By Ronald Constantino
MORE AND MORE – The feedback on Highspeed’s items on gay Hollywood is such that here are more and more.
They’re so handsome, I could be bisexual for them. – BURT REYNOLDS (to Barbara Walters) re Ryan O’Neal and other actors and male models, including the Marlboro Man (played by Tom Selleck)
Dennis Hopper says James Dean was not gay. Maybe he’s right insofar as Jimmy was bisexual. But he definitely was not heterosexual, and he preferred men who could dominate him, which was why he worshipped Marlon Brando – besides Brando’s huge talent. You have to remember, a lot of guys in Hollywood that swung both ways in their youth grow into conservative and scared older men, and they not only deny stuff about themselves but anyone they knew well. – PETER ALLEN
It is not wonderful for everybody to come out of the closet, not everybody is good asset to gays. Franco Zeffirelli is out of the closet, I read, but maybe he should stay back in… – RUDOLF NUREYEV
I’m not saying every Richard Chamberlain or Oscar Romero is gay. There do happen to be some lifelong heterosexual bachelors. But, generally speaking, and particular in Hollywood, where the pressure to wed and to pass is intense, if any actor is over 50, or 80, and he hasn’t married, the chances are that he’s part of the brotherhood. – director COLIN HIGGINS
Judy’s (Garland) comeback doing live performance was possible via her legion of gay fans. They didn’t care that perhaps she’d lost her looks or wasn’t young anymore; they just wanted to see and hear her in person. I was there, the night of April 23, 1961, when she had her historic triumph at Carnegie Hall. It’s a date I will never forget. –
ROCK HUDSON
I never heard rumors about Judy. About (ex-husband) Vincente Minnelli, yes. Often. – ROCK HUDSON
Of course I knew Laurence Olivier and Danny Kaye were having a long-term affair. So did all of London. So did their wives. Why is America always the last to know? – PEGGY ASHCROFT
(Source: “Hollywood Babble On” by Boze Hadleigh)
