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Hard on the heels of Jennings' death was the mind-numbing announcement that Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher Reeve and a nonsmoker, has lung cancer. It was a sobering reminder that about 15% of lung-cancer victims have never smoked...
...days after André Benjamin--known musically as Andre 3000, the wig-wearing, Hey Ya!--singing half of the multiplatinum duo OutKast--moved to Los Angeles to become an actor, he ran into the film director John Singleton at a health-food restaurant. OutKast had contributed a song to the sound track of Singleton's Higher Learning, and the two talked amiably until Benjamin mentioned that he was trying to break into movies. "When he said, 'I really want to get into this acting thing,' I just smiled politely," says Singleton of the 2002 conversation. "I didn't take him seriously...
...gender-bending nickname Annie--looks and acts a lot like the middle-age Marlon Brando. He is overweight and has a broken nose, a gift for mimicry and a taste for life in the Pacific Rim's more exotic climes. But his most important resemblance to the actor is in that "the layers of his deceptions were like the layers of an onion's skin...
...Donald Cammell, who, possibly to his regret, agreed to co-write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...
...book, which Cammell guessed Brando never completely read. That was typical of their relationship, with Cammell remaining, in Thomson's word, Brando's supplicant, alternately embraced and dismissed by the star as Brando's career faded into lazy inconsequence in the early '80s. In his private domain, however, the actor was an absolute monarch: "a small mind in hideous contrast with the overlarge body," as Thomson characterizes him in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film. The pair accepted an advance for the novel from a British publisher in 1982, but Brando eventually repaid the money. Thereafter he teased the disappointed...