Blind Item

Where is this from?

Did John Travolta headline any franchises?

So this is someone who’s in his sixties now?

1942 R1.

Actor would have to be at least in his mid-60’s.

r3 Bruce Willis?

R2 he definitely continued gay shenanigans past AIDS, just on the massage table.

Al Pacino

"Youthful"

"Then, AIDS hit and our actor refused to have a sexual encounter..."

So many contradictions - this must be more CDAN mad libs.

Someone who was famous by 1981, but also leading several franchises, which didn’t really exist until the 80s. Doesn’t make sense.

Harrison Ford

^ Maybe he's youthful in the DL sense that he looks at least 20-30 years younger than his actual age

If HIV/AIDS was completely cured or a solid vaccine came out tomorrow the amount of germaphobes that would come out of the closet would be astonishing. And no Prep is not the same thing.

The Godfather counts as a franchise.

It could also be De Niro.

[quote]He was insatiable.

If he wears a caftan this could literally be anyone on DL.

Clint Eastwood: Oscar, Dirty Harry & western franchises before early 80s, he-man closet case behavior, internalized homophobia potential

R17 My first thought, you beat me to it.

Harrison Ford? The franchises would be Indiana Jones and Star Wars

Or Sylvester Stallone - Rocky and Rambo

If it wasn't for Oscar Winner, I'd say Sylvester Stalone or Tom Cruise.

I've heard stories about Eastwood -Not about him having sex with men, but that he was really perfectly okay around gay men, Amazingly comfortable as a matter of fact.

Clint Eastwood's significant other would have been Sondra Locke who was married to a gay man while living with Clint.

[quote]At that point, he and his then significant other would hit swingers clubs and sex clubs and our actor would have sex with anything that moved.

If that were true, there would be a million stories out there about him.

R19 I’m thinking Stallone. He’s definitely a former homo.

Reads like a CDAN blind…so bullshit.

Warren Beatty

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds had HIV so it’s not him.

Stallone

Tommy Girl 👧

My guess is Eastwood. Or Mel Gibson. There were a lot of rumors about Mel in the 80s...

Jack Nicholson.

Although, this is such a shittily written BI. Starred in multiple movie franchises before AIDS? As someone above pointed out, those didn't exist until the 80s.

Burt Reynolds - Stroker Ace and Smokey and the Bandit were the franchises

Wasn't it the late Robin Leach who spoke about catching two A list actors in a sexy embrace in one of the actor's movie trailers? This would have been around the time he was on ET/Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...

Could be Tom Cruise.

Planet of the Apes and Star Wars were both from before AIDS, R31.

R31 Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series was around during the seventies. I'd consider his spaghetti westerns franchise as well and they're old.

Robert Hays?

Eddie Murphy?

Michael J. Fox?

Youthful, Oscars, age and franchises. Mel Gibson is my pick. Do I get a cookie?

^^ Only after everyone cums on it, R37.

Tom Cruise has been nominated for Oscars, but he wasn't an A-lister before AIDS hit. This would have to be a star of the 70s. Best guess is Harrison Ford.

Eddie Murphy - Beverly Hills Cop and 48 Hours

R21, Clint Eastwood was one of "Lubin's Boys" early in his career. Director Arthur Lubin got him a contract with Universal, despite his lack of experience and minimal acting talent.

Charles Nelson Riley

Not my Harrison! He makes my pussy howl with delight.

Schwarzenegger

Ford

Harrison Ford has not won an Oscar.

Those of us old enough to remember "The Hollywood Kids", two guys who used to appear on daytime talk shows and radio with showbiz gossip, once gave a VERY obvious blind item about how Clint Eastwood made a living as a hustler early in his career. They used very obvious clues like "a fistful of dollars." So that's my guess.

Are you into fisting too?

Wait OP. I thought you were against Blind Items being posted.

Just tell us his goddamned name!

OP what happened to you hating Blind Items? I recall you personally throwing fits on threads.

I thought the" Younthful" was a reference Mel Gibson's "Forever Young", but I doubt he is still considered A list.

Wait OP aka uneducated psycho. What happened to no blind items on this site? What happened to they’re all made up????

You've got the wrong poster. I wish there were more Blind Items like the old days when DL was fun.

Wayland

R53 nope. I have the right poster. Lying some more I see.

I just don't see Harrison Ford going to swingers clubs. Clint Eastwood I could see doing that, he seems freaky. Mel Gibson is a maybe--he is a mega homophobe, and they are usually closet cases.

Gay Dracula?

Bert

R53 if you wanna post shit like this you should stop throwing tantrums when others do. Hypocrite. Uneducated. Ugly. Is there a single redeeming quality you have?

In the old days there weren't that many actors in 'multiple franchises'. Only franchises I can think of were Star Wars, Star Trek and Indiana Jones. So I'll go with Harrison Ford. Was Al Pacino ever in any franchise other than Godfather?

A blind A list star? Stevie Wonder?

Burt

The shark from Jaws

My NAME is Bruce!

Richard Dreyfus

Can I just point out that the item doesn't say Oscar winner, it says "winner/nominee". That means don't rule out people who have only been nominated.

