Do you know of gay subjects in movies??
Two examples maybe:
To-day, I saw on TV The Seven Year Itch 1955 with Marilyn Monroe...who lives on the second floor, and the first floor gentlemen metions that there are two menwho live on the 3rd floor as interior decorators or whatever!! May I ask you is that suppose to mean that those two men living together are gay, even a gay couple??
Thanks MaineWriter!
James Whale, I do not think that I met him then. Maybe my Hollywood friends would have!!
However, I would question if his death was suicide!! Is such a note still exist? Many, too many actors who were gay men have unknown deaths... even if it was murder!! Remember official papers on Marilyn Monroe disappeared at the coroner's office?
What was the name of his lover?
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You say:
In "Clone: the life and legacy of Al Parker, Gay Superstar", there is mention of Al Parker being set up with his first job as an escort to service a very aged Tom Ewell. It apparently didn't go so well...
Bruce, is there proof of that?
Al Parker past away, I think, right?
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So Al Parker's real name was Drew something? Or was that a nickname?
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Recently, I saw two movies and felt that maybe there were gay nuances in them...
(a) The Last Picuture Show, 1971 with Tomothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges;
is one of those actors gay in real life?
Maybe because the two were in such a dire tight knit small town or village??
So what do you say about the OTHER movie I quoted?
Sal had pic of an ACTOR in his locker door... yes INSIDE, as that was evident and the ONLY pic there... it seems in THAT movie!!
Any other new about that?
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You are right!
You must see it, since it is such a wonderful film!
Yes, they, these actors, were both said as you say.
When I lived in Hollywood, Los Angeles for many years and many times, it was said that Sal's murder was NOT solved!
Is it now, does you or anyone know??
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I did not know that that Williams was thought to be the one who murdered Sal!!
Was that Williams anti-gay?
Did he continue to harm gays after his prison term, and even before did he to others gays??
And where is he to-day?
I wonder if we ever get such replies??
...
I figured that Sal was a brilliant actor!! And which films he did you liked??
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Sure would like to read Sal interview where he says that he is gay!
Wonder if any clip of that?
Or any written article on the internet or in a newspaper??
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As for homo undercurrents, "Top Gun" is gayer than Paris in spring. And maybe it's just me, but I thought the scene between Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon in "Wild Things" was pretty homoerotic. Considering the twists and turns in that movie, I expected them to get it on at any moment. The fact that Kevin Bacon showed his half-tumescent pecker in the scene may have something to do with it.
I saw Top Gun a long time ago and frankly I don't have much recollection of it, except that there was zero chemistry between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. However, I don't recall perceiving any homo undercurrents anywhere in the movie, so now I'm renting it since your comment made me curious!
The director of "Top Gun" is Tony Scott (brother to Ridley Scott), who is openly gay.
Doe his wife know? ;D
No, it's a secret. Don't tell ANYONE!!!!
(Maybe he changed his mind!!! Or maybe I got that part of the story wrong?)
I had never heard about Tony Scott being gay so i checked IMDb and it says he's married (to a woman) and it also lists two previous marriages.
The director of "Top Gun" is Tony Scott (brother to Ridley Scott),who is openly gay.who was widely rumored at he time to be gay.
[Edited to correct for factual content. I've confused rumor with fact on this point. My apologies.]
The widely told story of "Top Gun" is that after Tony Scott turned in his "final" cut, the studio wanted to add a couple of scenes to underscore the "heterosexuality" of Tom Cruise's character. (The studio execs were reportedly aghast that with the all the shirtlessness and locker room scenes, the film looked like a gay softcore.) Kelly McGillis had already cut her hair for another movie, ("Witness" perhaps?) and so the added scenes were the elevator scene (she wears a hat), and the bedroom scene at the end (the gauzy fabric isn't just for romance, it's to keep you from figuring out that the hair she is wearing isn't entirely her own).
Why?
May I re-say that Sal had ONLY a pic of a famous actor inside his locker??
Why?
Wasn't that obvious to the audience??
And placed there on purpose??
