Word: slobbing
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...Dostoevsky version of Tom Sawyer." They built up a legend in the public mind that, true or false, is sure to stick. Where Barrymore was "The Great Profile," Valentino "The Sheik" and Gable "The King," Marlon Brando is known to millions who read about Hollywood every day as "The Slob...
...Slob is by no means all he is wisecracked up to be. Two simple examples: he takes his work seriously and he pays his debts. But some of the legends have been so often repeated, even by Brando's admirers, that they are hard to separate from the historical facts...
More Sinned Against. But by other members of the sex, The Slob is more amiably known as a Don Juan. ("Done one!" punned a Broadway actress. "He's done 'em all.") He is a hit with the ladies, moreover, despite the fact that (as one of his girls panted) "he does things to you in public that you hardly expect even in private." Still, as a loverboy, Marlon is almost more sinned against than sinning. Many women find it hard to keep their hands off him. A famous middle-aged actress threw herself into his arms the first...
Marlon's friends insist that he is a thoroughly misunderstood young man. "If this is a slob," says Producer George Glass, "it should of happened to me." Director Kazan calls him "one of the gentlest-every possibly the gentlest-person I have ever known." A girl friend claims that until recently he was so sensitive that he hated to eat lettuce because it was so noisy. Wally Cox says he is "a creative philosopher, a very deep thinker. He's a real liberating force for his friends...
...Brando has personal as well as professional problems, or so the Slob stuff would indicate. But since his mother's death last year, he seems to have taken a firmer grip on his private life. There is less talk of a two-year trip around the world or "a nice long school in Paris," or a quick retirement to his Nebraska cattle farm, which is managed by his father. He still murmurs about an island paradise where he could concern himself exclusively with "eating and sleeping and the reproduction of the race," but he says less often that...