For Immediate Release
June 4, 2008

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR/PLAYWRIGHT FLETCHER RHODEN RELEASES, SUPPORTS
“LAST TANGO WITH MARLON” NOVELLA, ABOUT MARLON BRANDO AND WALLY COX

Acclaimed Los Angeles author/playwright Fletcher Rhoden has written a new novella, Last Tango With Marlon (Trafford Publishing, July 2008). Rhoden is currently booking a promotional tour including campus/bookstore readings/signings, personal appearances and interviews to local and national media. The speculative dialogue between actors Marlon Brando and Wally Cox is based on Rhoden’s stage play, called, “...Fascinating ... fast-moving... intensely comedic ... deliciously funny... exquisite...”(various reviews).

“Like a lot of friendships,” said Rhoden, 42, of his famous subjects, “theirs was a balance between love and hate, a union of opposites and a meeting of like minds. It will resonate with a lot of people because almost everybody has had at least one complex, difficult friendship in their lives. Last Tango With Marlon is as much about inherited patterns of destructive behavior, about how we treat ourselves and each other, as it is about the particulars of the friendship between Brando and Cox.”

Rhoden won acclaim for his 2001 novella, The Trial Of Davy Crockett (Trafford), called, “A must-read and not to be missed ... thoughtful yet riveting from the first page to the last,” by Midwest Book Review. Rhoden’s first credited feature film production with the multi-award-winning indie slasher Stump the Band.

LAST TANGO WITH MARLON a novella by Fletcher Rhoden
available in July from Trafford Publishing: www.trafford.com/07-2958
ISBN 978-1-4251-5265-9

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