By Ronald Constantino
‘LAVENDER LIMELIGHT’ – For the nth time, Highspeed goes Hollywood. This time the focus is on gay H’wood, courtesy of, as always, Boze Hadleigh’s “Hollywood Babble On,” under the chapter “Lavender Limelight.”
Why don’t you put that in the headline: “He Only Did Three (movies) With Doris Day.” Set a lot of people straight. –
ROCK HUDSON
If Liberace is straight, then I’m a Dutchman. – PAUL LYNDE
Truman Capote is a Republican housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. – GORE VIDAL
Gore Vidal has never written a novel that’s readable, with the exception of “Myra Breckenridge,” which you can sort of thumb your way through. His novels are unbelievably bad. His essays are quite good…if he doesn’t hate somebody too much. – TRUMAN CAPOTE
Garbo and I starred in “Grand Hotel,” but we had no scenes together. Alas. For her, and her alone, I could have been a lesbian. – JOAN CRAWFORD
Bea’s (Beatrice Lillie) passion (in Hollywood) was directed at Greta Garbo, the first woman she’d even seen who wore slacks in public. – SHEILAH GRAHAM
I wouldn’t mind having had an affair with Marlene Dietrich when she was young. Like. Who wouldn’t? – MADONNA
They called him “Ravishing Ramon,” and he was so popular and handsome that long before he turned 25, the reporters would ask him why he never married. He always told them he had considered becoming a priest. He said he was still thinking about becoming a father. Only thing is, he was fooling around with the wrong gender if he really wanted to become a father! – FERNANDO LAMAS on Ramon Novarro
(Raymond Burr) uses the same trick a lot of Latin American actors, singers, and writers use – he invents wives and offspring for himself so people will believe him heterosexual. – EMLYN (“The Corn Is Green”) WILLIAMS
That dyke! – ELIZABETH TAYLOR in Marilyn Monroe’s presence as reported by Norman Mailer
