Dan Ferriegel, the hunky actor om Spartac: War of the Damned, talks about playg one of TV's first gay actn hero, survivg the show's btal boot mp, and preparg for those famo same-sex love scen.
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THE GAY ACTN HERO ON SPARTAC IS BACK
What had been, 1960, a brave attempt by scriptwrer Dalton Tmbo to reflect the nuanc of Roman (and Greek) attus to same-sex love and timacy is now a straightforward pictn of homosexualy. PopnographyGay or StraightMoviReplay Gallery More GalleriCelebsgallery. 5 Tim Madonna Was the Ultimate Gay In.
So many tim, movi have shied away om gay issu, ually bee of a fear that such thgs would upset the mass and hurt the box office. Here are some of the most glarg -gaygs film history. Puttg them a gay-tged epic was supposedly out of the qutn, no matter how accurate any other versn of that club would be.
WERE THE SPARTANS GAY? HOMOSEXUALY SPARTA, ANCIENT GREECE
But when stuff was rtored for a director's cut, got a great rponse at Lln Center this year and a potential gay classic was born.
In the book, she reveals that she once lived wh a "dyke" and that everyone assumed that ma Holly gay too. De-Lovely, the 2004 film wh Kev Kle as Cole, was somewhat gayer, but not necsarily AND MUSIC (1948)Siarly, this Hollywood b about posers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart nveniently left out Hart's homosexualy, choosg a more accsible tune. I gus Mickey Rooney uld play Japane (as the aforementned Breakfast at Tiffany's), but never gay.
It's not exactly surprisg sce Hton didn't always embrace gay issu so eagerly. Let's not fet that the gunslger always nied that Gore Vidal got any homosexual subtext to the script for ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1958)In this heated adaptatn of the famed Tennsee Williams play, Liz Taylor is the brayg sexpot whose impotent hubby Pl Newman is fatally obssed wh an old school chum. Williams was vastated that the movie ved to the Hays Co and snipped out practilly all the gay nuendo.