[lbo-talk] Brando update

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Sep 23 09:20:24 PDT 2004


Wally Cox? Who would have thunk it?

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> New York Post [Page Six] - September 22, 2004
>
> 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.
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