Today's Blind Items - The Love Affair Lie - Old Hollywood
It's not unusual for actors to take liberties with their autobiographies. They of course want to look their best and while they will often reveal secrets about others, they are always hesitant to reveal secrets about themselves. Or be honest with themselves. Take for instance this actor. He has been as high as A+ list when he was starring regularly on television. I dare say that he still enjoys A list name recognition despite not doing much since that television show went off the air several decades ago. He did do a little something to make another generation familiar with him and it is not like his name ever is long out of the tabloids.
In the book he wrote he talks about all of the women in his life. There were some, but there were also a fair share of men. Somehow, the book fails to mention the men and one man in particular. When our actor was just starting out he happened to be introduced to this actor with a great name who was a multiple Academy Award winner/nominee. Lets call him WC. Our young actor was trying to make it big in movies but had only been able to land a few minor roles. One of those minor roles was in a movie with WC. The next thing you know our young actor has moved in with WC. For two years our young actor was the plaything of WC who got him a good lead role in a movie and then the movie that would make our young actor a star which just also happened to once again feature WC.
That movie was going to be huge. There was going to be lots of press. Lots of press meant that relationships would have to be formed. Everyone of course was in the closet. WC said he would be single. Our young actor was not given the choice and he was paired up with the lead actress who was coming off a divorce and needed a good love story for her career. At twice the age of our young actor, she thought it made her look good and she definitely had a big enough name to make our young actor look good too. Of course at the end of most days he was still going home with WC and would only spend time with the actress when the press could be arranged to be at a restaurant or some such thing to get the loving couple captured on film.
By the time the movie wrapped our actress was already involved with other men, but our young actor insists to this day that the relationship was long and torrid. Not what she said. He just had a gap where he was not with any woman and didn't want too many people asking questions about his love life or WC.
