[Sca-cooks] Re: Hollywood gays (was movie night at the rock)

[Randy Goldberg MD]

> I assumed the theme would have had them revoking your card if you
> didn't watch it the first day you had it. McKellan plays the great
> director James Whale, who tried to live openly as a homosexual in a
> fairly intolerant Hollywood, right around the time Somerset Maugham
> was having the same problem as a writer in England, and ultimately,
> effectively exiled. In Whale's case, it appears to have contributed
> to his death, one way or another.

About the same time as Billy Haines, too, wasn't it? He managed to live
openly, but had to give up acting to do it.

Avraham

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Avraham haRofeh of Northpass
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)