Former Child Actor Mason Reese

There's a gay version of him going round. His name is Bruce Villance aka Gayson Reece.

His parents sounded fairly protective. He only did The Mike Douglas Show because it was taped in the East. They didn't want him to go West to do any of the big talk shows like Carson.

I saw him about a decade ago in Vegas going into the Four Queens hotel downtown. Not only ugly and short but he stank!

I thought it was Susan Boyle with a bad dye job at first.

That is a Tolkien character. I'm sure of it.

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Did he ever change his hairstyle?

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Up until recently, he was dating the actress who played Jan Brady on the spinoff Brady Bunch Variety Hour. No I’m not joking.

That was considered entertainment?

As if he didn’t have enough to deal with on his plate, a DLer has to go bring him to everyone’s attention. Leave him the fuck alone.

His mother, Sonia Darrian, played Agnes in "The Big Sleep".

Googling him brought up this hottie.

Perhaps I was a little more special than you growing up, but that FUCKER was everywhere and he had NO FUCKING TALENT and he was scary at a time when Bemish and Sybil were scary. Yeah, that scary.

Watch him cry when he finds out Harry Chapin will perform Cats in the Cradle on the Mike Douglas show.

In comparison, I turned out a hell of a lot better looking.

R15, who didn't?

OP and R13 sound jealous of Reese.

R10, Mason Reese has his own Youtube channels, where he is the one posting these old videos. He's not attempting to avoid publicity, not by any means.

R10 and R17 have to be Mason.

Mason Reese grew into a Mort Drucker caricature.

Are you fucking kidding me?

[quote] He began dating Geri Reischl (known as "Fake Jan" from The Brady Bunch Hour) in October 2016. On February 13, 2018 Reischl announced on social media that they are no longer a couple but remain close friends.

What can I say? The dick was that good!

Why is everyone so shocked? You do know this is what she looks like now, right?

Mason and Fake Jan could have been America's Sweethearts! Too bad they broke up!

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And this gem of a show.

I love his peanut butter cups!

And his jars!

Is that the guy who did the "My baloney has a first name..." commercial? Cuz that guy's definitely gay. He sat down at our table outside a restaurant a few years ago. He seemed lonely but normal. Said he owned a club in the East Village.

I remember seeing that Mike Douglas clip as a child and even then being uncomfortable with the feeling that kid was being exploited, though I wasn't old enough to know it was exactly that.

OP What disease does he suffer from?

[quote]Is that the guy who did the "My baloney has a first name..." commercial?

No. The bologna kid was far less hideous. Mason did commercials for Underwood Deviled Ham.

[quote]OP What disease does he suffer from?

Delusions of talent?

He is genetic trash that should have been aborted.

That little goblin was everywhere in the 70's. Nobody ever found that thing cute it was just remarkably creepy.

Mason is actually charming in this commercial.

It's amazing how gorgeous his mother was (and also very funny in THE BIG SLEEP).

Didn't he famously run off the set of a talk show when guest Harry Chapin played "Cat's in the Cradle" and Mason couldn't handle that song? Started weeping and ran off?

All considered, they took a misfortune and probably gave him a decent life. In a different era, he might have been institutionalized just for looking different.

His mother was quite lovely way back when.

I’m assuming it’s some form of dwarfism but google brings nothin up.

His mother was an attractive woman. She kind of looked like a poor man's Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) in The Big Sleep.

Mason was adopted. I met and chatted with him sometime in the mid-80s. He was actually boasting about losing his virginity to some girl. I was tactful and didn't ask if he had to pay for that service.

He didn't strike me as a bad person though, just unfortunate in the looks department.

Kind of surprised he hasn't done the Realty TV route. Seems like he'd be just the type in demand.

"His mother was an attractive woman. She kind of looked like a poor man's Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)" Uh thanks r41, do you know where you are? People here know who Joan is, you don't need to qualify it.

He was not adopted.

Is there something wrong with him? Does he have the same thing as the kid from Stranger Things?

R45 --sorry, my mistake. Someone had told me he was.

It might be fun to let him suck your cock. Think of the pleasurable sensation you would feel because of the unusual shape of his mouth and hands. I bet he would get on all fours and bark like a dog if you asked him.

R38, see R14

If he’s not adopted, his mother had him at almost 41. Old eggs? He is not genitically right, that’s for sure. But who knows what it is? There are countless syndromes that cause disastrous facial features and short stature. As long as he didn’t have a developmental delay or major health issues, they probably never learned what caused this. Unfortunate looks though.

R14 - that was disturbing

In the 1990s, he owned a bar in the West Village. Now it's called Little Branch. Back then it was something with Monkeys in the title. One day I was walking past and he was standing in front of the bar and he was yelling at this older woman (his mother?) sitting in the car and she was yelling back. It was hilarious because it seemed like some surreal Woody Allen movie.

r13 is correct. He was EVERYWHERE in the 1970s. He even had a segment on NBC News where he did a "Kid's News" type of thing. He would do his bit and then "pass it back" to Sue Simmons who would slobber all over him like he was cute and talented.

