<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4f25a3c0-a7cb-46c5-9b0c-2aa49fdf3295/A8962B8A-39D6-449A-BCFB-259331DF212D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> A Character Actor of Intensified Normalness </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/C91DE2A8-C2A0-440B-8CBC-38758065CDC2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><P class="caption"> Karl Malden with Vivien Leigh in the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire." <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/01/world/20090701-MALDEN_index.html">More Photos »</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><DIV class="story first"> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/01/world/20090701-MALDEN_index.html"> <IMG height="126" border="0" width="190" alt="Karl Malden, Character Actor" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/01/world/20090701-MALDEN-B.JPG" /><SPAN class="mediaType photo">Slide Show</SPAN> </A> <H2> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/01/world/20090701-MALDEN_index.html">Karl Malden, Character Actor</A> </H2> <DIV class="clear"></DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/AD86CA36-3FC1-46A6-81AA-5D8EBAAA5DFE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><P class="caption"> Karl Malden, left, and his partner, played by Richard Hatch, gathered information in "The Streets of San Francisco." <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/01/world/20090701-MALDEN_index.html">More Photos &gt;</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; 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border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"><P>It’s a face that you can’t help noticing. Not handsome in the usual movie-star way, by any means, but — befitting a man who defined what it meant to be a character actor — full of character. The jutting chin and oft-broken nose curve toward each other as though affixed to a Punch-and-Judy puppet, but <A title="More articles about Karl Malden." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/karl_malden/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Karl Malden</A>’s face was not made for comedy. Like his voice, pitched between a honk and a growl, it was an instrument full of gravity and dignity, capable of showing strong measures of menace, passion and hurt.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#">Like most people who came of age after Mr.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"> Malden’s big-screen heyday,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#"> I first saw that </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03appraisal.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au#">face on television,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A8962B8A-39D6-449A-BCFB-259331DF212D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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