Jack Scalia: 1970s Underwear Model

He was in a cheesy woman's movie where he owned a Caribbean hotel.

He sat down for dinner at the restaurant wearing a tiny 'lap-lap' or sarong which rode up his thighs and barely contained his manhood.

Fabulous chin-cleavage!

Was he homosexual?

He married Miss Universe . . . then they divorced.

He was in Rock Hudson’s Rolodex. They worked together.

[quote] but his acting career never really took off…

He wasn't an actor but he knew how to take off his clothes.

He was Sue Ellen's business manager on 'Dallas' when she owned Valentine Lingerie.

^^ so, totally sus then...

I do remember him OP. I never knew his name but I do recognize his face. He was handsome as hell.

[quote] And why don't young men look anywhere near this hot today?

Men aren't allowed to be masculine any more.

Major coke addiction. Not rumor, he addresses this in interviews. Drugs probably derailed his career.

I don't recommend watching the Joanne Pacula film "Sweet Deception," but Scalia's attempt at a Southern accent almost turned a thriller into a comedy.

[quote] In the late 1970s, underwear ads and ads for Jordache jeans featuring Jack Scalia created such a craze that people were stealing the ads all over NYC…

We were started for titillation back in those days.

We had to pay $10 for a sordid video from a tawdry filthy porn shop.

1970s men and 1980s men were the hottest!!!! It all went downhill for looks after those decades.

Here's a clip from that cheesy woman's movie mentioned at R1.

He strips down in the last minute.

Let’s get down to basics.

He was an Erica Kane suitor for a while.

R15 Did he shave his chest?

Jack's attempted to ride the wave of the 80s hunk craze, but he never achieved the superstardom of Tom Selleck, John Schneider, etc.

I actually think Jack was way hotter than Selleck or John Schneider--who are both hot.

He was reported to have had an affair with Jackie Collins.

Excessive use of Poppers when he and Hudson were having sex during the time they were shooting "The Devlin Connection" led to Hudson's heart attack.

What??? Seriously R21???? I never heard that. If that's true, how did he escape AIDS?

I'll bet you respond to e-mails from Nigerian princes too, don't you, R22.

Didn't Jack play Joey Buttafuoco in one of three made for TV movies of the 1980s? Ed Marinaro played Joey in another one but I can't remember what 80s hunk played Joey in the 3rd one.

Hudson was not yet infected in 1982 when they worked together. I worked on the show as a personal assistant to one of the writers and most of us were aware of what was going on. Hudson was really enamored of Scalia.

Yes R24, I'd forgotten about him playing Joey Buttafuoco.

R25 please tell us more! Was Jack a top or a bottom in the situation? Was it serious or just quid pro quo? Was that Jack's only homo relationship?

Hudson may have been 'really enamored of Scalia' but we shouldn't assume they touched each other.

R27 is a dipshit. 🤦‍♂️

Jack was a top in this case. Rock loved to bottom for someone with a large cock, which Scalia had, and then some. Jack may have had other flings, but I have no corroboration about them and only know of this, with certainty, because of working on the show. I think it was serious at the time. Jack looked different than most of the guy's Rock seemed to like and Rock was very protective of him. Jack seemed to genuinely appreciate Rock's professional advice and Rock even curtailed his excessive drinking while working with Jack.

R29 has a foul mouth.

He kind of reminds me of the actor on "Dallas" who played Dusty Farlow, who was Sue Ellen's side piece.

Thanks R30 and R31.

I vaguely remember him as being a terrible actor.

Jack Scalia's character on All My Children: "Erica, when I said I was staying so close to you because I was in love with you, I was lying. I'm not a janitor. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a secret agent and I've been assigned to protect you because your life is in deadly danger. You could be killed at any minute."

Erica: (Beat) "Then...you're not in love with me."

R34, see R5.

r9 thinks wannabe actors and male models are the epitome of masculinity

You sound as dumb as Tucker Carlson and those right-wingers who are obsessed with "masculinity"

I remember him as the character on Remington Steele who was the third wheel that came between Laura and Remington. I HATED him because my young heart was all about Pierce Brosnan.

