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I have been on a Marlon Brando kick for a couple of days now, devouring as much information about his tragic life and watching as many of his well, many, films as possible. My interest was stimulated by a three-hour documentary on Brando on TMC a couple nights ago. I was moved by the various descriptions of Brando's work by Jon Voight, James Caan ("The Real Jewish Cowboy"), Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, Robert Duvall, and Johnny Depp. Brando's name came up in a recent New York Time article in the Arts section about the recitation of poetry that revealed how truly sensitive a man he was. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Holt-t.html?_r=1&em

"Marlon shouldn't have been a person. It was too much, too extraordinary. He was more than a person. He could have been an element, a part of nature." Ellen Adler, one of Brando's (many) friends.

As successful as Brando was in his films, though, his personal life was pursued by Tragedy. His son, Christian Brando, would go on to murder his sister's lover and father of her unborn child. The death of Dag Drollot was matched by his daughter's suicide. Ashamed as I am to even mention this, I stumbled upon a website ("Dark Destinations") where curious cybervoyeurs can look at Drollot's death site on Mulholland Drive, courtesy of Google Earth. http://www.thecabinet.com/darkdestinations/location.php?sub_id=dark_destinations&location_id=dag_drollet_death_site

Tonight's homework: Watch "The Last Tango in Paris" - a review will be forthcoming.