{"id":366,"date":"2014-12-03T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2021-02-24T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:57:32","slug":"portrait-of-marlon-brando-from-streetcar-named-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Marlon Brando from &#8220;Streetcar Named Desire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, Marlon Brando plays the character &#8220;Stanley Kowalski&#8221; from the Tennessee Williams play. The original acrylic on canvas painting was sold to the Rafael and Dorothy Venezia Family in 1996. This image for this website was made from a 16&#8243; X 20&#8243; color print. The original was undertaken as a tribute to the great writer and cultural commentator Professor Camille Paglia, herself a great admirer of Brando. The inspiration was a book review she wrote of a biography of Marlon Brando by a TIME Magazine movie critic. She panned the book, but expressed her praise of Brando as an actor and cultural icon. Actually, I tried to make this print a gift for Dr. Paglia whom I met at a book-signing, but she declined to take anything from me on grounds that she was traveling light. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/marlon-brando-for-blog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The tattoo shown below was completely made up to honor Dr. Paglia, and is not part of either Marlon Brando&#8217;s or Stanley Kowalski&#8217;s personal appearance.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tattoo.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, Marlon Brando plays the character &#8220;Stanley Kowalski&#8221; from the Tennessee Williams play. The original acrylic on canvas painting was sold to the Rafael and Dorothy Venezia Family in 1996. This image for this website was made from a 16&#8243; X 20&#8243; color print. The original was undertaken as a tribute to the great writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}