Word: marlone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that much 25, 30 years ago, when sexuality was a subject that attracted serious moviemakers and moviegoers. The X-rated Midnight Cowboy won the top Oscar for 1969; Columbia Pictures released the sexy French film Emmanuelle and made a bundle; Marlon Brando poured out his heart and his lust in Last Tango in Paris (back then the erotic accessory was butter, not hair gel, and its application was an adventure, not a joke). You had to be 18 to see these films, but so what? Then the kids took over the box office. Hollywood learned how to eroticize violence...
...Louis Armstrong, jazz musician --Lucille Ball, TV star --The Beatles, rock musicians --Marlon Brando, actor --Coco Chanel, designer --Charlie Chaplin, comic genius --Le Corbusier, architect --Bob Dylan, folk musician --T.S. Eliot, poet --Aretha Franklin, soul musician --Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer --Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets --James Joyce, novelist --Pablo Picasso, artist --Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen --Bart Simpson, cartoon character --Frank Sinatra, singer --Steven Spielberg, moviemaker --Igor Stravinsky, classical musician --Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host...
...warrior is rewriting the rules of engagement. When you see Pepsi advertising on the air, it will still be in Coke's face, although perhaps not as relentlessly as before. Take its "Joy of Cola" campaign, in which the cherubic Hallie Eisenberg lip-synchs voice-overs from celebrities--including Marlon Brando as Don Corleone--to demand Pepsi over you-know-what. Yet it's a much broader, less edgy approach than the company's Generation Next theme, whose message excluded much of the audience. The company has also launched a new beverage, Pepsi One, to keep hammering away at Diet...
There's more to movies than Matt Damon. Marlon Brando, for example. Check out On the Waterfront, the hard-hitting story of a longshoreman and ex-prize fighter facing corrupt labor leaders. South Boston Library, 646 E. Broadway. 268-0180. 6 p.m. FREE...
RICHARD SCHICKEL, a writer for TIME since 1972, has made a television documentary on Elia Kazan and has written a biography of Kazan's acting collaborator, Marlon Brando. Schickel is producing the tribute to Kazan that will air when the filmmaker receives a lifetime-achievement Oscar on March 21. This week Schickel explains why he admires Kazan despite the director's still controversial stance during the McCarthy...