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...years ago, he found a project that promised to be just the ticket: The Score, a crime flick that opens this week. And he didn't just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...
...piece. Oz got the 77-year-old Brando on board, paying him about $3 million for three weeks of work, after a couple of meetings at the actor's home. And Norton, 31, says he joined the cast simply because "if someone called me and said we've got Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro and we're gonna film a reading of the phone book, I would...
...Brando who supplied most of the offscreen drama and humor. You may have read that he shot his close-ups naked from the waist down when The Score was on location in Montreal last summer. Those reports were greatly exaggerated. "It was hot," explains Norton, "and Marlon was sweating through his suit, so he put on shorts instead of the suit pants. It was the most practical, simple thing...
...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...