Marlon Brando

[Guest rohale]

Hollywood lost a star and a gem from the golden age of film in the form of screen legend Marlon Brando late last week. Brando, who died of lung failure Thursday evening at the UCLA Medical Center at the age of 80. Marlon Brando was the bridge between the heroic and upstanding screen purity of earlier stars such as Cary Grant, Gary Cooper adn Henry Fonda and at the same time a generation of conflicted anti heroes played by the likes of Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman. In the world of film acting, there is before Brando and after Brando. They are two different planets.

 

Method Acting is something that Marlon Brando helped evolve. Lee Strasburg, Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler were the true pioneers of this form of acting but it was Brando who made it powerful and almost provided legendary like qualities to this style of acting. As the years went by Marlon Brando let his looks fade, he gained weight and became reclusive in his later years. He had a reputation of being difficult, he was very temperamental and very demanding. His demands for repeated scenes cost the studios big time bucks. That didn't stop him from being cast as Don Vito Corleone in " The Godfather ". He earned an oscar nomination for his role in this legendary movie and in turn the movie itself became an influence to movies such as " Taxi Driver " and " Scarface ".

 

Brando had a rather tough personal life, he was married a few times and fathered quite a number of children. His family had a tragic loss when Brando's daughter committed suicide over the killing of her then boyfriend. Her brother was the perpetrator of the crime and was sentenced to ten years in prison for manslaughter. Although Brando remained to live in Hollywood he never abided by it's system. Simply put Marlon was a legend and nowadays only too few are left from Hollywood's golden age of film.

 

I'd be curious to know what you guys think of the passing of Mr Marlon Brando.

 

Rohale

[Retired Fly Boy]

I loved Marlon Brando, he was the number one film star of the 20th. Century. His role of Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire," the most powerful performance ever put on film. Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather," is a gem to behold. There are no longer any real tough guys in the movies. Cagney, Bogart and Brando the last of them. His childhood was spent with an alcoholic Mother and Father. He admits he was a bad father to his children, with total control over their lives. Acting to him, was just a way to make millions of dollars for easy work. He turned down the lead roles in, "From Here to Eternity" and "Lawrence of Arabia," because he did not need the money at the time. However he died over twenty million dollars in debt, due to his son's legal fees, alimony, child support and lots of wild spending. He asked for a payday of eight million dollars in his last film, "The Score" and he got it too.

[tedbear]

"There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!"

 

Since his death, I've read several accounts of rumors of his romance with his best friend and roommate, Wally Cox.

 

For the younger ones here, Wally Cox was a movie/TV star from the 40's-60's, but was most famous for doing the voice of the animated super hero, "Underdog," whose motto was "There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!"

[Trixie]

I shall wear black all this week...

Marlon Brando was THE Rough Trade that all us Johns aspire to. Tennessee knew it, which is why il Brando was in more than one movie version of his plays.

God bless that hunk o' man!!

 

 

 

La Trix

[VaHawk]

RE: "There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!"

 

>Since his death, I've read several accounts of rumors of his

>romance with his best friend and roommate, Wally Cox.

>

Did YOU hear the SAME rumours at Wally Cox's death MANY, MANY years ago????? LOL, I JUST LOVE how all the queer boys come out when one of the "rumoured" ones pass away, in some kind of "outing" ceremony!

 

It is not Possible, in Any Way, for two people, one of whom is gay and one of whom is "str8", to be friends and share an abode when both are "poor", "struggling" entertainers!

 

AFTER ALL, two unknown actors, sharing an abode DEFINITELY makes both of them GAY!, especially if one of them becomes KNOWN as being Gay in the queer rumour mills!

[+ deej]

RE: "There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!"

 

>Did YOU hear the SAME rumours at Wally Cox's death MANY, MANY

>years ago?????

 

Yes.

 

>AFTER ALL, two unknown actors, sharing an abode DEFINITELY

>makes both of them GAY!, especially if one of them becomes

>KNOWN as being Gay in the queer rumour mills!

 

Well, that and pictures supposedly of Wally Cox sucking Brando's cock that float around the internet don't hurt the rumor mill any.

 

This gossip has been around for years, honey. Don't get yourself all puffed up about it.

[VaHawk]

RE: "There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!"

 

I'm not PUFFED up! And if all those pictures of Wally Cox sucking Brando's dick are floating around, then do us all a FAVOR and post them!

 

But, I'm SURE you can't as you are just perpetuating another "urban myth". Besides, SINCE when does a man getting his cocked sucked by another man, mean that the suckee is queer? :7

 

I SINCERELY doubt that MB identified himself as gay, as he was married 3 times, and has at LEAST 12 illegitimate children in addition to his acknowledged, legitimate children from his marriages!

 

I THINK it is RIDICULOUS to brand a man as gay, just because he shares an abode with another man, especially if that other man is openly gay! NO WAY that a man could POSSIBLY share a domicile with a gay man WITHOUT being a closeted queer, right?