Earlier this week, The Daily Mail reported that while on a cross-country roadtrip with Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando insisted on stopping at nearly every KFC restaurant along the highway for 535 miles. As The Daily Mail states, the unlikely threesome began driving across America in a rental car after planes were grounded in the aftermath of the terror attacks on New York on September 11, 2001. The trip is said to have come about after Jackson invited the other two to New York for his September 10 concert at Madison Square Gardens. However, in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist atrocity in which Al Qaeda flew two planes into the World Trade Center, flights in the U.S. were grounded, so the trio resorted to the road for their return to the west coast.
Vanity Fair reporter Sam Kashner writes: ‘Brando allegedly annoyed his travelling companions by insisting on stopping at nearly every KFC and Burger King they passed along the highway. None of the three, of course, is around to substantiate or dispute the bizarre story. Brando died aged 80 in July 2004, Jackson in June 2009, aged 50, and Dame Elizabeth in March this year, aged 79.
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June 15, 2011
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