The Thomas Tryon Tragedy

[mr_breckenridge]

The actor who portrayed Scott Breckenridge in 1966 (when he was 40 years old, playing a man who was 35 by episode canon), was a fascinating man who would have been worth knowing. He was well educated, literate (in fact, became a very successful writer), and evidently sensitive enough to have been made "physically ill" by Otto Preminger during the

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[ladyjanelly]

I had no idea. I think it's fascinating how many of these 'manly' actors were into other men. It sounds like he had a rich life.

I mentioned this post to my roomie and she immediately jumped to real-person-slash. Sigh.

[mr_breckenridge]

Real-person slash is an interesting concept. I can't help wondering if Tryon would have been a top or a bottom. I haven't gone so far as to buy the Casey Donovan biography, but I probably will.

Yes, I think Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc., (whether they were actually gay or bisexual or whatever), were the tip of the iceberg. It's too bad the (homo)sexual side needs to be covert, but I suppose that's one of the things that makes it more interesting.

Of judgmental writers

[ext_6171643]

Didn't like the writer opining that Casey Donovan "wasn't careful enough" and died of AIDS despite his public service announcements about safer sex. Donovan could very well have contracted HIV long before the virus was known and before AIDS had surfaced as a pandemic. Donovan had been making sex movies since 1971 (Boys in the Sand). Let's avoid this writer's smarmy way of thinking.