[poconopundit]

It seems fitting that Obama would end up at The Brando, as the resort is known, since the two men have much in common. Much in common?  Maybe not. One guy is a pencil-thin, mirror-gazing community agitator and pot-smoking muzzie without a past -- a guy who came to America on a slave ship from Kenya, and was admitted thanks to a fake birth certificate, and who stammers any time you take away his teleprompter. The second guy is a self-made man who played Shakespeare and dozens of heroic and stellar (Stella!) roles in countless movies: one of the finest actors of his generation. Brando frequently played the rebel, but that rebel was usually trying to beat the system and win one for the freedom of man against societal constraints.  Boobamba, on the other hand, wanted to destroy free America entirely and turn it into a third-world hellhole. Oh, and I don't think Brando and Moochelle would have jelled too well at that Tahitian lagoon.

[V K Lee]

Mine eyes have yet to adjust.
Picture BO’B in a little grass skirt, halved coconut shells cover his nipples.

[Liz]

Tahitian actress Tarita Teriipaia, who played Brando's love interest in Mutiny on the Bounty, became his third wife on August 10, 1962. She was 20 years old, 18 years younger than Brando, who was reportedly delighted by her naïveté.

Teriipaia became the mother of two of his children: Simon Teihotu Brando (born 1963) and Tarita Cheyenne Brando (born 1970). Brando also adopted Teriipaia's daughter, Maimiti Brando (born 1977) and niece, Raiatua Brando (born 1982).

Brando and Teriipaia divorced in July 1972.