… but I met Steph.


NO NO!

That’s not quite what he said.



LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marlon Brando, who revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in ``Streetcar Named Desire'' and ``On the Waterfront'' and went on to create the iconic characterization of Don Vito Corleone in ``The Godfather,'' has died. He was 80.
Brando died at an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital Thursday, attorney David J. Seeley said Friday. The cause of death was being withheld, Seeley said, noting the actor ``was a very private man.''
Brando, whose unpredictable behavior made him equally fascinating off the screen, was acclaimed the greatest actor of his generation, a two-time winner of the Academy Award 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 of ``A Streetcar Named Desire,'' the mixed up Terry Malloy of ``On the Waterfront'' (which won him his first Oscar) and the wily Corleone of ``The Godfather.''

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P.F.---You forgot"The Wild One"That'll teach him to stay with old
Triumphs! Irish

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Irish---Better to be dead & cool,then alive & uncool!
(Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man)

Sad news....He will be missed.Did you catch Brando in the latest remake of The Island of Dr.Moreau? I think this is where the idea of Mini Me in the Austin Powers series was gotten.

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Sex is one of nine reasons for reincarnation.The other eight are unimportant...Henry Miller

I haven't heard it yet but I predict someone will make the comment, "God gave him an offer he couldn't refuse."
Maybe Leno, Jon Stewart, some nightly news anchor...

Nevertheless... we have lost one of the greats...

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Put me on wheels and I'll turn tricks.

Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

Another icon fallen off the shelf.

He'd been very ill for a while and it was probably a blessing.

And it got him away from his family. . .

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I just watched,one of his closest friends,interviewed.They asked
him,who he thought was the closest up & coming actor,to him.
He said truthfully---There was only one Marlon Brando.When asked,why he had the reputation,of being so difficult,he said that it was because he was a perfectionist.Things were never quite good enough. Irish

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LOL You posted that -----^, while I was composing this.

He also made One-Eyed Jacks and Last Tango In Paris a permanent memory for me.

Perhaps a prospective of time, but this is another media image from a period with characters that created unique individual personalities that have stood the time test.

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You got that straight, PF, and there aren't many left, it seems. Not at least, with the enduring qualities.

No one could have played the parts like he did.

Truely one of a kind!

Heaven just got sexier. RIP, Mr. Brando.

"Stelllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!"

"What are you rebelling against?" "What've you got?"

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

He will be missed. Darn, so many of the good ones are going. And there are so many more that when you see them in movies or on TV, you know their time is coming, too. Dennis Weaver, James Garner, and others.

Well...they say it comes in threes. This'll be a year to remember eh? Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles and Marlon Brando!

R.I.P Mr Brando!

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