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MARLON BRANDO -- THE NOVELIST? Friday, October 8 2004 
A
film-treatment-turned-novel
by
the
late
Marlon
Brando
and
Donald
Cammell
has
been
picked
up
by
Knopf,
which
plans
to
"tidy
up"
the
manuscript
and
release
it
in
Sept.,
2005,
the
New
York
Post
reported
today
(Friday).
As
a
film
treatment,
Fan-tan,
was
originally
rejected
by
film
studios,
and
Brando
had
reportedly
dragged
his
feet
on
turning
the
story,
described
by
the
Post
as
being
about
"a
swashbuckling
sailor
in
the
South
China
Sea
who
meets
(more)BRANDO WASN'T BROKE, WILL REVEALS Monday, July 12 2004 Contrary to reports that preceded his death last week, Marlon Brando did not die broke. According to a will filed in court on Friday, he left an estate worth at least $21.6 million. Most of his net worth, however, was invested in his Beverly Hills home and in his island estate in Tahiti. (more) |
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Veteran writer Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run, On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd) says that originally Marlon Brando refused to play Don Corleone in The Godfather, because, "It's about the Mafia. I won't glorify the Mafia." Schulberg, who turns 91 next month and was a longtime friend of Brando, recalls in the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine that when Brando's assistant, Alice Marchak, after repeatedly prodding him to take the part, urged him to read the Mario Puzzo novel, he threw the book at her, shouting, "For the last time, I won't glorify the Mafia!" It was not clear what changed his mind.
