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...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...
Kelly wanted to put his own spin on the friendly rivalry: "If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I?m the Marlon Brando." Oh, not really. It?s true that, like Brando, Kelly wore T-shirts and, though he came from far west of the Hudson River, spoke in a working class Noo Yawk accent. But he was stuck with that pre-1950 smile, the professional good nature, the go-getting optimism that defined showbiz in the 20th century?s first half. The second half, led by Brando, was serious, surly, studiously indifferent to giving pleasure or generating...
...Winners MARIO TESTINO Celebrity photographer gets an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Hey, it's really not that easy to make Elizabeth Hurley look gorgeous LASSIE Canine voted favorite film animal. Marlon Brando had a strong early showing, but in the end they wanted something a little more human JESSE VENTURA Politico-wrestler to help write songs for a musical based on his life. Lucky you can rhyme "rebel governor" with "triple backbreaker" Losers AUSTIN POWERS Faux-spy told his second sequel's title, Goldmember, is too close to Goldfinger. Guess it's back to Man With the Golden...