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Confirmed bachelors
Weirdest thing, Lou, they say they’re roommates but it’s a one bedroom home
I guess one sleeps on the couch
Edit: I’m an idiot, I can’t believe I didn’t see this sooner but they probably have bunkbeds.
Well there was at least a top and a bottom
What’s everyone looking at?
This cartoon messed me up grammatically. The Ambiguously gay duo…
I used the word ambiguously like it meant blatantly obvious until someone corrected me.
Ace and Gary
oh you
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
With bunk beds they have so much room for activities!
Fuck Catalina, we can mix our wines right here!!
Call me dragon.
It's a mixing wine and tossing salad kind of night.
Like watching gladiator movies!
Ever been to a Turkish prison?
Forgot to ask you — do you like guacamole?
This is how we do it!
another funny thing, Rock asked us to just call him 'the couch'.
"Gentlemen bachelors" was the phrase most used by the movie studios and Hollywood press. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were famously gentleman bachelor roommates.
There's a great documentary (and memoire) on Hulu that the Netflix series 2020 Hollywood was based on called Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017). The gas station at the beginning of the Hollywood series is the gas station that Scotty Bowers got a job at when he came home from his time as an infantry Marine in the Pacific in WWII.
Listening to Scotty Bowers talk about everything that went on in Hollywood in the '40s and '50s and '60s from his first hand experience, is wildly unexpected if you are unaware of the history.
Edit: to be clear, the documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is streaming on HULU currently. Definitely worth watching.
I saw his documentary and it was fantastic! Highly recommend. I think it’s on Amazon Prime at the moment
Hulu currently
I enjoyed it right up until he started denying his own sexual abuse as a child. That got unsettling after that.
I think that was how he chose to deal with it so to speak. I mean, the time period he grew up in wasn’t exactly open to therapy or even acknowledging stuff like sexual abuse or trauma. Everything was hushed up. Quite sad really how long those attitudes have prevailed when it comes to victims of childhood SA
It’s a great watch! His stories are crazy!
highly entertaining book. and sad at the same time.
Same with the documentary. Watching how Scotty was living and all the clutter at the end was kinda sad.
Hollywood was a fantastic miniseries and the first time I ever watched anything with the new Superman in it. The moment he was cast I knew it will have the possibility of being great.
Thanks for the info on the documentary. I just watched it & found it very interesting.
Ha, that was the euphemism they used then. I remember they used to say that LIberace "just hasn't found the right woman yet."
He wasn't looking. If he were, women would kick down his door to get at his wardrobe.
Believe it or not, but women would have kicked down his door to get at *him*. Back in the day, they thought he would be the perfect husband - he was charming, charismatic, and he took good care of his mother.
"Charming, charismatic, and he took good care of his mother" If that didn't give it away, the wardrobe should've.
My Dad loved seeing Liberace in Las Vegas. I think it would have killed him to find out Liberace was gay. {My Dad died well before it was confirmed Liberace was gay.)
Glad the man was able to enjoy the glory of Liberace!
He used those exact words himself on BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1960.
Wow, I had no idea they’d been doing it so long. For anyone else, just looked it up and the BBC started doing desert island discs in 1942, only back then, they were asking people to choose 8 gramophone records!
Confirmed roommates.
Just two dudes being bros.
"roommates."
My mother's brother left small town southeast and lived in San Francisco with a "roommate". He also happened to be a florist (stereotypical, I know, but true). I remember asking Mom one time why he never got married. "Oh he had his heart broken by a girl many years ago and he's never gotten over it." This was all back 50 plus years ago when I was just a little kid and accepted the nonsense I was fed.
My uncle eventually returned home to take care of his mother, my grandmother, and opened a small florist shop in a small town. Of course everybody knew he was gay, but nobody ever said anything about it because you just didn't do that sort of thing. And of course he really couldn't live openly gay because again, he couldn't. My uncle died 30 years ago and I just have to assume he lived his whole life closeted except for his time in San Francisco.
And remember kids, never vote for anybody who will hurt someone you love.
They just haven’t found the right gals yet.
Man those fellas musta gotten so much tail…
Just dudes being bros.
Rock Hudson was the first major public figure to die from AIDS. He attempted to appeal to his friend, President Ronald Reagan about the oncoming mass death. And, well, we know what Ronnie did.
Consulted his astrologist?
Fell asleep from jellybean coma and dementia
Naw, he had a fake wife. Conveniently, she was his agent’s secretary.
They forgot to put quotation marks around "roommates".
“I’m not gay but my boyfriend is”
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US Mickey really took no prisoners
Noel Fisher just has insane charisma, I suspect they took the character in a more. . . likable direction because he just kept delivering gold. He's one of those actors who always seems to be having a great time with whatever he's doing, and it's infectious. I'm still not over "The Riches" being lost to the writer's strike, and it's been nearly two decades.
(I don't do stanning, so I don't know what he's like IRL. But as a rule of thumb, if he's attached to a project, I'll automatically give it a shot)
Mickey is my fave too!
The Riches was cast flawlessly. Eddie Izzard was such a believable scumbag conman, it’s an absolute travesty we didn’t get more of Doug Rich.
His line “i’m a big ole ‘mo” when coming out is forever on my top tier list
😂
Just a couple dudes hanging out shirtless. Nothing to see here
They look really... happy.
"Chist due se sucan u cazz l'un' cu l'atr'" - Furio Giunta
1000 more? 👈➰👉
Was very thrown to see straight Napoletano in a mainstream reddit sub but I’m here for it
I wonder if his roommate knew?
Living that 50's bachelor life, shirtless, cruisin' for the ladies. Without a roommate, one could be very lonely.
I always think about how hard it must have been for gay people to meet back than. It’s hard enough nowadays to truly match with someone. I can’t imagine back then.
There’s a really interesting documentary on tubi called PS Burn This Letter Please about the drag scene in NYC in the 50s shown through correspondence between friends.
They have some of the gentleman that actually wrote those letters and talking about their lives and how it was back then.
It was harder to meet people but there were definitely places where the gay community could come together and live more authentically.
“Roommate”
Oh my god they were roommates!
Bachelors for life. Never married
Really good roommates
so good they shared the same room
The place was so small they could only fit one bed, and they had to put the mirror on the ceiling!
seems like he could have afforded better. maybe he spent all his money on tasteful decorations
5 ways from Sunday, roommates
6 ways if you count that time in the shower
Just good friends.
Do you think they opened a Tab?
Rumour around Hollywood is they were incorrigible tab hunters.
That's Confidential.
They were SO into each other......
Well, they did a lot of mating in rooms.