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Yes, I think it's obvious that Sal Mineo's character Plato is supposed to be gay in Rebel Without a Cause. Does anyone remember who the actor is who's picture Plato has in his locker?
According to this site, Alan Ladd was straight.
He was married twice and had three children with his second wife. He died of an overdose of drugs (1964).
http://www.nndb.com/people/517/000031424/
That's an interesting site. I like the Executive Summary for each person. Alan Ladd's is: Shane
(Shane was a father figure for that kid in the movie wasn't he? And doesn't he leave? Maybe that's why they picked him for the locker photo.)
I checked Sal Mineo and his Summary was: Dies in Rebel Without A Cause
And then I checked Divine and s/he's stuck with: Poodle poop-eating drag queen.(!)
Heath is Brokeback Mountain of course. It will be interesting to see if The Joker ever becomes his defining role.
Thanks MaineWriter!!
I am surprised to read that maybe Alan Ladd was a heterosexual... what a surprise!!
I thought I had read that he was gay!! I possibly now think that he was bisexual, at least!!
More research need to be done?
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Thanks oilgun!
Something tells me that Alan Ladd was gay or bi-!!
But I can not remember if I had read that in a book.
Or if someone who acted with him or worked there... or was it a journalist who wrote about Hollywood I knew when I lived in Los Angeles!!
He sure was handsome!! More information needed!!
Do you wonder like I do, why the photo of Alan Ladd was in that locker Sal had in that wonderful classic movie Rebel without a Cause??
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Anyone found yet about that pic in that famous locker??
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Henry Winkler says John Ritter sweating on set the day he died
Wed Feb 13, 6:04 PM
By Linda Deutsch, The Associated Press
GLENDALE, Calif. - Actor Henry Winkler took the witness stand Wednesday in a lawsuit over the death of actor John Ritter, telling jurors he had a conversation with his friend just hours before he died.
Winkler, who played The Fonz on "Happy Days," also gave the jury a testimonial to the comedic brilliance of Ritter, who was best known for the classic sitcom "Three's Company."
"He kept everyone laughing. He was a professional," said Winkler.
Ritter, at the time starring in the TV show "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter," died on Sept. 11, 2003, after suffering a tear in his aorta, known as an aortic dissection. He was 54.
Winkler testified that on the day of Ritter's death he was doing a guest appearance on "8 Simple Rules" and he did not suspect anything was seriously wrong with his friend.
At one point, he said, they were recalling old times before they were due to perform an episode in which Winkler was to play Ritter's new boss.
"We were reminiscing," Winkler said. "He was sweating (and said) 'I really need to get some water.' I said 'I really need to memorize my lines.' And he went one way and I went the other. And that was the last time I saw him."
The lawsuit says Ritter was treated for a heart attack instead of the aortic dissection and seeks $67 million from a radiologist who earlier gave Ritter a body scan and the cardiologist who treated him that day. The trial follows settlements with Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and other medical personnel for about $14 million.
Defence attorneys have told the jury that neither doctor was responsible for Ritter's death and that the body scan two years earlier showed his aorta was of normal size and there was no sign it would dissect.
Winkler said that a while after he saw Ritter the members of the cast were told to go home but weren't told what was wrong. He said he knew it was the fifth birthday of one of Ritter's children and he thought perhaps he had decided to quit early to celebrate.
"At 9 at night I was called and told he was in the hospital and at 11 or 11:30 I was called to say 'We have lost John,' " Winkler testified.
He told jurors Ritter had been thrilled that "lightning had struck again" and he had a new hit show.
"He loved everyone in the cast and they loved him," he said.
Much of Winkler's testimony dealt with Ritter's devotion to his wife, Amy Yasbeck, and his four children.
Asked what he thought the children would miss most about their father, Winkler replied: "His passion for life. His excitement for being on the Earth."
"Any conversation we had wrapped around his children, the pride and the love," Winkler said.
Ritter and Yasbeck "were an incredible team. . . . They were like two sides of a whole," Winkler said.
Yasbeck wiped her eyes several times during Winkler's testimony.
Outside court, Winkler talked to reporters but would not comment on whether he believed the doctors were to blame.