VANITY FAIR
Marlon and Me: What I Learned From My Three A.M. Phone Calls With Marlon Brando
by Rich Cohen
September 8, 2016

…[Brando] told me that, some nights, after curtain and applause, after drinks and cigarettes, and, at this point, Brando, who was around 22, was probably the coolest actor in New York, a whole group of them headed to the piers, where they loaded guns in ships bound for the Middle East, where they’d be smuggled to Jews serving in the Haganah, the underground army that would become the Israeli Defense Force…I’m happy to leave it as it is, a kind of fairy tale, shared, in the middle of the night, by a lonely person reaching out in kinship, looking for absolution; or maybe he was just bored. READ MORE