Why was R5 considered entertaining? Was it? It looks creepy as fuck. Was this on very late at night?? I’d have nightmares after watching that.

I remember this kid, why was he famous?

He was an omen foretelling neoconservative pillaging of the USA.

I freaked when Ms. Lohan showed up. Sure enough....

The 1970s were very weird, r53. No one thought twice about the commercial, nothing beyond "hey it's that funky looking kid from TV."

He looked like he should be Damian's cousin or something.

The creepiest thing is his pageboy cut. Another version of the “Hollywood bowl” every Tinseltown child star seems to sport.

Didn't he sue Brett Ratner over something?

Is he the kid that became famous mispronouncing smorgasbord?

Children can become famous for no reason at all. Take my fat momma. No, really, take her!

He has siblings. I can't find any pictures if them. Maybe one of you can supply a photo. Is that his real voice in that student film?

[quote]Is he the kid that became famous mispronouncing smorgasbord?

More than 60 replies and no one has posted this yet?

That was supposed to be cute? I’m sick of it after one viewing. I’d have to get up, walk to the television and change the channel everytime it came on.

His club in the Village was "Now Bar".

[quote]That was supposed to be cute? I’m sick of it after one viewing. I’d have to get up, walk to the television and change the channel everytime it came on.

Definitely worth the effort.

What doe his shits smell like?

What did his father look like?

Looks like cross between John Goodman and Zach Galifianakis (YES I had to check the spelling).

If he gad sex he paid for it. I know he went to parties thrown by 1970's - early 1980's porn performer & AIDS sufferer Marc "Mr 10 1/2 " Stevens at studio 54. Stevens was a quaalude head. He was not attractive. He ran an outcall service with porn women. Mason was pals with Stevens. Stevens was a mess. Mason was a troll deluxe.

This is real.

Watch on YouTube today!

DL fave David Pevsner is in the first scene and manages to keep his dick in his pants.

He seems like he has the same genes as Shirley Temple where you're not sure if it's a kid or a 40 year old.

Fuck this thing, let’s talk about the guy at R12. Him and his VPL!

There's another guy, who looks like him, with the same hair style, but blond... the same type face. He wears red eyeglasses, too. I don't know his name. I think he's an artist?

He was by far the best thing in “Don’t Look Now”. He stole that movie right out from under Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie!

Hot.

Someone call for me?

Sorry, did not see R14 and the Harry Chapin clip. Proof it wasn't an urban myth. My bad for scanning down too fast.

whoa r71, Erin Murphy of dl fame? "I played Pippi Longstocking!" Yeah I will have to check that out.

I want him in me deeply

Thanks R78! That's him.. lol..

R76, you made DL worth coming to today.

IIRC,he had some congenital bone disease....his bones are extremely brittle and it affected his growth. I liked him better than that Quinn Cummings...or fellow ginger Susan Richardson!

Genetics are funny. If he had been a pure bred AKC puppy the breeder would have had him put down.

R81 forgot to sign it "Said no one EVER!!!!!"

^ And it’s “QUITE deeply” according to DL conventions.

R85, there’s still time....

It's like his eyes and mouth never grew, only his nose and face kept growing and as his face grew, the eyes and mouth gravitated to the middle.

Don’t forget he was also a fitness enthusiast!

Poor Gordon Parks...man was way too classy for the group he’s in the photo with....

True to his disengaged artifice, Andy does not attempt any illusion of exercise.

Or perhaps he does, rendering genuine effort and social participation indistinguishable from posing.

That would be truly Warholian.

Reply #1 said he looks like Bruce Villance.

I wonder why Andy was never inspired to immortalize Reese.

Andy only liked beautiful people.

R91, fuck you.

Is that a young Grant Goodeve in R63’s video?

I think Brick on "The Middle" got lucky in comparison.

What in the living fuck is the backstory to the pic in R90?

R99:

r80 No. Erin Murphy was Tabitha on "Bewitched." Were you thinking of Tami Erin?

Bitch stole my hairdo

Thanks for that, r100. That’s remarkable.

I know a baby who looks like Mason. It has some sort of developmental disability. Very sweet disposition, though.

r101 Yes, I was thinking of Tami Erin, translated into 80 languages in her iconic role. Thank you!

We thought Mason looked like that because he was one of those Jewish Hollywood actor children

He must have developed a strong sense of self to get past all the ridicule heaped on him for his appearance. And just when he could slide into the forgotten past, the internet creates the prime venue for mean girls to gather to mock the way he looks.

But he did that web series, so maybe it’s not so bad for him after all.

Listen to the podcast he was on a couple of years ago -sad life.

Who has larger hands him or Trump?

Dang R84, you may be right. Mason could have osteogenesis imperfecta. The kid from “The Middle” has that.

Not sure why that link isn’t showing the kid in the thimbnail. It does link to photos though. His name’s Atticus Shaffer.

Jews seem to enjoy having children with strange medical problems around their sets.

FFS, here’s a not-fickle-Gettys-Image link to Atticus.

I wonder if in 30 years he’ll age similarly to Mason. Atticus didn’t start out quite as bad as Mason in the 70s fortunately.

I'm a child of the 70s, and I literally have no clue who this is, and no memory of him at all.

The FACE of a retarded brat! Oh, look in the mirror, Mason - for 14, you don’t look so good!

r113

I don't recall him doing any TV shows, but I do recall his underwood deviled ham commercials. I used to love that when I was little, I tried some a while back and it's horribly salty now, so either it changed or I did.

I can see why if you didn't get his commercials, which apparently were a lot, you would miss him.

He must have some kind of glandular/thyroid problem. His neck looks like a goiter.

The 70's looked horrible, thoughts and prayers to all the survivors.

Fuck You r117

Separated at birth?

R100 love that pic. Must have been connected to Bill Boggs NYC daytime show. He was a cutie

I remember Reese in the 70s commercials.

Devilled ham is disgusting.

[quote]I'm a child of the 70s, and I literally have no clue who this is, and no memory of him at all.

Did you grow up in a hippie commune? Because Mason was everywhere.

R121 is a Stormfront loser stinking up this and the Leonard Bernstein thread with an obsession with “dirty Jews.”

Trump may make you comfortable with your hatred, but don’t think for a minute your posts here receive anything better than pity.

From me it’s just contempt.

He's America's response to Davy Jones.

Am I losing my mind or was his most famous line "Mother, I feel like a stuffed tomato?"

[quote]Am I losing my mind or was his most famous line "Mother, I feel like a stuffed tomato?"

His most famous line that I remember was mispronouncing smorgasboard as borgasmord.

Was Mason huge because he was a precocious, ugly kid? I mean did people think he was "cute"?

Never heard of him, but a google search reflects he has escobar syndrome

Or actually a variant called Multiple Pterygium Syndrome, Escobar variant.

[quote]escobar syndrome

Pablo?

What the hell does cocaine have to do with his looks?

I assume the mom hoovering it while pregnant, R131.

R131 Idk but i suspect you might.

Good point R132.

R131...

Are you saying mom was a frequent visitor to The Valley of the Dolls?

I thought it meant she was vacuuming.

The ridiculous pageboy haircut does him no favours, it only brings attention to the middle of his face where all his features are clustered, leaving a huge, empty swath of ruddy flesh spreading out for acres on each side of his schnozz.

LOL, "clustered"

Wait, isn't that "hairstyle" also known as the Little Lord Fauntleroy?

R140, no it's known as Carol Channing.

Hey, hey, hey, keep my name out ya mouth, r140, or I'll release the hounds.

I thought it was the Ann Romano.

Is it a blobfish?

Interesting documentary about a man who was born with the same condition as Reese. Really sweet.

It's like Joshua Miller from "River's Edge" wearing a too-tight glamour wig.

Where is everyone getting these diagnoses of him from? He has [i]something[/i], but I can’t find info on him having Escobar Syndrome or Treacher-Collins.

Well, that [italic]italic[/italic] didn’t work.

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Mason Reese has [italic]some[/italic] sort of genetic abnormality. Poor guy.

He seems to have Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome. Wonder if he has an assload of money...hmmm.

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Shit

I knew you all would want an update

Sorry but why are we discussing this little homunculus?

Dafuq

It’s actually a really sad story. As an infant he was mercilessly beaten with an ugly stick.

File this one under “Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians”.

I’d probably kilo myself if I looked like that

So he must have a lot of money if he has a girlfriend

I've seen him around town using a mobility scooter with the girlfriend on it with him. They drive aggressively and block traffic for pedestrians, both idiots.

Dear God @ R156. How can any amount of money be worth it? ((shudder)).

He would really benefit from a nose job

Obviously no one read all the way to the end because it contained this telling comment: "Another interesting aspect of this singular couple is that Russi does adult and webcam modeling,"

He makes me nervous. And, ever since the 1970s, not a fan of Underwood canned deviled meat spreads.

I love a good meat spread.

I'm glad of reading R129, R130, R147, and R151 (and a few others I cannot recall) for thoughtful scientific responses. I had thought possibly Treacher-Collins syndrome myself, just from his face. It's reassuring some of us here are better than those making sport of someone suffering a genetic disorder. Nothing witty or wise in that endeavour. I believe engaging in that goes far beyond pointless bitchery as well, into the cruel and unusual category.

I only have the utmost sympathy for such people. Those of you here who often claim you're ugly, or unattractive, be grateful you weren't born with such genetic diseases. Someone always has it worse.

R156 is she legally blind?

In my slutty days ,a few drinks and it was pretty much a sure thing Id sleep with you . Id have to be in a blackout coma to even remotely consider sleeping with that thing at R156 . Just goes to prove my theory that women will fuck anything as long as they get something out of it .

Omg OP is that one of our species?

He looks like Margaret Rutherford

Poor thing, if he googles himself, this pops up.

One thing that jumped out at me when I looked up Escobar syndrome is that it occurs more frequently in the children of parents who are related to each other.

Did he ever go out to Fire Island? My ex’s family had a house in Ocean Beach and I think he said he saw Mason out there...

R175 Most genetic diseases, or syndromes are recessive, so that happens to be the case for any of them if the family has the defective or mutated genes.

I thought hobbits were cute.