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...said she had it all figured out. “He always said that there were two types of celebrities—the ones who leave a legacy by going up in flames like Marilyn Monroe and the ones who get fat and useless like Marlon Brando. Soman always wanted a dramatic exit—like Elvis, Bruce Lee or Princess Diana. Without that shroud of mystery, he knew that his Behind the Music or E! True Hollywood Story episode could never get top ratings,” said Casillas. “But when I also informed...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the (K)now | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...After the war, outsiders' takes on Japan - the '50s flurry of Hollywood films like Sayonara (with Marlon Brando as a G.I. who loves a Japanese entertainer) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (this time with Brando as a Japanese!) - were mostly fond and sentimental. It was not until the country emerged as an economic Godzilla that Hollywood updated the old ogres with ruthless businessmen, in the film of Michael Crichton's novel Rising Sun - and then changed the identity from Japanese to American, to stifle Japanese protests. This summer's big item is Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geishas & Godzillas | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...Rose, a poverty stricken, single woman, combines Blanche DuBois’ hysteria with Laura Wingfield’s loneliness, resulting in an intense, needy amalgam of insecurity and neurosis. Cliff (David L. Skeist ’02), her male counterpart, a misfit truck driver, is a kind of wannabe Marlon Brando who demonstrates his manly virility through his brusque, to-the-point language and pontificating monologues...

Author: By Natalia H.J. Naish, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gather Round | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Hopkins--who left the audience in hysterics with his Richard Nixon, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson impressions--seemed amused by the tasks set before...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hopkins Honored as Man of the Year | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...providing chewing gum during the austere war years, the actor had dreamed of the U.S. The movies, he now knew, would be his ticket there; as an adult, as an actor, he had been influenced less by the titans of the British theater than by the naturalistic style of Marlon Brando and James Dean. Did he want to be in a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bite Stuff | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

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