In Brando’s League

While I decry the obscene violence in “The Bone Collector,” Angelina Jolie proves there that she is everything many of us thought she could be (“A Proverbial Adventurer,” by Anne Bergman, Nov. 7).

Jolie is an actress who always seems to be playing two emotions: one there on the surface, the other smoldering underneath and fighting to get out. It’s the same quality that the young Marlon Brando and James Dean had, a mysterious undercurrent that made them the most intriguing players of their generation.

Since women are more emotionally open than men, it’s rare to find an actress with this quality, but Jolie most definitely has it. It’s what makes her stand head and shoulders above most young American actresses today.

TONY PROFUMO

Los Angeles