MARLON BRANDO.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 12-JUL-04

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Marlon Brando, who died last week in Los Angeles, was the subject of a Profile, "The Duke in His Domain" (November 9, 1957), which is excerpted here:

Though Brando is not a teetotaller, his appetite is more frugal when it comes to alcohol. While we were awaiting the dinner, which was to be served to us in the room, he supplied me with a large vodka on the rocks and poured himself the merest courtesy sip. Resuming his position on the floor, he lolled his head against a pillow, drooped his eyelids, then shut them. It was as though he'd dozed off into a disturbing dream; his eyelids twitched, and when he spoke, his voice--an unemotional voice, in a way cultivated and genteel, yet surprisingly adolescent, a voice with a probing,...

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