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• J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
• CLT EASTWOOD TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, RNC SPEECH CONTROVERSY WH ELLEN DEGENER
• BEFORE JOHNNY DEPP AND AMBER HEARD, SONDRA LOCKE AND CLT EASTWOOD’S HARROWG COURT BATTLE DOMATED THE TABLOIDSTHE SIARI BETWEEN THE TWO S ARE STRIKG—A YOUNGER, BLOND ACTOR, VIEWED AS A LSER TALENT, PTED AGAST A POWERFUL MALE HOLLYWOOD IN.BY NANCY JO SALMAY 27, 2022CLT EASTWOOD AND SONDRA LOCKE THE GNTLET, 1977.FROM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBEFORE THERE WAS DEPP V. HEARD, THERE WAS LOCKE V. EASTWOOD. IN 1989, ACTOR SONDRA LOCKE SUED CLT EASTWOOD, HER ROMANTIC PARTNER OF ABOUT 13 YEARS, FOR PALIMONY, AND THE TABLOIDS WENT WILD. IT WAS A CELEBRY BT UP REPLETE WH ACCATNS OF ABE AND WIRETAPPG, ALL THE MORE SHOCKG BEE LOCKE AND EASTWOOD HAD BEEN SEEN AS A GOLN UPLE, AND HAD MA SIX H FILMS TOGETHER. EASTWOOD WAS 58 AT THE TIME OF THE LAWSU—THE SAME AGE JOHNNY DEPP IS NOW; LOCKE, WHO DIED 2018, WAS 44. SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT EASTWOOD HAD END THEIR RELATNSHIP A FUNK OF BAD FEELGS “BEE HE WASN’T NUMBER ONE AT THE BOX OFFICE ANYMORE, OR BEE HE WAS FACG HIS MORTALY,” AS BGRAPHER PATRICK MCGILLIGAN PUT .THE SIARI BETWEEN THE TWO S ARE STRIKG—A YOUNGER, BLOND ACTOR, VIEWED AS A LSER TALENT, WAS PTED AGAST A POWERFUL MALE HOLLYWOOD IN—AND SO SEEMS ODD THAT HASN’T BEEN MENTNED THE REAMS OF HOT TAK ABOUT DEPP-HEARD THAT HAVE NTUED TO THIS WEEK, WHEN THEIR JURY IS ABOUT TO GO OUT FOR LIBERATNS. JIM LO SCALZO/GETTY IMAG. BUT THEN, EASTWOOD-LOCKE HAPPENED AT A DIFFERENT TIME CELEBRY CULTURE, WHEN CELEBRY MEDIA NSISTED MALY OF PEOPLE, THE NATNAL ENQUIRER, AND STAR. THERE WASN’T ENDLS VERAGE OF THE SE MAJOR NEWSPAPERS OR ON THE TV NEWS; NO LOFTY OP-EDS ABOUT S MEANG. THOUGH LOCKE BATTLED EASTWOOD URT FOR 19 MONTHS—VELOPG BREAST NCER DURG THE ORAL—THE URT PROCEEDGS WERE NOT TELEVISED; HER LAWSU ME JT BEFORE THE LNCH OF COURT TV 1991. CELEBRY WAS NOT YET THE LENS THROUGH WHICH WE SEEM TO SEE JT ABOUT EVERYTHG. AND YET, THE IMPLITNS OF THE SE WERE SIAR, THE SENSE THAT LOCKE ARGUABLY LOST HER REER BEE OF , SPE CLAIMG EASTWOOD HAD BEEN ABIVE. AT ONE POT, SHE ASKED JUDGE DANA SEN HENRY TO KEEP EASTWOOD AWAY OM THEIR BEL-AIR HOME “BEE I KNOW HIM TO HAVE A TERRIBLE TEMPER…AND HE HAS EQUENTLY BEEN ABIVE TO ME.” (EASTWOOD NIED HER ALLEGATNS.) BUT LOCKE’S ABE CLAIMS WERE NOT EVEN THE FOC OF THE MEDIA VERAGE, NOR HAVE THEY STUCK TO EASTWOOD. WHAT PEOPLE SEEMED TO RE MOST ABOUT WAS THE MONEY. LOCKE’S DARG TO ASK FOR PALIMONY SEEMED TO STRIKE SOME AS UNTOWARD, SCE SHE WAS STILL MARRIED TO HER CHILDHOOD IEND GORDON