R37 You have me all wrong! I'm just sick of Gen Y and Gen Z "men" with rapidly shrinking ball syndrome.

Good ol' Joey Buttafuoco...

I watched this movie a few months ago and couldn't place Scalias face. In this film, he looked like a good looking version JFK.jr.

Terrible movie, smoking hot male leads.

He has his own web page.

Too bad he didn't do full frontal back in the day. I bet he really had the goods.

He's in that dreary Valerie Bertinelli miniseries I'll Take Manhattan.

He's supposedly broke, right? And renting himself out to some old billionaire chick associated with some scam called Yellowstone and a Trump supporter as well as a grifter who stole from a military charity he started. Since his website is about him being a "casino player," I assume he might be a gambling addict???

Don't you like masculinity, R37?

Agreed, R43. He was a perfect candidate for Playgirl. Imagining that large cock and a thick bush. Maybe he was sensitive about the size of his cock. If it was huge, he may have been remembered by that fact alone.

R30 what kind of men was Rock Hudson usually into, and how was Jack different?

R43 what lovely thoughts. . .sigh.

Ooopps that was for R47. . . what lovely thoughts you have. sigh.

Jack in Playgirl would have been the bomb.

I worked w him during his All My Children last gasp. SO MUCH EGO. Cocky. Abhorrent politics. Wish him well, but he was a lot.

He was hot during his Devlin Connection days.

R52 What did he smell like? Does he smell good? What kind of colonge of aftershave does he wear?

He died on Dallas. Plunged off a balcony while fighting with JR. Sue Ellen then *shot* JR (of course he survived).

They never should have killed him off so soon on Dallas. He was a great character, very popular with the viewers. Also, his accent actually worked for that part. I've never seen him so natural before. His acting was good on Dallas! Why did they kill him so soon???

My goodness, r53! I didn't realize that there was such a large age discrepancy when he worked with Rock. Rock couldn't have lasted many years after that project.

The Devlin Connection opening credits. The shot of Rock walking past the women dancers is funny.

Rock Hudson was only 60 when he died.

Clooney is 61. Pitt is 58.

The big stars from the 1950s and 1960s Hollywood really didn't age well.

But, Hudson was gorgeous in his prime.

Not shocking that Scalia dicked Mr. Hudson. Jack was fame-hungry and wanted to be taken seriously, way beyond all the underwear adverts. Btw, who didn't Erika Kane sleep with?

Everyone in the industry knew Rock was gay and assumed that he would have to approve his co-star so Jack was assumed to be gay by association.

Rock's "protégé" To give him credit he always spoke fondly of Hudson.

This was the older partner/younger partner formula of all these detective shows Streets of SFO,Barnaby Jones ect. The hot younger partner would chase the perp down in his speedo and the old geezer would pull up in his Lincoln , stick a pistol out the window and say "Book em Dano."

I never found Rock Hudson attractive.

He had "The Jordache Look"!

Hudson no, Scalia, yes. A good looking version of John F Kennedy Jr.

One W for r66. I agree completely with your first sentence. As for your second, John-John was the good-looking version of John-John.

Scalia was a looker. I've never heard the Rock Hudson stuff before but it seems very unlikely.

A female acquaintance who was gorgeous, from a rich and prominent NYC family and in her early 20’s had a fling with Jack in the mid 1980’s. She wouldn’t spill any details but said he went after her very aggressively.

R69, lucky gal

R66 Because JFK Jr was not good looking. 😂

R68

r18, they defined Him-boes

Everyone knows Jack Saclia was not gay. He was normal.From what I know to be a fact neither was Rock Hudson. He was married to a WOMAN for Pete's sake! Look it up! It's disgusting how you gays try to claim everyone was gay even Abraham Lincoln. LMAO!

Rock was also married to a woman!!

I don't think anyone claimed that Jack was gay, but I worked on "The Devlin Connection" and they were definitely having a fling.

Jack visited Rock in his final weeks and during the visit, Rock's spirits soared. I know the look that two people who have been intimate in the past share, and they shared it.

