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They wrote it this week: Brando gets you sweaty. How can it go wrong?

17 February 2020 - 08:00 By Robin Crouch
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Marlon Brando had long since lost his youthful charm and beauty by the time Harold Evans was trapped into a miserable evening with him.
Marlon Brando had long since lost his youthful charm and beauty by the time Harold Evans was trapped into a miserable evening with him.
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Imagine, as the evening wears wearily on, the fading star, in tentlike underpants, declaiming Shakespeare.

Enjoy this and other extracts from diaries and letters written between February 17 and February 23.

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