ANRSON, WHO WAS GAY (THEY HAD A PLATONIC RELATNSHIP). AND PALIMONY SELF—OFTEN WRONGLY PICTED THOSE DAYS AS A WAY FOR WOMEN TO BILK HARD-WORKG MEN—WAS A HOT-BUTTON ISSUE AT A TIME OF PEAK BACKLASH AGAST THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT. (SAN FALUDI’S FEMIST CLASSIC BACKLASH: THE UNCLARED WAR AGAST AMERIN WOMEN ME OUT 1991, EXPOSG A MEDIA-DRIVEN STRATEGY OF BLAMG THE VICTIM AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT SELF FOR WOMEN’S OPPRSN.) WHEN LOCKE DIED 2018 OF RDIAC ARRT BROUGHT ON BY BONE AND BREAST NCER, CEL MENTERS ONLE LLED HER A “GOLD DIGGER,” AND JEZEBEL CRICIZED THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER FOR NNG AN OBUARY THAT REFERRED TO HER S ORIGAL HEADLE AS AN “EMBTERED EX,” AND SEEMED TO PORTRAY HER AS “MONEY-GBBG.”MEANWHILE, LOCKE WAS AN TERTG ARTIST—NOT JT AN ACTOR BUT A DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, AND SGER. IN 1986, SHE DIRECTED A BIZARRE IC HORROR FLICK, RATBOY, WHICH WAS HAILED BY FRENCH CRICS AT THE DEVILLE AMERIN FILM FTIVAL. YEARS BEFORE SHE MET EASTWOOD, SHE WAS NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTRS FOR HER ROLE THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1968). IT ULD BE ARGUED THAT EASTWOOD’S MIDLIFE SUCCS—WHICH PRISED SOME OF THE HIGHT-GROSSG PICTUR OF HIS REER UP TO THAT POT, CLUDG THE ORANGUTAN-BUDDY ACTN-EDY EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978)—WAS DUE NO SMALL PART TO HIS STEAMY ONSCREEN CHEMISTRY WH LOCKE. THEY STARTED DATG 1975 ON THE SET OF THE OUTLAW JOSEY WAL, WHILE HE WAS STILL MARRIED, AS WELL, TO HIS FIRST WIFE, MAGGIE JOHNSON. LOCKE WROTE HER TOBGRAPHY, THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE VERY UGLY, THAT HER ATTRACTN TO EASTWOOD WAS IMMEDIATE AND POWERFUL, AND THAT HE ED TO SG TO HER, “SHE MA ME MONOGAMO.” THAT DIDN’T PREVENT HIM OM CHEATG ON HER, HOWEVER, AS WELL AS SECRETLY FATHERG TWO CHILDREN WH ANOTHER WOMAN, JACELYN REEV, THE LATE ‘80S, WHILE HE AND LOCKE WERE STILL TOGETHER. LOCKE, MEANWHILE, ALLEGED HER PALIMONY SU THAT EASTWOOD HAD PRSURED HER HAVE TWO ABORTNS AS WELL AS A TUBAL LIGATN, OR STERILIZATN SURGERY. (EASTWOOD NIED THE ALLEGATNS.)  TO FD THE MEANG OF EASTWOOD-LOCKE, ONE PERHAPS HAS TO LOOK AT HOW THE SE WAS ROLVED, AND THE SUBSEQUENT LAWSU LOCKE BROUGHT FORTH BEE OF . IN 1990, LOCKE AND EASTWOOD ARRIVED AT A SETTLEMENT THAT CLUD A $1.5 LN VELOPMENT-AND-DIRECTG AL AT WARNER BROTHERS THAT EASTWOOD SET UP FOR HER EXCHANGE FOR HER DROPPG HER PALIMONY SU. IN THE ENSUG YEARS, HOWEVER, LOCKE BEME SPIC WHEN, SHE SAID, MORE THAN 30 PROJECTS SHE BROUGHT TO THE STUD WERE REJECTED. SO SHE SUED AGA, THIS TIME ACCG EASTWOOD OF D AND BREACH OF FANCIAL DUTY. HER LAWYER, PEGGY