You had to personally know Rock to understand why someone like Jack would fall under his spell. When not drinking to excess, Rock was funny, charming, very intelligent and quite sexy, even in his latter 50's. In addition, Rock had a way of looking at you and making you feel that you were the most important person in the world. To a struggling newcomer, that would have been alluring.

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[quote] Jack visited Rock in his final weeks and during the visit, Rock's spirits soared. I know the look that two people who have been intimate in the past share, and they shared it.

Uhhh...that just doesn't sound plausible. When you say 'intimate' are you referring to the sex act where the man goes up inside the other man? Because we're gonna need receipts on that.

[quote] Not shocking that Scalia dicked Mr. Hudson.

Not shocking because it DIDN'T happen.

Will the Jack Scalia thread last longer than the Tom Selleck thread?

Start salivating! !

I'll freely admit I always had the hots for Jack back in the day but I'm finding it interesting looking back at all these photos now to realize he wasn't as classically handsome as I remembered. Luscious as can be but more working class sexy than GQ cover boy.

GQ cover boys today are nothing like we remember.

Scalia never did sex stuff with men. That’s gross and mean.

Liberace was the only fag in Hollywood and Jack wouldn't give him the time of day..Jack only wanted what I got and I'd make him beg for it!

Op is grayed

[quote] Op is grayed

Why do Dataloungers do that? It seems so petty and vindictive.

Slip him some Grecian Formula, r84.

Jack's first screen credit was a small part in the TV movie The Star Maker (1981)...starring Rock Hudson (hmmm)! Also with Suzanne Pleshette, Melanie Griffith, Teri Copley (We Got It Made), Ed McMahon, Fred Dryer (Hunter), Kristian Alfonso (Days of our Lives and the two worst seasons of Falcon Crest)...and DL fave Brenda Vaccaro! It's free on YouTube. Watch it!

^ Starmaker was the ONLY time Rock Hudson played gay/bi on screen

Was Jack a star fucker?

Here is a long blog post about Jack Scalia. Lots of pictures.

^ I would have had his career.

R87 I miss Brenda Vaccaro and I have no doubt she’d had something cute to say about Jack Scalia in her adorable husky voice.

Gonna watch that . Thanks :)

I recall a man looking very much like Jack Scalia naked in Viva or Foxy Lady magazine in 1973. Was he famous by that time?

Well, I'm back after HOURS of being banned. Why was I banned? For starting this thread? Someone on this thread said I was "grayed out." Is that true? Did my starting this thread anger people enough to get me banned from posting. Why????

Sorry if that’s true, OP. Thanks for starting the topic.

Thanks R95.

So true R80 --One of my favorite things about Jack is his working-class look! When younger, he was a professional baseball player, and that shows. That's what makes him so sexy. I want to see more men like that, but today's models look so fake like they never did any work (but plastic surgery). I also like that he has the perfect amount of body hair and he's fit and muscular without any tats and without looking roided out.

[quote] Did my starting this thread anger people enough to get me banned from posting.

There are some vindictive irrational millennials in the political threads.

They seethe with anger.

That is so true R98. I forgot how irrational the anger on here can be. Somehow, since this thread isn't political, I assumed it wouldn't tick certain people off. Was I ever wrong!

To think he let himself go, changed his name and became a Supreme Court justice…

Jack Scalia was a younger and better looking Michael Edwards.

[quote] That is so true [R98]. I forgot how irrational the anger on here can be. Somehow, since this thread isn't political, I assumed it wouldn't tick certain people off. Was I ever wrong!

The surname "Scalia" is a trigger, OP. It can provoke a blind rage. You have been warned.

R94 His real name is Giacomo Tomaso Tedesco. Need we say more.

Well, he was no 1980s James Brolin, that's for sure. 🥵🍆💦💦💦

bump

It's pointless bumping unless you have a nude picture.

R106 is as close as it gets

I thought it was this in Foxy Lady.

R40 - thanks for that, Buttafuoco has huge balls and a nice dick! I really had a thing for him back in his famous days.

Jack speaks out about suicide prevention.