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DIED. ROD STEIGER, 77, who won an Academy Award in 1967 for his portrayal of a bigoted Southern sheriff in the movie In the Heat of the Night; in Los Angeles. Over a 57-year career in film and TV, Steiger played a variety of memorable characters, including Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in On the Waterfront and historical figures such as Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s...
...stars who visited his base, Galella, now 71, has been chasing celebrities. Some prance for him willingly. Some endure his attentions as the price of fame. A few try to break his neck. Jacqueline Kennedy, all 5 ft. 7 in. of her, once pinned him against her limousine. Marlon Brando broke his jaw. A year later, Galella was back stalking Brando but in a football helmet...
...slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: women's hearts, codes of behavior, the very notion of 'good acting.' In their distinct ways - grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn T shirt - Fred Astaire and Marlon Brando represented the poles of 20th century popular culture. Astaire gave it class; Brando gave...
More than 50 years later, Ellsberg takes only a few seconds to recall his description of Marlon Brando as “a cannon rolling loose on the deck of a frigate” in the opening sentence of a review of A Streetcar Named Desire...
...CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going to fool around with? HELEN CLARK Kiwi PM nailed for passing off others' artwork as her own. It turns out this unknown artist has also...