Marlon Brando passed away yesterday. Some call him the Greatest Actor of All Time (I respectfully disagree). While his influence and impact on Hollywood cannot be disputed, I would classify the three-hundred plus pound thespian as a tragic slave to his desires. He was married three times--all pregnant at the time--father of seven, nine or more than eleven children (depending on the source) both in and out of wedlock and may have been $20 million dollars in debt at the time of his death. His son Christian shot and killed the boyfriend of daughter Cheyenne who, in turn, later hanged herself. Finally, in an April 1996 appearance on Larry King's cable interview show, Brando proclaimed this nugget of wisdom:

"Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of--of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited--we have seen the--we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around."

I don't know of another instance of someone so famous using so many racial slurs to insult so many proving themselves so ignorant and so bigoted and which will, no doubt, go so unreported during the next few days. Or, more accurately, continue to go so unreported since this occurred in 1996. John Rocker is a cultural sensitivity training instructor compared to Brando.