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BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« on: December 08, 2004, 10:28:53 PM »
Well, you've read the notes, you're back in the swing of the notes, and now it is time to post until the swingin' cows come home.  To it, I say.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2004, 10:41:05 PM »
Welcome five GUESTS.  We're talkin' about Brando.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2004, 10:46:37 PM »
Marlon - In the pretty bad category...REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (I'd love to have seen Monty in that!)
Favorites: I agree that WATERFRONT is hard to top. I haven't seen THE MEN in years, but I recall it as great - his first film role, I think.
THE WILD ONE is so much fun to watch. ...And suddenly I'm REALLY sleepy. More tomorrow.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2004, 12:05:16 AM »
I have never been a Brando fan. I quite like "One Eyed Jacks" - the film the score and the song inspired by the film (Johnny Burnette's "Ballad Of the One-Eyed Jacks")
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2004, 12:13:02 AM »
Indeed we can listen to Mr BK this evening on the program

2 ON THE DIAL on KCSN.

Here is the link.   8)

http://kcsn.org/programs/programs.html

Oh Marlon Brando.  Oh my.

Guiltiest pleasures - one already mentioned, one not:

Reflections in a Golden Eye
Bedtime Story - with David Niven & Shirley Jones

Favorite:

Sayonara - beautiful performance, beautiful photography.  This is also one of my favorite scores, Franz Waxman with a title song by Irving Berlin.  Brando is SO handsome in his uniform.  

Brando - I am sure we will hear some wonderful stories today in the posts.  He was controversial, talented, and an icon.

DtM - yes, wasn't the Betty Hutton interview a revelation?  She is just the same.  And it was followed by a couple of her BEST movies.   When she sings "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" written for HER by Frank Loesser - I am gone....    :'(
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2004, 12:18:47 AM »
DR CP.  My confusion : I was thinking Stars in Love/Relative Values.  I have not been well.  OK!
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2004, 12:28:23 AM »
While I enjoy Brando, I'm not one of those who think he was God's gift to acting and there are plenty of performers who I think have contributed more to the profession and the art. That said, I'm fond of Viva Zapata, On The Waterfront, Bedtime Story (in which he is very funny), The Chase, and the Godfather.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2004, 12:29:29 AM »
I have to admit (yet again) that I've never seen a Marlon Brando movie all the way through.  Clips, yes.  Scenes between commercials on TV, yes.  Whole movies from beginning to end, no.  Not even "Guys and Dolls."  I've watched most of it, but not necessarily the parts with Marlon.  (I even bought it ::))  Sue me.  (a "Guys and Dolls" reference!)

Now I must go to bed.  I've stayed up much later than I should (as usual).  I was asked to be part of a hiring committee for a the recently vacated mail clerk job in my building.  The first interview is this (Thursday) morning.  The second (and final) interview will be Friday at 1:00 p.m.  I guess they needed someone and I just happened to be the random person they asked.  I have to be at work BEFORE 9:00 a.m.  I can do it (a Fantasticks reference), but I need to sleep first.  So, good night!

And BK, I'm glad you had a great birthday! ;D
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2004, 03:10:45 AM »
Vibeage request for yet another one of my exams (this is number two of five).

Anytime around nine am EST start thinking "Family and Modern Society" vibes my way please :)
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2004, 04:33:36 AM »
I liked Brando in The Freshman.
Latter day best performance: Dry White Season

Never saw Last Tango In Paris, but from what I have read it is supposed to be his best role.

I have never seen a Brando film just because he was in it. I think starting in the 60's with most films, but not all, he whored himself for a paycheck.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2004, 05:18:11 AM »
Thank you all for many warm welcomes.
Hope all dear readers will have the patience to read my poor English and will understand it.

Marlon Brando: I've seen many films featured by Brando.
A Streetcar Named Desire is my favorite one. I saw it at teenaged and remember I had a terror of him in it, because he's very violent and very coercive and very high-handed.  Stanley Kowalski  is one of his great roles, however, I think.    He’s left a strong impression on me.


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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2004, 05:38:21 AM »
Good morning, all!  Dear Friend BK, what an ecventful and long day you had yesterday!  I hope you don't sleep too late.

