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Laying his nets under the night sky, Brando Cervantes often gazed across the waters at the golden lights of the exclusive Dos Palmas resort. What would it be like to spend time there, a fisherman among the rich and the foreign, playing tennis, taking a jacuzzi, sipping cocktails? At 4 a.m. on May 27, Cervantes was checking his nets with helper Alvics Cabilo, 21, when over the horizon came the throbbing of huge horsepower, more powerful than anything normally found in the waters off the Philippines' rugged western Palawan province. The speedboat had no lights; only when it pulled alongside...
March 27, 1973: Marlon Brando refuses to accept an Oscar for best actor, citing the treatment of American Indians by the film industry...
...Aside from the Hong Kong affair, though, this Cannes was relatively star-starved. Everyone wasn't there. Jack Nicholson (The Pledge), Cameron Diaz (Shrek) and Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now Redux) all had major movies on display, but none of them showed. This was a festival of films, not photo ops, and even on screen the magic was in short supply...
...Those early roles eventually led to a supporting role in the Oscar-winning Marlon Brando film "On the Waterfront...
...Those were the polite descriptions. Bakley was the mother of two girls born out of wedlock: a seven-year-old who she claimed was fathered by rock-'n'-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (paternity was never substantiated), and an 11-month-old she said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled son Christian (who served five years in prison for killing his half-sister's lover). Tests showed that the younger girl's father was Robert Blake, 67, former child star (Our Gang), movie actor (In Cold Blood) and TV cop (Baretta). Bakley married Blake last November...