Monday, April 12, 2004

As you do

I happened to channel hoping and noticed a rerun of Swiss Family Robinson with Sir John Mills and him from Hawaii 50 (cue music and canoe).

It also starred a very cute (at the time) chappy Tommy Kirk.

Sadly four years later things took a bad turn...(IMDB biog) 'in 1964, the Disney factory found out Tommy was gay and they immediately released him from his contract after finishing The Monkey's Uncle (1965). Tommy still pursued teen-oriented movies but was essentially blacklisted and listed as "box office poison." The offers he did receive became progressively dismal'.

He used drugs and nearly ended up dying.

Fortunately he is off drugs and acting.

This just shows how little time has gone by since bigots didn't at least have to hide their hate.

But then again Danny Pintauro and Chad Allen haven't exactly had glittering film careers since being outed.

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