GARRY, ARGUED THAT THE AL EASTWOOD HAD STCK WH LOCKE WAS BOG—A WAY TO GET LOCKE TO BACK OFF OM HER PALIMONY SU, AS WELL AS TO KEEP HER OM WORKG. MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S LAWYER CAN’T STOP GOG ON TV AND MAKG DONALD TMP LOOK RIDICULOLY GUILTY OF THE CRIM HE’S BEEN ACCED OFBY BS LEVWE’RE ONLY JT STARTG TO UNPACK REX HERMANN’S NEW YORKBY DAN ADLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBY MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP/GETTY IMAG.THERE ARE OBV ECHO HERE HEARD’S CLAIM THAT DEPP ANIZED A SMEAR MPAIGN AGAST HER HOLLYWOOD. “I HAD TO FIGHT REALLY HARD TO KEEP MY REER AFTER I GOT MY [RTRAG ORR AGAST DEPP],” SHE TTIFIED URT. DEPP’S FENSE HAS PROVID WNS TO TRY AND REFUTE THIS CLAIM, AND HIS ATTORNEY, CALE VASQUEZ, ASKED HEARD, “YOU HAVE NO EVINCE OF THAT, DO YOU, MS. HEARD?” “JT LOOK ME UP AND YOU’LL SEE,” HEARD REPLIED, ADDRSG THE JURORS.EASTWOOD, MEANWHILE, DISMISSED LOCKE’S SEND LAWSU AS A “DIME-NOVEL PLOT” HIS TTIMONY. IN 1997 HE TOLD THE INPENNT: “IF YOU LOOK AT [LOCKE’S LAWSUS], MONEY WAS THE ISSUE. SOMEBODY N MAKE UP STORI AND PUT ON AN ACT AND PLAY THE VICTIM…. SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT THE WORLD OW THEM A LIVG.” IT WAS THE NARRATIVE THAT SEEMED TO DOMATE VERAGE, THOUGH LOCKE HERSELF HAD TOLD REPORTERS: “THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT MONEY. IT WAS ABOUT MY FIGHTG FOR MY PROFSNAL RIGHTS.”AFTER EASTWOOD SETTLED WH LOCKE OUT OF URT THE SEND SE, SHE SAID SHE FELT THE LAWSU SENT A “LOUD AND CLEAR” MSAGE TO HOLLYWOOD, “THAT PEOPLE NNOT GET AWAY WH WHATEVER THEY WANT TO JT BEE THEY’RE POWERFUL.” NEARLY 30 YEARS LATER, WE FD OURSELV AT A SIAR MOMENT, WONRG WHETHER A POWERFUL MAN WILL W HIS SE, WHEN SEEMS HE’S ALREADY WON OVER THE URT OF PUBLIC OPN. NO MATTER WHAT VERDICT THE JURY DEPP V. HEARD RETURNS, SEEMS CLEAR THAT SOME OF THE SAME QUTNS RAISED BY THE SE HAVE NEVER GONE AWAY: DO A WOMAN HAVE TO BE A PERFECT VICTIM TO BE BELIEVED? DO WE RENT SUCCSFUL, TALENTED WOMEN? SPEAKG WH SHARON WAXMAN THE WASHGTON POST  1997 ABOUT HER TOBGRAPHY, LOCKE SAID: “PEOPLE N SAY, ‘[EASTWOOD] MA HER FAMO, HE GAVE HER MOVI.’ HE DIDN’T GIVE ME MOVI. I DID A JOB.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORECAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWTHE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERHAS THE HAMPTONS FALLY FOUND ITS GREAT EQUALIZER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)NANCY JO SAL
• CLT EASTWOOD JOS REPUBLINS FOR GAY MARRIAGE, HIGHLIGHTG GROWG GOP RIFT
• CLT EASTWOOD BACKS GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT’S UP WH THE HORSE ON TOP OF THIS GAY BAR, BOISE? AND CLT EASTWOOD CLAIM TO FAME?

