The Hidden Cost of Harry Hamlin's Gay Role in 1982's "Making Love"

Michael Ontkean -- I mean, swoon material back in the early 1980s, and he even looked good in Twin Peaks. How could Harry NOT have been attracted to him? But, yeah, it was a groundbreaking movie with conventionality on the fringes.

I like him. Notice what he said. He was not in some fake bearding relationship. At any given time half of all leading men are gay. This is reality. He basically said just that. So them playing gay would be too dangerous as it really would shine a light on their fake relationships.

Has Harry ever been engaged in the homosex?

Let's talk about the husband.

I remember seeing Making Love when it came out. I thought "these guys will never work in Hollywood again". I wasn't too far off.

Michael Ontkean was incredibly beautiful.

Harry Hamlin was a HOMO playing a HOMO.

R5 Didn’t he star in Melrose Place?

Harry Hamlin is straight, right?

Dear Lisa: Your fish lips would turn any straight man gay. Tsk, tsk on you for hiring a bargain basement plastic surgeon.

The public has a weird relationship with actors. Hollywood loves to give off the vibe that actors actually are the characters they play on screen. In actuality, they are workers like everyone else. the whole point of acting is to be what you are not.

So when the public sees actors in a gay movie, people just assume they are gay. This has gotten even more wild as the gay community demands that gay actors get the gay roles, which conversely often shuts them out of straight roles.

Rinna found one gray pube and fucking lost her mind.

I was taken to see this movie by the first man I had sex with. Two mistakes.

Took a leak next to him at the old Rose Tattoo. His hamlins were hairy.

Interesting how some gay role garner Academy Awards while others get the actors' careers killed.

A gay dying of AIDS is tragic and loved by Hollywood. A gay having gay sex is shunned.

It was no Kramer vs. Kramer.

It seems so tame today. Almost…chaste.

[quote] I like him. Notice what he said. He was not in some fake bearding relationship. At any given time half of all leading men are gay. This is reality.

Shut the fuck up, you meth addict.

R18 you bored and thirsty again.

[quote] So when the public sees actors in a gay movie, people just assume they are gay.

That's not true.

Everyone knows that I'm completely heterosexual.

Interesting that he says the original script he signed on for was much edgier.

That stood out to me too, R21.

And it seems like both Harry and Michael were okay with it.

That would have been so hot!

Harry was the lady right?

The two were very handsome young men.

R18 who are you today?

It was the Heartstopper of its day.

Michael Ontkean was adorable. I love his big, brown cow eyes. He was just my type. I liked him in Twin Peaks as the kind sheriff, even if he wasn’t the strongest actor. Shame he wasn’t in more movies/shows.

I appreciated his striptease in Slap Shot, too!

What about me?

I thought that Sam Melville was the hottest Rookie in the television series with Ontkean.

Again, what about me?

His consistent, accidental and hands-free cumming made for an awkward working environment.

[quote] His consistent, accidental and hands-free cumming made for an awkward working environment.

You're telling me!

Michael Ontkean

Three things I remember about the film.

"Alabaster and lapis lazuli."

Gilber and Sullivan.

And that giant jar of Vaseline sitting on the bed table when she goes to visit the guy on the matchbook.

^Gilbert

there's more to love, I know than making love...

R36 you had one job to do; just one…

I know, I know.....

That Roberta Flack song is devastating. I love it but it is so melancholy I can't listen to it.

They were both so attractive

I guess I am in the minority, but I love the movie. Part of my collection.

Harry always gave me Monkees’ Mickey Dolenz vibes.

Ontkean, meanwhile, really pushed my buttons because I found him so coolly sexy and handsome—starting even way back, yes, to when watching him originally on “The Rookies.”

I wonder who was the bottom, Michael or Harry?