Can I just point out what a lying fake hypocrite you are for even posting this???

Take your meds, R67.

I took winner/nominee to mean he is both: i.e., he has been nominated multiple times, but hasn’t won every time. otherwise, why not just say winner or nominee, whichever is the case.

R68 I don’t need them. I’m not the one making thread doing things I bitch about other people doing. You’re a stupid motherfucker and hypocrite. And liar. It’s a lot of bad.

^ Saying winner/nominee makes it harder to guess

r14 Could Charles Bronson be a contender with his Death wish franchise?

[quote]Most actors I know who are in the closet, have always been in the closet or come out.

Deep thoughts from Datalounge, ladies and gentlemen.

How about Roddy McDowell?

r72, straight mens' heads would explode if Bronson turned out to be gay!

r75 Pretty accurate I can imagine!!

But doesnt every gay man want to see a straight mans head explode?! Oh sorry I lost myself for a minute I thought you were talking about a different kind of mans head....!

Tom Cruise 🚢

Can I just state how I fucking HATE blind items?

Mmhmmmm

Marlon Brando?

Paul Newman

Lmaoiooo pathetic.

Samuel Jackson.

If this is from CDAN then everything is up for grabs. Maybe they were Oscar winners/nominees and maybe it was the Golden Globes - CDAN has no idea and doesn't care.

Random assholes with axes to grind contribute blind items and they run them. They don't check anything out, they don't actually know anything. They're just filling their quota of Blinds for the day. People send in things they make up about people they don't like.

Davida, who knows nothing and no one in the business sends in "blind items" she makes up about actors she doesn't like and they run them. That's the level of non-information they have at CDAN.

Who gives a shit? It can be anyone, and we all know it.

90% or more of male actors are bi or gay. The A listers get their beards, and the closet stays full.

It’s rare to find an exceptional actor who is absolutely straight. Even rarer to find an A lister who is absolutely straight. That’s the truth. Duh!

Next!

R84, What an outrageous lie. Davida has NEVER sent in a Blind item to CDAN.

Furthermore there are only 2 actresses I don't like (one now dead) and both aren't/weren't liked by DL either. I like every actor to a varying degree.

[quote] Davida, who knows nothing and no one in the business sends in "blind items" she makes up about actors she doesn't like and they run them.

Is that the Bellagio poo shoes lady?

The "Data" Lounge is anally impacted with truiishnesesessess. Especially regarding the sexuality of strangers.

Headlined multiple movie franchises?! Wouldn't that narrow it further ..?

[quote]Stroker Ace and Smokey and the Bandit were the franchises

“Stroker Ace” was a flop. Failures don’t beget franchises.

[quote]Burt Reynolds had HIV so it’s not him.

It’s also not him because he’s dead.

R90, wasn't there a sequel? Or am I thinking of something else?

Oscar winner - narrows it down to Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino or Mel Gibson.

Eastwood was still considered young back in the late 70s/early 80s. I think it's him.

I can see it being Robert De Niro.

Assuming this is not just CDAN fiction (which it most likely is), my guess is Stallone. He was with Brigitte Nielsen in the mid-80s and I can certainly picture them as swingers early on in their relationship. My BF during this time period worked for talent agency in LA and he used to share gossip about Sly and other actors.

Totally Stallone

Stallone and Travolta had an on and off thing, but I don't think Stallone has ever given up dick.

Michael Douglas definitely had a wild reputation in the 70s early 80s, including visits to bathouses. But no franchises that I know of. He's definitely won an Oscar (for Cuckoo's Nest as a producer) and been nominated as an actor.

R97 I won an acting Oscar for Wall Street as well as an Oscar for co-producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I was wild, yes, but no fudge packer. Strictly for pussy and have the throat cancer to prove it.

It's Clint - Sly and John have not won Oscars!

OR...it could all be bullshit.

I interpreted Oscar winner/nominee to mean either/or, in order to keep us guessing. If it was definitely a winner, wouldn't they just say Oscar winner? I still think it's Sly.

Corey Feldman

Clint Howard

Elliot Page

[quote]Then, AIDS hit and our actor refused to have a sexual encounter with a man from that day moving forward.

What day was it when AIDS hit?

Bond? James Bond?

Tim Robbins?

R78 And yet here you are, on a thread about blind items. You

Esther Victoria Blodgett

Clint Eastwood. Arthur Lubin. Lubin gave Eastwood his break into acting, sending him to acting lessons and giving him his first minor part. Eastwood hung out with the group of gay or gay for pay young actors surrounding Lubin. He had no acting ability about at first but was beautiful. You do the math.

Eastwood was also a notorious womanizer later on but I suspect he was bisexual.

He came out as a Republican for gay marriage which I give him credit for.

I still can’t believe the OP feels comfortable posting shit like this when he attacks and attempts to derail the threads of anyone else like this. Seriously he needs to be removed from this site permanently

Harrison Ford - franchises and Oscar nominated for Witness. Plus he ends up with a partner/wife with the body of an adolescent boy.

