Posted on 07/17/2018 6:39:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “It’s hard to know where to begin,” said Matt Tyrnauer, a Vanity Fair special correspondent turned documentary filmmaker, as he dryly started to describe his new movie, which looks at closeted luminaries during Hollywood’s Golden Age. “There’s a story about Cole Porter and multiple carloads of guys, but it’s probably not printable.”
Oh, dear.
Best, then, to start in 2012. In an X-rated, best-selling memoir published that year, a former Marine named Scotty Bowers recounted how, between 1946 and the mid-1980s, he ran a type of prostitution ring for gay and bisexual people in the film industry, including A-listers like Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Bowers also claimed to have personally shared a bed with J. Edgar Hoover and arranged wild sexual liaisons for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
It was hard to believe, to put it mildly. Bowers offered no proof, and everyone he named was conveniently dead. “Supposedly true,” wrote Janet Maslin, a New York Times book critic. Writing about the lurid, no-detail-too-excruciating memoir for The Washington Post, Charles Kaiser asked: “Can we believe all of this? Half?”
Tyrnauer — curious about the answers, as well as the notion of Bowers as a missing link in LGBTQ history — decided to find out. He trailed Bowers for more than two years and found now-elderly men willing to talk on camera about working as gay prostitutes. He turned up supporting evidence (photos, explicit Super 8 footage from 1965) and filmed Liz Smith, the late gossip columnist, confirming the lesbianism of Hepburn, a longtime friend.
His conclusion? “It all adds up,” said Tyrnauer, whose previous films include “Valentino: The Last Emperor” (2008).
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i wish Hollywood and everybody else would keep their ‘gay” lives secret. i don’t wanna know.
Walter Pidgeon? Really. Some things I just don’t want to know!
At this point I assume everyone in Hollywood is gay until proven otherwise.
I’m sure that 1.8% of the population will rush out and buy tickets.
Oh well, H-wood folks have followed up on their sexual short circuits with revealing that their thinking processes (what little there is) are equally shorted.
Heh, lives anyone out there having better than room temp IQ that respects these clowns any more?
(People mag readers, of course, will continue to kiss butts - and whatever else - in worship of their left of the Bell Curve heros.)
I say no! And anyone who tries to convince me otherwise is likely to fail.
I wonder whether some of the stars had so much sex outside of marriage and with so many different partners that they became bored and decided to try something else not because they were gay but just bored.
Once you go down the path of sexual deviancy it is hard to stop.
There were gay people and there were pervs. The pervs would screw any thing in any way. The number of Liberace-type gays was smaller.
But a tell-all book by a gay Hollywood queen is probably hear-say. I know. My brother wrote one.
Doris Day?...................
Are you saying it goes with the territory?
“Bowers also claimed to have personally shared a bed with J. Edgar Hoover...”
This is ABSOLUTE FICTION. Jack Barsky, who recently wrote a book about his life as a Soviet spy living in America, said in an interview that the rumor about Hoover was initiated by Russian agents. They were thrilled (& amazed) that people believed it.
I hope this guy gets bankrupted by lawsuits from family members of those falsely accused in this piece of nonsense.
I met a maid that worked for Steve McQueen and his wife, what was her name? Anyway, she said Steve would visit the maids’ quarters during the night, if you know what I mean.
He wasn’t always an ugly old man...................
Just a few off the top of my head:
Jimmy Stewart. Clint Eastwood. John Wayne. Vincent Price.
Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope. Audie Murphy.
There have been rumors ever since the silent film era about anybody that is anybody in Hollywood.
Even Charlie Chaplin..................
Bob Hope, maybe John Wayne. I don’t hold youthful indescressions against them as long as they kept true faith with one person through out their adult life. No open marriage stuff.
I’m thinking John Wayne. . .but that’s just me.
Liberace was a friend and supporter of President Reagan.
“What else can I say, every one is gay.”
Nirvana ‘No Apologies’
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