I'm listening to an RCA Christmas collection at; the moment Eartha Kitt's doing "Santa Baby."  

So, the TOD is Brando.  It's amazing how many of his films I've never seen.

Favorites:  STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
               THE GODFATHER
               GUYS AND DOLLS
I don't the G&D film much, but I do like Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando.

Worst:  REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
          LAST TANGO IN PARIS

And so to work!
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2004, 05:59:00 AM »
The "Desperate Housewives" writers should check out the NY Times summary of Reflections In A Golden Eye:


Major Penderton (Marlon Brando) is a hard-driving Army officer married to Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor). The impotent Penderton hides his latent homosexuality under his strict military discipline, while Leonora is having an affair with Lt. Colonel Langdon (Brian Keith), who is married to the troubled Allison (Julie Harris). Allison is having an affair with her houseboy Anacelo (Zorro David) after she slices off her own nipples after a disappointing pregnancy. Private Williams (Robert Forster) is a young recruit who likes to ride naked on horseback. The Major is driven to insane jealousy when he discovers Williams would rather be with Leonora than with him.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2004, 06:07:17 AM »
Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on December 09, 2004, 05:59:00 AM
Allison is having an affair with her houseboy Anacelo (Zorro David) after she slices off her own nipples after a disappointing pregnancy. Private Williams (Robert Forster) is a young recruit who likes to ride naked on horseback. The Major is driven to insane jealousy when he discovers Williams would rather be with Leonora than with him.

The TIMES is wrong about the houseboy affair; the boy is so nelly he makes Julie Harris look butch.  Oy! What a stinkin' movie.  Liz has one great line:  "Normal? You call that normal? She cut off her nipples with the garden shears!"  

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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2004, 06:12:57 AM »
Favorite Brando performances include ON THE WATERFRONT, THE YOUNG LIONS and ONE EYED JACKS. I also enjoyed his performance (but especially Johnny Depp's) in DON JUAN DeMARCO.

Least favorite: LAST TANGO IN PARIS.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2004, 06:31:38 AM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on December 09, 2004, 06:07:17 AM
Liz has one great line:  "Normal? You call that normal? She cut off her nipples with the garden shears!"

Liz is right: It's only considered normal if it's done with pinking shears.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2004, 07:00:48 AM »
Brando movies: without a doubt, my favorite is SAYONARA, what with Miko Taaka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, and James Garner in it!! Beautiful movie and story, and I loved Marlon Brando in that film. I also enjoyed him in THE WILD ONE.

I watched REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE only because my interviewee Gordon Mitchell was in it....what strange film.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2004, 07:01:36 AM »
Hisaka, do not worry about your English...it is better then mine!!

Where in Japan do you live? And did you enjoy your recent trip to Los Angeles?
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2004, 07:08:08 AM »
Last night I watched a movie that will shock you!!! It was called GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3 BARES...yes, Bares, not Bears.

I am sorry to tell you this BK, but GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3 BARES appeares to be the real FIRST Nudie Musical! LOL! It was made in 1963 in Florida with an all Floridian cast, LOL, and is one of many nudie films to come from that state in the 50s and 60s. It actually was a cute, charming, amusing film. I don't know why I bought the DVD but it just intrigued me. It is on a double feature with SINDERELLA AND THE GOLDEN BRA...which is also a musical!!

GOLDILOCKS was made by Florida film producer Herschell Gordon Lewis who also made the cult films BLOOD FEAST, 2000 MANIACS, and COLOR ME BLOOD RED back in the 1960s, films I know a few DRs are familiar with.

I wonder if our Florida DRs realize what a rich film history their state has? LOL!

OH, by the way, the cast included some very cute male actors, one of whom I have already managed to track down...I smell an interview coming on!!

(I can just hear DR Elmore3003 now!)
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2004, 07:57:34 AM »
My favorite Brando performance is definitely A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: great delivery and an imposing physical presence: all you could hope for in the role of Stanley. I also like him in THE WILD ONE, GUYS AND DOLLS (though his singing is sometimes sharp), and A DRY WHITE SEASON.

I think his performance in THE GODFATHER is vastly overrated. I find him mannered and irritating, and still makes my blood boil that he got the Oscar for this over Laurence Olivier in SLEUTH.

