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...missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where the church cruelly forgets him, plunging him into near-fatal hardship. As in more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version won Marlon Brando an Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake of that subjugation?" he asks. "All those countless dead, now rising up to nod their heads at us and shake...
...Memoirs, when he was 21). He pushes Broderick to let that side of him show. "He's very spontaneous," Lane says of his co-star. "He's more improvisational than he gives himself credit for. I very often have forced him into it. I ask him questions as Marlon Brando, or as one of these characters that he does. He can really riff, once he gets into the character...
...time Jim Nantz or Tim Brando or Greg Gumbel or John Saunders delivers his first statement to a network television audience of millions, we are greeted with the above statement’s peculiar obverse...
...they can have a child, however, their village gets a visitor: the American ambassador to India. Since this is a Rushdie book, he isn't just a diplomat; he's also the scion of a cultured Ashkenazi family, a hero of the French Resistance and a chum of Marlon Brando's. This is the kind of preposterous, over-laden detail that bends and almost cracks the novel at various points. Yet the plot somehow works. The ambassador falls for Boonyi, she betrays Shalimar, and the two elope to Delhi. Shalimar goes mad with jealousy, and vows to kill...
...short, more character model than creator of the book, which Cammell guessed Brando never completely read. That was typical of their relationship, with Cammell remaining, in Thomson's word, Brando's supplicant, alternately embraced and dismissed by the star as Brando's career faded into lazy inconsequence in the early '80s. In his private domain, however, the actor was an absolute monarch: "a small mind in hideous contrast with the overlarge body," as Thomson characterizes him in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film. The pair accepted an advance for the novel from a British publisher in 1982, but Brando eventually...