THE SOPRANOS - ON THE WATERFRONT WRITER SCHULBERG DEAD AT 95

ON THE WATERFRONT WRITER SCHULBERG DEAD AT 95

Budd Schulberg, who won a best-original-screenplay Oscar for On the Waterfront and penned the must-read-if-you're-in-the-movie-business novel What Makes Sammy Run, died Wednesday in New York of natural causes at age 95. Only last week, he attended a staged reading of On the Waterfront in Hoboken, performed by a cast that included Vincent Pastore J., who played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on The Sopranos and Jason Cerbone, who played Jackie Aprile Jr. on the HBO series. Asked about Cerbone's performance as Terry Malloy, the character made famous by Marlon Brando in the movie, Schulberg replied, "Well, nobody's ever been as good as Brando. ... But I really liked what he did with it very much. A very high-level performance."

06/08/2009