Gay Hollywood the stud days. ⋆ Historian Alan Royle

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Also: Parker Posey on whether the origal Dr. Smh was gay!

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HE SLEPT WH CARY GRANT AND SPENCER TRACY—AND CHANGED HOLLYWOOD HISTORY‘PIMP TO THE STARS’STTY BOWERS RAN A BROTHEL OUT OF A GAS STATN AND SLEPT WH DOZENS OF HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT STARS. INSI HIS ‘SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD’ AND WHY WE SHOULD BELIEVE HIS STORI.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED OCT. 28, 2018 8:13AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 25, 2018 5:10AM EDT ABOUT 45 MUT TO THE NEW DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE MONOLOGUE YOU’LL EVER HEAR IS LIVERED. AND ’S ALL TE. ALLEGEDLY.“I FUCKED BETTE DAVIS WORLD WAR II WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED TO A GUY. I ED TO FIX HER UP WH TRICKS, AND WE ED TO HAVE THREE-WAY ALS. I WENT TO BED WH J. EDGAR HOOVER. HE WAS DRAG. HE WAS NOT A GREAT BETY EHER, YOU KNOW, BUT I WAS TREATG HIM JT LIKE HE WAS A GIRL.” STTY BOWERS, NOW 95 AND MORE THAN 60 YEARS PAST HIS PRIME AS THE SO-LLED “PIMP TO THE STARS,” GRS MISCHIEVOLY AS HE LOOSENS THE TAP, NTUG HIS LUGE OF SECRETS.“ONE DAY CARY GRANT WAS THE GAS STATN AND ROCK HUDSON JT HAPPENED TO BE THERE, SO CARY GRANT PICKED HIM UP. I FIXED HIM UP WH ROCK FOR 20 BUCKS, AND ROCK SAW HIM SEVERAL TIM. THIS IS BEFORE ROCK HAD ANY MOVIE. LRENCE OLIVIER AND VIVIEN LEIGH, I NEVER TRICKED THEM TOGETHER. I WOULD FIX THEM UP WH GUYS, AND THEN I WOULD SEE HER AT GARY COOPER’S HOE. SHE WOULD E AND QUIETLY OPEN THE GATE AND BE LIKE, ‘SHH.’ TEN MUT LATER I’M FUCKG HER AND SHE’S SCREAMG.” AFTER SPENDG TWO YEARS FOLLOWG BOWERS FOR THE CEMA VERé-STYLE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE GREGAR FORMER SEX WORKER, FILMMAKER MATT TYRNER LGHS, SUMMARIZG THE UNIQUE AND ACTUALLY PROFOUND APPEAL OF THE SUBJECT OF HIS MOVIE. “THIS IS SOMEONE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE JT NOT BEEN H WH THE SHAME STICK AND NOT BURNED WH FEELGS OF GUILT,” TYRNER SAYS, SPEAKG OVER FFEE AT MANHATTAN’S NOMAD HOTEL THE WEEK BEFORE THE FILM’S RELEASE. “HE DIDN’T HAVE THAT STILLED. HE SEEMED TO LIVE AN EXEMPLARY LIFE TERMS OF BEG EE OF SHAME AND GUILT. THAT ULD BE A LSON FOR ALL OF .”PERHAPS UNEXPECTEDLY, LSONS ABOUND STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. TYRNER BEGAN FILMG BOWERS FOLLOWG THE RELEASE OF HIS MEMOIR, FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTUR HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS, A JUICY TELL-ALL REUNTG HIS TIME OPERATG A BROTHEL, OF SORTS, OUT OF A GAS STATN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD STARTG THE LATE 1940S AND FALLY RETIRG S LATER, DURG THE AIDS CRISIS. AS BOWERS TELLS , HE SLEPT WH SPENCER TRACY, VIVIEN LEIGH, CARY GRANT, AND THE DE OF WDSOR—THE ABDITED KG EDWARD VIII. THE LIST OF STARS HE ALLEGEDLY SET UP WH PROSTUT READS LIKE A STROLL DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: TENNSEE WILLIAMS, CHARL LGHTON, VCENT PRICE, KATHARE HEPBURN, GLORIA SWANSON, NOëL COWARD, ROCK HUDSON, COLE PORTER, AND MORE.WHEN BOWERS RELEASED HIS BOOK, SENTIALLY OUTG GRANT, TRACY, AND HEPBURN, AMONG OTHERS, AS GAY OR BISEXUAL, CRICS RANGG OM SUAL REARS TO BARBARA WALTERS BLASTED HIM FOR SPREADG SALAC STORI ABOUT LONG-AD SUBJECTS WHO ULDN’T FEND THEMSELV OR QUTN THEIR VERACY. THAT WAS OUT OF RPECT, BOWERS CLAIMS. THEY WEREN’T HIS SECRETS TO TELL WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE, BUT NOW THAT THEY’RE GONE, HE THKS THEY N’T HURT THEM. BUT NOW THAT TYRNER IS GIVG BOWERS ANOTHER PLATFORM, SIAR CRICISMS ARE BEG AIRED AGA. IN A NEW YORK TIM PIECE ABOUT TYRNER AND THE FILM, NOTED FILM SCHOLAR JEANE BASGER—WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE CHAIR OF TYRNER’S FILM SCHOOL AND CLASHED WH HIM THERE—VERBALLY SFFS ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY’S PURSU. “THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE EXPRSN, ‘PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE,’” SHE SAYS. “PERSONALLY, I’M MORE TERTED THE WORK OF THE PEOPLE THAN THEIR POSSIBLE OFF-SCREEN SHENANIGANS.” AS SEVERAL ENTERTAMENT JOURNALISTS, CLUDG BUZZFEED’S KATE AURTHUR AND VANY FAIR’S REBEC KEEGAN, WERE QUICK TO POT OUT ON TWTER, THAT OPN IS HORSH. TYRNER SPECTS BASGER DIDN’T SEE THE FILM, PECIALLY SCE SHE SEEMS TO IGNORE S ENTIRE POT. THE REASON BOWERS HAS STORI TO TELL IS BEE THE ACTORS WERE PTIV OF A HOLLYWOOD STUD SYSTEM THAT WEAPONIZED MORAL CLS, NTRACTUALLY PREVENTG THEM OM LIVG THEIR THENTIC LIV. “THEY WERE VICTIMS OF A CERTA KD OF PERSECUTN,” TYRNER SAYS. THEY WENT TO STTY BEE PAYG SEX WORKERS WAS THEIR ONLY OPTN, PECIALLY FOR PEOPLE LIKE CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN, WHOSE SAME-SEX PAS WERE AT ODDS WH THE HETERONORMATIVE IMAG OF THEM MANUFACTURED BY STUDS. TO CLAIM TO BE TERTED THAT ERA OF HOLLYWOOD BUT NOT THE WAYS THAT THE ACTORS NAVIGATED THEIR SEXUALY IS SANE. IT’S NOT GOSSIP. IT’S BGRAPHY. IT’S ANTHROPOLOGY. IT’S OUR HISTORY. “FOR SOME REASON OUR CULTURE IS WILLG TO DISMISS THE FULL BGRAPHI OF ALL OF THE CHARACTERS AS BEG SHENANIGANS,” TYRNER SAYS. “TAKE CARAVAGG, FOR STANCE. IF YOU’RE AN ART SCHOLAR, DO YOU JT WANT TO KNOW WHAT CARAVAGG WAS UP TO THE PATG STUD? DON’T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CARAVAGG WAS UP TO WHEN HE WASN’T HOLDG A PATBSH? IS THAT NOT RELEVANT TO WHO CARAVAGG WAS? SO WHY DO WE DISMISS TAILS ABOUT WHAT KATHARE HEPBURN AND SPENCER TRACY WERE UP TO OFF-SCREEN?”STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD ISN’T A TELL-ALL. TYRNER LLS AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIM OUR UNTRY’S HISTORY, THE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE IMAGE MACHE, WHICH CHANGED THE WAY WE ALL PERCEIVE OURSELV AND THE WORLD. LOOKG AT THE HOLLYWOOD SYSTEM AND THE IMAGE FACTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF A SEX WORKER TO THE STARS ULDN’T BE MORE RELEVANT. “IF STTY HAD BEEN OPERATG A BROTHEL OUT OF A GAS STATN D MO, IOWA, WOULD BE A FUN, TERTG, MAYBE RELEVANT STORY, BUT WOULDN’T HAVE THE OPERATIC LOTN AND NARRATIVE THAT THIS MOVIE