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Mopeds are the near-beer of the motorcycle world. They are more than bicycles but less-far less-than the roaring machines straddled by Marlon Brando in The Wild One and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider; no self-respecting Hell's Angel would be caught dead on one. Yet mopeds (from motorized-bicycle-plus-pedals) are coming on like Scotch after Repeal...
...million that Harry J. Gray made last year as chief executive of United Technologies? In the face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really preferable to a tax problem...
...Mafia is overseen nationally ?but loosely?by the Commission, a dozen or so dons who usually, but not always, defer to the dominant boss in New York because he controls the most men and rackets. He may not get his hand kissed as often as Marlon Brando and Al Pacino did in the Godfather films, but he is first among equals. Since Gambino's death, two New York dons have been competing for his crown as capo di tutti capi. They...
...session, one which ended up at the Mulholland Drive home of Polanski's good friend Actor Jack Nicholson. Although Nicholson was away skiing in Colorado at the time, his live-in girl friend, Anjelica Huston, daughter of Director John Huston, was there, along with the housekeeper of Neighbor Marlon Brando...
Isadora (Marian Seldes) acts it out at the front, along with just about every one else who marched by during the first quarter of this century. Even Stanislavsky has a walk-on, mimicking Marlon Brando's Stanislavsky-inspired Stanley Kowalski. Isadora dutifully responds as Blanche DuBois: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...