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M*A*S*H Star Stiers Comes Out (and is looking for love.)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: louisev on May 06, 2009, 03:41:01 pm ---so did I!
But then again I always assumed Kelsey Grammer was gay too. He had the same vibe about him.
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Sure enough. But ol' what's-his-name, who played Niles, even more so.
southendmd:
Good for him! Coming out at 66!
I always loved his Brahmin accent on M*A*S*H. You know, he was only 35 in 1977 when he first played Major Charles Emerson Winchester III.
louisev:
--- Quote from: oilgun on May 06, 2009, 04:12:29 pm ---He sure does. He was even on FRASIER where their similarities were played to great effect:
From IMDb:
Fathers & Sons: Leland Barton[Stiers], Hester Crane's old research assistant, visits Seattle. He is so alike in personality to Frasier and Niles that Martin starts to wonder who is the boys' real father. ?
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hahahah... that was an episode I missed!
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: oilgun on May 06, 2009, 03:06:36 pm ---
"I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons," Stiers said. "Now is the time I wish to find someone and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion for me."
The actor explained why it was difficult for him to come out earlier in his career. "From the late 1980s until about seven or eight years ago, you would find certain individuals coming up to you, me, and advocating the position that since we were doing family fare that it would be best were the actors to maintain a certain palatability to parents. These parties likely had heard rumors or harbored suspicions about me and wanted to make sure no embarrassing incidents were forthcoming," he says.
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He even talks like Major Winchester in real life! He was one of my favorites on that show. He did great at playing a character who was effete, but with more depth than at first suspected. I remember one episode where his sister sent him fancy chocolates, and with great largesse, he gave them to the man running the orphanage, to share with the children there. When he is outraged to discover the children never got those chocolates, he confronts the orphanage man, who explains to him that he traded the chocolates on the black market for more basic goods that they desperately needed. Stiers' portrayal, going from arrogant noblesse oblige to humble understanding of the orphans' stark situation was wonderful acting.
louisev:
Hmmmm three part names:
David Ogden Stiers
Neil Patrick Harris
David Hyde Pierce
I sense a pattern....
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