Spiegel Stuff: Flight of the Princess; Kate Moss’s Dangerous Liaison; the Tragedy of Marlon Brando

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From Brando's beginnings to life on the road with Willie Nelson to not-so-perfect love matches, let yourself be drawn in to the Vanity Fair Archive in this week's digest.

The King Who Would Be Man

Deeply seductive, exquisitely sensitive, and gloriously talented, Marlon Brando had everything but a belief in his work. From his 1947 stage appearance in A Streetcar Named Desire until his death, he fought his own fame, with a pathological hatred of praise, an identification with the dispossessed, and a retreat to Tahiti, where tragedy and the tabloids followed him.

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Dear Mrs. L'Engle

When the prolific author of A Wrinkle in Time began a correspondence with a Black Panther imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit, neither could have imagined what the relationship would yield.

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Kate Moss's Prince Alarming

Not since Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg cut their decadently glamorous swath through '60s London had a rock-and-roll romance so thoroughly hooked the British press: Model Kate Moss fell for one of the country's most notorious drug addicts, former Libertines front man Pete Doherty. Doherty said Moss saved his life. But tallying the canceled concerts, rehab stints, and jail time, how dangerous was their liaison really?

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The Ballad of Willie Nelson

No wonder Willie Nelson writes such heartbreaking country anthems. When the IRS seized his home and his music and slapped him with a $15 million bill, it was just the latest calamity in a hard-lived (and hard-played) life. But the singer's Honeysuckle woes got him back out on the road.

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Flight of the Princess

A year after one of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters attempted to flee Dubai, his wife Princess Haya escaped to London. Soon after, the royal couple began battling over their children in Britain's biggest royal divorce since Charles and Diana.

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Saturday, March 30, 2024

Flight of the Princess; Kate Moss’s Dangerous Liaison; the Tragedy of Marlon Brando

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