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...slow ballad. The audience was mesmerized by the graceful, lyrical movements of the hula dancers hands, the rhythmic sways, their radiant smiles, set to the beautiful and haunting lyrics of Keali'i Reichel and a sole acoustic guitar. Later, the tempo picked up with the resounding beat of Tahitian music and frenetically wonderful hip movements of inspired dancers...
...resilient Jane's Addiction. With amiable chatter and manner that was to foreshadow later, beneficent but mesmerizingly awful Hopi-Tahitian mysto-babble, Farrell preened the feathers of the ruffled crowd in its raucousness (and I almost got to see a grown woman take her shirt off--naked as a babe...
...came unexpectedly, after "Ted, Just Admit It...": suddenly, after bringing the audience to a climax Jane's Addiction had left the building. People wandered about, waiting for another announcement about some other structural deficiency of the Gosman, but none came. Milling about, the crowd stared at the flowery Tahitian motifs of the stage...
Brando met Cheyenne's mother, Tarita Teriipaia, a Tahitian waitress-turned-actress, while filming Mutiny On the Bounty in 1961. (Besides Cheyenne, they also had an older son Teihotu.) When Cheyenne was 20, she had a heated telephone argument with her father when he wouldn't let her fly from Tahiti to Canada, where he was filming The Freshman, and she responded by driving her Jeep into a ditch at high speed. Brando then had her flown to a Los Angeles hospital, where he kept a bedside vigil after her extensive surgery...
While she was recovering, Cheyenne became pregnant by Drollet, the scion of a prominent Tahitian family. Eight months into the pregnancy, she told Christian that Drollet was beating her. Christian confronted her boyfriend with a .45-cal. handgun at Brando's California estate, and in the ensuing struggle, Drollet was killed. "The messenger of misery has come to my house," Brando told attorney William Kunstler that night. Christian, who was represented by both Kunstler and Robert Shapiro, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter, but with time off for good behavior, he may be out of prison as early...