Now, when Johnny Depp recently gave an interview to Details magazine, you might have expected a lot of things – after all, Depp is a pretty renowned bon vivant and general eccentric – but genuinely touching life advice probably isn’t one of them. Especially since that same advice comes not direct from Depp, but from acting legend […]
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The buyer who pays the $2.89 million price tag for the sprawling mansion at 110 Longfellow Ave. on Emerson Hill isn’t just purchasing an English Tudor with stately rooms, upscale finishes and high-end interior appointments; he or she is also buying one of the most iconic settings in American cinema history. […]
Two Andy Warhol paintings of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando sold for a combined $151.5 million at Christie’s in New York. “Triple Elvis,” a 1963 silkscreen of Presley in a publicity image for the movie “Flaming Star” in which he is shown as a cowboy with a gun, sold for $81.9 million. The almost 7-foot-tall […]
The 1955 film Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine will get the re-release treatment in the U.K. this Christmas with a Sing-a-long version. More info via Empire Magazine: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42590 Fun Fact 1: Guys and Dolls is Brando’s second film with co-star Jean Simmons following Désirée (1954) Fun Fact 2: Guys and […]
Take an in depth listen to the early 1970s portion of Marlon Brando’s career by way of the You Must Remember This podcast, a weekly exploration of the “secret and/or forgotten history of Hollywood’s first century”. Host Karin Longworth unpacks many of the notions of this specific era of Mr. Brando’s career with the help of Austin Wilkin, […]
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By WILLIAM YARDLEY (New York Times) AUG. 1, 2014 Dick Smith, who made flesh peel from famous actors’ faces, who made the young old and the beautiful hideous and who transformed a girl into a particularly possessed tween — all while working as one of film and television’s most original and accomplished makeup artists, died on Wednesday […]
The Hawai’i State Senate recognizes, commends, and honors The Brando Tetiaroa, and Richard Bailey for their innovation in resiliency and sustainability. The Hawai’i State Senate is proud to recognize individuals and businesses that enrich the lives of our global community through responsible actions that promote ecologically friendly practices that are socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. […]
By Susan Mizruchi It was the late 1970s and one of Hollywood’s hottest directors had undertaken an incredible challenge: to make cinematic sense of America’s devastating war in Vietnam. The film shoot was wildly out of control: typhoons and cost overruns, a death from an accident on set, and a heart attack suffered by lead […]
[scroll down for links to reviews] When Marlon Brando arrived in Manhattan in the spring of 1943, he was a Nebraskan by way of Illinois with a knack for mimicry. Just four years later, he would transform himself into one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, originating […]