# Brando's Ashes Scattered **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511 "2004-09-22T16:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/1 "2004-09-22T16:56:27Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/22/people.marlonbrando.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/22/people.marlonbrando.ap/index.html) In related news, an impenetrable black cloud has engulfed the South American nation of Ecuador. In other news, I’m still going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/2 "2004-09-22T17:05:41Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > [http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/22/people.marlonbrando.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/22/people.marlonbrando.ap/index.html) > > In related news, an impenetrable black cloud has engulfed the South American nation of Ecuador. In related news, Mount Everest has now been declared the world’s second highest mountain. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/3 "2004-09-22T17:06:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Some of Brando’s ashes were scattered in Death Valley, a place that the actor cherished, his son Miko Brando told the newspaper. The ashes of Brando’s late friend Wally Cox, who died in 1973, were also poured onto the desert landscape as part of the same ceremony; how Cox’s ashes were in the possession of Brando’s family was unknown. That Wally Cox and Marlon Brando had been roommates in Hell’s Kitchen in the '50s is one of my favorite factoids ever. Can you imagine them sharing a bathroom? Marlon coming home and finding Wally’s tie draped over the doorknob? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/4 "2004-09-22T22:31:43Z")
> [@](#): > > how Cox’s ashes were in the possession of Brando’s family was unknown. Jeeze, EVERYBODY knew Brando had them on his mantle all these years. :rolleyes: What is this with reporters on the show biz beat who know NONE of Hollywood’s open secrets? Forget **Eve**! _ **I** _ could do better than that loser! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/5 "2004-09-22T22:55:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Some of Brando’s ashes were scattered in Death Valley, a place that the actor cherished, his son Miko Brando told the newspaper. Rescue parties are still digging for survivors. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/6 "2004-09-22T23:18:11Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Jeeze, EVERYBODY knew Brando had them on his mantle all these years. :rolleyes: What is this with reporters on the show biz beat who know NONE of Hollywood’s open secrets? Forget **Eve**! _ **I** _ could do better than that loser! Back in the late 70’s, I used to go to a little Gay bar in the Village called Marie’s Crisis. Still exists. They had outrageous bingo games in the afternoon and I used to go to play, and listen to some of those old queens’ stories about NYC. They remembered Wally Cox coming in there regularly and getting blotto, and the bartender would have to call Marlon who would come to the bar and drag Wally back to their apartment. There is also an old photo of Brando and…well, that remains speculation. But back then, everybody knew that Brando had Wally’s ashes on the mantlepiece. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/7 "2004-09-22T23:19:23Z")
In other Death Valley news, all of the borax mining operations have been converted to full scale nitrogen and phosphorous recovery outfits. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/8 "2004-09-22T23:19:32Z")
Jor-El and Mr. Peepers…together for all eternity. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/9 "2004-09-22T23:41:09Z")
OK, enough fucking fat jokes. This is a pretty disgusting “so and so has died” thread, at least for Cafe Society. Wanna start a thread for fat jokes about a dead guy? IANAM, but personally I’d probably start such a thread in a different forum. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/10 "2004-09-22T23:43:51Z")
Shit, I don’t have the clothes for nuclear winter… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/11 "2004-09-22T23:44:53Z")
Now THAT’s a simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/12 "2004-09-22T23:51:53Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Now THAT’s a simulpost. No, it isn’t. 2 minute difference. Be precise. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/13 "2004-09-23T22:29:32Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > OK, enough fucking fat jokes. This is a pretty disgusting “so and so has died” thread, at least for Cafe Society. > > Wanna start a thread for fat jokes about a dead guy? IANAM, but personally I’d probably start such a thread in a different forum. Can we do Wally Cox skinny jokes? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/14 "2004-09-24T00:52:35Z")
The fact that Marlon Brando owned Wally Cox’s ashes doesn’t concern me, believe it or not. The fact that he also owned the ashes of Paul Lynde, Cliff Arquette, and George Gobel, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/15 "2004-09-24T05:57:40Z")
:::Resists urge to start pit thread entitled “ **lissener** is a humorless idiot”::: 😛 In other news, Death Valley National Monument has been rechristened “Blacksand Beach National Recreation Area.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandos-ashes-scattered/265511/16 "2004-09-24T16:59:24Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > The fact that he also owned the ashes of Paul Lynde, Cliff Arquette, and George Gobel, on the other hand… What’s wrong with a guy wanting to play the home version of _Hollywood Squares?_ Let’s see if I can remember their usual locations: Cox, top left, Lynde, center square, of course, and Gobel, lower right, so he won with a left-to-right diagonal. Charley Weaver, lower left, was just insurance in case Angie Dickenson, top right, died before Lonesome George.