Ever get a piece of information that is so very very odd that you really just don't know how to fit into your world view, and even though it has no direct bearing on your life or work its very oddness just keeps it floating to the top of your head? I was listening to an old Fresh Air interview with Peter Fonda the other night, which was hugely refreshing because Terry Gross (the interviewer) had bothered to find out that there a Peter Fonda before "Easy Rider," and was talking mostly about Fonda's appearances in "The Wild Angels" and "The Trip." Wild Angels is a fantastically over-the-top slice of '60s moviemaking (by Roger Corman, of course) that includes one of my favorite movie lines ever: "We want to be free! We want to be free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride! We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!"
That, of course, was not the weirdness. The weirdness was when he described a time when Marlon Brando asked him to give him a lift to pick up Brando's bike, which he had left at Wally Cox's place.
Marlon Brando. Wally Cox. Marlon left his motorcycle at the home of Wally Mr.-Peepers-Voice of Underdog-Stuck-on-Hollywood-Squares Cox.
Googling Marlon Brando and Wally Cox only makes it weirder. They were roommates. There were rumors.
I need to have a lie-down.
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