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David Thomson: A Key to Brando, 5 December 2019
The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando
by William J. Mann.
HarperCollins, 718 pp., £22, November 2019,978 0 06 242764 9 Show More
by William J. Mann.
HarperCollins, 718 pp., £22, November 2019,
“... a mess, not to mention a pain in the neck. Imagine what it’s like for the writer. Or for Marlon.William Mann does not have the field to himself. There are at least a dozen biographies of Brando, or memoirs that depend on his presence. The weightiest of these is Peter Manso’s, published in 1994, when Brando still had ten years to live. (... ”