>Marlon Brando had a used Volkswagen Beetle he purchased and used solely for late night runs to Pink's hot dog stand on Melrose and La Brea. The inconspicuous red beetle was parked at a sympathetic neighbors home near Brando's Hollywood hills residence in order to conceal Brando's late night snack runs from his second wife, Movita. Brando would sneak out of his home, walk to his parked car, and drive down to the hot dog stand where he would reportedly order a dozen or more hot dogs at each visit. Eventually, the neighbor had to call the authorities and have the Brando hot dog beetle removed from their property as Brando would simply toss the waste into the back seat, resulting in a beetle filled with countless soiled hot dog wrappers, and hundreds of partially consumed hot dog parts all rotting in the back seat of the car. The smell of rotting hot dogs eventually became overwhelming, however, Brando continued to use the car regardless, and failed to either clean or remove the car from the premises, resulting in the need for police to intervene on behalf of the neighbor to remove the car.
Read somewhere he had friends throw bags of McDonald's over his fence so his wife wouldn't find out or some shit. Dude was crazy.
>Read somewhere he had friends throw bags of McDonald's over his fence so his wife wouldn't find out or some shit. It was Whoppers.
Parker White
Are Pink's hotdogs really that good?
Kayden Price
>order a dozen or more hot dogs at each visit. That's 6000 calories just for a midnight snack
Juan Adams
It really is something when Brando had an IQ of like 80 and he singlehandedly revolutionized acting on the screen.
Joseph Diaz
A bit overrated, but definitely worth checking out if you're in LA. I like Costco hot dogs almost as much
Sebastian Adams
>During one of the sessions, a troupe of little people and a team of Samoan wrestlers — Brando somehow had wrangled all of them to the warehouse on the same day — did improvisation exercises together on the stage. Another time, Brando plucked a homeless man from a dumpster and brought him in for acting lessons. He had students strip naked in front of the entire class. ("The girls were shaking, like, 'What the f— am I doing here?' " recalls Olmos. "But Brando had a reason for it. He always had a reason.") While a jazz musician played Brando's favorite tunes on a rented piano, Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker who had crossed the Twin Towers, did stunts on a high-wire. Michael Jackson popped in for a class. Robin Williams attended all 10 days, at one point doing a 30-minute improv routine about haggling with a used-car salesman. will this be released before I die?
The original pink’s on La Brea has very good chili dogs, And they also have a variety of ways you can order it. But dirt dog and cupid’s are also good LA chili dogs. It’s a matter of preference in my opinion. Brando had something wrong with him but I don’t doubt that he was one of the first cases of a fast food epidemic that is still going on today in America.
Jaxon James
say it with me /our guy/
Juan Smith
>During his seminar, Brando crossed the streams of performance and real life in ways that reality TV hadn't yet dreamed of. Along with the homeless person, he enlisted a real L.A. policeman to do scenes with his students. For Williams' improv, Brando brought in a real used-car salesman whom he had imported from a Ford dealership in North Hills. The salesman left the improv master speechless. >"We didn't know he was a real car salesman," says Olmos. "We didn't know who he was or where he was from. We just thought it was going to be another improv. But Brando brought this guy onstage, and he tells him to try to sell a car to Robin Williams. And then he tells Robin, 'But you don't want to buy the car.' And all of a sudden, this car salesman kicks in, and he's incredible. He was so fast he wouldn't let Robin get a word in. But that was the point of the exercise. Even Robin Williams, who was an expert at improv, who was so quick he could annihilate you, had to listen and react when dealing with the truth. Even Robin Williams gets slapped in the face by reality. That was the lesson Marlon was teaching."
shame it's all locked in a vault
Carter Morgan
Context?
Jaxson Clark
Sounds retarded
Michael Taylor
>Marlon was a practical joker, but would always try to remain anonymous and act like he was above such things. One day while filming Superman (1978) Chris (Reeve) arrived on set absolutely furious, and when I asked him what was wrong, he pointed right at Brando and said "..it was HIM! HE did it! He's the one!". While Brando stood there looking at Chris nonplussed, I took him aside and asked him to explain what was going on, and he told me that somebody had been sneaking into his trailer, using his toilet, and leaving an enormous load of human waste for Chris to find later, which would then end up polluting his entire trailer. He said he thought it might have been one of the crew, so he had Dick (Liebegott) keep an eye on his trailer for him while he was on set. After filming that day, Chris returned to his trailer, and once again, his toilet was absolutely destroyed to the point of needing maintenance to come and unclog it, and when he talked to Dick, he told him the only person he saw entering the trailer was none other than Marlon Brando himself. When confronted by Chris, Marlon denied everything, was completely indignant, and threatened to leave the set unless I managed to not only control Chris, but make him apologize. This took some convincing, but I finally managed to get everyone calmed down, Chris apologized, and we got back to work. Though he vehemently denied it, I believe it was indeed Brando who was destroying Chris's toilet, as after the on set incident, it stopped. >Richard Donner 2005 AFI interview
It's basically watching a car salesman try and sell Robin Williams a Ford which he doesn't want to buy. I would watch that.
Isaac Smith
Brando's last days. He was short on cash so he came up with an idea for an acting seminar and hosted it in a warehouse. lot of famous people showed up. a lot of it sounds crazy and fun. it's all on tape but the executor of the estate won't release it
>And yet, for all the wackiness, there was a Method to Brando's madness. "Was he serious about the class? As serious as a heart attack," says Olmos. "Brando had never taught an acting class before — this was the only time in his whole life. This was going to be his legacy to the acting community." According to Olmos, everything Brando did in that warehouse, no matter how seemingly bizarre, served a greater purpose or elucidated a greater truth. Even showing up in drag and mooning his students was an acting lesson. Strip away the mascara and "he was stressing a basic fundamental of acting," says Olmos. "Which is that you must be willing to show your ass and fail. If you're not willing to do that, you might as well get the f— out of here."
Jaxon Barnes
>Brando was very competitive, and in 1968 he appeared at a party celebrating Oscar nominations in which Paul Newman was in attendance with his wife Joanne Woodward. Brando approached Newman and began a conversation that eventually became very heated, resulting in Brando being heard shouting at Newman "You're a phony!" and walking away. >Later that evening Brando stood on a table and challenged Newman to an egg eating contest, which was what the character Newman played in "Cool Hand Luke" was depicted doing in his recent film. Newman ignored this challenge. >Undeterred, Brando had somebody from his entourage bring him dozens of hard boiled eggs, and started the competition without Newman. He kept count loudly as he ate the eggs, while mocking and insulting Newman constantly, "21 Newman! 21 eggs! You can't eat 21 eggs Newman! You're a phony, and I'm better than you Newman!" >Eventually, Brando consumed 51 eggs before being removed from the party, 1 more than Newman's character did in Cool Hand Luke. As he was being escorted out, he reportedly said "I beat you Newman! 51 eggs! You couldn't eat 51 eggs Newman, because you're a phony. I'm better than you Newman and I always will be! Don't you ever forget that!" >True Hollywood Tales 1997
