Jack Nicholson to Demolish His Friend Brando's House

timesonline ^ | 8/6/06 | John Harlow

[beyond the sea]

IT WAS dark, cramped and run-down, but for nearly half a century it was Marlon Brando’s home. Now his neighbour Jack Nicholson, who paid £3.4m for the house after Brando died two years ago, is planning to demolish it and plant frangipani flowers over the plot.

Nicholson, who returned from a holiday in London last week, resolved to “sort out” the estate at 12900 Mulholland Drive. The famous address, on the mountain road overlooking Los Angles, is where Nicholson cared for his friend Brando before his death.

The 69-year-old actor has been advised that it would be too expensive to restore the “derelict” house which has been beset by mould. Getting the mould out would be difficult. “It’s more likely that we will take the house down,” said Nicholson last week.

For safety reasons Nicholson will probably fill in the pool which, shortly before his death, Brando declared he would stock with electric eels to power his house and reduce his electric light bill.

In court records signed a year before his death, where an ailing Brando pleaded poverty after he was entangled in a child maintenance dispute, he described the house as a “one-bedroom bungalow with a den converted from a garage”. He called it Frangipani, after the cream and yellow flower beloved of Buddhists. The double Oscar winner’s assets were estimated by his executors at £11m, largely from the sale of Frangipani and Tetiaroa, Brando’s island near Tahiti in the south Pacific.

[beyond the sea]

"For safety reasons Nicholson will probably fill in the pool which, shortly before his death, Brando declared he would stock with electric eels to power his house and reduce his electric light bill." ----

gotta love these guys!

[beyond the sea]

ping

[giobruno]

I guess the mold came from all the food Brando left lying around the house. Perhaps he should put up a giant refrigerator on the plot instead, or a Baskin-Robbins.

[beyond the sea]

"Last year the house,............ was cleared by Christie’s ............. from Brando’s script for The Godfather to an exercise machine" ---

"an exercise machine" apparently seldom used.

[battlegearboat]

STELLA!!

[Iowa Granny]

News of the Wierd, ping

[mcg2000]

If that house could talk ...

[Peach]

frangipani flowers Millions of dollars to plant flowers? Nicholson is going the way of Brando, imo.

[JennysCool]

Jack's got a little spare dough.

[martin_fierro]

IT WAS dark, cramped and run-down, but for nearly half a century it was Marlon Brando’s home.

It smelled too much of a$$ in there.

[Tribune7]

Did Brando ever order food from the supermarket? And when the kid showed up did he ever say "you're just an errand boy . . . "

[sully777]

Brando: You know, I was riding a bicycle… that I made myself… and I was with Wally Cox and, God, I miss that good man! He had fingers like a sailor. [Marlon bends down and takes off his pants] I remember one time in Bangkok... [He now takes off his boxers] time buzzer rings.

Trebek: The answer was red. Mr. Donahue, you are at minus seven thousand two hundred dollars...



Trebek: Okay, that's infuriating. Mr. Brando chose to speak to puppet in lieu of participating. Maybe the puppet wrote down an answer [monitor reveals the word "Poop"]. You wrote "Poop". This must be a proud moment for you, Mr. Brando.

Brando: You- you- you're a squawking parrot, you're- you're an ant.

[Spacetrucker]

isn't anyone thinking...Apocalypse Now?

[beyond the sea]

ROFL!

[beyond the sea]

...... it would be mumbling.

;-)

[beyond the sea]

It smelled too much of a$$ in there

..................... Kramer is checking out the pictures on the wall. He spots something...

Kramer: Jerry. Jerry, come here. Take a look at this.

[Jerry joins him]

Kramer: The name on the boat. Look at it.

Jerry: Assman!