HAS,” TYRNER SAYS.CRICIZG BOWERS’ STORI AS TRIVIAL PARED TO THE ACTORS’ ON-SCREEN WORK IGNOR THE FACT THAT THEIR PRIVATE LIV WERE OFTEN SCRIPTED BY STUDS AND THEY WERE FORCED TO PERFORM THOSE NARRATIV ORR TO NTUE THAT ON-SCREEN WORK. MORE, FOSTERS A LN THAT MORAL CLS DON’T STILL EXIST, IF NOT LERALLY NTRACTS, THEN HERENTLY AN DTRY THAT FORC KNOWN GAY ACTORS TO PERFORM HETEROSEXUALY ORR TO FURTHER THEIR REERS.THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DISMISS STORI ABOUT HOLLYWOOD AND SEX AS IRRELEVANT ARE THE ON WHO EPT OUTRAGE AT THE SUATN THAT THE ACTORS HAD SAME-SEX SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS AND THAT THE STORI ARE BEG TOLD WHEN THEY’RE NOT ALIVE TO SPEAK TO THEM. IT ILLTRAT THE RELUCTANCE TO ADM HOW EPLY AND SERLY WE ARE ALL AFFECTED AND FLUENCED BY HOLLYWOOD AND S PLAYERS. “THE BOOK WAS DISMISSED AS A TELL-ALL, HOWEVER WAS A BT-SELLER,” TYRNER SAYS. “SO THERE’S THE NTRADICTN.” NOW TO BRIEFLY DISMOUNT OM OUR HIGH HORSE, HERE’S ANOTHER REASON THE BOOK WAS A BT-SELLER. THE STORI ARE WILD. AND SO IS THIS MOVIE. BOWERS WAS JT OUT OF THE MAR WHEN HE MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD AND GOT A JOB WORKG AT THE RICHFIELD GAS STATN AT 5777 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD. ONE AFTERNOON, THE OSR-NOMATED ACTOR WALTER PIDGEON DROVE UP. “WHAT’S A NICE GUY LIKE YOU DOG WORKG AT A GAS STATN?” HE ASKED BOWERS, VG HIM TO E HOME WH HIM TO SWIM HIS POOL. THEY DID MUCH MORE THAN THAT, AND, SEEG AN OPPORTUNY, HE BEGAN “TRICKG,” AS HE LLS , EVENTUALLY HIRG OTHER FORMER MAR AS SEX WORKERS. “EVERYTHG WAS 20 BUCKS,” BOWERS SAYS. “I WOULD SAY TO MY IENDS, ‘I’M GONNA FIX YOU UP WH A TRICK AND ALL THE GUY’S GONNA DO IS TAKE AND SUCK YOUR CK. IT’S THE SAME AS IF YOUR GIRL WAS SUCKG YOUR CK. IF YOU WANT TO CLOSE YOUR EY AND THK ’S HER SUCKG YOUR CK, DO.’ ‘OK, I’LL DO ONCE. WELL, ONCE, TWICE…’”HE TRICKED WH CARY GRANT AND RANDOLPH STT, WHO WERE LOVERS, BOWERS SAYS, BUT TOLD PEOPLE THEY WERE JT LIVG AS ROOMMAT. BOWERS SAYS HE’S BEEN WH THEM BOTH DIVIDUALLY, TOGETHER AS A THREOME, AND WH A FOURTH FOR PAIRED GROUP SEX. HE SAYS HE HAD A THREE-WAY AT FRANK SATRA’S HOE WH AVA GARDNER AND LANA TURNER. HE WOULD ARRANGE MEN FOR THE FORMER KG EDWARD VIII TO SLEEP WH—“HE SUCKED ME OFF LIKE A PRO”—AND WOMEN FOR THE MISTRS HE ABDITED THE THRONE FOR, WALLIS SIMPSON, TO SLEEP WH. HE TIMAT THAT HE FIXED KATHARE HEPBURN UP WH MORE THAN 150 WOMEN OVER THE URSE OF 39 YEARS. COLE PORTER ONCE REQUTED THAT BOWERS SET HIM UP WH 15 MEN AT ONCE. “I WANT TO SUCK 15 GUYS OFF, ONE AFTER ANOTHER,” HE SAID.“WHY SHOULDN’T COLE PORTER HAVE A VORAC SEXUAL APPETE?” TYRNER SAYS, WHEN I ASK IF HE THKS PEOPLE WOULD HAVE AN EASIER TIME BELIEVG BOWERS’ STORI IF THEY WEREN’T SO OUTRAGEO. “I DON’T KNOW IF HE DID OR NOT, BUT WHY WOULD I FD THAT UNBELIEVABLE?” HE LGHS. “THERE’S A WONRFUL COLE PORTER SONG, ‘TOO DARN HOT’ WHERE ONE OF THE LYRICS IS ‘A MARE FOR HIS QUEEN’ AND ‘A G.I. FOR HIS CUTIE PIE.’ I’M THKG MAYBE STTY IS HIS MARE.”THROUGH ALL OF THIS, BOWERS WAS NEVER TREATED LIKE A MADAME. TO PEOPLE LIKE GEE COR, THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF THE PHILALPHIA STORY AND MY FAIR LADY, HE WAS NSIRED A IEND. THAT END UP BEG HIS KEY TO EARNG THE TST OF THE BIGGT NAM SHOW BS, WH THE MOST TO LOSE IF THE SECRETS WERE EVER OUTED.“ARE THE STORI SUBSTANTIABLE? MY ANSWER IS Y, VERY MUCH SO,” TYRNER SAYS. SHOULD NOW TAKE AS FACT THAT THE LIK OF CARY GRANT, SPENCER TRACY, AND KATHARE HEPBURN HAD SAME-SEX SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS? HE DON’T FLCH: “Y.”CONSIRG THAT TYRNER PURPORTS TO BE RRECTG HISTORY WH THIS FILM AND THE FACTS OF THAT RRECTN ARE LARGELY OM THE MOUTH OF ONE PERSON, BOWERS’ RELIABILY AS A NARRATOR WAS OBVLY IMPORTANT TO HIM. GORE VIDAL END UP BEG AN IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR TYRNER, WHO UNTS THE FAMED WRER AS A PERSONAL IEND. VIDAL WAS A CLIENT AND THEN IEND OF BOWERS, BUT HIS “VERY ACTIVE RNAL LIFE,” AS TYRNER LLS , WASN’T CLUD BOWERS’S BOOK. THE REASON: VIDAL WAS STILL ALIVE. (ONE OF VIDAL’S LAST PUBLIC OUTGS WAS TO THE BOOK’S RELEASE PARTY.) INPENNTLY, VIDAL AND BOWERS NFID TYRNER STORI ABOUT EACH OTHER AND ABOUT THAT TIME AT THE GAS STATN, AND THE STORI ALL CHECKED OUT. SEVERAL OF THE SEX WORKERS BOWERS EMPLOYED ARE ALSO STILL ALIVE, AND TYRNER TERVIEWED THEM FOR THE DOCUMENTARY. THEY ALL VERIFIED BOWERS’S ACUNTS, SOME ON MERA. ONE EVEN STILL HAD AN X RD BOWERS HAD MA WH THE NTACT RMATN OF A DOZEN MEN WHO WERE TERTED SEXUAL SERVIC. “A SMOKG GUN,” TYRNER LLS . ONE OF THE MEN ON THE RD WAS STILL ALIVE, AND NFIRMED BOWERS’ STORI TO TYRNER, TOO. ALL OF THIS WAS ADDN TO THE WORK A TEAM OF REARCHERS DID TO FACT-CHECK MANY OF BOWERS’ ANECDOT.STTY BOWERS DIDN’T KISS AND TELL WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE ALIVE. BUT HE KISSED, SUCKED, FUCKED, AND IS TELLG NOW THAT THE PEOPLE ARE AD. THE STCT TO DISBELIEVE HIM IS UNFORTUNATE, GIVEN HOW THE SEX LIV GIVE A MUCH GREATER SIGHT TO THE REALY OF AN DTRY THAT SHAPED OUR CULTURE. AT A TIME WHEN THERE STILL IS NOT AN OUT GAY OR LBIAN MOVIE STAR STARRG AS THE LEAD BLOCKBTERS, AND PEOPLE STILL BATE WHETHER AN OUT GAY OR LBIAN ACTOR ULD BE BELIEVABLE AS A ROMANTIC LEAD, THE FACT THAT SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN, TWO INIC ROMANTIC LEADS, HAD SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS IS ILLUMATG. IT’S PNT TO SEE STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD TO REGNIZE THAT. THE FACT THAT ’S SO DISHY AND SEX-FILLED—TYRNER CLUS VTAGE NU PHOTOS AND SEX FILMS THAT BOWERS STARS —IS ICG ON THE KE.“FOR STTY BOWERS, SEX IS A FACT OF LIFE. IT’S NOT AVOID. SO TO MAKE A MOVIE THAT AVOID SEX AND EXPLIC NUDY JT WOULDN’T HAVE MA SENSE,” HE SAYS. “PL, WHO DON’T WANT SEX ON SCREEN? WE ALL WANT A LTLE SEX. IT KEEPS YOU TERTED. STTY WAS REALLY HOT AS A YOUNG MAN. HE WAS JT UNNIABLY HOT. WHY NOT SHOW SOME SK?” KEV FALLON

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THE APPARENTLY TE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SECURED GAY LOVERS FOR OLD HOLLYWOOD

In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars * cole porter gay lovers *

I heard this sad example of old school gay talk Boys The Band.

