Hunting Marlon Brando

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>From the start it sounds ridiculous: <em>Go to Tahiti and find Marlon Brando.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>But the worldwide search for the legendary Method actor the star of such classic movies as </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Godfather Apocalypse Now</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>On the Waterfront</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Mutiny on the Bounty</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> soon becomes an obsession. The story of one man's coming of age.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When we first meet him Sager is 30 years old divorce pending no longer the youngest in the room. Winter is coming. His prospects are dim. After ten years as a journalist he knows it's time to raise his game. He needs to write something big and important and lasting. Something epic. Something meaningful. Something to seal his reputation.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>As it is the new editor of the </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Washington Post Magazine</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> suggests an all-expenses-paid search for the most elusive actor of the times-starting at his south seas hideaway a private atoll off the coast of Tahiti.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Even though Brando famously hates the press and has refused for years to grant any interviews Sager takes the job.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Wouldn't you?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Brando's work as an actor paved the way for generations to follow as did his commitment to social activism. And he is credited with breaking the stereotype of the stoic inch-deep flawless American hero in favor of a distinct new template for American manhood-flawed mercurial quixotic tough but tender.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Sager's story of his worldwide hunt for the iconic actor is a totally true tale of far-flung travel grandiose schemes tropical adventure Hollywood superstardom . . . and a beautiful Tahitian translator who puts Sager's mission in jeopardy when she suddenly disappears. A classic piece first published in 1987 completely re-written and up-dated with over 40000 words of new material. As it turned out </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Hunting Marlon Brando</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> altered the entire course of his life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>With an afterword by Walt Harrington. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>You have to dare to be bad in this world of ours you have to try stuff you might have to fail. One thing is certain: If you do what you always do it's guaranteed to turn out the same. </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-from </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Hunting Marlon Brando</em></p>