Showing posts with label Marlon Brando. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marlon Brando. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Dean & Brando: Sounds Legit

James Dean and Marlon Brando had a secret sadomasochistic relationship fueled by the Godfather star's ego and insatiable desire for control, a new book claims.

The two men would meet up for master and servant style sex sessions where Dean asked to be burned with cigarettes, it alleges.

Friends revealed that Brando was so in charge that he made Dean watch him have sex with strangers who he had just met as part of a twisted mind game.

Brando never reciprocated Dean's love and played a 'cat-and-mouse game' with his younger lover for his own amusement.

Friends said that Dean was like a 'puppy dog' who would loiter outside Brando's apartment in the cold - in the desperate hope his idol would invite him in for sex.

Dean and Brando were two of the icons of their generation but their dark personal currents drew them together, the book says.

The two men both studied under acting coach Lee Strasberg, they were both discovered by director Elia Kazan and they were both intense, brooding characters.

In some ways Dean was considered the successor to Brando and only got his roles in Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden because Brando turned them both down.

In James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes, which is due out next on Blood Moon Productions, authors Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince reveal that their relationship was far more complex than had been thought.

The book is based on conversations with sources and veteran gossip journalists who had known Dean before his death in 1955 at the age of 24...


Daily Mail.

Mebbe, mebbe not, WHO CAN SAY!!??

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Vanity Fair: On The Road

"A road trip across America stopping at every Kentucky Fried Chicken diner along the way does not sound like an A-list event.
"But this particular car was carrying Marlon Brando, Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson.
"The unlikely threesome began driving across America in a rental car after planes were grounded in the aftermath of the terror attacks on New York on September 11, 2001...
"Brando, whose weight by this stage in his life had ballooned, was said to have irritated the other two by stopping at almost every Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King restaurant en route..."

The Daily Mail on a story in Vanity Fair told by a former personal assistant of Liz Taylor, Peter Mandelson Mendelson.
The Mail do however offer a warning; "None of the three, of course, is around to substantiate or dispute the bizarre story."
But I read it in the paper!!! etc etc