Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase, with Marlon Brando and Robert Redford, Friday-Sunday, March...
...women in the film, are never treated as people by Bertolucci. The women seem glossed over as insignificant in this film, rather than abused as in Last Tango in Paris. Verbal images of life and death in Partner are almost as ridiculous as in Last Tango. Any suggestions that Marlon Brando alone was responsible for writing his speech about going "through the ass of death, right up into the womb of fear" are dispelled by Partner, where Clementi speaks of life as an "echo resounding between the sperm and the shit of the world...
Though the Watergate serial dominated our mail, our Jan. 22 cover on Marlon Brando's controversial film, Last Tango in Paris, elicited an unprecedented 12,000 letters for a single story, surpassing the number received for the previous record holder, the cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber...
...Ugly American. 1963. A portent of things to come, this George Englund film featured Marlon Brando as a thoroughly American diplomat caught in the paradoxes of American policy in Southeast Asia. Dated but worthy. CH. 4 11:30 p.m. Color...
Last Tango in Paris. "A movie that people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies. Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando have altered the face of an art form." Well. Pauline Kael started it all with these words, and it was inevitable that parody would flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected...