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Growing up in Ohio watching that film was the first time I'd ever seen a gay character on film like that. He was hysterically funny yet sad but his character seemed real to me and multi dimensional. Not just some gay caricature thrown into a movie.
For a 16 yr old the whole film was the gayest thing I'd ever seen on film and I loved it.
I also thought Preston was gay---not many straight actors in 1986 would have taken on a gay character on film!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 21, 2020 5:17 PM |
1982!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 21, 2020 3:37 PM |
Alex Karras was my crush from this movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 21, 2020 3:57 PM |
Hey - I watched this last night!
Everyone was great, of course.
Robert reminded me of my grandma.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 21, 2020 3:59 PM |
I wonder when he came out... or did he?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 21, 2020 4:00 PM |
My mom insisted Robert Preston really must be gay, wife and children be damned.
She also referred to Billy Crystal as "that little fruit from Soap." If you played gay, you had to be gay in her little world.
As for Victor/Victoria, I love that movie and always will.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 21, 2020 4:02 PM |
Robert Preston is the best thing about that movie, outside of Julie Andrews. And Leslie Ann Warren. And the crabby waiter. And..
Oh hell, every part of this movie is fucking perfect and fabulous. I never tire of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 21, 2020 4:07 PM |
He and Warren were the best parts of the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 21, 2020 4:08 PM |
I really thought Preston was gay when I saw this first a teenager. Hilarious performance that never gets old. He was robbed of that Oscar.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 21, 2020 4:08 PM |
James Garner was first approached to play the role of Toddy but ultimately it was concluded that he wouldn't be believable in the part so he was given the other male lead, the romantic role.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 21, 2020 4:10 PM |
Brav-a
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 21, 2020 4:10 PM |
I always assumed he was gay, too. But he was reportedly a notorious womanizer, sleeping with nearly every woman in the casts of the shows he was in.
God bless Blake Edwards for giving him a career resurgence.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 21, 2020 4:13 PM |
I thought he was known as a pussy hound in his earlier studio contract player days. Going through starlets like Hitler through Poland.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 21, 2020 4:34 PM |
He'd played gay in "S.O.B." the year before, too. He's really convincing, especially in an era where Paul Lynde, Stephen Stucker and Charles Nelson Reilly were the big-name gays and incredibly over the top. I thought he was gay for years, it really (and hilariously) messed up my reading of the movie "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" which I saw for a college class in the 1990s.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 21, 2020 4:38 PM |
Alex Karras was hot! And him revealing that he's gay in the movie made my young dick twitch.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 21, 2020 4:45 PM |
The reveal of Alex Karras in bed with Robert Preston is still one of the biggest laughs I’ve ever had in a movie theatre.
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