Of all the strange characters and figures who drift through Jonathan Lethem's new novel Chronic City – which include an obsessive motormouth of an ex-rock critic, a giant tiger, a soul-redeeming pit bull, Marlon Brando and a cloud that hangs permanently over the place where the World Trade Center might have been – the strangest is New York City itself.
Part of the tragedy of New Moon is that it temporarily wraps Kristen Stewart -- the GenY Marlon Brando/James Dean/Montgomery Clift -- in a shroud of mediocrity. I'm not saying that Stewart has mastered her talent completely, but it's inside her, for sure. It's almost nauseating to see her grimming up and getting through the vampire/ werewolf paces as best she can. She seems tough and resilient enough...
Ten years in the waiting, The Seventh Seal has dropped……and goddamn, that is one bad record. Really awful. I guess every single top-shelf producer and same-weight-class-MC was in Barbados or Minnetonka that week, so he had to settle for a bunch of cats he found at the bus station or some shit. It’s like Marlon Brando making his big return to acting by guest starring on Everybody...
Pinning down Richard Stanley can be quite a job, whether you're talking about trying to find where he is or trying to make sense of the bewildering variety of reputations he has. He's been called a genius, a hack, an artist, a troublemaker, an Enfant Terrible and plain mad in both meanings of the word. This is all the more remarkable when you look at his body of work as a feature director: two films...
Good news for those who have completely finished their shot-by-shot analysis of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” video: The video for Beyoncé’s “Video Phone (Remix)” featuring Gaga, off the I Am… Sasha Fierce reissue, was unveiled last night, and like “Bad Romance,” it’s an almost seizure-inducing parade of cinematic homages and wardrobe...
The notorious film director on cheating death, the awfulness of restaurants – and how he can't stand boring people It is with a mixture of fear and exhilaration that I approach Michael Winner's large house – he likes to describe it as a mansion – in London's fashionable Holland Park. God knows how much it's worth – £25m maybe. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lives next door,...
Q: What about Brecht? Read much of him? A: No. But I've read him. Q: Rimbaud? A: I've read his little tiny book, "Evil Flowers." Q: You're thinking of Baudelaire. A: Yes, I've read his tiny little book, too. Q: How about Hank Williams? Do you consider him an influence? A: Hey look, I consider Hank Williams, Captain Marvel, Marlon Brando, The Tennessee Stud, Clark Kent, Walter Cronkite, and...
Congress MP Raj Babbar on Friday took a swipe at Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav for challenging Rahul Gandhi following the defeat of his wife Dimple Yadav in Firozabad Lok Sabha byelections.
The actor mocked at SP scion Akhilesh Yadav for challenging Rahul Gandhi, saying that actor in him could also compare himself to Marlon Brando or Robert De Niro, howsoever far fetched the comparison.