The Naked Brando: An Intimate Friendship

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After appearing as oil tycoon Adam Steiffel in 1980's The Formula, which was poorly received critically, Brando announced his retirement from acting. However, he returned in 1989 in A Dry White Season, based on André Brink's 1979 anti-apartheid novel. Brando agreed to do the film for free, but fell out with director Euzhan Palcy over how the film was edited; he even made a rare television appearance in an interview with Connie Chung to voice his disapproval. In his memoir, he maintained that Palcy "had cut the picture so poorly, I thought, that the inherent drama of this conflict was vague at best." Brando received praise for his performance, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and winning the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo Film Festival. [ citation needed] Welcome to the San Francisco Kateri Circle". San Francisco Kateri Circle . Retrieved April 5, 2022. Brando's notoriety, his troubled family life and his obesity attracted more attention than his later acting career. He gained a great deal of weight in the 1970s; by the early-to-mid-1990s, he weighed over 300 pounds (140kg) and suffered from Type 2 diabetes. He had a history of weight fluctuation throughout his career that, by and large, he attributed to his years of stress-related overeating, followed by compensatory dieting. He also earned a reputation for being difficult on the set, often unwilling or unable to memorize his lines and less interested in taking direction than in confronting the film director with odd demands. He also dabbled with some innovation in his last years. He had several patents issued in his name from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, all of which involve a method of tensioning drumheads, between June 2002 and November 2004 (for example, see U.S. Patent 6,812,392). [88] His assistant, Alice Marchak, resigned from her role due to his eccentric and unpredictable behavior. [89]

Maria Louise Cruz [1] (November 14, 1946 – October 2, 2022), better known as Sacheen Littlefeather, [2] [3] was an American actress and activist for Native American civil rights who after her death was accused by family members and journalists of being a pretendian. [4] [5] [6] [7] a b c Kelley, Ken (April 6–12, 1973). "Exclusive Interview". Berkeley Barb. pp.2–3, 14. Archived from the original on June 2, 2022 . Retrieved April 7, 2022. Strauss, Bob (April 14, 1991). "Indian activist optimistic: Littlefeather says 'Wolves' has helped". Leader-Telegram. pp.57–58. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022 . Retrieved May 3, 2022. She worked with Mother Teresa's Gift of Love Center in San Francisco and learned deep-tissue therapy and shiatsu massage techniques. Brachman, James (January 7, 1973). "Littlefeather and Girls-Make-Up for Minorities". The San Francisco Examiner. p.215. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022 . Retrieved April 4, 2022. Cursino, Malo (August 16, 2022). "Sacheen Littlefeather: Oscars apologises to actress after 50 years". BBC. Archived from the original on August 18, 2022 . Retrieved August 16, 2022.

Sacheen Littlefeather Modeling For Photo Shoot". Bay Area Television Archive. January 16, 1971. Archived from the original on November 16, 2021 . Retrieved April 5, 2022. a b c d e f g h i Keeler, Jacqueline (October 22, 2022). "Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native icon. Her sisters say she was an ethnic fraud". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 22, 2022 . Retrieved October 23, 2022. Marking 40 years of AIDS activism". British Library Americas and Oceania Collections blog. June 4, 2021. Archived from the original on June 1, 2022 . Retrieved April 4, 2022. Indian Terms Words Hers, Not Brando's". The New York Times. April 1, 1973. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022 . Retrieved April 7, 2018. Brando's performance was glowingly reviewed by critics. "I thought it would be interesting to play a gangster, maybe for the first time in the movies, who wasn't like those bad guys Edward G. Robinson played, but who is kind of a hero, a man to be respected," Brando recalled in his autobiography. "Also, because he had so much power and unquestioned authority, I thought it would be an interesting contrast to play him as a gentle man, unlike Al Capone, who beat up people with baseball bats." Duvall later marveled to A&E's Biography, "He minimized the sense of beginning. In other words he, like, deemphasized the word action. He would go in front of that camera just like he was before. Cut! It was all the same. There was really no beginning. I learned a lot from watching that." Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he declined it, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award (after George C. Scott for Patton). Brando did not attend the award ceremony; instead, he sent actress Sacheen Littlefeather (who appeared in Plains Indian-style regalia) to decline the Oscar on his behalf. [61] After refusing to touch the statue at the podium, she announced to the crowd that Brando was rejecting the award in protest of "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry … and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee." The Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973 was occurring at the time of the ceremony. [62] [63] Brando had written a longer speech for her to read but, as she explained, this was not permitted due to time constraints. In the written speech Brando added that he hoped his declining the Oscar would be seen as "an earnest effort to focus attention on an issue that might very well determine whether or not this country has the right to say from this point forward we believe in the inalienable rights of all people to remain free and independent on lands that have supported their life beyond living memory." [64]

In 1973, Brando was devastated by the death of his childhood best friend Wally Cox. Brando wrenched his ashes from his widow, who was going to sue for their return, but finally said, "Marlon needed the ashes more than I did." [75] Late 1970sAs he later wrote: “I’ve always had a strong belief in the power of mind over matter, so I concentrated on my private parts, trying to will my penis and testicles to grow; I even spoke to them.” For all of his stirring efforts, it did not work. “My mind failed me. I was humiliated.” He asked his director for an hour’s grace, and bravely informed the crew that he was not giving up, but as he noted: “I could tell from their faces that they had given up on me.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, he decided that “I simply couldn’t play the scene that way”, and so it was cut from the finished film.