I also think he's just terrible in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON and (the worst ever) CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS : THE DISCOVERY. Talk about doing something merely for the paycheck.

My favorite score from a Brando movie is MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. I think that's a truly terrific score!

Brando performances I've missed and would like to catch up with at some point: THE YOUNG LIONS (I have it on DVD; just haven't gotten to it yet), THE FUGITIVE KIND, and NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY.

That marvelous biography on Brando some years ago revealed that starting with SAYONARA, Marlon stopped memorizing his lines and required them to be written on cue cards on any film he did.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2004, 08:00:55 AM »
Quote from: MBarnum on December 09, 2004, 07:08:08 AM

...I smell an interview coming on!!


Well, that gets a nomination for "Euphemism of the Day Award"

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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2004, 08:04:53 AM »
Quote from: Matt H. on December 09, 2004, 07:57:34 AM


I also think he's just terrible in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON ..

Well, it's horserace time! - I thought he was great in Teahouse!

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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2004, 08:06:30 AM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on December 09, 2004, 06:07:17 AM


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And did rock bottom hit back?
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2004, 08:17:45 AM »
How quickly we get spoiled! For the last two days, we've had spring-like conditions here in the Carolinas: low 70s and beautiful blue skies. Today, won't get out of the 50s and rain, rain, rain with worse to come for the weekend. ARgh!
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2004, 08:30:44 AM »
Similar to DR George, I think the only Brando film I have ever seen all the way through is G&D.  True.  I don't even think I have seen the film version of STREETCAR in its entirety.  I was never impressed enough with Mr. Brando to seek out his other films.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2004, 08:32:27 AM »
Good Morning!

BK - Be sure Marcy the Marketing Lady contacts the musical theatre departments at both the University of Maryland and Catholic University.  Both departments have a pretty decent number of students, and I can assure you that almost of those students have "depended" on the various albums you've produced as a source for their recital and audition repertoire.  Oh, and the faculty too!  They know you as a producer, now it's time to let them know you're an author too!  Of course, then there's all the Outreach departments at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, National Theatre, Wolf Trap, The Studio Theatre, The Theatre Lab, etc., etc., etc...

If you want to go the non-mystery bookstore route, there is always Kramerbooks and Afterwords - which is a bookstore and cafe (with very good food too).  -They're even open 24 hours on the weekend.  Great clientele, and it's in Dupont Circle too - very "artsy" crowd, and very Metro accessible too.

Oh... As for Brando films... I'm another one who hasn't really seen a full Brando performance all the way through.  And if I have, I was most likely watching the film and not Brando - and no Brando performance sticks in my head right now.  I did watch "Apocalypse Now" in my AP English class in high school since it was based on Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"... Oh, I guess I did watch an entire Brando movie then!  But, with that movie.. Eh...

OK - I gotta get ready for rehearsal.  1-5 rehearsal, and then invited dress tonight at 8:00...

Laters...
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2004, 08:39:23 AM »
NEWSFLASH!

Noted guitarist 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott among dead at Ohio concert; 2 hurt; gunman's motive unknown.



I think it was Fashion Rage!

Dimebag was killed, on the stage, by Steven Cojocaru, beaten to death with a pair of  Carrie Bradshaw’s Manolo Blahnik stilettos!

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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2004, 08:41:13 AM »
Well, since it's virtually all I've been listening to for the last week or so, I'd have to say Mutiny on the Bounty is my favorite score to a Brando film.

For those who like the similarly scored Hawaii, believe it or not there is a sample of its Theme used on bossa-hip-hop artist Cibelle's self-titled CD.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2004, 08:42:08 AM »
I'm a little amazed at the number of Dear Readers who have not seen The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.  I mention them not as Marlon Brando films per se, but rather as two of the best films ever made.
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Re:BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS
« Reply #29 on: December 09, 2004, 08:45:10 AM »
Nothing Brando related but I thought all of you would appreciate this. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1369643,00.html
It has me slightly miffed.

I think the only Brando movie I have seen is Guys and Dolls. I don't like it at all and wish they would do a remake. They replaced such good music and both Brando and Sinatra's acting was flat to me. It never felt cohesive(?) to me I guess.
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