She described how a sudden commotion disrupted the ceremony and everyone ran to the edge of the village.
One day last month, however, in a sudden and somewhat secret ceremony at Eagle Rock, California, Brando was married to a dark, sari-swathed young minor actress who called herself Anna Kashfi.
For instance, every bachelor follows the script which dictates that he have no clue who he's going to choose until he wakes up on the morning of the final rose ceremony with sudden, miraculous clarity about his "one true love".
But all of a sudden, while watching the opening ceremony with the sports staff from New York at the Main Press Center, when the song "Sing For My Country" played, and seeing the huge number of Chinese drummers, I felt this is the moment I'm proud to be Chinese.
But then, in the middle of the ceremony, there was a sudden change in tempo.
The 52-year-old actor withdrew from Friday's Olympic opening ceremony earlier this month following the sudden death of his step-daughter, Natasha.
And so far there has been little drama leading up to Sunday night's ceremony that can rival the sudden death of Whitney Houston last year or Adele's much-talked-about return from vocal surgery.
"I don't know what's happened, but we've been praying, doing our ceremonies, and all of a sudden the fish seem to be coming back," said Wilbur Slockish Jr., a Klickitat Indian.
"The morning after the opening ceremony I was skating around and, all of a sudden, my heart started beating out of my chest.
On Sept. 22, nearly six months after this British architect's sudden death at 65, one of her boldest buildings, Port House, opened in a ceremony on the newly christened Zaha Hadid Square in Antwerp.
