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...JUST FOR BRANDO...
MICHAEL JACKSON's 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Solo Years--a two-night, self-thrown tribute to be held at Madison Square Garden in September--is bound to be a cornucopia of good taste. Liza Minnelli will perform You Are Not Alone with a 300-voice gospel choir; Marlon Brando will make a rare live non-nude appearance; and the JACKSON 5--older and stiffer but surely just as cute--will reunite. Indeed, five Jacksons will reunite--but not all are original. Citing "the exorbitant prices being charged" for the event, Jermaine Jackson is a conscientious objector. Jermaine claimed that...
...tale, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is about an Army officer, Captain Willard (Sheen), sent to find and "terminate with extreme prejudice" the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has "gone insane" and set himself up in Cambodia as lord of an army of Montagnard headhunters. On his long trek up the Mekong River, Willard learns that in this war, man is ever at risk of becoming the thing he hates, the unknown he fears...
...ensuing battle of wills, Brando would refuse to come to the set if Oz was present. De Niro had to direct Brando's big emotional scene, while Oz watched the action on an off-site monitor and sent instructions to De Niro via an assistant director. When they were in the same room, Brando also jabbed at Oz by calling him Miss Piggy and telling him, "I bet you wish I was a puppet so you could stick your hand up my a__ and make me do what you want." Still, Oz gave Brando plenty of freedom...
...movie worked out fine, and it has been getting good response from preview audiences. "I don't care about tension on the set if it's all about the movie and the character," says Oz, who admits he learned a valuable lesson. "I was combative [with Brando] when I should have been nourishing and gentle." Yoda, in his infinite wisdom, would agree...