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It wasn’t like Marlon Brando to go spilling his private beans to the world about the life he had spent his years protecting. American actor Marlon Brando, circa 1965, about a year before he bought Tetiaroa. (Screen Archives / Getty Images) But about Tetiaroa — the Tahitian atoll of his childhood yearnings, and the refuge of his adult life — he did.We were friends for the last years of his life, and one day in 1997, at his house on the crown of Mulholland Drive, he said to me something he’d never…

Colm Tóibín, Marlon James, Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall are among those scheduled to appear at the Hay literary festival next year.On Tuesday, the festival announced 29 “early-bird” events set to take place between 23 May and 2 June 2024 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, described as a “taster” of the full programme released next year.Tóibín will be discussing Long Island, the sequel to his Booker-longlisted Brooklyn, while James will mark 10 years since the release of his Booker-winning A Brief…

Marlon Wayans revealed that one of his kids, Kai, is transgender during an interview on The Breakfast Club last week. The comedian said he’s working on an upcoming stand-up special, titled either Skittles or Rainbow Child, about his reaction to Kai’s coming out and transition. “I have a daughter that transitioned into a son,” Wayans said. “My daughter Amai is now Kai, and so, I talk about the transition. Not her, his… their transition, but my transition as a parent, going from ignorance and denial to complete…

The Wayans family took to social media to pay tribute to their family patriarch, Howell Wayans, who died at 86. Marlon Wayans, one of the patriarch’s 10 children, shared an emotional message on his Instagram, saying goodbye to his father. “Legend,” he wrote in the caption. “When i was a child I asked my Dad what did you want to be when grew up? He simply said ‘I wanted to be a man.’ I said ‘not a lawyer? A doctor? An actor?’ He said ‘just a man.’ I said ‘but every boy becomes a man.’ Dad said…

Marlon Wayans jokingly wondered why Jay-Z skipped out on inviting him to the Roc Nation brunch.Wayans chopped it up on the Big Boy Neighborhood radio show recently, and joked about not being included on Jay-Z’s brunch invite list, saying, “I got a bone to pick to with Jay-Z. “Oh my God bro, I got the same bone,” Big Boy responded.“I get in Diddy party all the time. Diddy hit me, ‘Aye, like dat, come through, Ciroc, Deleon, take dat, take dat shot, come have a good time.’ Always,” Wayans added. “Jay-Z… crickets, crickets.”…

Sacheen Littlefeather said many times before her death Oct. 2 that she put herself at enormous personal risk, living as an outspoken Native American activist who did Marlon Brando’s bidding by refusing his best actor trophy at the 1973 Oscars. With that political protest, Littlefeather helped the rebellious actor upset the American establishment by calling Hollywood out for its negative stereotyping of Indians in films and TV. That moment 50 years ago made the Bay Area activist famous, but she said she also paid “a high…

How did you miss the name Packy & Don? When I wrote my article for Rex Ronan, I earmarked the edutainment games by Raya Systems. Captain Novolin is perhaps their most notorious title, but when I read the synopsis of Packy and Marlon, it shot up my list of priorities. You play as a young elephant with juvenile diabetes who must both scroll sides and eat a balanced diet. I don’t remember the last time a game asked me to eat a balanced diet. Surely, Yume Penguin Monogatari pulled a fast one by having me completely…

Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar, has died.The news was announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures, who wrote on Twitter: “Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Academy Award, dies at 75,” The actor and activist first announced she had been diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer in a 2021 Facebook post. In September, at a ceremony titled “An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather”,…

Fans of Sacheen Littlefeather are paying tribute to her after her death. The Native American actor known for declining the Best Actor Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brandodied on Sunday (2 October).The news was announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures, who wrote on Twitter: “Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Academy Award, dies at 75.”Following the news of her death, fans and members of the film industry have paid tribute.Writer Hansraj Meena…

Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American actor who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar, has died, aged 75.The news was announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures, who wrote on Twitter: “Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Academy Award, dies at 75,” The actor and activist first announced she had been diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer in a 2021 Facebook post. In September, at a ceremony titled “An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather”, she…