GAY HOLLYWOOD THE STUD DAYS. DECEMBER 16, 2015 ADM UNTEGORIZED 2  I READ RECENTLY THAT ‘GAY-GOSSIP IS THE NEWT AND MOST CLEVER FORM OF HOMOPHOBIA’. NICE TRY, BUT I’M NOT BUYG .  I AM NEHER HOMOSEXUAL NOR HOMOPHOBIC, BUT I AM TERTED SUBTERFUGE AND EXPOSG OLD-TIME MOVIE STUDS THAT MA AN ART FORM OUT OF GULLG THE PUBLIC. FOR FIFTY OR SO YEARS THEIR PUBLICY MACH CHURNED OUT PHONY, SANIZED IMAG OF THEIR STARS AND THEIR LIFTYL, AND THE PUBLIC SWALLOWED EVERY WORD OF THEM. TODAY, WE KNOW BETTER. HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOANDS, OF BGRAPHI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST FORTY OR SO YEARS, THAT DISPUTE THE FANTASY CREATED BY STUD MOGULS WHOSE ONLY AIM WAS TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND STILL MORE MONEY. THE DAYS WE N READ ACUNTS OF LIFE AMONG THE STARS BY FORMER EMPLOYE OF THE STUDS, EVEN THEIR CHILDREN, ACUNTS THAT ARE EE OF THE THREAT OF DISMISSAL OR LIGATN NOW THAT THE ALL-POWERFUL STUD BOSS ARE GONE. NOT ALL OF THE ACUNTS N BE TSTED, OF URSE, BUT THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO ENABLE TO SEEK (AND FD) VERIFITN WHERE NEED. SO, FOR THE RERD, I HAVE NO TERT WHAT NSENTG ADULTS DO BEHD CLOSED DOORS. IT IS THEIR BS AND NO-ONE ELSE’S. BUT I DO HAVE AN TERT HISTORY, GENUE HISTORY THAT IS, NOT SOME ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’ EXERCISE DREAMT UP BY SOME CIGAR-CHOMPG STUD EXECUTIVE WH TOO MUCH POWER AND TOO FEW MORALS.HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE AGAST THE LAW BACK THE DAYS WHEN THE STUDS RAN HOLLYWOOD (APPROXIMATELY 1905 – 1958). THE MOVIE LONY WAS LERALLY RIDDLED WH PEOPLE WHOSE SEXUAL PERSUASN WAS ANYTHG OTHER THAN HETEROSEXUAL. THE STUD BOSS KNEW WHO WAS WHAT, OF URSE, AND THEY KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON THE TABLOIDS, MAGAZ AND TRA PAPERS TO MAKE SURE THE SEXUALY OF THEIR MEAL-TICKETS REMAED, AT LEAST PUBLICLY, HETEROSEXUAL AND NOTHG BUT HETEROSEXUAL. WHAT STARTED OUT AS A SAFEGUARD QUICKLY EVOLVED TO A FULL-TIME POLICY SIGNED TO HOODWK THE PAYG PUBLIC TO BELIEVG WHATEVER THE STUDS WANTED THEM TO BELIEVE.STRANGE AS MIGHT SEEM, MOST FANS TEND NOT TO BELIEVE STORI THAT THEIR IDOLS ARE GAY. PROBABLY BEE THEY SIMPLY DON’T WANT TO. ANY REPORT OF SLEAZY HETEROSEXUAL SHENANIGANS IS UALLY ACCEPTED WHOUT QUTN, BUT MENTN OF A STAR BEG GAY OR BISEXUAL IS GENERALLY MET WH ACCATNS OF ‘MUCK-RAKG’ AND/OR PEDDLG SENSATNALISM. WHY IS THAT? NAYSAYERS THROW UP THE UAL ARGUMENTS – ‘BUT HE’S MARRIED’ OR ‘THEY HAVE KIDS’. BUT THE FACT IS THAT HOLLYWOOD IS (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN) CHOCK FULL OF MALE AND FEMALE STARS PLAYG THE HETEROSEXUAL GAME FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH. AND, OF URSE, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STUDS’ TERTS TO HAVE ALL THEIR MATEE IDOLS AS ‘STRAIGHT’ AS ARROWS, HENCE LAVENR MARRIAG EVERYWHERE, ‘BEARDS’ WORKG FULL TIME, AND ‘VER-UPS’ ORCHTRATED BY THE STUD ‘FIXERS’. THE FACT THAT THE ‘BIGGI’ HAVE ALWAYS ED ‘FIXERS’ IS ILLUMATG SELF.LAVENR MARRIAG WERE ARRANGED BY STUDS TO FLECT TABLOIDS OM LVG TO THE SEXUAL PERSUASN OF STARS THEY SPECTED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL. TY AND SWEET JA GAYNOR LIVED HER LIFE LAVENR MARRIAG, THE SEND OF WHICH WAS FOR TWENTY YEARS TO GAY SIGNER ADRIAN, AND PRODUCED A CHILD. LILYAN TASHMAN WAS A LAVENR ARRANGEMENT WH GAY ACTOR EDMUND LOWE WHILE DULGG A FOUR-YEAR AFFAIR WH GARBO. CLTTE COLBERT WAS ANOTHER OF HER LBIAN LOVERS. OTHER STARS, SUCH AS JEAN ARTHUR, HAD THEIR LBIAN LIAISONS OUT ON THE AST, FAR OM HOLLYWOOD AND THE GOSSIP LUMNISTS.JA GAYNOR AND ADRIAN – A LAVENR MARRIAGEJEAN ARTHURCARY GRANT WOULD MARRY FIVE TIM ATTEMPTS TO MASK HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND HIS LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR WH RANDOLPH STT (SEE PICTURE AT TOP). GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WOULD HOLD THE BIGGT GAY AND LBIAN PARTI HIS HOME, HIS HOMOSEXUALY AN OPEN SECRET THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE MUNY. MEN OFTEN WORE PURPLE NECKTI AS A KD OF FOR ATTRACTG OTHER GAY MEN AT CLUBS AND PARTI. LBIAN FANS OFTEN WROTE THEIR LETTERS ON LAVENR OR MVE PAPER. I LOVE THE STORY TOLD ABOUT COR WHEN HE WAS NONTED ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY BY THE HEAD OF MGM, LOUIS B MAYER, A DYED THE WOOL HOMOPHOBIC IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. ‘ER…GEE, ARE YOU REALLY A…HOM…HOMOSEXUAL? MAYER ASKED. COR LOOKED HIM STRAIGHT THE EYE AND GAVE HIM A ONE-WORD ANSWER. ‘DEDITED!’ MAYER NEVER BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP WH HIM AGA.DIRECTOR GEE CORAND THERE WERE MANY GAY TABLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY THE THIRTI AND FORTI. THE VERY FIRST WAS JIMMY’S BACK YARD, WHICH OPENED 1929. PROHIBN WAS FULL SWG THEN, BUT BOOTLEGGERS AND E ALERS KEPT PATRONS WELL SUPPLIED NEVERTHELS. A SPEAKEASY NAMED BBB’S CELLAR WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR WHEN OPENED DOWN THE ROAD OM JIMMY’S, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE NO SIGNS DITG WAS A RENZVO FOR GAY PATRONS. TRADNALLY, PATRONS WERE GIVEN A HAMMER AS THEY ARRIVED, WHICH THEY WOULD BANG ON THE TABLE WHENEVER SOMEONE ENTERED THE PREMIS. REGULARS CLUD TALLULAH BANKHEAD, JOAN CRAWFORD, CONSTANCE BENT, NORMA TALMADGE, LILYAN TASHMAN, RAMON NOVARRO, CARY GRANT AND HOWARD HUGH, JT TO NAME A FEW. IT WAS MARLENE DIETRICH’S FAVOURE CLUB.TALLULAH BANKHEADCONSTANCE BENTLILYAN TASHMANTHE POLICE TEND TO CRACK DOWN ON WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS THE ‘PANSY CLUBS’, THE ON THAT OFFERED FLOORSHOWS WHICH ‘WOMEN MASQUERAD AS MEN, AND MEN AS WOMEN’. THE HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD REGULARLY POUNCED ON THE TABLISHMENTS. FEMALE IMPERSONATORS AT JIMMY’S BACK YARD WERE DRAGGED OFF TO JAIL AFTER ONE RAID AND GIVEN 6 MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT! ONE NIGHT, SO THE STORY GO, THE BISEXUAL ACTRS LILI DAMA HAD SEX WH A WAER FULL VIEW OF TWENTY OR SO SPECTATORS. LTLE WONR HER FORMER LOVER HUMPHREY BOGART NICKNAMED HER ‘TIGER LIL’. HER LOVERS, MALE AND FEMALE, NUMBERED THE HUNDREDS. FANS HAD NO IA SHE SWUNG BOTH WAYS. HER HBAND ERROL FLYNN KNEW, OF URSE, NOT THAT OVERLY BOTHERED HIM. LILI DAMA AND HER HBAND ERROL FLYNNCAFé GALA WAS OPENED 1939 ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. IT NEVER ADVERTISED SELF AS A GAY BAR, NOR WAS EXCLIVELY GAY, BUT WAS SENTIALLY SO, NOHELS. THE BAR AREA TERED TO GAY MEN, BUT THERE WERE STRICT L, PECIALLY REGARDG NTACT BETWEEN PATRONS. NOTHG BEYOND A HANDSHAKE WAS TOLERATED ON THE PREMIS. OPENED BY THE BARONS CATHERE D’ERLANGER, FEATURED GAY SGER JOHNNY WALSH, AND WAS THE FAVOURE GAY BAR OF JUDY GARLAND. COLE PORTER ULD BE OBSERVED THERE, AS WELL AS GRETA GARBO ON THE RARE OCSNS SHE VENTURED OUT