Charles Nelson Reilly
has shuffled off this mortal coil. I might not have posted this but I know Carl found him pretty compelling.
Here's some old Match Game footage:
Bossy
Snotty
As a bonus Edna Crabopple (Simpsons) is in both vids.
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The thought of Charles fathering a child, any child, is beyond laughable.
Goodbye, Mr. Reilly. You'll be missed by some.
Carl 28 May 2007
Reilly said that appearing on gameshows ruined his acting career. I'm sure that's what stopped the usual steady flow of scripts with terrific parts for over-the-top spastics with giant glasses. He was no Jack Lemmon. ha ha.
If it weren't for stereotypical queens, gay people would still just be a group to be kicked around. It wasn't toe-the-line, straight acting closet cases that changed the equation, just ask Richard Chamberlain.
jpeg 29 May 2007
I never gave it much thought but I guess you could call CNR, Paul Lynde and Wayland Flowers "pioneers".
Carl 29 May 2007
I love all those old game shows where they smoke on set.
Who is Paul Lynde and Wayland Flowers and for that matter Richard Chamberlain (oh wait he's the guy from that mini series in the early 80s about the priest who falls in love)
Mourning in my own way... 29 May 2007
Paul Lynde is probably best known as "Uncle Arthur" from the original Bewitched series . . . he was frequently center square on the old Hollywood Squares show among other things.
Wayland Flowers had an act with this bizarre "Madame" puppet in the 70's . . . it defies a simple explanation. Google it.
Carl 29 May 2007
Googling leads to many many troubling facts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_Flowers
I vaguely remeber this from the 1970s. It seems like something I might see on the Love Boat or something like that. It also looks if some reason I didn't get enough of "Madame", there was a rivival show last year.
nora 29 May 2007
For 30 years starting in the 20s the only obviously gay character to be allowed onscreen was the sissy. Flamers turned out to be better than nothing. Other gay characters are coded (Peter Lorre in Maltese Flacon rubs the handle of his cane near his mouth, Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca is a little too interested in Rebecca's underwear drawer.) Actual real world gays were either neutered or straightened by the time their bio movies came out.
From 1960 to about 1980 gays started to appear but only if they killed themselves in the last reel (you know because even they know they're loathsome), or if they were beaten and killed because they were of course, a psychotic killer.
A fine tradition w/o any lasting effect on the culture I'm sure...
jpeg 29 May 2007
I'm not sure that the "liberal medias" version of gays in sitcoms (for example) over the last 30+ years is really all that positive either.
Is there such a thing as a good stereotype?
Carl 29 May 2007
No, of course sterotypes are never good but becasue the commericial endorsements are more important than educating the masses writers are forced to create these sugar coated pills that help us "dumb Americans" swallow new ideas. Take the mammy-type characters, Amos & Andy and that loathesome Jack from Will & Grace. (Well, I hope we put him in the same catagory soon.)
liz 30 May 2007
no one knows this, but Chuck was Simon Cowell's daddy... 'cept Simon is rich as astronauts, and his Pop worked for scale
paula abdul 28 May 2007