Gay subjects in movies??

[Artiste]

Thanks TooP/Bruce!

So Al Parker's real name was Drew something? Or was that a nickname?

Hugs!

[TOoP/Bruce]

Thanks TooP/Bruce!

So Al Parker's real name was Drew something? Or was that a nickname?

Hugs!

This is a link to "Al Parker's" (Andrew Okun's) biography page at IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662027/bio

[Artiste]

Thanks TOop/Bruce!

Parker's bio is very interesting!  So Drew Okum was born in the USA . With that name, I would have changed it too; if you are an actor! But wish I knew more about this:
Professional name taken from a 1950s magazine illustrator.
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Raped at knife point when he was fifteen.
... So I wonder if that was in high school? And why was he raped? By whom? Anti-gay gang?
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It is said that:
in a 1987 interview, sharply criticized the gay adult film industry's failure to respond to the effect the AIDS crisis was having on its performers. He was one of the first producers to insist that performers use condoms in his movies.
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That is great that he was reponsable that way which probably saved many lives!!
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Since he:
was also a contestant on "The Dating Game" (1965)...
he was dated (matched with a female?)
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Again thanks,

hugs!!

[Artiste]

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?

(b) Rebel Without A Cause, 1955 Of course Sal  was a gay man in real life; so was the other actor!!
Did one or both give quotes to about that acting as if one charactor therein or both were supposed to be gay maybe??

Hugs!!

[TOoP/Bruce]

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?

Did you know that Larry McMurtry wrote the script for both "The Last Picture Show" as well as co-wrote the script for "Brokeback Mountain"?

[Artiste]

Thanks Bruce!

Yes, I am saying to you since I found that out last might in the interviews about that film: The Last Picture Show!!

But, I sense sonething GAY about it... did you too??

Hugs!!

[delalluvia]

There might've been homoerotic overtones in "The Last Picture Show" as there are in almost any movie about close male friends, but IMO - I've seen and read both the "Last Picture Show" and its sequel "Texasville" - the writers make it very clear that the two men were fighting over the same woman but for different reasons, and in later life




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Duane is firmly the town patriarch, still chasing after women despite being a good father and - apparently - deeply in love and devoted to his wife.  By then, Sonny is doddering, his mind wandering and he's treated very delicately, like a beloved but senile uncle.

[Artiste]

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?

Hugs!!

[delalluvia]

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?

Hugs!!

I never saw "Rebel without a Cause".  I do know Sal Mineo was definitely gay, and I did hear/read that James Dean was probably bisexual, but I don't think I ever read anything definitive about it.

[Artiste]

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??

Hugs!!