Word: marlon
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LAST WEEK YOU APPEARED AT A GALA HONORING YOUR FRIEND THE LATE MARLON BRANDO. HOW DID YOU TWO MEET...
Down-on-their-luck FBI agents, Kevin (Shawn Wayans) and Marcus (Marlon Wayans) Copeland bungle an easy assignment escorting kidnapping targets Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek). In a car accident, Brittany and Tiffany receive the tiniest of scratches to their faces, the greatest imaginable travesty, and refuse to go out in public. To keep up appearances, Kevin and Marcus must, obviously, transform themselves with a team of makeup artists and pose as “white chicks” during the biggest days of the social season, Labor Day Weekend...
Particularly memorable is the shopping expedition scene where Marlon Wayans needs assistance zipping up a pair of uber-tight leather pants. His facial expressions, clearly visible beneath all of the prosthetics, are priceless. In fact, it is a feat unto itself at how Shawn and Marlon Wayans are transformed into looking like strangely normal, but utterly grotesque women...
...Jackie is 20, Tito 17, Jermaine 16, Marlon 14. They sing some, and play guitar. Michael, the lead singer, is twelve. They are brothers, and taken together they add up to the Jackson Five, a group that in hardly more than a year has become the biggest thing to hit Pop Capitalism since the advent of the Beatles. They had four hit singles in 1970, two more already this year, four albums, with all 10 releases selling in the millions, and one (I'll Be There) already well over 4,000,000 ... They have their own magazine, a quarterly...
...Actor's Genius The headline of Richard Schickel's Appreciation of Marlon Brando, "Hostage of His Own Genius," was unfair to the actor [July 12]. Schickel quoted Laurence Olivier as saying there is no room for genius in the theater because it causes too much trouble. Your critic noted that Brando's genius was for a long time "too much trouble" for everyone to bear. However, without Brando's genius, cinema today would not be as good as it is. He inspired actors to contribute their own share of genius and ideas about moviemaking to the art. Film lovers wish...