Marlon Brando Dead :(
 

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Marlon Brando, who revolutionised American acting with his Method performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront and went on to create the iconic characterisation of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, has died aged 80.

Brando died at an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital yesterday, attorney David Seeley said today.

The cause of death was being withheld, Seeley said, noting the actor "was a very private man".

Brando, whose unpredictable behaviour made him equally fascinating off the screen, was acclaimed as the greatest actor of his generation, a two-time Academy Award winner who influenced some of the best actors of the generation that followed, among them Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson.

He was the unforgettable embodiment of the brutish Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, the mixed up Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (which won him his first Oscar) and the wily Corleone in The Godfather.

But his private life may best be defined by a line from The Wild One, in which Brando, playing a motorcycle gang leader, is asked what he's rebelling against.

"Whattaya got?" was his famous reply.

His image was a studio's nightmare. Millions of words were written about his weight, his many romances and three marriages, his tireless - and, for some, tiresome - support of the American Indian and other causes, his battles with film producers and directors, his refuge on a Tahitian isle.

His most famous act of rebellion was his refusal in 1973 to accept the best actor Oscar for The Godfather.

Instead, he sent a woman who called herself Sasheen Littlefeather to read a diatribe about Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.

It was roundly booed.

Brando's private life turned tragic years later with his son's conviction for killing the boyfriend of his half sister, Cheyenne Brando, in 1990.

Five years later, Cheyenne committed suicide, still depressed over the killing. Still, the undying spotlight never made him conform.

"I am myself," he once declared, "and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain true to myself, I will do it."

Thread #563....

it's sad, I know... but we must more on before 400 more threads are made. :winkwink:

sad news... but already posted today

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I checked the first page AND did a search on "brando" before posting and there wasn't shit so eat it up.
I don't post news without checking first cause I hate seeing the same shit over and over again myself.

Well, what do you expect? Any major news is already posted the minute it happens. If you want to post something that happened more than a hour ago you can be sure its already done.

I recall within the past week someone posting that he lived in a one bedroom apartment or something, and wasn't spending any money at all.... Meanwhile a lawsuit for an 8 figure sum was pending on him..... Now he died... hmmm...

I think he lived a long and good life under the circumstances.:)

He's a big lost to the industry.

Was even sadder, the first 1234234234234234054354389 times it was posted. :(

ohhh.... who cares