“He said the producers had chosen Adam West. ‘Gosh,’ I said. ‘That’s who I screen tested with.’ ‘Yes, I know,’ he laughed. ‘With your bubbling personality and his natural stiffness, you make a great couple.’ I didn’t know quite how to take that.” – Burt Ward, Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights In the popular […]
“THINK JAMES Bond, But With Exquisitly Tacky Gold Sequins.” Quite the cover statement to whet the reader’s appetite! What a delicious treat this book is. While I love a good auto/biography, the stylistic framework of Queer Musings of a One-time Boy Skater is something I don’t engage with enough. It’s very free-spirited, sometimes even “stream-of-conscious” […]
I HAVE always been more of a Montgomery Clift fan. His dark, brooding complexity, good looks, and acting chops just do it for me. That said, the life of Tab Hunter (1931-2018) and his Hollywood-manufactured “All-American Boy-Next-Door” schtick fascinates me still. While I enjoyed Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter with […]
