Betty White outs Cary Grant? Take that Newsweek!

ah I like Cary Grant ... a while back i heard someone else say he was gay

I can imagine betty saying...

He was a really really nice guy and such a gentleman ... unfortunately he just wouldn't bang ya ... well unless you were the cabana boy... then he would... boy would he... I remember one night...

heh

Uh, didn't EVERYONE already assume Grant was gay? Why do you think Dyan Cannon is so defensive and won't even discuss her "marriage" to him?

Don't act like this is some big "outing." An unintended slip, an assumption of a truth that's no shocker whatsoever.

I still think he portrayed a great male role model... in his films he was straight and a gentleman... and in his personal life that no one knew about he was still a decent guy not a trouble maker or a drunk.

This is old news.

Bogie drank like a fish, smacked his wife around and she fought back (his marriage BEFORE Lauren Becall) so much they were known as the "Battling Bogarts" but it will be a cold day in "H" double hockey sticks before somebody outs him as gay.

Same goes for Cagney and McQueen.

I don't see why it makes any difference, these people are ACTORS and are playing roles. The beauty of actors and their craft is that they can make us believe in the character for a short time and we can just not care about their personal lives. Their personal lives don't affect me at all just as my life doesn't affect them at all. I don't give a rip as long as I am entertained and enjoy what I am viewing.

The stories about Cary Grant's alleged gayness have circulated for many years. He himself denied it. PERHAPS he experimented with homosexuality in his younger years and then realized that he wasn't gay. (As bizarre as that sounds, it has happened with other people.)

I perhaps don't think Cary Grant was gay. He was said to have been very happily married with his 5th wife Barbara. And was a loving father to his daughter Jennifer.

Cary Grant was a caring individual who helped many charities. He was also a sharp businessman and a superb actor. We miss him and the elegance he brought to the profession of acting. RIP.

Christopher, why are so terrified of the thought of Cary Grant being gay? Would it matter? He was still a "caring individual who helped many charities", also a "superb actor", as you say. I don't see why him being gay would be unworthy of his other characteristics - as your post hints. Being heterosexual is not a merit, just as being homosexual is nothing degrading. And neither of them has anything to do with the assessment of a person's life-time achievements or legacy.

No shock to me the relationship with Tone says it all, not that it matters anyways. James Dean was bi-sexual although many say he was gay too. Doesn't change the person besides it's normal and a part of life, just the gossip hounds have to have something to talk about.

Yeah, that's true. But the bottom line is, we want to identify with our heroes. Gay or not, you can find great things about most people. But like it or not, your sexuality is A LOT of who you are..... We try and say now days, "who cares about sexuality" but the bottom line is, it's a element in so many things.... AND can reflect much about the kind of person you are, what you want IS a reflection of that which is going on inside of you. Being gay, while no one should be beat up for it, is still odd, when you really think about it. The healthy human male naturally knows somthing is off or wrong with a guy so messed up he doesn't know where to put his junk, and wants to put his penis in another guys place of defication. But we have to un-learn this, and now have to be "tolerant." Often, it isn't enough to like gay people, to be nice, etc. We have to have 3 gay friends, talk jokedly how we wish we were gay, and of course support gay marriages or we will be called "Phobic."

But then, the truth is, for a lot of people, males in espeacialy, sexuality is a bigger componet then we like to admitt and think about. It's subversive. Art, cars, just talking about what's good in life. It's really a very raw, animal world out there. But that doesn't mean we're "lesser evolved" or any of that crap. What it means is, we often feel the instinct saying, wait, something isn't right here. This guy likes to put in it butt holes. Big hairy white mens butt holes. That hot 25 year old girl that just walked by, his fundamental nature didn't notice that. Sure, burgers still taste god, but what's he really thinking in there?