Stelluhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That was one hot man and one phenomenal actor.

He was too interesting to get a parade. I have to admit I was always annoyed at how he turned into a big whore for money, as Jon Stewart likes to say. Still, even with twenty some years of a complete lack of artistic viability, he's one of the greatest actors to ever live, and probably the greatest American actor. I was always waiting for his big comeback role. Too bad it never happened. There wasn't anybody like him before he showed up and there'll never be anyone like him again. We could really use someone with the "fuck you" attitude of the young Brando these days.

I don't think he ever went 20 years straight without any artistic viability, but I know what you mean. Ten years between Mutiny on the Bounty and The Godfather, ten years between Apocalypse Now and A Dry White Season, and then nothing really watchable since The Freshman.

He was fat and old. That didn't help him out too much the past couple of decades.

Regardless, he was a great. I don't think he was the greatest, but he was indeed great.

Reminds me. Jan Herman owes me a dollar. We had a bet going on whether or not Bob Hope would die before Marlon Brando. I am sick. :-P

Even in the not so great movies, he had a lot of artistic viability, it just didn't come out all that great.

He was always pushing the envelope, experimenting, and just generally giving directors a run for their money.

He was an eccentric, and that is artistic.

He admitted he only acted for the money. He asked Francis Ford Coppola to cut down his part in Apocalypse because he just didn't want to work too hard. Interesting and eccentric, yes. Artistic? I have my doubts. I think life wore him down and, after dealing with Hollywood for too long, he thought of acting as a bunch of bullshit. He may be right, but I wished he had pulled a Salinger and disappeared instead of making an ass of himself for some cash. I don't think he gave directors a run for their money out of any artistically experimental ideology. I think he was a dissapointed and faded star raging at the people he felt were beneath him. The way he treated the people he worked with in no way made him an artist. It made him an asshole. He sullied his own talent and that saddens me.

He was such a fuck to Frank Oz during the filming of "The Score," which he was extraneous in anyway, that Robert De Niro had to direct the Brando scenes.

But he was so freakin' awesome in Superman! :-P

Speaking of "Superman," they actually showed it on TCM for the "Marlon Brando is Dead" marathon. Ugh. Oh well, at least they showed it at 1 am, and not at 8 pm like it was his best film or something. "On the Waterfront" got the primetime slot. Excellent.