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...1950s to the 1980s had not been seen in 20 years?that The Godfather and Some Like It Hot and Psycho and The Great Escape were kept alive only in the memories of those who had attended the theaters where they first played, that the young charisma of Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn and Jack Nicholson was known only through gossip and old photographs...
...story of the Corleone family as a way to make some money when he was broke at the midpoint of his career. Random House hopes the new book will be turned into a movie like the memorable first Godfather film, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Marlon Brando. Proposals for possible story lines are due on Nov. 4, and Karp and the Puzo estate will choose the winner. If they really wanted to make some money, they'd turn the search into a competition and air it in weekly installments on TV. Right after The Sopranos...
...dockworker's job has long been dirty and dangerous, as memorialized in the Marlon Brando movie On the Waterfront. Workers have struggled against shipping magnates and corrupt union bosses alike to improve working conditions and push full-time wages up to an average of $106,000 a year. But in the proud history of the longshoremen, this is surely the first time ports have been shut down to preserve the right of a few hundred unionized shipping clerks to keep using pencils and clipboards instead of computers and electronic scanners...
DIED. KIM HUNTER, 79, actress best remembered for her visceral, sexually charged Oscar-winning portrayal of Stella in the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she originated on Broadway with Marlon Brando; in New York City. Blacklisted in the 1950s, Hunter did not see her film career take off again until she donned a monkey suit to play a chimpanzee in Planet of the Apes (1968). "The only thing of me that came through was my eyeballs," she said. Still, she repeated the role in two sequels...
...Much as he loved music, Elvis also wanted to be an actor - a serious actor, like his idols, James Dean and Marlon Brando - but producers and directors kept sending him puff scripts. He appeared in 33 films, and while all of them were profitable, only a few (the mega-hits "Jailhouse Rock" and "King Creole" included) truly satisfied their star...