From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

In 1979 Playboy magazine published an interview that nobody expected to see and basically changed

the world of print journalism. It certainly changed me as one of the biggest influences on my career

and, you know, to the extent that I have a career. Anyway, sitting across from me is a man who made

that interview happen, Lawrence Grobel, who's got the rights back to that and has been

publishing, as published it as conversations with Brando. Larry's always good to have you here.

Oh, it's great to be here, Elvis. Good to see you. You're looking good.

Not as good as you, but just reading us again and having to pour through last night, first

of all, I still can't put it down. But the posts, I mean, just to be reminded of, first of all, in reading the interview,

there's a sense that I never get in most interviews, which is he was completely in the moment

all the time you talk to him, which is also his gift as an actor, wasn't it?

Yeah, exactly.

And what was interesting with Marlon is Marlon was as interested in me and in my life stories

than as I was really. And it was striking to me because I have interviewed thousands of people

and very few of them are interested in you. If you talk to Ray Bradbury and if you got off subject

off of him, his eyes went blank.

That's it with a lot of people.

Marlin, though, was different.

And I ended up judging actors as I interviewed them, you know, as compared to Marlon about how

and how interested he was.

One of the reasons he was interested in, I realized later, was he was going to be playing George Lincoln Rockwell

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