- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press; illustrated edition edition (Sep 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 156025291x
- ISBN-13: 978-1560252917
- ASIN: 156025291X
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 24.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,892,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In this highly sympathetic examination of the acting career of Marlon Brando, Time movie critic Schickel repeatedly refers to what he calls "the illimitable promise of Brando's youth," as demonstrated by his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire , The Wild One and On the Waterfront . For the author's generation, which "came of age in the years immediately after the Second World War," Brando represented "something of what we aspired to be: rude and sensitive, inarticulate but painfully aware--living oxymorons, if you will." Refreshingly spare about the actor's tangled personal life, Schickel, however, is at pains to defend Brando's disappointing career since the '50s. The tone is set at the beginning of the book in an unctuous open letter to Brando ("I've often wondered, did you read Camus, too?") and leads Schickel to ridicule Truman Capote for his revealing 1957 profile of Brando as well as the New Yorker for publishing it. Only when considering Brando's "work" in the '80s does Schickel come to the conclusion that many reached years earlier: Brando's appearances had become "edged by contempt for both his craft and his public." Photos not seen by PW .
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Many biographies of Marlon Brando have already been published (e.g., Gary Carey's Marlon Brando: The Only Contender , St. Martin's, 1985; Christopher Nickens's Brando: A Biography in Photographs , Doubleday, 1987), some written by sometime friends of Brando and others by biographers intent on detail and anecdote. As one might guess from the subtitle of his book, Schickel, senior movie reviewer for Time magazine and author of Disney Version ( LJ 4/15/68) and The Men Who Made the Movies ( LJ 6/1/75), attempts to paint a broader picture. He provides the outlines of Brando's life, but his primary concern is the reason much of a generation idolized and identified with Brando. Occasionally his philosophizing gets turgid, but Schickel is basically an intelligent and insightful writer. Recommended.
- John Smothers, Mon mouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- John Smothers, Mon mouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Genius of Brando deserves Better,
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This review is from: Brando: A Life In Our Times (Paperback)
while this Book has some good intentions it doesn't reach the true Depth of the Genius that Marlon Brando was.the Book never fully reaches where it attempts to go.
3.0 out of 5 stars
C effort on an A class performer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Brando: A Life In Our Times (Paperback)
Having read Conversations with Brando, I found this biography, i.e., Brando : A Life in Our Times by Richard Schickel, to be merely a passing effort. The letter in the beginning of the book is a bit stupid and I do not know what purpose the author had in mind for it. To me it did not any effect what so ever and I thought that it was a bit longwinded. Overall, the author gives us standard faire as far as biographies go; background information, some life stories and some anecdotes. However, an actor of Brando's stature deserves more respect and some inside stories would not have been so bad. Fair.
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Light weight fare cashing in on genius,
By Ian Muldoon - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: BRANDO: LIFE IN OURTIMES (Paperback)
This is a just passable examination of Mr Brando's life and is redeemed by the writing on his early theatre work.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Genius of Brando deserves Better,
By A customer "mistermaxxx" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brando: A Life In Our Times (Paperback)
while this Book has some good intentions it doesn't reach the true Depth of the Genius that Marlon Brando was.the Book never fully reaches where it attempts to go.
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