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Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object
of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and
half-truth, that it is all but impossible to see the man behind the
icon. As we approach the centennial of this undisputed American
legend, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel is a revelatory biography
that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a
role: from the inside. Author, journalist, and pop culture
authority Burt Kearns digs deep into the unexplored aspects of
Brando’s career, interests, and singular personality, revealing
how his roles on stage and screen, combined with his wild and
restless personal life, helped to transform popular culture and
society writ large. His influence was both broad and deep.
Brando’s intense approach to acting technique was emulated by his
contemporaries as well as generations of actors who followed, from
Nicholson and DeNiro to DiCaprio and Gosling. But his legacy
extends far beyond acting. His image in The Wild One helped to
catalyze a youth revolution, setting the stage for rock ‘n’
roll culture in a way that directly inspired Elvis Presley, the
Beatles, Andy Warhol, and punk rock culture. Brando was also frank
about his affairs with both sexes; a leader of the sexual
revolution and a hero of gay culture, he defied stereotypes and
redefined sexual boundaries in his life and the roles he played.
But of all his passions, activism was even more important to Brando
than acting: he was an early supporter of Israel, civil rights, the
American Indian movement, Black Power, gay rights, and
environmentalism. Startlingly intimate and powerfully told, Marlon
Brando: Hollywood Rebel shows how the greatest actor of the
twentieth century helped lead the world into the twenty-first.
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