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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 1980. My oldest brother was letting off a steady stream of terse French phrases while walking through the Iron Market. He used stock phrases, usually ending up with "Tu n'en as pas besoin" (You don't need it) to a beggar or "Je n'en ai pas besoin" (I don't need it) to a street vendor...
...some t'ings, je n'sais pas, I don't t'ink dey oughta got: like Mexican food. Which border we at, anyway...
...Ersters en Brochette. Dey take dem salty ersters, wrap 'em in bacon, fry dem up. Sounds good to me! But the breading? Too heavy! And je ne peux pas gouter the ba-cohn! Menieure sauce real good, though. Gimme more uh dat. I tell...
...among Democrats had Lee Iacocca, autobiographer and star of a popular TV commercial, coming in third -- and he's a registered Republican! No matter. He is, as the pundits used to say, "presidential timber." Only now one says he has "star quality," what the French might call that mysterious "je ne sais quoi." Or, as Woody Allen once put it, that "je ne peux pas." Peter Ueberroth certainly has it. It is only a matter of time before he declares for something or other. Does he belong to a party? Who knows? Who cares? He is made in the U.S.A...
Though Tango ultimately resolves its most superficial drama--who gets an apartment in Paris--the essence of Brando's character, his thoughts, remain as elusive as the credits roll as when he first mumbles, "Je suis Americain...