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JoAn Corrales walks into Kalama’s Heritage Square Antiques wearing Marlon Brando’s hat. A memento of her 50-year friendship with the late movie star, the leather newsboy’s cap crowns the thick, gray hair that falls in waves to her waist. When she smiles, the years drop from her face, and it’s not hard to imagine the 72-year-old Corrales as a young model rubbing elbows with Hollywood’s elite in the 1950s. Beneath her fringe of bangs, though, her blue eyes are sad. It’s been four-and-a-half years since Brando’s death at age 80, and a little more than a year since his son,...

Fox just announced he died from pneumonia.

IT WAS dark, cramped and run-down, but for nearly half a century it was Marlon Brando’s home. Now his neighbour Jack Nicholson, who paid £3.4m for the house after Brando died two years ago, is planning to demolish it and plant frangipani flowers over the plot. Nicholson, who returned from a holiday in London last week, resolved to “sort out” the estate at 12900 Mulholland Drive. The famous address, on the mountain road overlooking Los Angles, is where Nicholson cared for his friend Brando before his death. The 69-year-old actor has been advised that it would be too expensive to...

A thick new biography of Marlon Brando promises to be the definitive gossip guide to the great actor's life. "Brando Unzipped," by Darwin Porter, claims he covered as much ground on the Kinsey Scale as the bathroom scales. The book says: "From Rock Hudson to Vivien Leigh, from Bette Davis to Cary Grant, Brando slept around, even managing to seduce two of America's First Ladies." The plausibility of that is debatable, but there's a (literally) jaw-dropping scene on page 320, involving Peter Lawford, another actor and "a motor trip to Palm Springs" which you can bet they didn't run by...

The movie "The Godfather" is on right now New York, channel 11 (a local channel, not cable tv) Right now, The Godfather (Marlon Brando) is turning down Sollozo's drug deal. Tells Sonny his brain must be full of mush. Now he calls in Luca Brasi...Tells him to pretend he's not happy with the Corleone family. now commercial Now back from commercial Mike is christmas shopping with girlfriend Kay. Luca is putting on his bullet proof vest fredo to get the car, paulies sick Luca goes swimming.....

LOS ANGELES - James Caan and Robert Duvall have joined the late Marlon Brando in providing voice acting and likenesses for Electronic Arts' "The Godfather" video game. Caan and Duvall, who reprise their respective roles as Sonny Corleone and consigliere Tom Hagen from the film, also were involved in the development of the game and are scheduled to attend its premiere unveiling of the game in New York's Little Italy on Feb. 10. The video game, which draws inspiration from both Mario Puzo's book and Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 movie, is scheduled for release in the fall. Before his death...

Marlon Brando's former business manager filed a $US3.5 million ($A4.5 million) claim against the Oscar-winning actor's estate last week, alleging he had sexually harassed her throughout her employment and also breached their contract when he removed her as a co-executor of his will just days before his death.The claim, submitted by attorneys for Jo An Corrales of Kalama, Washington, states that Brando "caused a hostile work environment due to his continuous acts of sexual harassment" towards Corrales and that the harassment continued throughout the course of her employment, which began in December 2000 and ended around March 8 this year.No...

MARLON BRANDO's remains were mingled with those of Wally Cox, his longtime friend and rumored lover, and then scattered over Death Valley. It seems Brando kept Cox's ashes around since he died in 1973. Cox, who was once Brando's roommate, wasn't Brando's only strange acquaintance. His son, Miko, tells the Los Angeles Times his screen-icon dad was also a frequent guest at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. ``The last time my father left his house to go anywhere, it was with Michael,'' Miko said. We shudder to imagine. . . .

MIDI - THE GODFATHER Hey, Mr. Brando, you were in Cambodia I had been there, but too bad I did not see 'ya May I call you from time to time With all your knowledge your advice would be sublime I promise I'm watching my quips To diss you means apocalypse Hey, Mr. Brando, there are Contras running 'round Tell me what I should do to drive them in the ground May I call you from time to time With all your knowledge your advice would be sublime (musical interlude) I promise I'm watching my quips To diss you...

Marlon Brando may have possessed the greatest talent of any American actor of the past 100 years, but for most of his career, he wasted that talent. Charley Malloy: Look, kid, I -- how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast. Terry Malloy: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night....