That earring set my radar atingle years back.

If it’s Clint, my straight homophobic dad (a fan) will be inconsolable.

I get the sense Clint was an absolute freak.

R31 here. After thinking, Clint Eastwood does fit clues the best. Oscar winner, his peak was in the 70s which was before AIDS. Starred in several big franchises in the 60s/70s - Dirty Harry, the orangutan movies, and the spaghetti westerns.

Harrison Ford wasn't in any franchises in the 70s (Star Wars became a franchise in the 80s but wasn't in the 70s). Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980 and Raiders in 1981. Right around the cusp of AIDS.

AIDS "hit" in 81. I wasn't around, but it's my impression that it took years longer for it to really hit the public consciousness. So I still think Ford fits.

Sean Connery? Bond is the franchise

R85 is delusional

R85 is the EVERYBODY IN HOLLYWOOD IS GAY! Troll. Insufferable.

[quoye]What an outrageous lie. Davida has NEVER sent in a Blind item to CDAN.

Yeah, she did…about Clooney and some of the women he dated.

Someone else here also sent a blind to CDAN to prove a point…it too was published.

What about the CDAN blind item about the permanent A-list actor/director on his death bed two months ago. Did he die yet? If so, it strangely has not been in the news.

[quote]I wasn't around, but it's my impression that it took years longer for it to really hit the public consciousness. So I still think Ford fits.

No kidding you weren’t around then…it shows. The GMHC was formed in early 1982. Congressional hearings were held around the same time. The media picked up on it in mid 1982…with the NY and LA times doing cover stories on it.

Those were horrible, scary times. I graduated high school in '81, and came out/came of age during the Crisis. Lost some friends, but I'm still here. If you didn't go through it, you really can't know what it was like. An absolute FUCK YOU to all the idiots here who trash people on PREP.

I agree that it's probably Eastwood. Though Ford has likely known the touch of a man. He was a liminal weed-dealing carpenter before he broke out in Star Wars.

According to the OP, he's bisexual and not gay. Can you really call that closeted? Basically all bisexual people are closeted.

I knew AIDS existed in 1981 but I was in grad school and was reading CDC reports. So I knew as soon as it happened. Obviously they did not have a name for it, cancer and pneumonia occurring in otherwise healthy gay men in SF, but I knew immediately someone was up and very bad.

Because it says multiple franchises+ prior to AIDS I think it has to be Harrison Ford. He was Indiana Jones and Han Solo simultaneously right before AIDS hit.

Wow. Over 50% of this thread is the same person. 😬

R125 You were a couple of years ahead of the general public.

Hardly, r128. By mid-1983 the general public was more than aware…it was making news in 1982.

Eastwood Photo #2. The twinkiest twink that ever twinked.

Imagine going onto other Blind Item threads, throwing tantrums, making claims, trying to start drama, trying to derail threads etc. but THEN HAVING THE NERVE TO START A BLIND ITEM THREAD.

And then imagine posting over 75% of the comments yourself.

Think about how fucking sad and pathetic one must be.

Clooney

As many have pointed out, nothing in here makes sense, especially

[quote] our actor refused to have a sexual encounter with a man from that day moving forward

versus

[quote] also insisted that all sex partners get a STD test. Our actor had a lot of sex and he had an account at a local lab who would often process 2 or 3 STD tests for him each day.

So by that logic, this elderly actor has (a) not had sex with a man in almost 45 years but (b) scored massive amounts of STD-tested pussy during those past 45 years.

Throw in [quote] he and his then significant other would hit swingers clubs and sex clubs and our actor would have sex with anything that moved.

in reference to the 1970s and it sounds like he let a guy or two touch his dick back in 1978 and the writer wants to brand him as a closet case.

For 1974’s The Conversation:

[quote]Harrison Ford's part was initially intended to be a small cameo, written as little more than an office assistant. Feeling that the character was one-dimensional, Ford decided to play him as gay, a risky choice in 1974, and personally purchased the loud green silk suit for nine hundred dollars (4,285 in 2015 dollars). Francis Ford Coppola was at first shocked by the outfit at rehearsals, but after discussing it with Ford, was so impressed with this interpretation, that he expanded the role into a supporting character, gave the character a name (Martin Stett) and had Production Designer Dean Tavoularis create an office that reflected the character's orientation.

Interesting choice for an up and coming actor to make, although having seen the movie numerous times I never realized the character was meant to be gay until reading that

In another time period this could have been Cary Grant.

Harrison Ford’s decision shows he was intelligent and willing to take a risk, not that he is gay.

R134 i had actually thought this, particularly when he offers Hackman some Christmas cookies that he’d made himself. Very subtle but very interesting, he was almost flirting I would say.

Did Harrison diddle George Lucas to get a part in American Graffiti?

The trivia at r134 doesn't make any sense. Ford's character isn't in a loud green suit. He's in a dark green suit or a beige sweater in his scenes.

Jim Carrey

I think it's Clint Eastwood. Always loved his films but I bet he's a nasty piece of work in reality.

Clint made Barbara Walters moist while flirting with her during an interview.