WWW- A thick new biography of Marlon Brando promises to be the definitive gossip guide to the great actor's life.
"Brando Unzipped," by Darwin Porter, claims he covered as much ground on the Kinsey Scale as the bathroom scales.
The book says: "From Rock Hudson to Vivien Leigh, from Bette Davis to Cary Grant, Brando slept around, even managing to seduce two of America's First Ladies." The plausibility of that is debatable, but there's a (literally) jaw-dropping scene on page 320, involving Peter Lawford, another actor and "a motor trip to Palm Springs" which you can bet they didn't run by Nancy Reagan's lawyers before publication.
Collectors of Brando ephemera might appreciate the inclusion of a certain infamous photograph. The image depicts a Monica Lewinsky moment between Brando and another man.
"We ran it at a tasteful 2 inches by 1-3/4 inches on page 404," says Blood Moon publisher Danforth Prince.
In journalism, we call that "burying the lead."
