Althouse: "What is your greatest regret?"/"Almost succumbing to the pills over Marlon Brando—an overweight knight errant wearing a crown, and nothing else."

January 7, 2022

"What is your greatest regret?"/"Almost succumbing to the pills over Marlon Brando—an overweight knight errant wearing a crown, and nothing else."

Rita Moreno answers the Proust questionnaire (at Vanity Fair).

17 comments:

gilbar said...: i had a crush on her, when she was starring in The Electric Company; 1/7/22, 11:40 AM
Charlie said...: Wow, I really wish I hadn't read that.; 1/7/22, 11:42 AM
rehajm said...: Ew.; 1/7/22, 11:56 AM
rcocean said...: What a vulgar silly woman. A perfect match for Brando.

Marlon had a "thing" for women of color. All his kids were bi-racial (number uncertain, at least 10) and while he banged everything in a skirt, he reserved his most passionate affairs for Asians, tahitians, Indians (both kinds), Latins, and blacks. IOW, anyone who wasn't White.

Amazing that Rita, thought she could be the one true love Brando's life, when he never was faithful to any of wives for more than a week after the marriage date.; 1/7/22, 12:03 PM
Ann Althouse said...: She's 90. She can say anything.; 1/7/22, 12:03 PM
mikee said...: She was the first woman over 50 years of age that made my libido do the lambada - the forbidden dance. I note in passing that when she turned 50, I was still in college. Over the decades since, I've noticed many more. But she was the first.; 1/7/22, 12:03 PM
Rollo said...: It would be nice to think that she got over all that after Brando, but she tried it again after Kermit the Frog kicked her to the curb.; 1/7/22, 12:07 PM
Rabel said...: What, was Betty White unavailable?; 1/7/22, 12:11 PM
Rollo said...: Marcel Proust probably wishes he never wrote the stupid questionnaire. He writes thousands of pages, and we treat him like he was Jimmy Fallon.; 1/7/22, 12:15 PM
Joe Smith said...: She was good in the latest 'West Side Story.'

But the 'Gringos are rapists' speech at the end kind of ruined the movie for me.

It was gratuitous and unnecessary...a cheap shot at white folks.

The movie was fine up until then...; 1/7/22, 12:34 PM
~ Gordon Pasha said...: She apparently didn't pick up on "with all your learning, get wisdom"; 1/7/22, 1:35 PM
Ice Nine said...: The Proust Questionnaire was largely wasted on Proust.; 1/7/22, 1:51 PM
Sebastian said...: "If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? A foul smell to follow Giuliani to the end of his days."

Laughter, laughter, laughter.

Althouse: "She's 90. She can say anything."

Why? Real question. Seems worthy of Althousian musing.

So, why "can" she due to age? Does it simply mean she can afford not to worry about her reputation? Does age serve as a kind of all-purpose excuse? But isn't the soft bigotry of low expectations toward the old a form of ageism?; 1/7/22, 2:57 PM
rehajm said...: Althouse: "She's 90. She can say anything."

Why? Real question. Seems worthy of Althousian musing.

I've never understood giving old people a pass on judgement unless they have checked out of reality. To give them a pass seems disrespectful...; 1/7/22, 3:08 PM
readering said...: I live with someone who is 92. I applied that rule to him 10 years ago.; 1/7/22, 4:40 PM
Kevin Walsh said...: "If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? A foul smell to follow Giuliani to the end of his days."

There is plenty of Giuliani hatred to go around, and I suspect that it isn't even because he was Trump's lawyer, it's because he turned the tide on crime in NYC in the 1990s; according to revisionist history, he made it less authentic, less "fun."; 1/7/22, 4:48 PM
William said...: There's a bit of humble brag in the Brando quote....Looking back at my own life, I'm sorry to reflect that I was so impatient with Marilyn and her dark moods. She was reaching out to me for help, and I was too busy with my own affairs.; 1/7/22, 5:40 PM