Marlon Brando

YouTube Refuses “The Godfather” After All

Peter Kafka in Media on August 24, 2011 at 2:17 pm PT

A weird mid-August mystery gets a tiny bit weirder: “This account has been suspended due to a violation of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to impersonate another person or user.”

Viral Video: Larry King and Suspenders Bid Goodbye to CNN

Kara Swisher in News on December 16, 2010 at 12:53 pm PT

Tonight is Larry King’s last show on CNN, which did this retrospective from some key interviews on “Larry King Live” over his 25 years there. Personally, BoomTown likes when he forgets things, but the Marlon Brando smooch is still pretty good television.

Viral Video: The Beast on Oscar Do's and Don'ts

Kara Swisher in News on February 19, 2009 at 6:39 am PT

The increasingly entertaining online content site, The Beast, edited by Tina Brown, is getting very good at putting together juicy collections. Besides one on “Seven Great Talk-Show Trainwrecks” recently, it has cued up a nice group of videos of past Oscar speeches in anticipation of the 81st annual awards show this weekend, analyzing what works and what does not.

99.9% Man, .01% Animal … TOTAL TERROR!

John Paczkowski in News on May 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm PT

England, for one, welcomes our new humanimal overlords … British lawmakers voted Monday to allow the use of human-animal embryos for research after an attempt to ban the technique was overwhelmingly rejected.