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Bewildered by the deaths Sutherland who teaches Afrikaaner history to schoolboys, begins looking into the incidents. Soon convinced the two were murdered by the South African secret police, he seeks help from a liberal lawyer named Ian McKenzie played by Marlon Brando. (Yes Brando...
...entirely isolated in his struggle. His young son stands by him. So do a scrappy journalist (Susan Sarandon in an underdeveloped role) and a weary, canny lawyer, played by Marlon Brando. In his first movie role in eight years, Brando is shockingly bloated in appearance, but his full authority as an actor is mobilized by a part in which he obviously believes (he was paid union scale...
Trying to knock down that so-called wisdom, Wheeler listed 92 actors and actresses -- everyone from Marlon Brando to Robert Redford, Jane Alexander to Susannah York -- who have portrayed homosexuals or lesbians and lived to tell about it. He might just as well have saved his money. Not only did his ad fail to produce a star, but Jon Pennell, the young actor who had been signed as the coach's lover, withdrew, deciding that he did not want the role...
...self-publicizing. Capote talked endlessly about "the difference between very good writing and true art" and left no doubt which he was serving up. To a considerable extent he was taken at his own estimation, though a large part of his writing (his 1957 New Yorker portrait of Marlon Brando is an overpraised example) was nothing more than good, smooth journalism. His pretense that the powerful and meticulously written In Cold Blood was something to be called a nonfiction novel demeaned both forms...
...break the rules of narrative film. Before the Revolution (1964) and The Conformist (1970) swooned with infatuation for radical politics and complex storytelling. With Last Tango in Paris (1972), Bertolucci looked to have conquered Hollywood on his own terms. Its desperate, soft-core sex and the voluptuous rankness of Marlon Brando's monologues stirred scandal wherever it played. While an Italian court was convicting Bertolucci, Brando and Co-Star Maria Schneider of obscenity, Tango was breaking U.S. box-office records for a foreign-language film...