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Courting Brando

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Harold Evans recalls the surreal dinners and the moonlight swims he endured to extract a memoir from the legendary actor.

Reading Stefan Kanfer’s excellent biography of Marlon Brando, Somebody (Knopf), reminds me of one adventure that isn’t there: my own trying to secure Brando’s memoir for Random House during my time as president and publisher.

I was one of any number of New York supplicants who trekked to Los Angeles in...

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