I accepted Danny Kaye, I don't have to accept my Cary.
Heh. I just realized the other day that, where I used to be somewhat disappointed to find out that one of my favorite actors was gay, these days I'm disappointed to find out that they're not!
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Kate P. - Aug 31, 2004 11:40:22 am PDT #3436 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Aims - Aug 31, 2004 11:45:48 am PDT #3437 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oh, total lovers.
LALALALALALALALALALALALA!
I had absolutely no issue finding out that occasionally, Judy Garland would take a woman lover. But thinking that the reason my Cary was trying to keep Rosalind Russell from marrying Ralph Bellamy so that HE could have him, upsets my teeny tiny little world.
Maysa - Aug 31, 2004 12:01:49 pm PDT #3438 of 10001
Well, although Cary Grant may have been gay, Walter Burns definitely wasn't. And even if he was - he wouldn't have slept with Ralph Bellamy's character - he thought he was a schmuck.
DavidS - Aug 31, 2004 12:06:54 pm PDT #3439 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
To be fair, Cary was bisexual. He slept with plenty of women, and even bothered to produce a child.
Betsy HP - Aug 31, 2004 1:56:09 pm PDT #3440 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Gable was a comic foil; Grant a comedian.
Anyway, it's an emotional thing. Clooney pings the Grant button for me, not the Gable; it's the amused, elegant detachment from the world.
DavidS - Aug 31, 2004 2:15:49 pm PDT #3441 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aims - Aug 31, 2004 2:20:44 pm PDT #3442 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Amused, elegant
Old, made an inappropriate joke.
P.M. Marc - Aug 31, 2004 2:45:21 pm PDT #3443 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Clooney pings the Gable button for me.
Cary Grant liking boys has been fairly well-known for as long as I can remember, and I've liked Cary Grant since before he was dead.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2004 6:57:18 pm PDT #3444 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I have to weigh in on the Gable front — Clooney has the charm, but I just don't get the sense of sophistication off him that would be necessary for the "next" Cary Grant.
As for the rumors about Grant and roomie Randolph Scott, why, how in the world could anyone mistake them for a couple, or indeed Grant for anything other than a red-blooded heterosexual?
DavidS - Aug 31, 2004 8:30:42 pm PDT #3445 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweet.
And an addendum, if one could call it that, to Cary Grant and Randolph Scott's lifelong friendship, taken from Grant's biography, "Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart," by Roy Moseley and Charles Higham. Mr. Mosely interviewed the maitre d' at the Beverly Hillcrest Hotel. The maitre d' saw both actors in the 1970s, sitting in the back of the restaurant, after the place had emptied. They were holding hands.