 The death of the legendary actor Marlon Brando brings to mind an incident that tarred his reputation for years afterward and that serves to illustrate how certain Jewish organizations and their self-serving “spokesmen” risk trivializing the entire issue of anti-Semitism. In an appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in April 1996, Brando started out praising Jews for their contribu tions to civilization, only to be reminded by King that he had some criticism as well. In fact, King badgered Brando for negative comments, leading the actor to blurt out at one point, “See, you are rushing me, I can’t...

In honor of Marlon Brando, who died on Thursday, July 1st, Turner Classic Movies will replace its previously scheduled programming with an evening of movies starring the celebrated actor. Here is the new line-up: Saturday, July 10 8:00 PM On the Waterfront 10:00 PM The Wild One 11:30 PM Superman: The Movie 2:00 AM The Teahouse of the August Moon 4:15 AM Julius Caesar MARLON BRANDO, 1924-2004 Marlon Brando, a two-time Oscar® winning actor, whose dynamic, animalistic presence on the silver screen made for one of pop culture's most incandescent icons, died in Los Angeles on July 1 of lung...

Marlon Brando deserves to be remembered not only for his theatrical accomplishments, but also as one of the first public figures in post-World War II America to speak out about the failure of the Allies to aid Europe's Jews during the Holocaust. Brando's platform was the Broadway stage. In the summer of 1946, barely a year after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, 22-year-old Brando co-starred in A Flag Is Born, an explosive play authored by Ben Hecht, the famed Hollywood screenwriter and Jewish activist. Set in a cemetery in postwar Europe, Flag focuses on two elderly Holocaust survivors,...

Anti-Zionism (sic) Hollywood Legend Brando Passes Away (snip) Brando has frequently warned that Israel was a conspiratorial and invisible enemy of the United States . Interviewed by CNN’s Larry King in April 1996, Brando said Hollywood was run and owned by Jews. "We never see the mockey Jew on TV or in the movies," he told King. "It [ Hollywood ] is owned by the Jews they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering." The Jewish lobby has launched a ferocious campaign at the legend actor and, of course, accused him of being anti-Semitic....

Actor Marlon Brando, KE6PZH/FO5GJ, SK One of the best-known names in cinematic as well as Amateur Radio circles, actor Marlon Brando, died in Los Angeles July 1 at age 80. Known to hams worldwide as KE6PZH and FO5GJ, Brando is listed on the FCC database as Martin Brandeaux. He was on the air occasionally through the years with his FO5 call sign from his private island in French Polynesia. In an interview with Larry King on CNN in 1994, Brando confirmed his continued interest in Amateur Radio. In response to a caller's question, he said ham radio provided him with...

Marlon Brando was more than an actor. He was a battering ram. He used himself — and he was used — to demolish the idea that Europe remained culturally superior to the United States. No performer has ever occupied a position of such cultural prominence. In the 1950s, he was considered as important in his way as Ernest Hemingway (then wrongly thought to be the great American writer). He was one of the key embodiments of the idea that World War II had concluded with America as the leading cultural force in the world. It was America's time to shine....

<p>CBS 5 News has learned Marlon Brando passed away Thursday in Los Angeles.</p> <p>Brando may be best known for his roles in "The Godfather" and "On the Waterfront". He won oscars for his work in those 2 films.</p> <p>The cause of death is still unknown.</p>

HE WAS one of the most influential actors of his generation, a lion on stage and screen. But the ailing Marlon Brando now lives alone in a one-bedroom bungalow, surviving with the support of a state pension and relying on the taxpayer to help him to care for his autistic young son. The twilight existence of the Hollywood star is chronicled in a forthcoming biography that claims the 80-year-old actor owes banks nearly £11m and has grown so wary of debt collectors that he has hidden the Oscars he won for On the Waterfront and The Godfather. To make matters...

Veteran actor Marlon Brando has been revealed as the unexpected grandfather of wild rocker Courtney Love in a new book. The singer's mother, psychologist Linda Carroll, claims she has taken DNA tests to confirm she is the Godfather star's daughter. Love, former wife of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, says, "I am incredibly shocked by this news. I have heard Mr. Brando has more than 30 children so I can't imagine how many cousins I have." The link is Linda's mother, novelist Paula Fox. She met Brando in the 1940's through famed drama teacher Stella Adler, and the two enjoyed a...