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Ray Sharkey

Str8 actor who was HIV-positive and slept with over 100 women and infected some of them. Discuss.

by Anonymousreply 24June 26, 2023 10:42 PM

he makes me look like a saint!

by Anonymousreply 1November 20, 2022 2:41 AM

[quote]Str8

Sure, Jan

by Anonymousreply 2November 20, 2022 2:52 AM

I remember watching The Idol Maker as a kid, and Midnight Express at around the same time. I wasn't quite sure what "gay" was, but I understood that some terrible thing had happened to these two men.

by Anonymousreply 3November 20, 2022 2:54 AM

Which two men, r3?

by Anonymousreply 4November 20, 2022 2:58 AM

Saw it in the theatuh...

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by Anonymousreply 5November 20, 2022 3:04 AM

"Str8 actor who was HIV-positive and slept with over 100 women and infected some of them. Discuss."

I find your premise flawed since IIRC he wasn't straight.

Although he may have been "straightwashed" after death.

by Anonymousreply 6November 20, 2022 3:21 AM

His daughter murdered her mother in law.

by Anonymousreply 7November 20, 2022 3:23 AM

One of the biggest sluts in Hollywood--fucked both men and women indiscriminately (don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise).

He could be amazing onscreen when he got parts that channeled his incredibly aggressive sexual energy, like SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS.

by Anonymousreply 8November 20, 2022 3:29 AM

Love THE IDOLMAKER which also stars hot young Peter Gallagher and Tovah Feldshuh.

by Anonymousreply 9November 20, 2022 3:39 AM

R9 I'm in it too.

by Anonymousreply 10November 20, 2022 3:44 AM

Electric performer. Disgusting human being. Deserves his almost total obscurity.

by Anonymousreply 11November 20, 2022 3:50 AM

[Quote] I find your premise flawed since IIRC he wasn't straight.

IIRC Sharkey contracted HIV through needles

by Anonymousreply 12November 20, 2022 6:49 AM

i'm surprised a docu / bio / pic hasn't been made on this guy. there's plenty of footage.

his drug history must have been known by everybody who hired him from 1980 on... and yet he kept working.

and his daughter who murdered her mother in law!

by Anonymousreply 13June 26, 2023 4:08 PM

What's to discuss, OP ?

by Anonymousreply 14June 26, 2023 4:15 PM

It’s been alleged , by his manager for sure, that he got hiv from IV drug use. Certainly possible but I doubt they know for sure considering his sexual activity.

by Anonymousreply 15June 26, 2023 4:18 PM

Ray was the primary villain in the first arc of the series Wiseguy. He was so charismatic and likeable as the Mafia Don that the producers had to insert a special episode of him being a particularly cruel and evil, just to remind the audience they should not admire him.

by Anonymousreply 16June 26, 2023 4:18 PM

It's not often that a male actor can channel his natural slutty sexual charisma so magnetically onscreen the way he did.

by Anonymousreply 17June 26, 2023 4:20 PM

Ray sharkey

by Anonymousreply 18June 26, 2023 4:29 PM

Brad Davis was another, R17.

by Anonymousreply 19June 26, 2023 4:42 PM

Selfish coward. He destroyed lives with his lies.

by Anonymousreply 20June 26, 2023 5:36 PM

So what's your interest, OP?

Just being a troll, you cunt?

by Anonymousreply 21June 26, 2023 5:39 PM

r21, this thread was created more than half a year ago.

by Anonymousreply 22June 26, 2023 5:47 PM

Sure, thanks.

But....

by Anonymousreply 23June 26, 2023 5:49 PM

He apparently had such a dark, twisted energy you feel guilty wanting to watch anything with him in it.

and yet.....

by Anonymousreply 24June 26, 2023 10:42 PM
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