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...ARTS APPRECIATION: Marlon Brando spoke for a silent generation...
...DIED. MARLON BRANDO, 80, one of the most influential stage and screen actors of the modern era; in Los Angeles...
...than its dialogue, are ingrained in the popular imagination. You can talk about the “Stella!” scream being a cultural touchstone, but you’re never thinking about the line’s context—you’re thinking about Marlon Brando screaming with his head sandwiched between his elbows. And if you don’t think of that when you think of Streetcar, you probably think of Brando trudging around in an undershirt, or Kim Hunter absently slinking down a flight of stairs, or Vivien Leigh flinching away from...
...violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost...
...number of leading roles, Anthony became what the opera world calls a comprimario--a singer of supporting roles, a specialist in character parts like the Innkeeper in Der Rosenkavalier and the police spy Spoletta in Tosca. "Sure, I feel some regrets," he says. "It's like Marlon Brando's line in On the Waterfront: 'I coulda been a contender.' But talent isn't handed out equally. It wasn't meant...