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Brando

I’m finally getting around to reading that Paul Haggis Scientology article. Buried deep is this paragraph:

Brolin says that he once witnessed John Travolta practicing Scientology. Brolin was at a dinner party in Los Angeles with Travolta and Marlon Brando. Brando arrived with a cut on his leg, and explained that he had injured himself while helping a stranded motorist on the Pacific Coast Highway. He was in pain. Travolta offered to help, saying that he had just reached a new level in Scientology. Travolta touched Brando’s leg and Brando closed his eyes.

Now that’s pretty damn interesting purely from a Scientology perspective. But what specifically got me was this part:

Brando arrived with a cut on his leg, and explained that he had injured himself while helping a stranded motorist on the Pacific Coast Highway.

WHAT. Brando stopped and helped a stranded motorist? Could you imagine getting a flat on the highway, you’re looking under the hood, a car pulls over and it’s Marlon Brando?

Not to mention the fact that of all the celebrities in Hollywood at that time he was probably the least equipped to help you, a stranded motorist, in a time of need. What would he do to help, try to eat your broken car?

I love this story. I love this story to death.