Volume 42, Number 8 · May 11, 1995
Stumbles and Mumbles
By Michael Wood
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me
by Marlon Brando, by Robert Lindsey
Random House, 468 pp., $25.00
Brando: The Biography
by Peter Manso
Hyperion, 1,118 pp., $29.95
Don Juan DeMarco
a film written and directed by Jeremy Leven
'As I stumble back across the years of my life' are the first words of Marlon Brando's autobiography. Is the metaphor Brando's or that of his co-author, Robert Lindsey? How would we know? Brando's stumbling, his mistakes, mismarriages, vanishings, and comebacks, are as much part of his legend as his mumbling. Certainly no one talks about Brando without mentioning the mumble. 'As I mumble back across the years of my life' would also have been a good opening.
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