Word: tetiaroa
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...figure somewhat larger than life. Among his colleagues he has no peer. "He gave us our freedom," says Jack Nicholson. Brando himself is stubborn about his freedom-to champion unpopular causes, to choose his own scripts and, above all, to lead a very private life on the island of Tetiaroa, 30 miles north of Tahiti. There last week, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos became the first American journalist to interview Brando in his isolated tropical paradise...
...picketed San Quentin), to the fishing rights of the Puyallup Indians of the Northwest. He became a zealous and outspoken critic of the war in Viet Nam. In the later years of the 1960s, he devoted an increasing amount of time to his children, both in California and in Tetiaroa, the South Sea atoll of 13 islands that he bought in 1966. In Tetiaroa he also set up an experimental ecological project in which a group of scientists are growing fruits and vegetables under specially controlled, nonpolluting conditions and raising fish and crustaceans in underwater cages...
Dull Work. In the other moods, though, his thoughts drift off-to one of his pet projects, perhaps, or to the South Seas. "Being in Tetiaroa gives me a sense of the one-to-one ratio of things," he says. "You have the coconut in the tree, the fish in the water, and if you want something to eat, you somehow have to get it." Brando still seems to need, as a friend once said, "to find something in life, something in himself, that is permanently true, and he needs to lay down his life for it." The pity...
Actor Edward Albert, who lived near Brando in Tetiaroa in 1970, says: "I don't believe anybody really knows Brando, but I have the feeling that he believes somewhere along the line he missed something he could have done, something he could have been. It's as if somebody had put an angel inside of him, and he's aware of it, and it's more than he can contain...
...Williams had previously cased Tetiaroa and found it covered with thousands of coconut palms, from which he could realize a tidy profit in copra . . . and in a short time he had the island producing . . . But he quickly found that rats on Tetiaroa were determined to thwart this commercial enterprise . . . He advertised in Papeete for cats . . . and soon streams of Tahitian lads were trotting to his office and home with yowling cats in bags, crates and nets...