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Article: IS THE WORLD'S SEXIEST MAN DYING?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2003
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Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS
Grossly overweight, torn apart by family tragedy and totally broke, Marlon Brando has lost the will to live. Has the most self-destructive celebrity of all finally sealed his own fate?
THE saddest scene of his life is being played out up in the hills overlooking Los Angeles. Movie legend Marlon Brando, 79 this month, lies helplessly confined to his bed in his reclusive mountaintop home. Propped up on one side so his great bulk does not hinder his breathing, a plastic tube leads from his nose to an oxygen tank by the bedside.
Friends say Brando is totally dependent on his respirator. His doctors tell him he has congestive ...