Marlon Brando: Male Diva?

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A vague companion to Dave Q's query on ILM. Read this, please:

After the opening number and a five-minute break, the house lights finally came up to reveal a portly Marlon Brando lounging in a leather recliner onstage and donning dark shades.

"I'm Marlon Brando," Brando began, in what's become his customary soliloquy. "In any event while your...wondering who that old fat fart is sitting there...I wanted you to realize that in that minute there were hundreds if not thousands of children hacked to death with a machete, beaten to death by their parents, got typhus and died of a disease."

After jarring the audience to attention, the legendary film star then plugged the popster's Website, MichaelJackson.com, while Jackson himself looked on, sitting beside the stage with best pal Elizabeth Taylor.

Um, yeah. (Retrieved from this report on the MJ "extravaganza".)

David Raposa, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I ALWAYS MISS THE BEST SHOWS.

Dan Perry, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude. That is so cool. NSync should add that to their shows, I'd respect them much more.

Ally, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here's how N'Sync should do it:

*curtain rises on Kevin Smith, sitting on a sofa surrounded by Cheetos and with his hand down his pants watching his bootleg Star Wars Holiday Special video*

KEVIN SMITH: "Hi there, in case you're wondering who this social reject sitting here is, I just wanted you to know that in the last five minutes millions of boys and men jerked themselves off into a frenzy imagining they were giving Britney Spears the fuck of her life. Unfortunately for them, the only person currently doing that to the best of anyone's knowledge is here tonight with his bandmates. Justin Timberlake and N'Sync, ladies and gentlemen!"

*enter Dan and Ned as Dan and Ned, superior equivalents to Jay and Silent Bob*

DAN: "What the fuck?"

NED: *grunts, shrugs*

Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How much money would I pay for the opportunity to say, "What the FUCK?" to an arena full of 'NSync fans?

Dan Perry, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you see the guest list for that show :

Elizabeth Taylor,Macaulay Culkin,Usher,Maya,Whitney Houston,Brando,
the twelve year old "country" pop prodigy Billy Gilman,
Liza Minnelli (singing somewhere over the rainbow),Quincy Jones with his orchestra,
Gladys Knight ( whose last gig was at the Mormon General Confrence being used as a token by Gordon B Hinkley
, Eminem, Destiny's Child,
Yoko Ono (this is the one htat amuses me the most any one want to enter nasty beatles related comments
, Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Tucker,Samuel L. Jackson and 'N Sync.

I think that may be the most bizzarre line up i have ever seen .

anthony, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite a lot. You can give it all to me if you like.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You see? You see? That's why Michael Jackson is great, he lives in this bizarre alternate universe which occasionally overlaps with our own. And he sang 'Billie Jean' (that one's for you, Dave Q).

DG, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...
Turner Classic Movies two-part Brando doc on Tues & Wed nights. I hope they show a clip from Meet Marlon Brando (mid '60s) where he's asked about integration. Classic reponse.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I am excited about this.

admrl, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

In the time it took to read this thread there were hundreds if not thousands of children hacked to death with a machete, beaten to death by their parents, got typhus and died of a disease.

Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Marlon is SO a diva. That is why I call any large, egotistic male cat a Marlon Brando Cat. I've owned a few, but then again, too few to mention.

Abbott, Monday, 30 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)


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