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Perhaps the most venerated actor of the last 50 years, Marlon Brando has left the building. His career exploded in the early 50's with work on The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire and Julius Caesar. Films like these marked the dawn of a new era in film, the era of stars insisting everything be done their way. While many of his performances on screen were inspired at times, almost surreal, little credit is given to directors who coaxed these kind of results out of him. His role as Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather was sheer genius, bordering on flawless. What was less than perfect was the exacting toll on the Francis Ford Coppola, who not only had to endure Brando not showing up for weeks at a time, but when the actor did deign to appear, he required more than a month of work to determine the right approach for the role. It was a tactic he reprised during Apocalypse Now. His advancing age did little to soften his attitude. More recently, Brando starred in The Score. Referring to Frank Oz the director as Miss Piggy, he refused to appear on the set if Oz was present. Betcha lots of people wish they could get away with that at work huh? Sorry boss, I'm not doing anything as long as you are around. Come to think of it, maybe Brando was onto something...

The follow up to Nia Vardolos international hit, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Connie and Carla arrived in theaters last Friday and died on arrival. It was so bad Uma Thurman may as well have jumped off the screen of Kill Bill 2 and killed the producers and studio. Let's step through the math and compare box office, shall we? MGFGW 353 worldwide gross - 24 million costs = 329 million profit Man, that's a nice tidy profit. And that number excludes video rentals, DVD sales and the TV show spin off. Now compare MBFGW numbers to Connie and Carla so far. Connie and Carla gross 3 million - 37 million cost = -34 million << OUCH! My math's kinda fuzzy but one of those bottom lines don't look like the other. So sam, what the hell is your point? I don't like math blogs, you're saying. Here's my point, follow ups in the wake of smash hits are very difficult animals. Judge not Nia, is all I'm saying. Anything that comes after a tsunami like MBFGW comes with the baggage of very high expectations. But I only have the expectation that the movie is in color and costs me 9 bucks to see. And you never know, it may pick up steam over time. This Friday I'm going to see Connie and Carla. If it's still playing.

Jersey Girl the movie will be in theaters March 26th. Being a Jersey guy by transplantation ( I was born elsewhere as was the wife ), I have a special curiosity. The rumors that surround the film are as rampant as are the spoilers. Over ten years ago I saw Clerks on one of the few screens it ran on in NJ theaters, Kevin Smith was in the audience. When he shot Chasing Amy in Red Bank I sold him a bunch a cigarettes in the convenience store I worked in. So we go way back. :) Here's what I do know about Jersey Girl. None of the stars are from Jersey. The guy who wrote and directed it no longer lives in Jersey. They did shoot lots of the film in Paulsboro, New Jersey but only after Ben Affleck agreed to take a paycut, because Miramax wanted it done in Canada to save a million bucks. Imagine that, that it costs a lot to get anything done in New Jersey. There's a mighty shocker. The movie had 2 earlier release dates, including the 19th of March. There were several “final cuts” of the film. When Gigli bombed, the film was re cut and rescheduled several more times. Here's my bet sight unseen on Jersey Girl. 1) It's not going to look like a Kevin Smith film. The trailers are a pretty good clue to that. 2) It's going to be funny in parts. Some parts may be very funny. Some parts are going to outright unfunny. 3) Whether it sinks or swims is going to come down to how much people respond to the notion of Ben Affleck playing a responsible guy with a kid. Boy, that sounds a lot like another Ben Affleck aw shucks routine to me. But like they say in Hollywood, no one knows nothing. So prove me wrong Silent Bob! I'm rooting for you to pull a Chasing Amy and surprise everyone. Don't let this be Mallrats revisted with bigger stars and a slick ad campaign.