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Article: OBITUARY: Marlon Brando.(Comment)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2004
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SOME irony lies in the fact that two of the rebel triumvirate from America's 1950s, when a sullen mood fizzed in the soda fountains, and jeans and leathers replaced the summer-prom suits, should have ended up grossly overweight, looking as if they had been gorging on momma's apple pie for far too long.
But such was the affection and sympathy for Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley that their adoring fans saw them, always, through the distorting mirror of memory, as snake-hipped, flat- tummed and wideshouldered, just as they had been when their posters were first pasted on the bedroom walls of pubescent girls.
James Dean, the third member of this trinity, ...