BRANDO: WEIRDER THAN EVER
AFTER he died last July, Marlon Brando's ashes were mixed together with those of his long-rumored lover Wally Cox and scat tered in Death Valley. Apparently Brando had kept Cox's ashes around since the star of the "Mr. Peepers" TV show, who was once his roommate, died in 1973. That wasn't Brando's only bizarre relationship. He was a frequent guest at Michael Jackson's Never land ranch. "The last time my father left his house to go anywhere, [it] was with Michael," Brando's son Miko told the Los Angeles Times. By the time he died at 80, Brando was no longer a behemoth, having lost 85 pounds because of pulmonary fibrosis, which required him to have a portable oxygen tank on hand at all times. And although Brando left an estate worth $21.6 million, the paper reports his family is preparing to cash in with a set of DVDs based on Brando's "Lying for a Living" acting classes, which feature the likes of Sean Penn, Nick Nolte and Jon Voight.