"Marlon felt that everyone in Hollywood wore a mask,” says Richard Bailey, Managing Director of the hotel company, Pacific Beachcomber, that built and operates The Brando. “But Tahitians don’t wear masks. There’s no hypocrisy. He loved that. He felt Tahitians had something to teach the world about how to lead a happy, balanced life.”So come buy a Tahitian mask of your very own. Then you can wear the mask of no mask. There's no hypocrisy!
September 16, 2014
Marlon Brando's Tahitian atoll will become a posh resort.
You can stay in one of the private cottages for $4,000 or so a night.
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You can go no mask by opposing PC. It's all over the NFL now, against what opposition?
$4,000/night
I think Eliot Spitzer was paying less in New York.
They must be trying to appeal to those with expense accounts, and a proclivity for young women.
"In Tahiti, they have these dogs... that they train to catch frisbees in their mouths... it's amazing..."
"You’re required to carry identification at all times."
It was here, on Brando's special island, that the "Method" actor nurtured his leviathan look, amusing guests with tall tales and drinking a case of beer (by himself) each day.
They ought to build a monument to him if they can find a piece of granite big enough.
On the pedestal they can carve:
I Could Have Been...
Tahiti (or visions of Tahiti) have been going downhill ever since Paul Gauguin checked out.
And I bet Gauguin didn't pay $4,000. per night to stay there.
Next week we'll see Instagrams of Gwyneth Paltrow down in Tahiti, learning to live a more balanced life than the really really balanced life she's already living, having left London, where people are smart and not superficial the way they are in L.A.--because they're unbalanced. Here's hoping we find out what Tahitians talk about over dinner.
One thing that galls me about this resort is that Brando bought the atoll with money he earned from Mutiny of the Bounty, a movie that did considerable violence to history. Not nearly as much violence as Oliver Stone's propaganda film JFK, granted, but even today too many people consider Fletcher Christian a hero and William Bligh a villain.
@Quaestor: "too many people consider Fletcher Christian a hero and William Bligh a villain."
Don't blame Marlon. The Nordhoff & Hall book did that. But if you went on to read Men Against The Sea, by the same authors, you began to realize that the fable wasn't quite that simple.
When I first read that I thought it said Marlon Brando's a-hole will become a posh resort.
Brando was a force of nature.
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