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Paul Lynde Biographical Feature in Development
calliaume:
From Deadline:
https://deadline.com/2020/07/billy-eichner-paul-lynde-movie-man-in-the-actor-stigmatized-for-being-gay-eichner-feels-things-havent-changed-for-gay-actors-1202990876/
JakeT:
--- Quote from: calliaume on July 21, 2020, 06:52:15 PM ---From Deadline:
https://deadline.com/2020/07/billy-eichner-paul-lynde-movie-man-in-the-actor-stigmatized-for-being-gay-eichner-feels-things-havent-changed-for-gay-actors-1202990876/
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Absolutely GENIUS casting...and I think Billy is right about the stigma for the most part...
JakeT
Neumms:
--- Quote from: JakeT on July 21, 2020, 07:44:43 PM ---Absolutely GENIUS casting...and I think Billy is right about the stigma for the most part...
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You can't say there's no stigma, but...Paul Lynde played one role. It was hilarious, but he had a couple chances and it wore thin as the lead.
Billy contradicts himself when he laments that Paul had to play straight when he got his own sitcom and also that gay men weren't cast as straight men.
BillCullen1:
I read somewhere a few years back, some interviewer asked Paul why he never married. Paul reportedly looked at him and asked "Do you live in a cave?"
Also read somewhere, someone described Paul Lynde as "Liberace without the piano." Made me LOL.
He had his problems, but his fame earned him enough to buy Errol Flynn's house.
JakeT:
--- Quote from: Neumms on August 02, 2020, 04:22:10 PM ---Billy contradicts himself when he laments that Paul had to play straight when he got his own sitcom and also that gay men weren't cast as straight men.
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OUT gay men are rarely cast in straight roles upon coming out...there are a few exceptions but the stigma does still exist very strongly...
JakeT
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