WH HER NUTRNIST RT GAYLORD HSER. IT WAS ONE PLACE WHERE GAY AND LBIAN STARS AND OTHER NOTABL ULD DROP WHOUT NNG THE RISK OF BEG RAID. IT CLOSED 1948.THE GREAT COLE PORTERTHE ALMOST AS GREAT JUDY GARLANDTHE FLAMGO WAS AN UPSLE LBIAN NIGHTCLUB, VERY POPULAR THE 1940S, THAT WAS N BY A WOMAN NAMED BEVERLY SHAW, WHO WOULD GREET PATRONS WEARG A MAN’S JACKET AND BOW TIE ON HER TOP HALF, A SHORT SKIRT AND HIGH HEELS BELOW THE WAIST. THE CANYON CLUB WAS A GAY AND LBIAN SPOT THROUGHOUT THE 40S AND 50S, SUATED THE TOPANGA CANYON AREA. IT HAD AN EARLY WARNG SYSTEM WHICH LIGHTS WOULD FLASH WHEN THE VICE SQUAD WAS SPIED APPROACHG. THIS WAS THE SIGNAL FOR PATRONS TO SWCH DANCE PARTNERS TO SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSE SEX.BEVERLY SHAW OF THE FLAMGOSMTY’S, THE GAY INN AND THE GAYWAY CAFé WERE THREE GAY VENU WELL KNOWN TO THE ARY. WHEREVER THEY SPECTED GAY CROWDS TO NGREGATE, THE ARMY WOULD POST SIGNS AT THOSE PLAC, ‘OUT OF BOUNDS TO ARY PERSONNEL’. NOT ALL GAY MEETG PLAC WERE CLUBS, OF URSE. PERSHG SQUARE WAS A PARK DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. A TRAVEL SE LLED ‘DISVER LOS ANGEL’ NAMED PERSHG SQUARE AS ONE OF ‘TEN GAY LANDMARKS’ WORTH VISG. DURG WW2 THE ARMY WOULD PUT UP RMATN AREAS THE SQUARE FOR SOLDIERS, EVEN THOUGH WAS A POPULAR NGREGATG AREA FOR GAYS. AND THE NOTOR BILTMORE HOTEL WAS JT ACROSS THE STREET.PERSHG SQUARE, L.A. CIR 1945THE BILTMORE HOTEL BALLROOM CIR 1930THE BILTMORE OPENED S DOORS 1923. ITS BAR WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLAC LOS ANGEL WHERE GAYS ULD MEET OPENLY. THE HOTEL HAS WELED PRINTS, DIGNARI AND CLOSETED MALE CELEBRI FOR S. EIGHT OSRS BANQUETS HAVE BEEN HELD THERE, AND MOVI AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS FILMED THERE. DURG THE WAR UNIFORMED SOLDIERS WOULD BE PACKED THREE EP AT THE BAR SEARCH OF GAY LOVE. THE BILTMORE IS ALSO HISTORILLY KNOWN TO BE THE LAST PLACE THE FAMO BLACK DAHLIA WAS SEEN PRR TO HER GRISLY RPSE TURNG UP TWO HALV 1946. TODAY, (TO S EVERLASTG SHAME), THE BAR SERV A ‘BLACK DAHLIA COCKTAIL’. WELL, WHATEVER BRGS A BUCK, I GUS.ELIZABETH SHORT – ‘THE BLACK DAHLIA’OTHER VENU OF THE 30S AND 40S CLUD SPEAK 39, JOHNNY FRENCHMAN’S, THE GYPSY ROOM, THE TROPIL VILLAGE AND SANTS CLUB. A JOT LLED M & M WAS A LBIAN BAR THAT TERED PRIMARILY FOR LATAS. BROTHERS WAS A GAY BAR FOR AIN-AMERINS. IN THE 50S AND 60S THERE EXISTED THE CHEROKEE CLUB, HOE OF IVY, LAFAYETTE, CHEE-CHEE’S, OPEN DOOR, THE PARTY PAD AND THE CAROEL VENICE. THERE WERE SR MORE. UNR-AGE GAYS WERE TERED FOR AS WELL. THOSE WHO LACKED THE NECSARY ID TO GET TO BARS ULD ADJOURN TO PLAC SUCH AS COFFEE DAN’S, THE GOLD CUP AND MARL INN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, ALL OF WHICH TERED EXCLIVELY FOR HOMOSEXUALS. IN THE FIFTI MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS OFTEN SEEN AT COFFEE DAN’S. BY THE 60S TRANSVT HAD TAKEN OVER THE TABLISHMENT. THERE WERE SEVERAL COFFEE DAN’S LOS ANGEL. THE GAY ONE WAS ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.MONTGOMERY CLIFTIT WAS ALLA NAZIMOVA WHO ED THE PHEMISM ‘THE SEWG CIRCLE’ FOR HOLLYWOOD’S LBIAN ATERNY. TALLULAH BANKHEAD MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN VOLVED WH THE GROUP, BUT SHE HAD MANY FEMALE LOVERS. HATTIE MCDANIEL AND PATSY KELLY WERE TWO OF THEM. HATTIE WON AN OSR PLAYG MAMMY GONE WH THE WD 1939. SGER BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS ANOTHER OF TALLULAH’S NQUTS. THE CIRCLE WOULD MEET REGULARLY, SOMETIM AT THE HOME OF DELOR DEL R, AND NSISTED OF LBIANS, BISEXUALS AND THE OCSNAL ‘EXPERIMENTER’. THEY WOULD MEET AT ONE ANOTHER’S HOM FOR LUNCH, A CHAT AND WHATEVER ELSE EVENTUATED. THE AGENDA WAS FLEXIBLE.  HATTIE MCDANIELMEMBERS ME AND WENT, BUT STARS SUCH AS JOAN CRAWFORD, GARBO, BARBARA STANWYCK, MYRNA LOY, AGN MOOREHEAD, DANCER ISADORA DUNN, WRER MERCES ASTA AND DIETRICH WERE ALL SAID TO BE PART OF THE SAPPHIC SEWG CIRCLE. OTHERS CLUD KATE HEPBURN, KAY FRANCIS, JUDH ANRSON, EVELYN BRENT AND MARJORIE MA (MA KETTLE). GARBO AND DIETRICH ALWAYS MATAED THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, BUT SIRS DISAGREE, PECIALLY LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT BOTH WOMEN APPEARED A MOVIE BERL 1925 LLED THE JOYLS STREET. PERSONALLY, I DOUBT IF THEY WERE LOVERS. IF THEY WERE, THEN WHY WOULD DIETRICH NY ? GARBO WAS RIDICULOLY SECRETIVE, BUT MARLENE CERTALY WAS NOT.AGN MOOREHEADMYRNA LOYKAY FRANCISMA KETTLECRAWFORD HAD MANY LOVERS OF BOTH SEX. SHE EVEN TOOK A CRACK AT THE HETEROSEXUAL MARILYN MONROE DURG ONE OF MM’S WEAKER MOMENTS. IT WAS MON KNOWLEDGE HOLLYWOOD THAT THE BETTE DAVIS-JOAN CRAWFORD FD ME ABOUT BEE JOAN MA A PASS AT BETTE AND WAS TURNED DOWN. CRAWFORD WAS NOTOR FOR HOLDG GDG AGAST ANYONE (MALE OR FEMALE) THAT REFED TO SLEEP WH HER.OTHER THAN LILYAN TASHMAN, GARBO HAD RELATNSHIPS WH LOUISE BROOKS AND MERCES ASTA, YET HER GREAT LOVE WAS A MARRIED SWEDISH ACTRS NAMED MIMI POLLAK. UNLIKE DIETRICH, GARBO NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER HAD CHILDREN. OF URSE, JT LIKE MARLENE, SHE TOOK LOVERS OF BOTH GENRS. EVA LE GALLIENNE SHARED HER FAVOURS WH TALLULAH, ESTELLE WWOOD, ALLA NAZIMOVA AND ASTA, TO NAME BUT A FEW.MIMI AND GARBOA YOUTHFUL ESTELLE WWOODESTELLE  MURR BY DEATH (1976)DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR LOS ANGEL WAS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS A GAY MUNY, ALTHOUGH IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THE STUDS’ WORD FOR EVERY ACTOR AND ACTRS ON THEIR BOOKS WAS AS HETEROSEXUAL AS CAPTA AMERI! SIGNIFINTLY, THE FEAR OF EXPOSURE AS A GAY PERSON WAS TANGIBLE AND POTENTIALLY REER-STROYG, WHILE THE SEXUAL EXPLOATN OF YOUNG HOPEFULS (OF BOTH SEX) WENT ON UNCHECKED, DAY AND DAY OUT AT EVERY STUD, LARGE OR SMALL.ADRIANAGN MOOREHEADBARBARA STANWYCKBBB'S CELLARBETTE DAVIS JOAN CRAWFORDBEVERLY SHAWRY GRANTTHERE D'ERLANGERCLTTE LBERTFFEE DAN'SLE PORTERNSTANCE BENTELIZABETH SHORTERROL FLYNNTELLE WWOODGAYLORD HSERGEE CRETA GARBOHATTIE MCDANIELJA GAYNORJEAN ARTHURJIMMY'S BACK YARDJOAN CRAWFORDJUDY GARLANDKAY ANCISLILI DAMALILYAN TASHMANMA KETTLEMARJORIE MAMIMI POLLAKMONTGOMERY CLIFTMURR BY ATHMYRNA LOYPERSHG SQUARERANDOLPH STTTALLULAH BANKHEADTHE BILTMORE HOTELTHE BLACK DAHLIA PREVHOLLYWOOD – TAL OM THE DARK SI. NEXTTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – WHO KILLED FUNNYMAN TED HEALY? 2 COMMENTS TS BALLOS DECEMBER 31, 2022 AT 4:01 PM THE RMATN ABOUT GRANT AND STT IS MOR. STT’S BGRAPHER STATED THAT THERE WAS NO EVINCE TO BACK THIS CLAIM, AS DID GRANT’S DGHTER. 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Mabel Mercer, of urse, also was gay. Some old whe gay man quotg some facels whe queer hidg behd an actrs who pretends to stroy fundamentalists, but really jt argu biblil terpretatn. When Fred Astaire was uncerta about dog "Gay Divorce", Porter played him this song om the sre.

THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARYALSO: PARKER POSEY ON WHETHER THE ORIGAL DR. SMH WAS GAY!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018/12:48 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:4800PX;WIDTH:4508PX;}KM ARCHIVE/GETTY ROCK HUDSON GETTG A MASSAGE AT THE FLANDIA BATHS HOLLYWOOD, CA, 1950. (PHOTO BY KM ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG)BY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018 / 12:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?” SAYS OLD-TIME PROCURER TO THE STARS STTY BOWERS MATT TYRNER’S DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE AT A BOWERS BOOK SIGNG PLAS THAT THE THOR BROKE THE NFINCE OF HIS CELEBRY CLIENTS AND WONRS WHAT IF THOSE AD INS HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND THEY FD OUT THEY WERE GAY. THE “SO WHAT?” LE OF FENSE OM BOWERS IS SPOT ON, AND HE ALSO SAYS THAT THE REALLY WEREN’T SECRETS TO THOSE HOLLYWOOD WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOG ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIS, I WOULD ADD, CELEBS’ PRIVATE LIV ARE ALWAYS DISSECTED BY THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC, AND IF EVERYONE N EMBRACE THE LI ALL THOSE YEARS, THEN WHY NOT FALLY LEARN THE TTH? THERE WERE A LOT OF GAYS THE MOVI (BIG SURPRISE), AND THEY WERE ONLY HUMAN THEIR QUT FOR NSTANT SEX, AS LONG AS NO ONE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THEM, AND BOWERS NEVER DID—UNTIL THEY WERE GONE, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TTHS YOU LEARN OM THE FILM (AND THE BOOK THAT PRECED ) CLU THE FOLLOWG:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TRACY-HEPBURN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHERE HEPBURN WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN DID NOT ACTUALLY LIVE TOGETHER AND WEREN’T A UPLE AT ALL, BUT THE BIG SHOTS THOUGHT WOULD BE BETTER TO PAWN THEM OFF AS AN ADULTERO DUO THAN A GAY MAN AND A LBIAN. OH, BY THE WAY, THE DE AND DUCHS OF WDSOR WERE GAY, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUDSON, GRANT, AND A FLOOK MARRIAGEHERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGROCK HUDSON (PHOTO BY HERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROCK HUDSON MARRIED HIS AGENT’S SECRETARY SHORTLY AFTER LIFE MAGAZE POTED OUT THAT THE HUNKY ACTOR WASN’T MARRIED AND WOULD SOON NEED TO EXPLA WHY. ON THE WAY UP THE LADR, BOWERS HAD SET ROCK UP WH THE TR GAY CARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GROUP PLAY FOR COLE PORTERGETTYTHE AMERIN POSER AND LYRICIST COLE PORTER (1891-1964) SS AT THE PIANO. (PHOTO BY © HULTON-DTSCH COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WTY SONGWRER COLE PORTER ASKED BOWERS FOR 15 GUYS AT ONCE, SO HE ULD BLOW THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE. I GUS HE WAS LIVG OUT HIS H SONG, “YOU’RE THE TOP.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS WAS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS ALSO PROVID OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS FOR STARS LIKE VIVIEN LEIGH AND BETTE DAVIS. AND BY THE WAY, HE NEVER TOOK A PENNY! HE JT WANTED PEOPLE TO BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOLY TRY20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGMARILYN MONROE (1926 - 1962) AND TOM EWELL (1909 - 1994) A SCENE OM 'THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH', DIRECTED BY BILLY WILR, 1955. (PHOTO BY 20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS “THE SALIVATOR,” MPY ACTOR PL LYN WAS THE DNK, AND THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -STAR TOM EWELL HAD AN CH FOR A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS' LIPS ARE SEALED (FOR NOW)EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES - JUNE 1: ACTOR CLT EASTWOOD TALKS ON A PAY PHONE OUTSI HIS HOME ON JUNE 1, 1956 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE MOVIE, WAS NOTED THAT WHATEVER BOWERS KNOWS ABOUT LIVG STARS LIKE CLT EASTWOOD AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IS NOT CLUD. (NOR ARE SOME OF THE MORE BODY-FLUID-ORIENTED TAL OM THE BOOK, FULL SERVICE. Y, I READ —TWICE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A PROGRSIVE KD OF MARRIAGETASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAGWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JULY 25: STTY BOWERS ATTENDS CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD HONORS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY ON JULY 25, 2018 WT HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY TASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STTY BOWERS ONT OF A POSTER FOR STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE’S THE REAL SHOCK: BOWERS HIMSELF—WHO HAD SEX WH SOME OF HIS MALE MOVIE STAR CLIENTS BACK THEN, STARTG WH WALTER PIDGEON—HAS HAD A WIFE NAMED LOIS FOR 34 YEARS. THEIR DYNAMIC IS TERTG BEE LOIS SAYS SHE WISH BOWERS HAD TOLD HER ABOUT HIS PAST WHEN THEY MET. HE RPONDS THAT SHE DIDN’T TELL HIM ANYTHG ABOUT HER PAST EHER, AND FOR ALL HE KNEW, SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HOOKER. YEAH, BUT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POCKETFUL OF POSEYNETFLIXLOST IN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS LONG AS WE’RE OUTG OLD INS, PARKER POSEY—WHO’S CELEBRATG A NEW MEMOIR, YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE—HAPPENS TO PLAY DR. SMH ON NETFLIX’S LOST SPACE, A CHARACTER WH AN TERTG HISTORY. ON THE ORIGAL LOST SPACE SERI THE ‘60S, THE PART WAS A RATHER EFFEMATE AND EXCABLE MALE AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS. (WHEN THE ROBOT YELPED “DANGER, WILL ROBSON!” MANY VIEWERS THOUGHT THEY WERE WARNG WILL ABOUT THE DOCTOR.) EVEN -STAR JUNE LOCKHART LATER SAID THAT THE CHARACTER WAS FELY GAY. SO I JT ASKED PARKER FOR HER TAKE ON THAT WHOLE SUATN, AND SHE FTLY REPLIED, “I THK HE WAS VERY HAPPY!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I WAS THRILLED WHEN I RECEIVED A PY OF THE NEW BOOK BLAME IT ON BIAN DEL R THE MAIL, UNTIL I OPENED AND THE DRAG RACE WNER HAD WRTEN, “MICHAEL, DO YOU NEED A LARGE PRT VERSN?” NO, I ULD READ JT FE—AND ’S HILAR, WH BIAN RPONDG TO MA-UP QUTNS WH TWISTED ANSWERS. WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAS NERV BEFORE A SHOW AND IF SO, HOW SHE P WH , BIAN SAYS, “WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PG MECHANISMS TO WORK THROUGH OUR NERV... BARBRA STREISAND THROWS BOILG HOT TEA ON THE LIGHTG DIRECTOR. AND MERYL STREEP MASTURBAT TO HOLOT PICTUR OM ACHWZ. I HAVE A MUCH EASIER WAY TO PE: I DO WH YOGA AND MEDATN. AND BY ‘YOGA AND MEDATN’, I MEAN BOOZE AND PILLS.”JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICSAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 02: BIAN DEL R PERFORMS ON THE COLOSSAL STAGE DURG CLTERFT AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA AND THE BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDORIUM ON JUNE 2, 2018 SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGIC){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON BROADWAY, THE GO-GO’S MIL HEAD OVER HEELS IS A HANER-EE HIGH (SEE MY REVIEW HERE) AND SO WAS THE OPENG NIGHT PARTY AT GUASTAVO’S. AT THE EVENT, GO-GO JANE WIEDL TOLD ME SHE WELLED UP WATCHG THE SHOW BEE SHE THOUGHT OF THE LTLE PUNK GIRL SHE WAS 40 YEARS AGO, “AND LOOK AT WHO I AM TODAY.” IS THERE STILL THAT PUNK GIRL SI HER? “Y!” SHE SAID, LGHG AND POTG TO HER WONRFULLY WACKY OUTF—A RED-ROS-PATTERNED DRS WH LACE-UP BAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO THERE, DOMIQUE JACKSON OM POSE SAID SHE HAD BEEN SPIRED TO S WH ME AND SOME OTHERS AT A WHOOPI GOLDBERG SAGE TABLE LAST YEAR. “AND NOW YOU’RE BIGGER THAN I AM,” I NOTED. “NO, I’M NOT,” SHE JOKED, SG. “I HAD SURGERY. I CUT OFF!”ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTYDOMIQUE JACKSON ATTENDS THE 2018 FX ANNUAL ALL-STAR PARTY AT SVA THEATRE ON MARCH 15, 2018 NEW YORK CY. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND OUR LIPS WEREN’T SEALED WHEN I DID ONSTAGE Q&AS WH JOHN WATERS AT IFC CENTER ON FRIDAY, AFTER SHOWGS OF HAIRSPRAY AND FEMALE TROUBLE. JOHN ADMTED THAT AT ONE POT THE PREPARATN FOR HIS DARK 1994 EDY SERIAL MOM, ROSEANNE WAS GOG TO PLAY THE TLE ROLE (WHICH END UP GOG TO KATHLEEN TURNER). “SHE WAS A LIBERAL THEN,” WATERS ADPANNED. “WHAT HAPPENED?”