Paul Lynde - a gay or not a gay?
 

I imagine that it could be equally effective whether you were a gay or not a gay. It might actually be more effective if young Mr. Peter LaCock was, in fact, a gay, as I have heard that there is less of the traditional coyness among males who are gay with regard to the act of making sex than would exist between men and women with regard to making sex. I cannot speak to this from any personal experience of my own, but maybe you could enlighten us on the subject Mr. Bilmore? :)

spookyfish

Sopranos menswear--coming to a store near you
 

FB gentlemen, you can now dress like your favorite mobster, shiny cotton shirts and all:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/10...ob_ties+.shtml

Any takers?

Sic transit gloria mundi (farewell to the Concorde).
 

Exactamundo on Audrey as Sabrina. Poor Juliet -- it really is unfair to expect someone to try to play that role.

Au contraire. The fact that he was old ugly and cynical and that Sabrina ends up with him instead of William Holden is the whole point of the movie -- that underneath Linus's OU&C exterior beat the heart of a romantic. And so we watch Sabrina slowly realize that Linus is the guy for her after being in love with handsome and charmingly feckless younger brother David for her entire life. Sad and sweet.

It is amazing. Their chemestry in "To Have and to Have Not" is incredible -- one of the few examples where sizzle in real life shows up on the screen.

Not (you know how to whistle, Steve?) Bob

Logo; Sorority Life
 

I can tell you how, or you can snail mail it to me.

And no, we don't want it to look like a guy's package.

I knew someone here had to be able to draw :)

Dead or Alive
 

He is also a fixture at the Friar's Club roasts and on Conan, wherein requisite "He's a corpse" jokes are made to much merriment. I can only hope that my career is capped by such stature.

I have no information on whether Sal Tessio took the cannoli, as it were, NTTAWWT. But if he did, who could blame him? Everybody in that movie was a pervert. Sonny didn't want Michael to come out of the men's room with "just" his dick in his hands. Why on earth would a grown man be worried that his brother might emerge into a restaurant while holding his genitalia? And Luca Brasi slept with fishes, that sick fuck.

But the most disturbing thing about that movie is that after we are assured in very clear terms that Moe Greene is dead, he shows up as Nancy McKeon's father on "The Facts of Life." Talk about posthumous conception.

Logo; Sorority Life
 

If we're going to have a logo, I think it should be one of MR's stick figure drawings. I don't care which one, but the ones illustrating sexual positions were good. They would look good on boxers and thongs.

Sopranos menswear--coming to a store near you
 

Good, god, no. What's funny is that I used to get (that is, received unsolicited) a catalog from Bachrach that contained clothing that was substantially similar to that. I discarded it, along with the international male catalog, in the "icky, no way" pile. Fortunately, international male finally figured out, after 5 years, that I did not want the Sock (or whatever it was called). Bachrach evidently moved out of the gangter business just when it should have been getting in. Now it has a retro-Miami Vice look. No Sock required. Catalogs still coming . . . and going into the recycle bin.

A variation on my favorite stupidity defense
 

Nanky-Pooh (how Mikado), do you know my friend, General Wilburforce Harrington-Smythe? Perhaps you've read about his exploits: http://sweetchillisauce.com/ntales/WHS1.html

This guy who devotes his life to fucking with the Nigerian con artists (talk about a worthy job for the U.S. Military - go get these fuckers) is my hero.

str8

1 down, 15 to go.

Paul Lynde - Alive or Dead?
 

Having seen the E! True Holly wood Story on Hollywood Squares I had to check this out. From the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com):

Biography for
Paul Lynde

Page 11 of 16


Birth name
Paul Edward Lynde
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Height
5' 11"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mini biography
Paul Lynde was born in 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio (one of six children and the middle of four boys). His father was a local police officer and the sheriff of the Mount Vernon Jail for two years. Lynde got his inspiration to become an actor at the age of four or five after his mother took him to see the original silent film Ben Hur (1926). After graduating from Northwestern University, Lynde relocated to New York City where his first break came from being a stand-up comedian at the Number One Fifth Avenue nightclub. Then came an appearance on a Broadway play, New Faces of 1952.

Lynde also had a two-year run on TV with "Perry Como Show, The" (1948) and the Broadway and film versions of Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Throught his life, Lynde appeared in the Broadway plays The Impossible Years, Don't Drink the Water, and Plaza Suite. His many film credits include New Faces (1954), Send Me No Flowers (1964) and Rabbit Test (1978). One of his memorable roles is a recurring role on "Bewitched" (1964) playing the sneering, sarcastic, Uncle Arthur. He appeared on TV's "The Dean Martin Show," "The Kraft Music Hall," "The Donny and Marie Show," and both the prime-time and daytime versions of the game show "Hollywood Squares, The" (1966) where he occupied the famous center square. He had two TV series of his own, "Paul Lynde Show, The" (1972) and "Temperatures Rising" (1972). Paul Lynde's witty, wisecracking one-liners and his novel line delivery made him one of Hollywood's funniest and best loved entertainers. Paul Lynde died under mysterious circumstances when he was found dead after having drowned in his backyard swimming pool allegedly under the influence of alcohol, or after suffering a heart attack in January 1982 at age 55. He had been in ill-health for over a year with cancer or some other illness that was never fully revealed to the public before or after his death.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

IMDb mini-biography by

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Trade mark
His distinctive laugh after every joke he made on The Hollywood Squares


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Trivia
Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).

Interred at Amity Cemetery in Amity, Ohio.

Posthumously "outed" by Boze Hadleigh, who has written extensively about previously closeted Hollywood actors/actresses.

The coroner who examined his body said he had the heart of an eighty-eight year old man.

Told his agent shortly before his death that he had given up cigarettes and alcohol.

Dead or Alive
 

I hope you are not calling me a gay.

spookyfish

Also try the Velvet Lounge at the Venetian. No techno, more grown up, great cocktails and a nice view of the strip.

As for hotels, I got a great deal at the Aladdin. The hotel and casino are nothing special; about like a nice Hilton. But the mid-strip location is great if you get a good deal.

Dead or Alive
 

Please stop. How long is a homage [sp?] supposed to last?

Paul Lynde - Alive or Dead?
 

You might as well then do a homage to me using the phrase "a gay" he got it from me. I got it from Margaret Cho.

And I will say I do not believe that the spooky one is CTD.

He's just obsessed with gay people, and, apparently E.

Unfucking believable
 

Am I the only person in the world who thought Waterworld was no worse than a slightly-below-average Hollywood summer movie? When it was released, the big deal was that it cost $50 million to make or some such high number for its time. I don't know why anyone cared. The salient question seems to be "is this movie worth my $7.50," not "is this movie worth "$50M." I think that's more widely acknowledged now than it was then. Rarely are huge budgets mentioned as a drawback.

FWIW, I also thoroughly enjoyed the first 15 minutes of Ishtar

str("hot fudge love, cherry ripple kisses")8

Celebrate my Birthday
 

That's romantic. You must be a cold fish.