num_pages: 310
description: Choking on Marlon Brando is the story of a young female film critic s love-life is affected and nearly ruined by her obsession with male movie stars. As her increasingly hapless hunt for the right man unfolds and her television and newspaper career Entwined within the narrative of her real-life love affairs is a kaleidoscope of digressions on great screen actors her early obsession with Brando, her later dream-life with Gerard Depardieu, a personal ad seeking out Tom Cruise, a disastrous climactic encounter with Jeff Bridges. It s a helter-skelter ride through love and the movies which reads like a screwball comedy. But our heroine is no screwball; she seems to know everything about movies and the human heart, and painfully little about anything else. Written in a fresh and utterly engaging voice, Choking on Marlon Brando is moving and hilarious, a bittersweet and endearing story of a woman who can t draw the line between her live life and the art she loves.
language: English
title: Choking on Marlon Brando
titlecomplete: Choking on Marlon Brando
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: The Overlook Press