J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?

Filmgoers never see the s-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Cly Tolson, nsummated, but there's plenty of lovg glanc, hand-holdg and one scene wh an aggrsive, long, ep was the most powerful man Ameri, who died 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall rts marked the morn gay civil rights movement -- homosexual? "He might have been [gay]. "In public, Hoover waged a ventta agast homosexuals and kept "nfintial and secret" fil on the sex liv of ngrsmen and prints.

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CLT EASTWOOD TALKS GAY MARRIAGE, RNC SPEECH CONTROVERSY WH ELLEN DEGENER

And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they n embrace or reject publicly. "Some men do not publicly intify as gay, regardls of their sexual behavr. "Even the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled "gay" but "men who have sex wh men.

Joseph McCarthy his anti-munist mpaign of the 1950s and who succsfully nvicted Juli and Ethel Rosenberg of pnage, nied he was gay, spe an attractn to, who died of AIDS 1986, was a ntemporary of Hoover and acrdg to one bgraphy, the two attend sex parti together New York the was characterized a scene om Tony Kchner's play, "Angels Ameri, " speakg to his doctor: "..

Homosexual. Gay. "In a 2004 bgraphy by Richard Hack, "Puppetmaster, " which was culled om the not of Tman Capote, who had begun terviews on Hoover and Tolson's relatnship, the thor says Hoover was not gay, but suggts the man was virly turned on by the smut he llected on 200-page secret document was on the extracurricular activi of Capote himself, who was openly Anthony Summers, who exposed the secret sex life of Hoover his 1993 book, "Official and Confintial: The Secret Life of J.

