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...only the beginning. Still to come is Francis Ford Coppola's long delayed $35 million Apocalypse Now, opening in August. Coppola has based the film on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie is already 1½ years behind its original release date...
...only surprise came at the end. In terms of quality, the final episode of Roots II was the best, with stunning performances by Al Freeman Jr. as Malcolm X and Marlon Brando as George Lincoln Rockwell. As ratings go, however, it was a disappointment. Night 7, ABC got only 40% of the audience, compared with 32% for CBS's Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes, a kind of all-star potato sack race, and 30% for yet another yodel of The Sound of Music on NBC. Still, helped by its old-time serials and the great...
...black college president, puts on a humiliating minstrel act to raise money from a socialite philanthropist (Dina Merrill). Ossie Davis and Brock Pe ters turn up as, respectively, a Pull man porter and a sharecropper, who risk their jobs to fight for economic equality. In his first TV performance, Marlon Brando appears in the final episode as American Nazi Party Leader George Lincoln Rockwell...
...former U.S.C. Running Back Anthony Davis -volunteered to play minor roles. Cafe Pianist-Singer Bobby Short flew to Los Angeles on a few days' notice to play himself in an early 1960s literary party scene. The biggest coups by far were the casting of James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando. Jones had originally been lined up to play Chicken George in Roots 1. Had he done so, he would not have been usable as Haley in Roots 11. But Jones pulled out of the first series because of a scheduling conflict and was available this time. That was lucky...
...book and that, in appreciation, he'd like to take a part in the film." But what part? Brando told Margulies, "I want to play a small but startling role. I want to be on long enough so that people will say, yes, that's really Marlon up there. But not too long, Because I don't want that much work." Yet once Brando agreed to play Rockwell, he wanted to add more dialogue to enhance the scene. At rehearsal he confronted Margulies. "I want to know right now," Brando demanded, "why we can't have...