The Last Tango for Brando
 

Our great actor, Malon Brando died at the age of 60. After seeing the "Last Tango in Paris."I always wanted to visit one of those tango haalls but never found anyone interested. Has any poster here been to one in Paris/

He was 80. I love Streetcar Named Desire. ((b))

Cigale - he was 80.

Bud, Faina, I know, it was a typo. I have twisted arthritic fingers, that's why I'm queen of typos :) and it's too much for me to keep up with them, so those that know me, know what I meant to type. I've seen all his films. His influence in the leather jacket, jean style was powerful and a great spokeman for the American Indian cause, ala Moore.

We just watched "Don Juan de Marco" and were again impressed by Brando's incredible talent. What a loss to the film industry.

How sad that his final days were spent in what was described in an article I read the other day as a claustrophobic, dingy apartment penniless. He apparently was living on social security and his actor's pension.

He was a wonderful actor and I too loved all his movies, which were so diverse from Julius Caesar to the Godfather! Amazing. He was a true eccentric genius and will be missed.

I heard on the news tonight that his children will inherit millions from him. He lived on an estate in the Mulholland Drive area of Hollywood.

when he first started out in acting, he roomed with wally Cox. (youngsters won't know him) He at one time had a pet racoon. A close friend of a friend of mine dated him and she could not get over the fear of his pet.

What an odd couple, Brando and Wally Cox :D

"Get the butter!"

thom, unless they have seen the film, it may be lost. That was in the 80s?

It is on tv tonight :)

Not here , in New England! I've seen it several times. It's the only film where Jean-Pierre L... (sp?) annoyed me. He's great in all the Truffaut films.

Butter is for wimps!

I recall a classic letter to the editor of the Times of London from an outraged English lady who strongly disapproved of the butter scene. In view of the high cost of living at the time she felt that using margarine would have set a much better example for the viewing public.

Seriously, my first memory of Brando was his powerful Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar", which I first saw when I was in high school (some time in the Dark Ages) and studying the play. Unfortunately not all his roles were wisely chosen, especially his risible Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty". But overall he deserved his legendary reputation.

Hi Neil, I was watching alot of tributes to him tonight. Several said he hated those roles like "Mutany "and the other historical roles he played. He considered himself a charactor actor and those rolls only provided money but no meat for him in the contect of roles. At this moment on Charlie Rose, Sean Penn is talking about him..

Cigale, I have only a vague memory of the "Mutiny" flick, mainly remember Brando's pretty strange version of an upper-class English accent - but then, that was before the days of today's magic dialogue coaches. The only thing they don't seem able to do is to train a foreign actor (even Meryl Streep) to manage a believable Australian accent :-d Showing my age maybe, but there aren't too many present-day actors with half the screen presence of people like Brando, Paul Newman and George C. Scott. BTW, there are still descendants of Fletcher Christian and other HMS Bounty mutineers living on Norfolk Island, about 900 miles NE of Sydney. From memory they gave Marlon's performance a thumbs-down too.

For an extremely in-depth obituary, check out the obits in the London Daily Telegraph. Thought it to be the best I've read.

www.telegraph.co.uk

P.S. Had never heard the Wally Cox connection. As a "youngster" at 44, I do remember Wally, unfortunately mostly from his appearances on Hollywood Squares.

As a young adolescent, I shall always remember:
"Joey, I coulda had class, I coulda been a contender (contenda), I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum..."
Certainly encouraged me to study and go to med school.
Perhaps these lines should be prominently displayed in schools with high failure/dropout rates/incompetent teachers. On the other hand, the reading skills of many of the students might not be up to the task of understanding same as has been repeatedly pointed out by Dr. Bill Cosby

No more odd couple could be imagined than the mousy Wally Cox and his life-long friend and one-time roommate Marlon Brando. The two roomed together when Brando came to New York to study with Stella Adler, but Cox ultimately moved out because he could no longer stand Brando?s pet raccoon