In the 1979 film, Brando played the role of Col. Walter E. Kurtz, who goes rogue in a remote jungle during the Vietnam War. "Apocalypse Now" was nominated for eight Oscar Academy Awards ...

One of Brando's films from the 1960s is briefly referenced in Coppola's Apocalypse Now in a photograph of Col. Walter E. Kurtz in his dossier. The photo featured the actual Brando dressed in high ...

Francis Ford Coppola, director of 'The Godfather' trilogy and 'Apocalypse Now', discusses the influence of Tennessee Williams ...

Walter A. “Buz” Koelbel Jr., who led one of Colorado's leading local real estate companies for 47 years, died Sept. 19 of ...

Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Did the former social-studies teacher get caught up in the socialist dream of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the ...

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The victim who was pronounced dead at the scene was comedian Perry Kurtz. Members in the community called him a friend to all, and said Kurtz was enjoying his Thursday evening routine of comedy ...

Comedian Perry Kurtz has been killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident. Kurtz was crossing an intersection in the Los Angeles, California, neighborhood of Tarzana around 11:30 p.m. Thursday when a ...

Famed for supporting Robin Williams and a wacky appearance on ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’, stand-up comic Perry Kurtz – who also starred on ‘America’s Got Talent’ – has ...