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LAST WEEK YOU APPEARED AT A GALA HONORING YOUR FRIEND THE LATE MARLON BRANDO. HOW DID YOU TWO MEET...
...Actor's Genius The headline of Richard Schickel's Appreciation of Marlon Brando, "Hostage of His Own Genius," was unfair to the actor [July 12]. Schickel quoted Laurence Olivier as saying there is no room for genius in the theater because it causes too much trouble. Your critic noted that Brando's genius was for a long time "too much trouble" for everyone to bear. However, without Brando's genius, cinema today would not be as good as it is. He inspired actors to contribute their own share of genius and ideas about moviemaking to the art. Film lovers wish...
...Brando was their stud, possibly the most gorgeous (and authentically sexy) male the movies had ever seen. But he was in his nature ill suited to superstardom. Maybe he didn't want to be anyone's figurehead. He said, truly, that he had an attention span of about seven minutes. Besides, he didn't like delving too deeply into himself. He called that activity "pearl diving," and it upset and scared him. "Actors have to observe," he once said, "and I enjoy that part of it. They have to know how much spit you have in your mouth and where...
...long. The movies changed. In the '50s, the screen widened to CinemaScope proportions while the audience shrank more than 50% and a panicky Hollywood pretty much abandoned small, tight character-driven dramas. But Brando didn't change. He remained an adolescent idealist, loving the art that had redeemed his incorrigible flakiness but becoming increasingly lost and miserable in this new context. The daring of this work somehow made people laugh uncomfortably. And Hollywood, which will first indulge those it intends to humble, turned against him, blaming him, sometimes unfairly, for cost overruns and box-office failures. Now self-loathing seeped...
DIED. MARLON BRANDO, 80, one of the century's most influential stage and screen actors; in Los Angeles. (See page...