BEFORE JOHNNY DEPP AND AMBER HEARD, SONDRA LOCKE AND CLT EASTWOOD’S HARROWG COURT BATTLE DOMATED THE TABLOIDSTHE SIARI BETWEEN THE TWO S ARE STRIKG—A YOUNGER, BLOND ACTOR, VIEWED AS A LSER TALENT, PTED AGAST A POWERFUL MALE HOLLYWOOD IN.BY NANCY JO SALMAY 27, 2022CLT EASTWOOD AND SONDRA LOCKE THE GNTLET, 1977.FROM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBEFORE THERE WAS DEPP V. HEARD, THERE WAS LOCKE V. EASTWOOD. IN 1989, ACTOR SONDRA LOCKE SUED CLT EASTWOOD, HER ROMANTIC PARTNER OF ABOUT 13 YEARS, FOR PALIMONY, AND THE TABLOIDS WENT WILD. IT WAS A CELEBRY BT UP REPLETE WH ACCATNS OF ABE AND WIRETAPPG, ALL THE MORE SHOCKG BEE LOCKE AND EASTWOOD HAD BEEN SEEN AS A GOLN UPLE, AND HAD MA SIX H FILMS TOGETHER. EASTWOOD WAS 58 AT THE TIME OF THE LAWSU—THE SAME AGE JOHNNY DEPP IS NOW; LOCKE, WHO DIED 2018, WAS 44. SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT EASTWOOD HAD END THEIR RELATNSHIP A FUNK OF BAD FEELGS “BEE HE WASN’T NUMBER ONE AT THE BOX OFFICE ANYMORE, OR BEE HE WAS FACG HIS MORTALY,” AS BGRAPHER PATRICK MCGILLIGAN PUT .THE SIARI BETWEEN THE TWO S ARE STRIKG—A YOUNGER, BLOND ACTOR, VIEWED AS A LSER TALENT, WAS PTED AGAST A POWERFUL MALE HOLLYWOOD IN—AND SO SEEMS ODD THAT HASN’T BEEN MENTNED THE REAMS OF HOT TAK ABOUT DEPP-HEARD THAT HAVE NTUED TO THIS WEEK, WHEN THEIR JURY IS ABOUT TO GO OUT FOR LIBERATNS. JIM LO SCALZO/GETTY IMAG. BUT THEN, EASTWOOD-LOCKE HAPPENED AT A DIFFERENT TIME CELEBRY CULTURE, WHEN CELEBRY MEDIA NSISTED MALY OF PEOPLE, THE NATNAL ENQUIRER, AND STAR. THERE WASN’T ENDLS VERAGE OF THE SE MAJOR NEWSPAPERS OR ON THE TV NEWS; NO LOFTY OP-EDS ABOUT S MEANG. THOUGH LOCKE BATTLED EASTWOOD URT FOR 19 MONTHS—VELOPG BREAST NCER DURG THE ORAL—THE URT PROCEEDGS WERE NOT TELEVISED; HER LAWSU ME JT BEFORE THE LNCH OF COURT TV 1991. CELEBRY WAS NOT YET THE LENS THROUGH WHICH WE SEEM TO SEE JT ABOUT EVERYTHG. AND YET, THE IMPLITNS OF THE SE WERE SIAR, THE SENSE THAT LOCKE ARGUABLY LOST HER REER BEE OF , SPE CLAIMG EASTWOOD HAD BEEN ABIVE. AT ONE POT, SHE ASKED JUDGE DANA SEN HENRY TO KEEP EASTWOOD AWAY OM THEIR BEL-AIR HOME “BEE I KNOW HIM TO HAVE A TERRIBLE TEMPER…AND HE HAS EQUENTLY BEEN ABIVE TO ME.” (EASTWOOD NIED HER ALLEGATNS.) BUT LOCKE’S ABE CLAIMS WERE NOT EVEN THE FOC OF THE MEDIA VERAGE, NOR HAVE THEY STUCK TO EASTWOOD. WHAT PEOPLE SEEMED TO RE MOST ABOUT WAS THE MONEY. LOCKE’S DARG TO ASK FOR PALIMONY SEEMED TO STRIKE SOME AS UNTOWARD, SCE SHE WAS STILL MARRIED TO HER CHILDHOOD IEND GORDON ANRSON, WHO WAS GAY (THEY HAD A PLATONIC RELATNSHIP). AND PALIMONY SELF—OFTEN WRONGLY PICTED THOSE DAYS AS A WAY FOR WOMEN TO BILK HARD-WORKG MEN—WAS A HOT-BUTTON ISSUE AT A TIME OF PEAK BACKLASH AGAST THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT. (SAN FALUDI’S FEMIST CLASSIC BACKLASH: THE UNCLARED WAR AGAST AMERIN WOMEN ME OUT 1991, EXPOSG A MEDIA-DRIVEN STRATEGY OF BLAMG THE VICTIM AND THE FEMIST MOVEMENT SELF FOR WOMEN’S OPPRSN.) WHEN LOCKE DIED 2018 OF RDIAC ARRT BROUGHT ON BY BONE AND BREAST NCER, CEL MENTERS ONLE LLED HER A “GOLD DIGGER,” AND JEZEBEL CRICIZED THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER FOR NNG AN OBUARY THAT REFERRED TO HER S ORIGAL HEADLE AS AN “EMBTERED EX,” AND SEEMED TO PORTRAY HER AS “MONEY-GBBG.”MEANWHILE, LOCKE WAS AN TERTG ARTIST—NOT JT AN ACTOR BUT A DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, AND SGER. IN 1986, SHE DIRECTED A BIZARRE IC HORROR FLICK, RATBOY, WHICH WAS HAILED BY FRENCH CRICS AT THE DEVILLE AMERIN FILM FTIVAL. YEARS BEFORE SHE MET EASTWOOD, SHE WAS NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTRS FOR HER ROLE THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1968). IT ULD BE ARGUED THAT EASTWOOD’S MIDLIFE SUCCS—WHICH PRISED SOME OF THE HIGHT-GROSSG PICTUR OF HIS REER UP TO THAT POT, CLUDG THE ORANGUTAN-BUDDY ACTN-EDY EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978)—WAS DUE NO SMALL PART TO HIS STEAMY ONSCREEN CHEMISTRY WH LOCKE. THEY STARTED DATG 1975 ON THE SET OF THE OUTLAW JOSEY WAL, WHILE HE WAS STILL MARRIED, AS WELL, TO HIS FIRST WIFE, MAGGIE JOHNSON. LOCKE WROTE HER TOBGRAPHY, THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE VERY UGLY, THAT HER ATTRACTN TO EASTWOOD WAS IMMEDIATE AND POWERFUL, AND THAT HE ED TO SG TO HER, “SHE MA ME MONOGAMO.” THAT DIDN’T PREVENT HIM OM CHEATG ON HER, HOWEVER, AS WELL AS SECRETLY FATHERG TWO CHILDREN WH ANOTHER WOMAN, JACELYN REEV, THE LATE ‘80S, WHILE HE AND LOCKE WERE STILL TOGETHER. LOCKE, MEANWHILE, ALLEGED HER PALIMONY SU THAT EASTWOOD HAD PRSURED HER HAVE TWO ABORTNS AS WELL AS A TUBAL LIGATN, OR STERILIZATN SURGERY. (EASTWOOD NIED THE ALLEGATNS.)  TO FD THE MEANG OF EASTWOOD-LOCKE, ONE PERHAPS HAS TO LOOK AT HOW THE SE WAS ROLVED, AND THE SUBSEQUENT LAWSU LOCKE BROUGHT FORTH BEE OF . IN 1990, LOCKE AND EASTWOOD ARRIVED AT A SETTLEMENT THAT CLUD A $1.5 LN VELOPMENT-AND-DIRECTG AL AT WARNER BROTHERS THAT EASTWOOD SET UP FOR HER EXCHANGE FOR HER DROPPG HER PALIMONY SU. IN THE ENSUG YEARS, HOWEVER, LOCKE BEME SPIC WHEN, SHE SAID, MORE THAN 30 PROJECTS SHE BROUGHT TO THE STUD WERE REJECTED. SO SHE SUED AGA, THIS TIME ACCG EASTWOOD OF D AND BREACH OF FANCIAL DUTY. HER LAWYER, PEGGY GARRY, ARGUED THAT THE AL EASTWOOD HAD STCK WH LOCKE WAS BOG—A WAY TO GET LOCKE TO BACK OFF OM HER PALIMONY SU, AS WELL AS TO KEEP HER OM WORKG. MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S LAWYER CAN’T STOP GOG ON TV AND MAKG DONALD TMP LOOK RIDICULOLY GUILTY OF THE CRIM HE’S BEEN ACCED OFBY BS LEVWE’RE ONLY JT STARTG TO UNPACK REX HERMANN’S NEW YORKBY DAN ADLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBY MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP/GETTY IMAG.THERE ARE OBV ECHO HERE HEARD’S CLAIM THAT DEPP ANIZED A SMEAR MPAIGN AGAST HER HOLLYWOOD. “I HAD TO FIGHT REALLY HARD TO KEEP MY REER AFTER I GOT MY [RTRAG ORR AGAST DEPP],” SHE TTIFIED URT. DEPP’S FENSE HAS PROVID WNS TO TRY AND REFUTE THIS CLAIM, AND HIS ATTORNEY, CALE VASQUEZ, ASKED HEARD, “YOU HAVE NO EVINCE OF THAT, DO YOU, MS. HEARD?” “JT LOOK ME UP AND YOU’LL SEE,” HEARD REPLIED, ADDRSG THE JURORS.EASTWOOD, MEANWHILE, DISMISSED LOCKE’S SEND LAWSU AS A “DIME-NOVEL PLOT” HIS TTIMONY. IN 1997 HE TOLD THE INPENNT: “IF YOU LOOK AT [LOCKE’S LAWSUS], MONEY WAS THE ISSUE. SOMEBODY N MAKE UP STORI AND PUT ON AN ACT AND PLAY THE VICTIM…. SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT THE WORLD OW THEM A LIVG.” IT WAS THE NARRATIVE THAT SEEMED TO DOMATE VERAGE, THOUGH LOCKE HERSELF HAD TOLD REPORTERS: “THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT MONEY. IT WAS ABOUT MY FIGHTG FOR MY PROFSNAL RIGHTS.”AFTER EASTWOOD SETTLED WH LOCKE OUT OF URT THE SEND SE, SHE SAID SHE FELT THE LAWSU SENT A “LOUD AND CLEAR” MSAGE TO HOLLYWOOD, “THAT PEOPLE NNOT GET AWAY WH WHATEVER THEY WANT TO JT BEE THEY’RE POWERFUL.” NEARLY 30 YEARS LATER, WE FD OURSELV AT A SIAR MOMENT, WONRG WHETHER A POWERFUL MAN WILL W HIS SE, WHEN SEEMS HE’S ALREADY WON OVER THE URT OF PUBLIC OPN. NO MATTER WHAT VERDICT THE JURY DEPP V. HEARD RETURNS, SEEMS CLEAR THAT SOME OF THE SAME QUTNS RAISED BY THE SE HAVE NEVER GONE AWAY: DO A WOMAN HAVE TO BE A PERFECT VICTIM TO BE BELIEVED? DO WE RENT SUCCSFUL, TALENTED WOMEN? SPEAKG WH SHARON WAXMAN THE WASHGTON POST  1997 ABOUT HER TOBGRAPHY, LOCKE SAID: “PEOPLE N SAY, ‘[EASTWOOD] MA HER FAMO, HE GAVE HER MOVI.’ HE DIDN’T GIVE ME MOVI. I DID A JOB.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORECAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWTHE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERHAS THE HAMPTONS FALLY FOUND ITS GREAT EQUALIZER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)NANCY JO SAL

