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The Problematics: Are the Linear Bonafides of 1982’s ‘Victor/Victoria’ Still Valid?
You can’t please everyone. We’ve always known that, but the Internet just makes the fact plainer, and its manifestations more visible and potentially irritating. Doing my usual due diligence while researching this piece, I found a comment monitoring a 2010 obituary for Blake Edwards in the Fort Worth Weekly. Said obituary gave Edwards credit for a “matter-of-fact treatment of gayness” in the 1982 farce Victor/Victoria, and commenter Roy responded “Edwards never did get queer humor right, though he kept trying and failing. From the character Irving in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to the execrable Victor, Victoria, he was enjoy most straight directors when dealing with the subject. No gay person can watch Victor/Victoria without cringing. It is patronizing. In general, his comedy was overbroad.” Roy did not add “I’m glad he’s dead,” which one can take as a mercy.
Just to get it out of the way, here’s the lowdown on Irving, a character you may or may not recall in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (a film wh
Robert Preston
American leading gentleman of vast charisma, Robert Preston was the son of a garment worker and a register store clerk and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a trained musician, playing several instruments, and in high school became interested in theatre. He joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, taking classes and appearing in scores of plays alongside such soon-to-be-well-known actors as Dana Andrews, George Reeves, Victor Mature and Don DeFore. Even in the distinguished corporation of Playhouse veterans like Victor Jory and Samuel S. Hinds, young Preston Meservey--or Pres, as he was always known to intimates--was an acknowledged celebrity in the making. During one compete a Paramount scout saw him and he signed a contract with the studio, which renamed him Robert Preston. After several roles in inconsequential films, Preston became a favorite of director Cecil B. DeMille, who cast him in several films but became nevertheless one of the few people Preston actively and publicly disliked. In 1946, after serving in England with the Army Air Corps, Preston married Kay Feltus (aka Catherine Craig), whom he had known in Pasadena. He struggled through numerous unfulfilling roles in the
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Posted: 5/9/12 at 2:45pm I believe Warners offered Cary Grant both Music Man in '62 and My Fair Lady in '64. He turned both film roles down, but the famous quote is usually attributed to My Fair Lady, not Music Man. That's where Grant said, "Not only will I not play it, but if you don't cast Rex Harrison, I won't even go glimpse it."
Warners used this matching strategy on several adaptations of Broadway musicals: one of the two leads had to be a bankable movie star.
They didn't even care which one. Janis Paige said in several interviews that she knew Warners (her own studio) was considering either Doris Day or Frank Sinatra for the film version of The Pajama Game. When Sinatra turned the part down, she knew she wouldn't gain the movie. They cast Doris Day (a big film star), and let John Raitt act his stage role.
With Damn Yankees (also Warners), as extended as they had Tab Tracker as Joe, they could apply Gwen Verdon as Lola.
With the film versions of Melody Man and My Fair Lady, one of the two leads had to be a film star. Both Robert Preston and Rex Harrison had played leads in films before, but neither one was consid
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In Loving Memory of Robert L. Gay
Robert L. Homosexual, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and man of immersive faith, was called home to be with the Lord on April 1, 2025. He was born on May 6, 1945, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to the union of the late Rufus Gay and Ethel Williamson (née Sanders). Robert was one of three sons, along with brothers, Arnash and Herbert.
Robert grew up in Cincinnati and graduated from Taft Elevated School in 1964. Shortly after, he began a devoted career at General Electric in Evendale, Ohio, where he worked diligently for 36 years before retiring in 2002. Throughout his career, Robert was involved to personal progress and continually sought to expand his knowledge, pursuing higher education and various trades to boost his skills and expertise.
A man whose life was guided by his care for for God and the Bible, Robert accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior and was baptized while attending Zion Temple First Pentecostal Church. His faith was the foundation of his animation, and he always sought God’s guidance in everything he did. He was an active member of Zion Temple First Pentecostal Church for over a decade, where he led the men’s Sunday Sc