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I'M DREAMG OF A WHE CHRISTMASWALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGENEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR 'STRAIGHT WHE MEN' BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AT DADONG ON JULY 23, 2018 NEW YORK C (PHOTO BY WALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR STRAIGHT WHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“LADI AND GENTLEMEN AND THE RT OF ,” SAYS NONBARY PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND THOR KATE BORNSTE ON WELG TO YOUNG JEAN LEE'S STRAIGHT WHE MEN. JANGLY RAVE MIC HAD PRECED THE SHOW, AND BORNSTE WAS NOW ONSTAGE WH TWO-SPIR PERFORMER-WRER-ACTIVIST TY DEFOE—THEY’RE THE PEOPLE CHARGE, ACRDG TO THE PROGRAM—BOTH BACKED BY A SILVER TSEL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL OF IS NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT AND NOT WHAT MAY SEEM, WHICH WAS EXACTLY THE POT. “NEHER OF IS A STRAIGHT WHE MALE,” KATE ADDS, AND THE TWO NTUE TO BANTER HILARLY, WHILE BRGG UP POTS ABOUT PRIVILEGE, EXPECTATN, ACCEPTANCE, AND REFAL TO HATE. AND THEN THE PLAY BEGS, WH THOSE TWO OCSNALLY APPEARG ONSTAGE TO GUI THE ACTORS THEIR MOVEMENTS, STAGEHANDS ALSO FULL VIEW AS THEY REMOVE PROPS BETWEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT FOLLOWS IS A CHRISTMAS EVE GATHERG WH A SPUNKY OLD WIDOWER NAMED ED (STEPHEN PAYNE) WHO BRGS TOGETHER HIS THREE SONS FOR BANTER, CHE FOOD, AND MISBEGOTTEN GIFT GIVG. OF THE SONS, JAKE (JOSH CHARL) TURNS OUT TO BE A RICH BANKER WHO ASTS ON HIS PRIVILEGE, ONLY HIRG WH AT HIS PANY, TO GIVE THE CLIENTS WHAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY WANT, EVEN THOUGH HE HAPPENS TO HAVE MIXED RACE CHILDREN. DREW (ARMIE HAMMER OM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) HAS MANAGED TO DO GOOD THE WORLD WH HIS TEACHGS AND WRGS. AND MATT (PL SCHNEIR) IS A HARVARD GRAD WHO IS STILL PAYG OFF STUNT LOANS AND WHO’S PRETTY MUCH GIVEN UP, HAVG FAILED AT TRYG TO CHANGE THE WORLD, SO HE’S NOW LIVG WH DAD AND CRYG AT UNSPECTG MOMENTS. (DREW ACTUALLY WONRS IF MATT MIGHT BE GAY AND NEED OF G OUT.)JOAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM LEFT: ARMIE HAMMER, STEPHEN PAYNE, AND PL SCHNEIR STRAIGHT WHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THREE BROTHERS HAVE A HIGHLY ENTERTAG MARARIE, GOG TO RACY, SILLY SHTICK AS IF THEY WERE STILL PRE-ADOLCENTS, AND TWO FUNNY SET PIEC EMERGE—A KKK VERSN OF THE TLE SONG OM OKLAHOMA! (YOU HAVE TO SEE THE SHOW) AND A WILD DANCE ROUTE WHERE THE BROTHERS GET TO RRY ON AND SHOW OFF TAG-TEAM FASHN. BUT THGS ARE AMISS AS JAKE’S GIFT TO DAD BREAKS, DAD N’T REMEMBER THE WORDS TO “O, TANNENBM,” AND DREW TRI TO HELP MATT OUT OF HIS PRSN WHILE MAKG THGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAKE’S IAL VIEW OF MATT—THAT HE’S SELF-SABOTAGG ORR TO MAKE WAY FOR NON-WH TO GET OPPORTUNI—TURNS OUT TO BE MISGUID, AS THE TER-RELATNSHIPS GROW MORE PLITED. MORE LIKELY, MATT ISN’T GRABBG AT HIS WHE PRIVILEGE BEE THE RULTS DIDN’T MAKE HIM FEEL ALL THAT PRIVILEGED. THE PLAY, AS DIRECTED BY ANNA D. SHAPIRO, IS UNIFORMLY WELL-ACTED AND QUE FUNNY, THOUGH THE JOK ARE MORE PERSUASIVE THAN THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE iTuhkZ ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN kuCzGS"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hWyo iXWezO ptn__text">The artist’s genial and productive surface masked turbulent waters.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd iicloT jbIJNS ptn__cred">Photograph by Horst P. Horst</span></div></div></figure><div data-ttid="ContentHearLeadRailAnchor" class="ContentHearLeadRailAnchor-jYVcDc djtEof"></div></div></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kbAoLA article-body__ntent"><div class="ActnBarWrapperContent-lasBkU cAHp"><div class="ActnBarWrapperComponent-cjwxLS bEeSLb"><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh kNjTbQ viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save this story" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU hQrwCF bookmark large-screen"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN 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breath and clare that, at some time the thirti, the ser mic tradn fally whered, curled up and died of sterily and malnutrn; and that the greatt posers of the twentieth century are Berl, Rodgers, Porter, Kern, Gershw, et al.” This view, bold enough at the time to be f only for a diary, has by now bee monplace. In the mid-neteen-seventi, you had to hnt London rerd shops to fd Ella Fzgerald’s Gershw or Cole Porter albums. Now those rerdgs, and the songs they illumate, are everywhere. Prompted, perhaps, by the publitn, the early seventi, of Alec Wilr’s groundbreakg study, “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Amerin Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950</a>,” the old songwrers have e to have a new prence, and their songs even a llective brand name: the Amerin Songbook. Their mic is now taken up routely by the same rock sgers who once seemed to have overshadowed them, wh some (Van Morrison sgg “A Foggy Day”) oddly good, some (Rod Stewart sgg “Someone to Watch Over Me”) oddly bad, and some (<a href=">Bob Dylan</a> sgg “The Night We Called It a Day”) jt odd.</p><p class="paywall">Like all victori art, this one has a double-edged rult. On the one hand, the mic is, mostly, out there. On the other, the sential work of discrimatn is lost a blanketg cloud of nostalgia. Embattled memory tak thgs apart; placent nostalgia squash them back together. The first wave of redisvery had as and prohibns—Alec Wilr wrote off sentially all of Rodgers and Hammerste, and almost everythg self-nscly “jazzy” Gershw. (He preferred Harold Arlen, who knew jazz si out, to Gershw—a shockg view then.) The days, a sg, everyone-together spir flects the appreciative albums and Lln Center celebratns; Tynan’s “et al.” vers a lot of talents, big and small. When you are the middle of a battle, as Wilr was, is important to sort out the fighters om the eeloars. Once has been won, everybody gets a medal.</p><p class="paywall">So, wh squads of scholars arrivg on the field after the battle, to tend the wound and bury the ad, we have a renewed chance not jt to get the story right but to get the stature right, to figure out who ranks where and why. Certaly, Porter’s ghost uld not ask for better re than he has been given “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Letters of Cole Porter</a>” (Yale), eded by Cliff Eisen, a profsor of mic history at Kg’s College London, and Domic McHugh, a milogist at the Universy of Sheffield (and the edor of Alan Jay Lerner’s letters). Laid out wh a meticulo scholarly apparat, as though this were the rrponnce of Grover Cleveland, every turn the songwrer’s story is ep-dived for exact chronology, and every name sually dropped by Porter gets a worried, explitory footnote. The edors have also clud some sendary material that is not, strictly speakg, rrponnce at all, such as a hair-raisg journal of the mid-thirti M-G-M movie project that beme the Eleanor Powell vehicle “Born to Dance.”</p><p class="paywall">As an artist’s letters, they are, tth be told, disappotg. There are few flights of fancy or spontaneo improvisatns Porter’s wrgs to iends—for such a famo w, there is remarkably ltle w. The most arrtg passag of wrg and thkg arrive ls often letters-om than letters-to. Abe Burrows, the great mil “book wrer”—what others ll a libretto Broadway people ll a book, and what others ll a book they ually ll revenge—ntribut several good thgs. He offers Porter five wisdom about makg mils: “Dog a show is not unlike brgg up a child. The child velops a life of s own. The parents do their bt but certa thgs rema immutable, and the child is what he is.” Porter, a great appreciator, tells Burrows that he liked those words enough to paste them his scrapbook.</p><p class="paywall">Yet a rear, whout learng much directly about Porter’s art, away om the book wh an even higher opn of him as an artist than might have been held before. Though he was born to genue if provcial affluence, wh send-tier European royalty fillg out the fay’s dance rd on vatn, he chose to bee a workg stiff. Reversg the ual Amerin ascent om labor to leisure mak for a more strenuo, and more movg, story. The labor produced a new kd of Amerin lyric, and language.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Porter’s personal tale was well known even when other songwrers’ were not. To get a b-pic, peers among the great songwrers had to die young, like Gershw (who got a pretty good movie “Rhapsody Blue”) or Lorenz Hart (who got a terrible one “Words and Mic”). But Porter was the subject of two movi, cludg one, “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Night and Day</a>” (1946), ma his lifetime and wh his reluctant llaboratn, spe the unsayable but far om secret tth that he was gay. In his own social world, he was about as out as a man uld be those days, wh a rich repertory of lovers and assignatns.</p><p class="paywall">Porter’s story was appealg bee was seemgly so generatnal—so Fzgerald-like s ascensn om Midwtern begngs to East Coast fame. Born Pe, Indiana, 1891 to the wealthit fay town—perhaps the wealthit all of Indiana—he went to Yale right before the Great War. (<a href=">Fzgerald</a>, four years behd him, at Prceton, regard Porter’s mercial reer a ltle envly, as a path not taken.) A prec though largely untraed mician, Porter wrote what are still among the school’s fight songs. Then me a short perd of service the war, followed by a long holiday Europe through the early twenti, wh a lovg but mostly sexls marriage of nvenience to Lda Lee Thomas, of the Virgia Le. It was a perfect Gerald Murphy-style Jazz Age life, dispted only by Porter’s termatn to get to New York and bee a succsful Broadway songwrer—a very strange, and very “Jewish,” ambn for a young sociale.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Beneath his smooth, genial, almost humanly productive and evasive surface, there were turbulent waters. His very name, for all s air of Ivy League ease, reprents a burned legacy. The Porters were his difficult, spegrace father’s fay; the Col were his mother’s rich and amb Indiana fay. 