Followg his ath aged 85, we have round up some of Gay Byrne's ft moments on The Late Late Show om over the years.
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GAY BYRNE'S FT MOMENTS ON THE LATE LATE SHOW
Brown - DarkIs Dana Andrews gay or straight? Negative character tras uld be: Shy, Psimistic, Negative thought and Dana Andrews gay or straight? We don't know for a fact whether Dana Andrews was gay, bisexual or straight.
25% of all voters thk that Dana Andrews was gay (homosexual), 50% voted for straight (heterosexual), and 25% like to thk that Dana Andrews was actually bisexual. " Acrdg to David Boxwell at Bright Lights Film Journal, the homophobic Zanuck was ially displeased wh Webb's portrayal of Lycker as an effete and waspish sociale; however, Premger nvced Zanuck that such effemacy sued the character and provid ic ntrast to the tradnally mascule Andrews.
"The voice alone would have rried the performance: the tone of a urtly buzz saw, the razor dictn dg on nsonants as if they were tffled squab, " Richard Barrs has wrten Screened Out: Playg Gay In Hollywood From Edison to Stonewall (Routledge, 2003:202). Dpe Lycker's homosexualy havg been removed om the script early on (though, as Barrs ntu, "the rewrten character's bouts of hetero-jealoy [s] oddly upon Webb's epicene portment"), Clifton Webb's performance of Waldo Lycker has gone down cema history as one of the great gay characters on film; the epome of the "mannered, high-gloss style" that David Thomson potedly intifi his recent book The Moment of Psycho (Perss Books 2009, p. 43) as a " for homosexualy" Amerin films of the '30s, '40s and '50s.