Word: marlon
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...upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style (the gaudy trailer included on the DVD edition of the movie...
March 27, 1973: Marlon Brando refuses to accept an Oscar for best actor, citing the treatment of American Indians by the film industry...
...Aside from the Hong Kong affair, though, this Cannes was relatively star-starved. Everyone wasn't there. Jack Nicholson (The Pledge), Cameron Diaz (Shrek) and Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now Redux) all had major movies on display, but none of them showed. This was a festival of films, not photo ops, and even on screen the magic was in short supply...
...Those early roles eventually led to a supporting role in the Oscar-winning Marlon Brando film "On the Waterfront...
...Grifter. Those were the polite descriptions. Bakley was the mother of two girls born out of wedlock: a seven-year-old who she claimed was fathered by rock-'n'-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (paternity was never substantiated), and an 11-month-old she said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled son Christian (who served five years in prison for killing his half-sister's lover). Tests showed that the younger girl's father was Robert Blake, 67, former child star (Our Gang), movie actor (In Cold Blood) and TV cop (Baretta). Bakley married Blake last November...