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...want | to play classic roles, work with particular directors or co-stars, or demonstrate talent in a way films do not allow. Baldwin, for example, spurned a reported $1 million for a sequel to The Hunt for Red October to take on Stanley Kowalski, the role that made Marlon Brando. Says Baldwin: "It's thrilling...
...life devoted to boxing, he has attracted mentors, sportswriters and, yes, Givens with evidence of softness, hints of heart: the odd fluty pitch of his voice, the stabs at elaborate rhetoric, even his love for pigeons -- a fancy he shared with another damaged boxing hero, the Marlon Brando coulda-been contender in On the Waterfront. It was Tyson's mention of the pigeons that briefly beguiled Miss Rhode Island, she testified last week...
...very tip-top of Mulholland Drive. Santo Pietro's is a half mile away, and it is no routine Italian joint. The Beverly Glen Centre has perhaps the greatest celebrity concentration in town. Beatty is a regular, as is Jack Nicholson, who lives across the road from him. Marlon Brando lives nearby too, but he does not cruise malls...
...Street powerhouse Salomon Brothers enmeshed in scandal, the forthcoming screen version of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis' best-selling account of life at the firm, is a hot ticket. Cameras are expected to roll next spring. But who will play fallen Salomon chairman John Gutfreund? Word is that MARLON BRANDO is being considered for the tough, cigar-chomping role, and James Spader for the freshman trainee based on Lewis. Warner Bros. says it's too early to tell who'll get the casting call...
...Marlon Brando's emergence in the early '50s registered a drastic change in the cultural weather. The masculine ideal reflected in the Hollywood mirror had been basically suave and gentlemanly. Brando, who grew up middle class, Midwestern and Wasp, radiated pure working-class alienation -- an inarticulate promise of danger, sex and social abrasion. Which is why, as TIME film critic Richard Schickel tells us in BRANDO: A LIFE IN OUR TIMES (Atheneum; $21.95), he was a mythic presence for all the young urban professionals of the '50s. Rude but sensitive, rough but anguished, Brando was their version of pastoral...