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- GonzoStyle - 10-01-2003
One of the finest directors to ever walk the earth, Elia Kazan is dead at 94 years of age.
Kazan was the premire director of all the "method" actors that broke out in the 50's and was a pioneer of the actors studio which taught everyone from Brando, James Dean, Paul Newman and Monty Clift.
He won 2 oscars for direction, 1st for gentlemans agreement and 2nd for On The Waterfront.
He directed made Brando into an Icon with Streetcar named desire. He directed everyone from James Cagney to Robert DeNiro.
some of his films include
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," 1945
"Gentleman's Agreement," 1947
"Panic in the Streets," 1950
"A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951
"Viva Zapata!" 1952
"Man on a Tightrope," 1953
"On the Waterfront," 1954
"East of Eden," 1955
"Baby Doll," 1956
"A Face in the Crowd," 1957
"Wild River," 1960
"Splendor in the Grass," 1961
"America America," 1963
"The Arrangement," 1969
"The Last Tycoon," 1976
Ofcourse Kazan won a lifetime achievment award in 1999. He was booed by many cause of his involvement in the McCarthy hearings when he named other coleagues of his who were involved in the communist party alongside him in the 30's. Instead of keeping quiet and being blacklisted himself like many others did, he gave them up to save his own skin.
- Keyser Soze - 10-01-2003
COMMIE LOVER!!!!