Back in the Heart of Darkness...

Marlon Brando isn't quite finished torturing Martin Sheen. Tightening the screws, he reads from another Time-magazine bromide, dated Dec. 12, 1969: 'Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya and is now a Rand Corp. consultant, recently returned to Vietnam to sound out the situation for President Nixon. He told the president last week . . . 'that things felt much better, and smelled much better over there.' '

Of the half-dead Sheen, Brando asks, 'How do they smell to you, soldier?'"

Story at The Smirking Chimp.