Michael Ontkean - Happy 78th Birthday!

Making Love is a 1982 American drama film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin and Michael Ontkean. The film tells the story of a married man coming to terms with his homosexuality and the love triangle that develops between him, his wife and another man.

The most gorgeous cast.

Michael Leonard Ontkean (born 24 January 1946) is a retired Canadian actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s.

Kate Jackson is 75.

Harry Hamlin is 72.

Rand Paul wants his wig back.

^^Be nice. It's his birthday.

Ontkean was one of my favorite Twin Peaks cast members.

He's aged a bit...

R6 Harry Truman was as hot as biscuits.

I liked him in the hockey movie Slap Shot (where he did a strip tease on the ice).

This had them stampeding for the exits in 1982.

This had me cuming in my cords in 1982

This had me throwing up a little in my throat in 1982.

Ontkean had a nice badonkadonk

Sing out, Michael!

Does he blame kissing a boy on film 40 years ago for "ruining his big screen career" like Hairy Hamlin?

That movie is a touchstone for many elder gays here. I was visiting LA in March '82 on Spring break from college. I remember there being a big billboard in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd advertising it. I visited Vaseline Alley behind Circus of Books just like Michael's character. I went to the Mother Lode to drink beers just like Hamlin's character. Just after its release, the arrival of this new strange gay cancer , not yet named, made the news.

Dick on the downlow; a story as old as time itself!

In February '82 shortly before Making Love came out, there was another LGBT themed movie in theaters. It was 'Personal Best' with Mariel Hemingway as a promising hurdler who falls in love with a fellow athlete.

The whole enchilada since R14 is missing the climax...

I'm going to go have anal sex to celebrate

R20 I was leaving the cherry on the sundae for someone else ;)

Ontkean on reconsidering after first turning down Making Love...

Thanks, R20. Ontkean was so fucking hot in those days.

Ontkean and Hamlin together were far more believable than Ontkean and Kristy McNichol.

Making Love's original casting was far more interesting.

Interesting to think this film came out just before AIDs hit. Soap had Billy Crystal as average guy gay character on network TV. That Curtain Summer had Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen as "regular middle class guys" in love. If the media portray of us had not been drowned in AIDS films in the 90's how much earlier gays would have been "normalized" in middle American Due to AID's we had to wait another two decades till Brokeback Mountain to get back on track as "acceptable" to mainstream culture.

^ Whoops That Certain Summer ...

Claptrap^^. The post, not the movie.

My first TV heartthrob (The Rookies), and have idealized his looks ever since. Slap Shot for obvious reasons; Making Love came out two days after my 16th birthday. Saw it in the theater. Swooned. Twin Peaks was amazing, and he aged like fine wine.

He's my gold standard.

Ontkean has aged better than Hamlin.

Being married to Lisa Rinna for over a quarter of a century would drastically age anyone.