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Title: Marlon Brando (A&E Biography) by David Thomson ISBN: 0-7894-9317-9 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Thomson fails to enlighten us
Comment: This biography is superficial and unworthy of its subject. David Thomson has his face pressed up against the glass of the window to Marlon Brando's life but fails to gain entry. His attempts to trivialize Mr. Brando's life, work, political opinions and involvement, reveal his own inability to see anything except through the prism of his own opinions. His constant digs about Mr. Brando's weight show a lack of compassion and understanding about such health problems. A more compelling analysis of Mr. Brando's films can be found elsewhere. Read Schickel, Bosworth, Grobel, Marlon's own autobiography, and newspaper and magazine accounts of his political activism. But skip this. Marlon Brando has long since proven himself as the greatest actor of our time. His continued courage to explore his own emotional limits has given us a wealth of inspired stage and film performances. He is by most accounts a compassionate, caring individual who has walked the walk of his convictions. Like the rest of us he has made some mistakes in his life, but on balance his is a life worthy of our praise.
Rating: 5
Summary: A BIO AS APPEALING AS ITS SUBJECT AND TV SHOW!
Comment: Like the TV series on which they are based, the series of
"Biography" books are accessible approaches to the men and
women on whom they focus. (They are also a great marketing idea.
Give that boy/girl a raise!) Each volume is written by a
well-known and/or respected author; "Marlon Brando" was penned
by David Thomson, whose past achievements include tomes on
Orson Welles and David O. Selznick. The books are pithy
and pleasing, highlighting and spotlighting (in concise detail) its subject, and not shrinking away from controversy or scandal. The photos are terrific; the layouts are done in that appealing, yet not over-the-top, DK style. Think of these books as printed soundbytes that are as interesting and insightful and welcome as their
small-screen counterparts.
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Title: Conversations With Brando by Lawrence Grobel, Marlon Brando ISBN: 081541014X Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ernest Shackleton (A&E Biography) by George Plimpton ISBN: 0789493152 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: JFK (A&E Biography) by Joyce Milton ISBN: 0789493160 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Winston Churchill (A&E Biography) by James C. Humes ISBN: 0789493187 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub ISBN: 1400060923 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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