Perhaps it’s a double beard for Sarah Jessica too.
Florida’s Gov. Crist and Fox’s Shepard Smith were outed in the movie “Outrage”.
You missed the fine print disclaimer in digs’ post. It was a National Lampoon Radio Hour sketch (originally broadcast on October 13, 1974 - you can find anything on the internet).
Well that is a shock to me! I just watched every season of Weeds over the past few days and I think he’s one of the best things about the show. I didn’t realize I’d seen him before, just not so full of machismo. I didn’t even connect him with Dirty Love or Mercy.
For God’s sake just don’t picture the Urkel slash fanfic!
Nitpick: the equivalent term to “beard” for a lesbian is “handbag”. She’s his beard, he’s her handbag.
I’ve also heard ‘bonnet’.
None, ever.
Actually, I hung out with a lot of guys in acting school at a job I used to have. It’s a running joke that any male who is an acting major is gay. I also took a 100 level acting class, and every single guy in the class (except me) wanted to do a gay scene. Of course, it was “just acting.” My friend (who is gay) also says that lots of gays get into acting. I have had female friends who majored in acting saying that you had all these beautiful guys and horny girls. Imho, I believe that for most gay males, they are forced to spend most of their lives “acting” straight, so the stage allows them to maintain their secret identity, yet show their true selves. Acting school is like the girl’s softball team for homosexuals.
So, I’m never, ever, EVER surprised when an actor “comes out.”
I don’t have data to back me up, but I’m guessing that the percentage of gay stage actors is significantly higher than gay film actors. Hollywood because of its climate, the promise of massive money (a B-list sitcom star can earn way more than an A-list Broadway star) and the emphasis on looks over experience draws from a much broader pool and while certainly there are many stellar film actors it’s the stage that seems to attract the more serious variety, and also it’s the stage that gives most gays who enjoy acting their first exposure to the spotlight.
I’ve heard that the largest concentration of gay men in Tokyo is in the dressing rooms of the international and Japanese performers at Tokyo Disneyland.
Not an actor ,but a famous musician–Gary Burton, the vibraphonist and Berklee prof.
Rock Hudson was a big surprise. To think that he would be doing a movie with Ann Margret and only be thinking of going home to blow Gomer Pyle , left me amazed.
Peter Marc Jacobson, who had been with Fran Drescher since they were 15. I wish he’d write a memoir.
The term I’ve heard is “merkin”.
It leaves me amazed anybody would be thinking of going home to blow Gomer Pyle.
Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors- per Nabors anyway- didn’t know each other socially. The whole rumor about their relationship started as a Laugh In joke- “If Rock Hudson married Gomer Pyle he’d be Rock Pyle”- and from there, since Hudson’s homosexuality was an open secret and Nabors if he isn’t gay missed a really good chance it morphed into an urban legend that the two men were involved. (Rock preferred 20-something hunks; no idea what Nabors taste lends itself to- wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s celibate.)
Craig, after he was self outed, pings the radar like crazy when you think back. Now he looks very gay when he speaks.
Christian singer Ray Boltz sure as heck did. While I’d heard her music before, I didn’t know who Christian singer Jennifer Knapp was until she came out a couple months ago.
There is another “Perry Mason” episode…“The Case of the Crying Cherub” which has dialogue something like this
Della Street “There is a young couple to see you. Perry”
Perry Mason “I’m too busy to see them. Send them away.”
Della Street “The girl is very pretty”
Perry Mason “Did you happen to notice what the man looks like? Okay, send them in”.