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...take Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront." JOHN PRESCOTT, British Deputy Prime Minister, when asked which actor he would want to play him in a film of his life. The former seaman's union activist ruled out British movie star Hugh Grant as being "new Labour, not old Labour...
...painted figure, from the Sistine ceiling's Creation of Adam, is very little changed from this life study. In the drawing, though, his face is only sketched in-the final version has the artist's favorite idealized head. Like all the ignudi, Adam looks like the young Marlon Brando. In a detailed study for one of the ignudi, the model's own features are lightly indicated-a rare occurrence, as Michelangelo avoided portraiture. According to his contemporary, the famous chronicler Giorgio Vasari, "he abhorred anything from life unless it was of the utmost beauty." Occasionally, though, he pulled grotesque faces...
...Bethesda, Md., "found symptoms of major depressive disorder," and said that Cunningham "was having suicidal ideation." Smith was "concerned enough to recommend that he be hospitalized, but Mr. Cunningham refused," wrote Dr. Saul Faerstein, who also been consulted by such celebrities in trouble as O.J. Simpson and Christian Brando...
Brokeback Mountain is the kind of film you don't see nowadays: a western. Yet a half-century ago, the genre dominated the big and small screens. Every movie star from Monroe to Brando had to ride a horse, and in the 1958-59 TV season, six of the top seven shows were oaters. Here is a passel of DVDs worth packing in your saddlebag...
DIED. OFELIA FOX, 82, manager and "first lady" of Havana's famed Tropicana nightclub during its 1950s heyday, when regulars included Marlon Brando and Joan Crawford; in Burbank, Calif. With its casino, showgirls and lavish stage shows, the club was a renowned hot spot before Castro took it over...