I’m keeping an eye on all the L.A. news sites–they would be over this story like flies if it was true, and I haven’t heard a peep from them yet.
From Drudge, at the moment:
Don’t know what that means, exactly…
How can a death be reported by a local news station when 2 calls to the fire department were cancelled? Who found the body?
They’ve got to have something to go on before they report the death of an legendary actor, right? Right? Or is this a case of a news station reporting a rumor just so they’re the first one to report his death? The plot thickens… Okay, I’m just being overly dramatic.
Or a block of ice … or a cloud of steam … your options are really limited. I’m terribly sorry I got the animal transmogrification genes. 
Apparently the source is his family. Here’s the first “real” news story I’ve seen:
http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=1990163&nav=23KtOOSA
Sounds like it’s for real.
Sky News is now reporting Brando’s death.
Which of course, is the news story linked to in the OP.
Just as I was opening this thread ABC news interrupted programming to announce that Marlon Brando has died.
Yep. I’m watching it on Headline News right now.
CNN is announcing it as well.
Funny, I just watched the Godfather for the first time in a long long time a day or two ago…
Mom always did like you best. 
They just broke in on Minnesota Public Radio with the announcement.
The beauty of a good trifecta is how the proximity of the deaths are matched by the harmony in pantheon-status of the deceased.
Although he was a nice man etc., we cannot fairly put a Tony Randall on the same level as a Reagan or Ray Charles. Brando clearly shared the same level of iconic status.
D’OH!!! :smack:
“Gentlemen, start your movie marathons!”
While I enjoyed The Godather movies, Brando never impressed me much.
Doesn’t it also seem odd, that, just days after hearing how destitute he was, he turns up dead?
That little Chicago station scooped, among other places, CNN.
It’s true, folks. Ah well, life seems to have been becoming a burden for the man recently, but what a shame he never totally fulfilled his promise.