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FROM Ondi Timoner
'Brand: A Second Coming' The long-haired British comedian Russell Brand is brilliant, if somewhat off-kilter. He is also a narcissist and a bit of a megalomaniac. The former drug addict, sex addict and husband of pop-star Katy Perry has reinvented himself as left-wing political rabble-rouser. And a new documentary captures the evolution of Russell Brand in all his hilarious, manic complexity.
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