Blind Item #11 - Old Hollywood - Reader Blind Item
This beloved comedic actor known for his high level of energy despite his weight was primarily successful in the films of a specific director and also in films with a specific actor who was a friend of his in real life. He was married to the same woman his whole adult life and had a family including a son who is an actor. However, he also enjoyed sexual relationships with men. His modus operandi was to hire workers for his estate either in gardening or doing renovations and then offer them money for sex.
Jerry Lewis?
ReplyDeleteDom Deluise
ReplyDeleteDom deluise is a great guess
ReplyDeleteBurt reynolds for the co-star, and his son was in 21 jump street
ReplyDeleteYep. And one of his other sons is on the Beneful dog food commercials.
DeleteDom Deluise.
ReplyDeleteGreat friends with Burt Reynolds.
Don BLuth for the deluise director
ReplyDelete"DeLuise also lent his distinct voice to various animated films and was a particular staple of Don Bluth's features, "
If everyone was fine with the arrangement more power to him. I adored him.
ReplyDelete+1pookie
DeleteIt doesn't say if his wife was ok with it or not.
DeleteI thought all of his sons were actors?
ReplyDelete?Zero Mostel - actor
ReplyDelete?Gene Wilder - friend/actor
?Mel Brooks - Director
ZERO MOSTEL FOR THE WIN
ReplyDeleteAs a former native Floridian who frequented the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater & studied acting with ONE of their reps as a teen....100% TRUE. People dont know this?! That whole gen of comedians were suspect-male & female. My wardrobe mistress mum should have written a book. The tales I could tell.
ReplyDeleteOliver Hardy
ReplyDeleteHero's son was phenomenal in Jesus Christ Superstar.
ReplyDeleteI think the Enquirer had outed Dom after he died. he was very funny but looking back is a bit campy.
ReplyDelete@pookie60, he was preying on low pay manual laborers after he hired them.
ReplyDeleteWould Dom Deluise be considered “Old Hollywood”?
ReplyDeleteDom Deluise was fantastic in the Mel Brooks movies, but nobody remembers this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/04/20/Dom-DeLuise-charged-with-sex-crime/6368766814400/
Nice blind. Nice. Not THRILLING, but nice.
ReplyDeleteAh, Dom. Loved him in Fatso.
ReplyDeleteDD was caught getting head from a bellboy in a ft lauderdale marriott
ReplyDeleteMostel was also a theater actor.
ReplyDeleteDom deluise.
ReplyDeleteDom Deluise has several sons who are actors. Doesn't fit.
ReplyDeleteDom Deluise seems to be the only one it does fit. John Belushi didn't have kids and neither did Chris Farley or Oliver Hardy. Lou Costello's only son died as a baby.
ReplyDeleteJohn Candy DOES have an actor son, but he really isn't old Hollywood.
Could it be John Candy? He was in a lot of John Hughes movies, was married to the same woman his whole adult life and has a son who is an actor.
ReplyDeleteJohn Candy is who I thought of too. But ‘old Hollywood’ is throwing me off for him. I remember when his movies came out. Are we that ‘old’ yet? Haha
DeleteThere's no chance this is John Candy. He did find success with John Hughes, but he did not have a series of films with one specific actor.
ReplyDeleteYou know, growing up, watching all the animated movies Dommy D did, Canonball Run!-sexuality was way over my head, not a notion; but I watched a bunch of clips from all dogs go to heaven after the Judy B blind and realized two things: one, don bluth is a dirty man and that movie has ccvrrraaazzzy sexual innuendo throughout its entirety (not that there’s anything wrong with that?) and two, I never realized Dom was gay! (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
ReplyDeleteOh jeeezz louise, I went to UCLA in the 80’s, and Dom literally drove up and down the streets around campus trying to get guys into the car with him. Constantly. One of my guy friends took him up on the free dinner offer but weaseled out of anything further: he said Dom was nice enough about it tho. It was a running joke on campus, how hard Dom trolled for boys.
ReplyDelete@KARMA, please keep spilling the tea to us thru blinds on this site!
ReplyDeleteMarlon Brando:
ReplyDeleteSo "Dom" D was actually a power bottom?
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