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steve marlo He once acted alongside the likes of Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando. Today, he lives quietly in Marysville.
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K-12 ed money: Try, try again The state is under a court order to fully fund basic education by 2018. In the fall, the Legislature will attempt to find a solution. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — The state Supreme Court and the Legislature will face off Funding on school funding again this fall K-12 at in what some see the expense as a test of their of higher ed respective con- shortchanges stitutional power students, say and political will. advocates. Lawmakers are under court order Viewpoints, to make sure the Page B7 state is paying the full cost of a student’s basic education by 2018. They know it needs to be done, but there are
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ARYSVILLE — He looks too nice to be a psychopathic killer. Then again, don’t they all? Murder and mayhem are a side of Steve Marlo that few of his Marysville neighbors know. The retired Hollywood actor known for his bad-guy roles is playing out the second act of his life on a quiet side street. These days, the silver fox can be found fine-tuning his physique at the Marysville YMCA or scavenging thrift shops for his home-decorating obsession. At 86, he still has that movie-star magnetism. It’s easy to picture those chiseled cheeks and bedeviling eyes seducing audiences. “I played some nice parts,
At right is Marlo as a prizefighter in an episode of “Mr. Adams and Eve.”
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too,” he said, winking. “I did musicals. I songed and danced.” Marlo appeared in about 75 movies and TV shows from 1956 to 1990. He had leading roles and bit parts in dramas, westerns, cop shows, sitcoms and sci-fi. He was a crazed killer in the 1959 thriller “The Young Captives” and a dapper gangster on a 1968 “Star Trek” episode. He rode a bicycle on “The Lucy Show.” His home is festooned with Tinseltown memorabilia and journals of his past. “At my age, the memory goes,” he said in that suave voice of his. It’s all there in the piles of scrawled and typed pages he pounded out over his long career, starting as a rookie stage actor in New York City
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Above, Steve Marlo relaxes at home in Marysville, surrounded by books, tapes, films, art and other memorabilia he’s saved.
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