Note to current closeted movie stars: Be careful when cruising those cute 23-year-olds, because they might grow up to become Daily Mail journalists who use the experience as a point of reference for a posthumous chronicle of your man-on-man exploits. As has happened - inevitably - with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Dame Joan Plowright, Olivier’s beard of 28 years, has been forthright about Sir Larry’s Olivi-gayness, and so have other friends and confidantes, and the article lists among Olivier’s dalliances: Marlon Brando, Danny Kaye, Noel Coward and critic Kenneth Tynan. None of this exactly qualifies as news, but it’s fun to imagine what today’s equivalent would-be (admittedly pro-rated due to the comparative suckitude of modern stars) - a circle jerk on the set of Ocean’s Twelve, with Billy Bush joining in while shooting a remote for Access Hollywood?
Here’s my favorite passage from the story (keep in mind that Brando in the ’50s was really really hot).
In 1950, when the Oliviers returned to Hollywood for Vivien to film her Oscar-winning role as Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Marlon Brando, David Niven walked into the garden of their Hollywood mansion and discovered: ‘Brando and Larry swimming naked in the pool. Larry was kissing Brando. Or maybe it was the other way around.’
Picture Hugh Grant walking in on an aquatic frolic between Jude Law and Jake Gyllenhaal and you’re almost there. No wonder Vivien Leigh was crazy.
I hope I live long enough to experience the fait accompli outings of today’s hottest closet cases. And I think I hope that I still care.
Larry gay? Of course he was [Daily Mail]
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