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souls, like Monty Woolley—the once famo character actor, whom he’d met at Yale, the origal star of “The Man Who Came to Dner”—seems never to have tormented him, as did Hart. Porter, by temperament and entlement, me of age among the openly bisexual European upper cst. Everyone knew that he was a gay man wh a marriage of nvenience; everyone agreed to mata the pretense that he wasn’t. Far om a drama of eher reprsn or subversn, the suatn seems like an oddly happy social nrd.</p><p class="paywall">His letters to his lovers are the same register as those of the Osr Wil–Robbie Ross circle London a few s earlier: chummy more than erotic, wh a transparent language of ncealment, a more or ls open of trigue. “Way out here one gets that wicked cy ia about New York & all those purlis,” he wr to the dancer Nelson Barclift, om his ttage Williamstown. “Have <em>you</em> been a purli tonight? Confs. Say, ‘Guilty.’ But do wre me soon that you have reported all to Ben & Ollie”—gay iends—“for, for some tangible reason, they cleanse the impury out of what they touch. And they touch <em>plenty</em>.”</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">It might be argued, and has been, most notably William McBrien’s 1998 bgraphy, that Porter’s sexualy shaped his sentiments, which burst out happy one-night-stand songs like “Jt One of Those Thgs” and “I’ve Got You Unr My Sk,” wh their note of sexual fatuatn, cherished but not easily transmuted to domticy. “I’d sacrifice anythg e what might / For the sake of havg you near / In spe of a warng voice that the night / And repeats, repeats my ear” do not lead neatly to bee the folks who live on the hill.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">But Frank Satra had no trouble applyg the songs, or their emotns, to Ava Gardner or her succsors. At a time when everyone was chafg agast the nstrats of bourgeois moraly, a sex song like “Let’s Misbehave” spoke as clearly to strayg straights as did to cisg gays. The sport of wrg a tightly anized genre like popular song is not to smuggle specifilly subversive subtext when the censors aren’t lookg but to make the subversive emotns universal enough not to need a subtext. Porter was to straight sex his “affair” songs as his bt iend, Irvg Berl, was to Christiany wrg “Whe Christmas”—the outsir’s triumph was to own the sir’s material. It may be, as some have suggted, that the climactic l “But if, baby, I’m the bottom / You’re the top” Porter’s “You’re the Top” already meant 1936 what they mean erotic slang now; the pot is that, post-Porter, they no longer had to mean only that.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Porter is so famo for his gifts as a lyricist that might seem mischievo to the pot of perversy to suggt that his real greatns ris his skills as a poser. Yet how many other popular posers have had more hs wh stmental, unsung versns of their work? Artie Shaw’s versn of “Beg the Begue” is the bt known, but the Dave Bbeck Quartet’s album of Porter songs, om the mid-sixti, wh Pl Dmond’s peerls sax, is jt as good. Though rarely overtly jazz the Arlen-Gershw manner, his melodi have so much myster ner propulsn that, asked to swg, they practilly swg themselv.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">For all Porter’s aristocratic mien, his tast were rather pla, as those of the Amerin upper class ually are—high taste is typilly simple taste, as anyone who has eaten at a Wasp club knows. His list of requirements for a hotel room Philalphia durg a tryout clud sliced liverwurst, salami, and bologna, and twenty-four ns of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Another small but strikg social tra that ns through the letters is the preponrance of prents that were cumbent on people show bs then; Porter giv and gets flowers, patgs, we, books for the smallt of reasons, and then wr at length to thank the prent-giver, or to thank the prent-recipient for his thanks. People who me of age Porter’s time took gift-givg as serly as the Kwakiutls took their potlatch, and for the same reason: g of age a culture of surpl, they believed nstant exchang of the signs of prospery.</p><p class="paywall">Porter, high-Wasp tast and all, had to navigate a Broadway and Hollywood world that was astoundgly uniform s Jewishns. A famo story has Porter nfidg a iend that he was gog to wre “Jewish tun,” meang mor-key pentatonic croongs of the kd that Berl had mastered “Blue Ski.” In Mary Mart’s first showstopper song, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” the melisma the middle sectn is self-nscly, even unfortably, Eastern European-soundg orr to dite that “Daddy” is Jewish.</p><p class="paywall">The gree of reverse cultural assiatn that this Gentile om the Midwt had to unrtake is ptured one of the funnit letters Porter ever wrote, to his (Jewish) agent, Irvg Lazar:</p><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL jPeLne paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs gmbtPx blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>Thank you for your letter of Dec. 28 1955. I am not an idt child. I do not ll Sol “Sl” nor do I ll Sl “Sol.” The are two different people. There is a producer named Sol Siegel—and an assistant producer named Sl Chapl. Sol sent Sl to be wh me here for ten days while I wrote new material. . . . Sce Sl (not Sol) returned to Culver Cy, I have received charmg telephone lls om Sol, and a most enthiastic letter om Sl.</p></div></blockquote><p class="paywall">It’s a Porter lyric miature (“Sol Sent Sl to Tell Me All”), and shows what a fort of alien manners, or at least nam, a boy om Indiana had to make his way through at a time when all the other great show-tune novators—Kern, Gershw, Rodgers, Arlen—were Jewish. What other kd of tun <em>uld</em> you wre?</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Porter’s story do have a dramatic climax. In the fall of 1937, when he was forty-six, he endured a horrific accint, which the horse he was ridg fell on him and cshed one of his legs. The juri led to more than thirty operatns the urse of his life, all excciatgly paful, and a legacy of permanent sufferg. Jt how agonizg his ndn mt have been, and what nsequenc had for his work, has been a source of much speculatn. Wilr, among others, sists that there was mimal good work after the accint. Eisen and McHugh dispute that verdict; certaly, his most succsful Broadway shows, cludg “Kiss Me, Kate,” all happened well afterward. Still more certaly, the letters are heroic their avoidance of self-py, though they also reveal for the first time jt how bad his juri were. “When the st was removed, I shall never fet the first sight of my leg,” he wrote to Monty Woolley om his hospal bed. “I asked ‘What is the jelly ’s vered wh?’ And the reply was, ‘That’s not jelly, that’s blebs’ ”—blisters. “It was hard to believe for the whole leg looked like a flowg mass of lava and sorta ma me sick.” Heavily dgged, he managed to wre down some of his “crazit illns”: “My right leg stretch, slantg upwards before me, like the si of the hill, the summ of which is my to. From the ankle down—and approachg me—any number of small, fely sharply toothed rak are at work.”</p><p class="paywall">The rak got only more sharply toothed over time. He managed to persevere, seems, by a mixture of champagne and stiff-upper-lipns. But not a day of uld have been easy for him. There are long, relatively unrevealg diari om later trips to the Greek islands and Napl and beyond, and the extent of his activy don’t sound at all like that of a crippled man. On the other hand, one of his panns says that he was “human” on the voyag, a ment that seems to refer to the prodig gifts of ncentratn necsary to keep out the pa and foc on the pleasur.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Porter wr engaggly, as an artisan, about the bs of puttg on a show. It is pretty clear that he measured a show’s succs simply by the number of h songs produced, and he had savvy theori about how long tak a song to bee a h once ’s out the world. He wr mimally about his own creative procs for the same upper-cst reason that he wr mimally about his sufferg—only send-rate people go on and on about their ner liv. Analyzg is the same as plag, and self-analysis is the tw of self-promotn.</p><p class="paywall">Clu about his creativy she through the workmanlike surface, though. Porter still wrote a revue style where the characters were hardly worth dramatizg. The producer Cy Fer, who put on two late Porter shows, says his memoir that Porter didn’t really re where the songs f wh the story; he was blhely posg numbers for “Can-Can” (1953) while the book wrer and the director stggled bterly wh the plotle, and though he threw new on as need, he seems to have stood mostly asi, amed and productive, as the rt of the creative team raged and yelled. In fact, Abe Burrows wrote a uple of ft, diplomatic letters askg Porter to please wa to wre the songs until they knew what the story was. 