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Possibly Brando's presence challenged and inspired them. Or vice versa. Or something. For his comedy is delicately judged, and he invests Carmine with a lovely yearning quality -- for a son, even perhaps for the straight, square life he has never known. There is a scene in the midst of all this comic hubbub where he tries, and fails, to articulate the affection he has grown to feel for Clark that is pure behavioral reality, pure Brando magic. Reminding us of promises made and promises broken by him through the years, the actor transcends the context and puts us in touch with the muddled hopes and troubled history we have shared with him.