July 05, 2004

The Don is Dead

Marlon Brando died Friday at the age of 80. My generation for the most part had little exposure to the actor in his prime, I’ll always appreciate his work.

As a seventh-grader I discovered “The Godfather” and unlike any other movie until “Pulp Fiction” it really sent me on the road to film buff-dom. I also have great love for “Apocalypse Now,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Freshman,” and the Hoboken-set “On the Waterfront,” which just happened to be on TV the first time I plugged in my cable when I moved to ‘boken three years ago.

One of Brando’s final films was the infamous 1996 flop “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” but it did give us the inspiration for both Austin Powers’ Mini-Me, and “South Park”’s Mephisto. NAMBLA (The National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes) has expressed its sincerest condolences to Brando’s nine children.

Posted by Stephen Silver at July 5, 2004 11:02 PM
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are Brando's kids members of NAMBLA? B/c they sure do look a hell of a lot like him. I guess the dead ones don't so much .. .altho now Brando is also dead ...

Posted by: LilB at July 6, 2004 07:51 PM
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