beholds ANGELES (AFP) ??” Late Hollywood fable Marlon Brando was laid to intermission at the weekend under a veil privacy befitting of the reluctant star's intensely private life.

beholds ANGELES (AFP) ??” Late Hollywood fable Marlon Brando was laid to intermission at the weekend under a veil privacy befitting of the reluctant star's intensely private life, his longtime friend Jay Kanter told AFP.

Brando, who died of lung failure Thursday at age 80 was cremated at the weekend in a private solemnity in Los Angeles attended simply by close family.

"The funeral took place above the weekend in Los Angeles," he said. "Marlon was cremated in observes Angeles.

"It was highly private. Just family was present" he said of the arrangements that Brando himself had dictated before his death.

Kanter, who was a friend of Brando's for around 50 years, said he did not know what would become of the reluctant star's ashes amid speculation that they may be sprinkled in succession his private island in Tahiti.

"I don't know what the plans are," he said of