I have to assume that Eve’s looking for Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in the actual act, and not the pictures of them around the pool or at the breakfast table.
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Caesar Romero
I agree with all the posters that say the actual sexual orientation of an actor is completely unimportant, they are acting and therefore can play roles that they would not undertake in real life. I don’t agree with the poster that says they can only fully accept actors playing roles that are feasible for them in real life because that would mean to me that one could only enjoy a movie with a murderer as a character if one felt the actor also could commit murder! One thing I do have a problem in suspending disbelief is when an attractive actor is playing a role where we are meant to see them as unattractive, this is a bit of a stretch for me. One of the most glaring was the casting of Janeane Garofalo in the Truth about Cats and Dogs.
Hijack (but then, I started the post): While Antonio Fargas is indeed gay (he’s been interviewed in some alternative press publications) it took him a long time to deal with it. Along the way he married several times and sired five kids (one of whom, Justin Fargas, is a running back for Oakland). (Stranger is the story of Gregory Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, who also married several times, sired several children with several women, then decided he wished he’d been a girly just like his dear ma-ma and had the operation; he died as “Gloria” Hemingway in the drunk tank of a Miami jail where he’d been taken after an arrest for public intoxication and vagrancy, often spending the night in homeless shelters in spite of the fact that he was worth more than $5 million (most of it from his own earnings and investments when he was a surgeon).
On the “who is Rock Hudson” post, I feel your pain; I made a comment recently to a class of college juniors comparing a character in mythology to Liberace and then had to explain myself; they’d never heard of them. Admittedly he died when they were babies, but then again Al Jolson, Rudolph Valentino, Carmen Miranda, Charlie Chaplin and Judy Garland all died either long before I was born or when I was a small child and I’d recognize a reference to any of them.