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class="paywall">He didn’t need the shows to wre drama. The songs <em>were</em> the stori. “Bsh Up Your Shakpeare” and “So Love,” though suated the plot of “Kiss Me, Kate,” are hardly suatnal. He nstcted songs so that each one is a drama self, wh an allive, ede verse leadg to a simpler storytellg rea. In perhaps his greatt song, “Jt One of Those Thgs,” om 1935—’s a song that Holn Clfield, who lik nothg, lik—the verse is an offhand sequence of referenc that were not que monplace then: Dorothy Parker, Heloise and Abelard. The chos be slyly dynamic (“Jt one of those crazy flgs / One of those bells that now and then rgs”), buildg om kiss-off to remembered kissg. The movement is mimal but emotnally exact (“Our love affair / Was too hot not to ol down”), and scrib a journey om mere efulns to actual regret, a small but signifint emotnal arc that requir a great sger to nvey.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR daRVRt persistent-asi" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="1tz5j"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="9waosf"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa EOneK body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">List songs are anathema to the post-Sondheim sensibily, traed as is on Osr Hammerste’s heightened dramatic style, but Porter’s lists are his poetry. Rg Lardner, the pag, ma fun of the overwrought imagery Porter’s romantic lyrics; where Porter had “Unr the hi of me / There’s an, oh, such a hungry yearng / Burng si of me,” he offered as an alternative “Night and day, unr the rd of me / There’s an Oh, such a zeal for spoong, nng the md of me.” But Porter is never the least b off when to Amerina. He tak pleasure rhyme for rhyme’s sake, the play of language, and do so a way that is, oddly, far more tune wh the ma l of the Amerin avant-gar of his time than operetta style uld ever be.</p><p class="paywall">In “You’re the Top,” the llisns of high and low, the mixed vernacular that expects his dience to be equally fortable at the movi and the mms, is the purt kd of E. E. Cummgs–Stuart Davis thirti pop avant-gar: “You’re the top! / You’re the Colossm. / You’re the top! / You’re the Louvre Mm. / You’re a melody om a symphony by Strss. / You’re a Benl bon, / A Shakpeare son, / You’re Mickey Moe.” The betiful chaos of si—Cellophane! Botticelli! A Waldorf salad!—ptur the hyperketic llisns of New York experience as perfectly as Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie.” The w of the build, leadg past Rome and Paris and culmatg high Amerina, is plemented by a brilliantly quiet b of rhymg—had “Mickey Moe” and “Strss” been rhymed before? When Gee and Ira Gershw wrote their own Strss tribute, a uple of years later, the waltz “By Strss,” Ira had to cheat a ltle and make all the rhym German, cludg rhymg “Strss” wh “Flerms”—the difference between “Flerms” as a rhyme and “Mickey Moe” beg the difference between talent and geni.</p><p class="paywall">While still a very young man, Porter ed the phrase “See Ameri First” ( was the tle of his début mil, a Gee M. Cohan spoof), and that gift for creatg idms may be a clue to the quiddy of his geni. Porter is one of the three great lyricists of vented Amerin speech, wh only Chuck Berry the fifti and Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead the seventi his equal this rpect. Berry nstcted a world of fast rs and ied chicken and teen-age back-seat fumblgs, wh the right jive to ver all; Hunter, songs like “Uncle John’s Band” and “Friend of the Devil,” vented a lost neteenth-century world of naway tras and pursug sheriffs and brass bands playg by the riversi which somehow ronated as an available Amerin rervoir of myth. (Of urse, people had wrten songs about rs before Chuck did, but he was the one who had the specific w to put Maybellene’s Coupe Ville a ntt wh his own V-8 Ford. Jt as, where the Band wrote about Dixie the wter of ’65, only Hunter ma up Uncle John, who uld have been equally at home playg durg the Civil War or at Woodstock.)</p><p class="paywall">Hart <em>heard</em> a world; Porter ma one up—a New York of pentho and night clubs and haners which still ronat as another kd of Amerin myth. Even phras now as faiar as “I’ve got you unr my sk” and “I get a kick out of you” are not precisely idms taken directly om Amerin talk, the way that Hart’s “I uld wre a book” and “I’ve got five dollars” are. No doubt people had long said that a thg got unr your sk or that we got a kick out of somethg else, but no one said exactly those formal sentenc; Porter’s special work was elevatg the smallt of small talk to ic poetry. It gave him license to vent a vernacular. “Down the pths of the netieth floor,” “But the morng, no!,” “I’m always te to you, darlg, my fashn,” even “You’re the top”—none of the thgs were idmatic before Porter transformed them om ltle arns to mighty jok. When, “Blazg Saddl,” the villa quot “You Do Somethg to Me” (“Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!”), we know at once that he is quotg Cole Porter.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Porter’s ndn worsened— 1958, the cshed leg would have to be amputated—and though his energy didn’t slacken, the qualy of the work did cle. The letters trace his work on one good movie sre (“High Society”), a uple of so-so shows (“Silk Stockgs” and “Can-Can”), and a promisg but too-late--the-day llaboratn wh S. J. Perelman on an Aladd mil for televisn. What’s odd is that Porter wr volumoly the neteen-fifti whout ever mentng the rerdgs of his work that would do more than anythg to assure his immortaly: the Nelson Riddle arrangements of his greatt songs, which Satra rerd the begng 1953. “I’ve Got You Unr My Sk,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Jt One of Those Thgs,” “Easy to Love,” “Anythg Go”—the are the high pots of Porter terpretatn. (Satra’s sadly obscure live rerdg of “Night and Day,” wh the Red Norvo vibraphone tr Atralia, is perhaps the bt of all.)</p><p class="paywall">As Will Friedwald and Jam Kaplan have both poted out, the Riddle-Satra “I’ve Got You Unr My Sk” was as pivotal a rerdg Amerin mic as “Like a Rollg Stone” would be a later. Before that, Porter is Astaire and elegance; after that, he swgs and n bee anythg more. Although Porter’s bgrapher Robert Kimball recently assured an dience that Porter had admired Satra and beiend him—his slightly dub evince beg that Satra took over Porter’s apartment the Waldorf after his ath, 1964—that don’t show up the letters, and one wonrs if Porter was even fully aware of the Riddle-Satra rerds, beyond the royalti he llected. Yet Porter liv on such rerdgs of sgle songs more than the spasmodic revival of shows that often need heavy rewrg to exist onstage at all. His dramatic songs are all the dramatic revival we need.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">All art aspir to the ndn of mic, Walter Pater wrote; wh mic self, all mic dreams of beg another kd of mic. Art songs dream of beg pop songs and pop songs dream of beg folk songs, too faiar to need an thor. We hear Porter now whout knowg that ’s Porter we’re hearg. Like Stephen Foster, he sublimated his sufferg to his songs, until the songs are all we have, thereby achievg every artist’s dream, to cease to be a sufferg self and bee jt one of those thgs we share. ♦</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="ilxw3v"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 PaywallInleBarrierWhWrapperGrid-fyrGfS kLQIUk grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="body body__le-barrier article__body"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div class="ntaer--body-ner"><asi class="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper-iBnuqk lfXXa-D" data-ttid="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper"><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--paywall-le-barrier" role="prentatn" aria-live="pole" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--paywall-le-barrier"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></asi></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ContentWrapperGrid-fvkmBv brYtrA grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="body body__ntaer"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div class="ntaer--body-ner"></div></div></div></div></div></div></article><div class="ContentFooterWrapper-jVNdRG dTJkpP ArticlePageContentFooterGrid-ccsXYy eMZRHU article-body__footer"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><footer class="ContentFooterMagazeDisclaimer-gzKAqo iZIuUU" data-ttid="MagazeDisclaimerWrapper">Published the prt edn of the <a href="/magaze/2020/01/20" data-reactroot="">January 20, 2020</a>, issue, wh the headle “From Mor to Major.”</footer></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="ContributorsWrapper-eNpWFu GWFsc ntributors" data-ttid="Contributors"><div class="ContributorBWrapper-bnVHbt gMon"><div class="ContributorBAvatar-bIGTqf eMWbvj"><a href="/ntributors/adam-gopnik"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></span></a></div><div class="ContributorBContent-ubQdr jZTSSi"><div class="ContributorBHear-ledood XOIEx"></div><div class="ContributorBB-fBolsO giFhKz"><a href="/ntributors/adam-gopnik">Adam Gopnik</a>, a staff wrer, has been ntributg to The New Yorker sce 1986. 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