[QUOTE=Iggins]
And I knew that of course… darn it!
I thought that Dave came out of the closet at some point a couple of years ago? Did I mis-hear?
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I don’t think so…I’m pretty sure I’d have seen or heard that at some point. He has, as Sampiro noted, played a LOT of gay characters, so it’s possible that’s contributing to the “Dave Foley is gay” meme.
He’s pretty cute made up as a Québécoise prostitute.
(Well, he is.)
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd]
He’s pretty cute made up as a Québécoise prostitute.
(Well, he is.)
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Cuter than Kevin McDonald. That’s faint praise, though…
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Cuter than Kevin McDonald. That’s faint praise, though…
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Yeah, but wasn’t he usually their pimp, anyway? He makes a better pimp than he does a prostitute.
Another vote for Dave is cute. I had a big crush on him when I was a teenager (all the blue-eyed boys I crushed on: Leo DiCaprio on Growing Pains, Joe McIntyre from the New Kids… and Dave Foley… crossdresser. Must have got that from me mother, who’s a big Baldwin fan. Any Baldwin.) - as he got older, he never lost that youthful look. His deadpan is awesome, and his I’m-trying-to-be-deadpan-but-you’re-cracking-me-up-you-son-of-a-bitch is even better. In a day and age where everyone seems to want to be the jokester, he’s still a mighty fine straight man.
Bruce, on the other hand… how can you love a man with such freakishly small hands?! 
Also, he caused cancer! :eek:
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon]
his I’m-trying-to-be-deadpan-but-you’re-cracking-me-up-you-son-of-a-bitch is even better.
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He actually got that look a couple of times on News Radio when dealing with Stephen “Jimmy James” Root (one of the most naturally funny character actors working).
[QUOTE=Iggins]
And I knew that of course… darn it!
I thought that Dave came out of the closet at some point a couple of years ago? Did I mis-hear?
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He’s married, I think. That doesn’t preclude him being gay, of course, but it makes it rather unlikely he’s come out of the closet.
I really never got a gay vibe off him – unless he was playing gay, of course, which he has done in several roles. Lots of his other roles have been kind of asexual – like Sky High, where he was just a goofy guy with no romantic or sexual componant.
But in NewsRadio, where he was closest he’s ever been to a classic leaded man, he was entirely believable as straight. His love scenes with Maura Tierney were very believable and quite sexy. He looks like a good kisser; and a good kisser is usually a good lover, IME. There are a lot of stereotypically handsome Hollywood guys who don’t look to be as good kissers as Dave is. Matthew McConaghey is the usual example I use for this – sure he’s gorgeous, but I’ve never seen him do a love scene that made me sit up and say, “Dang…” And Dave’s love scenes in NewsRadio made me do just that.
I’d bet my last dollar that if I went into a darkened room and had you guys send Dave in to give me a schtupping; then Matthew, I’d find that Dave gave me the better time.
[QUOTE=bufftabby]
“These are the Daves I know, I know, these are the Daves I know. Some of them are David, most of them are Dave…”
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I, also, would like to add my damns to Joey P’s, if only because I’ve now been sitting here whistling that for the last 20 minutes. And I see no signs of it vacating my immediate consciousness anytime soon. Grrrrrr…
[QUOTE=Jess]
He’s married, I think. That doesn’t preclude him being gay, of course, but it makes it rather unlikely he’s come out of the closet.
I really never got a gay vibe off him – unless he was playing gay, of course, which he has done in several roles. Lots of his other roles have been kind of asexual – like Sky High, where he was just a goofy guy with no romantic or sexual componant.
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It’s funny, because these old speculations throw me right back to my high school days, where being gay was forbidden and wrong, and I remember arguing over and over with classmates that not all of the Kids in the Hall were gay, just Scott was, and by gum, what the hell was wrong with that, anyway? (Coming from a not-too-convincingly-closeted bi girl, I don’t know if anyone was listening anyway.)
Dave and the other Kids are most definitely gay-friendly, with Scott being the only confirmed gay man (who fills me with both national and gay pride, despite being a (Canadian) woman married to a man and living in the US currently - either of those subject to change if things go horribly wrong somewhere) - there aren’t too many other men I can think of off the top of my head who are quite so secure in their sexuality in the public eye. They can all play convincing women at the drop of a hat; or gay men, straight men, rednecks, metrosexuals, or common fools. They sell the character no matter what, and don’t cheapen it by trying to look as manly as they can under the makeup; when we need to believe they are women, they really seem like women. I adore the old sketches where Scott plays an elderly lady married to a gruff old man (Bruce), and her neighbour (Dave) “grieves” over her dead husband by enjoying the insurance money. They don’t look glamorous, they look real.
What were we talking about again? Oh, yes, Dave’s not gay, as far as I know. 
But if he was, I would be genuinely surprised.
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon]
Also, he caused cancer! :eek:
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Yeah, but he was really sorry about that.
Dave Foley was in my friend’s movie “Stark Raving Mad” which means that I must love him, even if I already didn’t. I think it’s the rule.
I’ve never found him attractive in the least. He’s not particularly bad looking. It’s just that for some reason, I imagine that he’d smell bad - like rotten eggs and mild BO. And I bet he has cold, clammy hands. I have no idea why I think this.
[QUOTE=Chum]
I’ve never found him attractive in the least. He’s not particularly bad looking. It’s just that for some reason, I imagine that he’d smell bad - like rotten eggs and mild BO. And I bet he has cold, clammy hands. I have no idea why I think this.
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Heh, that reminds me of a scene about Christina Aguilera on Family Guy: http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/fg-aguilera-p1.php (and NO, it’s not Rick Astley, it really is the scene…)
Oh hells yeah. Whenever he’d take Lisa (Maura Tierney) in his arms, he did it with such grace and smoothness to him … like a dancer sweeping his partner across the floor. IIRC on the NewsRadio DVD commentaries, Maura calls him her favorite romantic partner. (Dave returns the favor with many compliments to Maura’s adorableness. I love how the cast seems to adore one another!)
One of my favorite Sexy!Dave moments in NewsRadio was in the episode “No, This Is Not Based Entirely on Julie’s Life,” where Lisa’s been trying to learn Dave’s secret sexual fantasies, and he keeps pissing her off by refusing to answer (or making up silly lies). She gets angrier and angrier and finally, at the end of the day, Beth decides to find out why Dave’s being such a jerk:
BETH: Dave, why don’t you just tell her what turns you on and get it over with?
DAVE: Because that would ruin it.
BETH: Why’s that?
DAVE: To tell you the truth, what really turns me on is when Lisa is mad at me.
BETH: Okay, I wish I didn’t know that. Are you going back to her place now?
LISA: (impatiently yelling at him from outside his office) Dave, are you coming?
DAVE: (answering Beth with an evil grin) Oh yeah.
The wicked choir boy twinkle is in full force there. So … to answer the question if anyone else finds Dave Foley sexy, my answer would have to be: Oh yeah. 
Choie, we ought to email his wife and ask her if he’s as good in bed as we suspect.