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...GREAT WHITE: MARLON BRANDO GOES KABUKI...
Schumacher's timing was perfect. Hungry for a star who didn't display a grungy ambivalence about fame and adulation, the media couldn't resist the hunky newcomer, proclaiming him heir to Cruise, Newman and Brando. The campaign was ably abetted by McConaughey, whom the camera adores and who seems happy to project old-style Hollywood magic. Suddenly McConaughey was everywhere. "I've sat here for six years and not seen anything like this," says Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, who put him on her August cover. "This is the arrival of a Hollywood star...
...Hollywood is run by Jews. It is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering." --Actor Marlon Brando on Larry King Live; he later apologized for his remarks...
More obviously explicit, "Last Tango in Paris" by now owes much of its fame to its sex scenes--still somewhat jarring today--despite a notably wrenching performance by Marlon Brando as a dejected, desperate husband. The movie was immediately banned in the home country of the Italian director, Bernardo Bertolucci, for being "obscene, indecent, and catering to the lowest instincts of libido." But because of Brando's talent and, of course, the sex, the film was a world-wide hit, despite one near-rape scene and the subjecting of the female interest (Maria Schneider) to various sexual whims...
DIED. KUKRIT PRAMOJ, 84, Thailand's Prime Minister from 1975-76; in Bangkok. In a case of politics imitating art, Kukrit assumed office 12 years after starring opposite Marlon Brando in the film The Ugly American--in the role of a Southeast Asian Prime Minister...