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...appreciate the kind things that you said about me in your review of Bus Riley's Back in Town [April 23]. It is difficult for an actor today to bring in any kind of contemporary feeling and not be compared with either Marlon Brando or James Dean. I would like to thank you for pointing out that I may have some entity...
This trite melodrama has more good performances than good roles, and it is chiefly interesting for the appearance of Actor Parks, cast as Adam in John Huston's forthcoming The Bible. As Bus Riley, Parks will inevitably be compared to James Dean and Marlon Brando, but that need not discourage him. His own assurance, intensity, and hair-trigger temperament make even unoriginal sin worth watching...
...Jewish boy, bestows on himself, explaining to the reader "Platz means place in Jewish and German. It also means to burst." "The Mexican Pony Rider" is also a pseudonym; behind it, an unnamed juvenile delinquent prowls Manhattan, fancying himself a blend of pony-express rider ("Nothing bugged them") and Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! These formless reveries might make source material for an analyst, who is paid to listen...
...guess it was 1961 or 1962," monotoned Marlon Brando, 40, "when all of a sudden I was awakened by the girl I was with. Then I saw Anna." Anna, of course, was Actress Anna Kashfi, 30, his recently divorced wife, and she had broken into his house. "She started pulling the girl's hair out," drawled Brando. "I let her do it. I thought it would be good for her to get it out of her systern." Now Brando wanted to get their son, Christian Devi, 6, out of Anna's hands and was fighting...
...serious students of the cinema will want to probe the problems which de Broca's not-so-new film raises, problems beyond Harvey's ignorant laughter. Is Belmondo a French Marlon Brando? Or a Parisian Humphrey Bogart? Or, perhaps, a James Bond full of happy pills? Though each of these positions is defensible and, indeed, held by supposedly reputable critics, the clearest judgement must recognize Belmondo as only Belmondo, that is, Boob as Anti-Hero...