazan...