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Article: OnePages pays tribute to Marlon Brando.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
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- May 24, 2001
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OnePages continues its monthly Tributes (advance obits) with a look at the career of Hollywood legend Marlon Brando.
Brando blurred the distinction between playing a part and baring a soul. Over his 77 years, the two-time Oscar winner personified embattled masculinity, from loutish Stanley Kowalski in ``A Streetcar Named Desire'' to failed boxer Terry Malloy in ``On the Waterfront'' to that ultimate authoritarian, Vito Corleone, in ``The Godfather.'' It's hard to name another performer who so decisively changed American acting.
KRT examines Brando's life in a broadsheet OnePage, featuring an appreciation from Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, ...