And Bra are issug a remake of the medil expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predomant homosexual orientatn" and another tegorized him as a "bisexual wh failed heterosexualy. "I didn't really unrstand anythg about homosexualy at the time, " said Stuart.

"Hoover promoted men cled to homosexual discretns, cludg Tolson, who had barely 18 months experience wh the FBI when he beme Hoover's pair ed to make "scy jok" about some of the other agents, like Melv Purvis, who was a hero for arrtg John Dillger, acrdg to 's son shared his father's 500-letter rrponnce wh Hoover, who teased the good-lookg, blond-haired agent as "the Clark Gable of the FBI, " even though he was were timate and one was highly charged wh nuendo, as Hoover referred to himself as the "Chairman of the Moral Uplift Squad.

CLT EASTWOOD JOS REPUBLINS FOR GAY MARRIAGE, HIGHLIGHTG GROWG GOP RIFT

In 1978 when the actrs was asked to ment on Ana Bryant's anti-gay mpaign, Merman told the reporter, "Some of my bt iends are homosexual. "Harry Hay, founr of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay rights anizatns, nfirmed that Hoover and Tolson sat box owned by and ed exclively by gay men at their racg hnt Del Mar California. "He was fely troubled by homosexualy, " she said 1990, "and my hband's not would have proved that...

CLT EASTWOOD BACKS GAY MARRIAGE

I might stir a kettle of worms by makg that statement, but everybody then unrstood that he was a homosexual, not jt the doctors.

WHAT’S UP WH THE HORSE ON TOP OF THIS GAY BAR, BOISE? AND CLT EASTWOOD CLAIM TO FAME?

"He was totally self-servg and the way which he was a reprsed homosexual didn't require him to abe dividual rights and human liberti the way he did, " said Summers.

Edgar Hoover was "probably good for the untry, " and whether he was homosexual or not mak no difference.

You n love a person and whether go to the realm of beg gay or not, is here nor there. "A younger generatn of gays was moved by the film precisely bee portrayed such an inic figure's stggle wh his sexualy. "The dience I was clearly rooted for Hoover to be gay and to have happs his sex and love life, " said Ben Ryan, a 33-year-old novelist om New York Cy.