Marlon Brando

Trustees for Marlon Brando's estate have accepted more than $300,000 (£187,500) from a furniture company to end a legal fight over sofas sold under the late movie icon's name. Brando Enterprises executors sued Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. last year ...  

LOS ANGELES — Ashley Furniture and the estate of Marlon Brando have resolved a dispute over...  

Sure, you’d experimented with other names, and even flipped through a baby book at one point for ideas, but no other handle seemed fitting for your favorite pieces of furniture—what with their hulking yet still somewhat cushy frames, their commanding ...  

Just wanted to share some quotes I found from the late Marlon Brando. On Malcolm X: He was a dynamic person, a very special human being who might have caused a revolution. He had to be done...  

In 1957 Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Marlon Brando (which just sold for over $33,000 at Christies) asking him to buy the rights to On The Road and make a movie out of it, noting that they could both star in it. In his vision, the novel would be reworked to a "perfectly acceptable movie-type structure," compressing all of the separate voyages into one large journey across the country. He began the letter: [ more › ]  

NET-A-PORTER's menswear store Mr Porter has recruited the families of three of the world's most iconic men to front its latest spring/summer 2012 campaign, starring Tuki Brando, grandson of actor Marlon Brando; Ethan Peck, grandson of actor Gregory Peck ...  

Emmanuelle Chriqui, aka Sloan in Entourage, of Jewish Moroccan heritage. emmanuelle chriqui oops. Emmanuelle Chriqui, aka Sloan in Entourage, of Jewish Moroccan heritage. APOLO ANTON OHNO & JULIANNE HOUGH-Rumba ...  

News: Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of A Streetcar Named Desire 60th Anniversary Edition on 10th April 2012. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden st...  

Agneepath director Karan Malhotra has admitted that he had Marlon Brando’s Apocalypse Now’s bald look in mind while designing Sanjay Dutt’s Kancha Cheena character in his film. The actor however doesn’t find any similarities. Apart from ...  

The Rick Purcell of Purcell’s Wallpaper & Paint says he doesn’t think it ... In the DA’s race, voters liked Syracuse police Chief Frank Fowler (twice), Lady Gaga and Yankee Nick Swisher. Former SU associate head basketball coach Bernie ...  

Michael Fassbender is a "once-in-a generation" actor. The Shame star has a "femininity" which helps put him into the same league as Hollywood greats like Marlon Brando and James Dean, according to director Steve McQueen: "He's a once in a generation actor. Michael's a man's man, but he has a femininity too. A lot of actors today are very masculine. You have to go back to actors like Brando and James Dean to find that combination...  

You’d think a movie starring Marlon Brando at the height of his young-firebrand sex appeal, written by Nobel laureate John Steinbeck, and directed by the great Elia Kazan, would be better remembered today. Yet “Viva Zapata!”, released ...  

  If this season’s array of caramel safari suits, patterned silk shirts and wide-legged trousers is anything to go by, the decade that brought us boogie nights and fondue is making a comeback. Again. Who better than Marlon Brando for inspiration?  [Read more...]  

LONDON (Reuters) - Nicol Williamson, once described by John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando," has died after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 73. His son Luke said on his father's official website that he passed away on December 16. He died in Amsterdam where he had lived for over 20 years, according to media reports. "He gave it all he had: never gave up, never ...  

Veteran actress Joan Collins spent two months in therapy after movie legends Paul Newman, James Dean and Marlon Brando were astonished to discover she did not see a shrink.