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old news, but still exctiting

Posted by: eo | April 17, 2009 10:16 PM

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Indeed, Brando was not a straight ally, rather he was bisexual and relatively open about it.

Posted by: satori | April 14, 2009 10:28 PM

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I saw this photo in the 1970's or '80's; it was published in either PENTHOUSE or HUSTLER.
My "straight" friend, who had the magazine, promised to give the photo to me; even after numerous requests over a period of YEARS, he would never part with it. I bet he still has it---and USES it!!

Posted by: muchamp | April 14, 2009 8:50 PM

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This is real ... and the story is old ....

Brando was a real man who was not afraid to stand up to the Religious Sex Police ... fascists.

What better way than leave behind the photo of a friends erection on your lips.... how many of our straight allies would do the same today ?

Posted by: RJP3 | April 14, 2009 6:27 PM

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I believe this picture was printed in reprints, or the original, of Hollywood Babylon.

Posted by: john | April 14, 2009 5:02 PM

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The biography Fred refers to is called "BRANDO" and was published in 1994. I was its editor and the author, Peter Manso, had a print of the photo in his possession. I saw it then, and I believe it is indeed real--it was definitely not some Photoshopped image. (In addition, the manuscript contained interviews from people who knew Marlon in the 1940s and early '50s attesting to his bisexuality, but the publisher's lawyers asked the author and I to delete that, fearing a libel suit from Brando).

Posted by: trent | April 14, 2009 4:15 PM

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I had read years ago that the person attached to the male member in Brando's mouth was Yul Brynner...for what it's worth.

Posted by: ZnSD | April 14, 2009 3:54 PM

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This picture was among many in an archive of movie memorabilia in West Hollywood during the l990's. I saw it and others like it when sorting through the selections which were filed like CD''s on a table, The shop was on Santa Monica Blvd. in the French (something can't remember the name) cafe.

Posted by: Stephen Black | April 14, 2009 12:49 PM

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I received that picture in my mail box a while ago. I'm just glad that you all let us know that there's a book including this pix out there to purchase.

woohoo!

Posted by: MIGUEL | April 14, 2009 12:08 PM

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This is a really old photo and really old story, FYI. It's in a bio of Brando and I remember it caused a bit of a stir in the mid-1990s.

Posted by: Fred | April 14, 2009 10:40 AM

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