Blind Items Revealed #2 - Old Hollywood
July 19, 2016
This permanent A list legend still lives on after his death. His face is everywhere. Anyway, he was married forever and kept his bisexuality hidden from the public. One place he didn’t hide it was on movie sets. If you gave him a chance for a river scene or some scene where he could take off his clothes and get naked with fellow male actors he was the first one to do so. He also loved any after set activities that involved group nudity with other men.
Paul Newman
I call bs.
ReplyDeleteI don't. It actually makes alot of sense.
ReplyDeleteI have heard this about Newman for years. He was so stinking handsome - more power to him.
ReplyDeleteYou had to be there at the very start of his career to understand why he was never less than A+++. As a teen, when The Silver Chalice came out his ice blue eyes and gorgeous face was all my friends and I talked about for weeks. Our moms too. If he was bi I can only say lucky guy! His widow, a fellow Georgian, was a perfect soulmate for him. He had the perfect family and loving friends. He was a huge part of my teen and adult years. Miss him a lot.
ReplyDeletewasnt alive when he was popular
ReplyDeletebut I love his salad dressing!
There are a lot of secrets in Hollywood, such as: Rock Hudson was gay; and John Wayne was a racist.
ReplyDeleteOh, you already knew those!
I can buy the young Paul Newman as a guy who did some casting couch work.
ReplyDeleteTrue like Brando, Dean, ect. There is a lot of fantastic info on several old Hollywood actresses/actors. Many were bi or fully gay but hid it by necessity. It's weird how now it's by choice to keep the men manly and the women feminine. Too bad!
ReplyDeleteNow that s crap. Bs
ReplyDeleteDon't buy it. Newman was a wannabe jock. There may be a case to be made that all jocks are closet cases, but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he was just a naturist. It's not like he can hang out with women naked without causing a scandal, so he did it with dudes he didn't think would hit on him or check him out. He has a nature-loving side to him.
ReplyDeleteHe was bisexual. Even Brando called him out on it.
ReplyDeleteApparently, he liked to have sex with men while filming, but once the movie was over, so was the affair.
Tom Cruise found this out the hard way. Was so brokenhearted he tried to stop being gay by joining Scientology shortly after Paul Newman ditched him.
Everyone knows Newman was gay. In fact he was arrested very early on for cruising back in the 50s.
ReplyDeleteJust watch the screentest with James Dean:
ReplyDeleteJD: "Kiss me"
PN: "Not here."
Urban myth. The "mug shot" you're referring to was actually his Navy Reserve enlistment photo: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/celebrity-service
ReplyDeleteHe was never arrested.
This! I know his daughter and she said the whole family used to go "night streaking" around their farm in Westport back in the 1970s.
ReplyDeleteI guess men taking their shirts off is now a sign of gayness? Clutch pearls much, Enty?
I wont deny it could be true: so many things in old Hollywood were kept in secret, it was another era, so much pressure, so much taboos.
ReplyDeleteBUT please not talk about him. Not HIM. and Joanne. whatever they did, just I don't want to know, they're actually my only exception
Funny how people get so upset with the idea of him being bisexual. The same people who say this or that current actor should come out ,it wouldn't matter. I heard these rumors when he was alive, so I wasn't surprised. It also doesn't mean he was an unfaithful husband either, anymore than a straight guy that flirts with costars is going to have an affair. Nobody seems to except the fact that some people are true bisexuals, not someone who is gay with a fake marriage.
ReplyDeleteAccept, not except spell check again
ReplyDeleteI can't believe this qualifies as a blind. Open secret. No big deal. It's only being recycled as a "blind" for clicks and outrage.
ReplyDelete+1. I will still ALWAYS think of him as a mans man. A perfect gorgeous man.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most stunning men who has ever acted in Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Joan Crawford bragged about her affair with him, when he made a famous quote about being faithful.
ReplyDeleteCan't hate him, ( in the sense that he disapoi ted me), He's a good lookin man.
ReplyDeleteSpread that love around, I say!
He was a beautiful & talented man. My motto, live & let live. Whatever floats ya boat!
ReplyDeleteDuring most of his career I didn't think he was very handsome. People were going on and on about him and I just didn't see it. Fast forward a couple of decades, yikes, the scales fell from my eyes.
ReplyDeleteOkay, now I've got a threesome fantasy with Paul Newman & Robert Redford. I could see Newman being bi but I can't see Redford that way, which is great because he would attend to me while Paul attends to him & I just lay there & gaze upon their beauty.
ReplyDeleteThere is reputedly a pic of tom and paul intimate in a pool somewhere.
ReplyDeleteJohn Wayne wasn't a racist
ReplyDeleteHe married Hispanic women and his best friend was black
Paul Newman married to Joanne Woodward had affairs with women not men
So I don't where entry getting his info from
Ah, the why go out for hamburger when you've got steak at home? I guess Joan was chopped liver.
ReplyDeleteHow so?
ReplyDeleteWhere's the proof that he was bi? What examples?
ReplyDeleteI think I mentioned this ...maybe...anyway,years ago we used to ski at this single lift( & couple of T Bars) private mountain called Timber Ridge w/very few people (but nice& steep)when it was crazy busy at Mt.Snow.Paul N.would also go there & it seemed like everytime I was in the chair behind him,he'd have a couple of beers & drink 'em on every lift ride up & it used to crack me up..It was actually a BYOB mountain.He was close to my dad's age & they'd commiserate about all the New Yorkers invading our beloved VT. ski mountains & the drive on Sunday eve back to CT...ahhh,good times.
ReplyDeleteStop using "stinking" as a way to emphasize HOW MUCH something is.
ReplyDeleteDid he and your dad...talk...alot?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I can't think of a single film of Paul Newman's where there was a scene with naked men swimming, can any of you?
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