Free Hollywood Gays by Boze Hadleigh Page B
Authors: Boze Hadleigh
been on many a trip.
Q: Drugs?
A: No comment.
Q: Audrey Hepburn is a favorite of mine.
A: Me too. But I worked with her.
Q: I know. That’s what I’m about to say. One of her least known but most unusual and enchanting films is Green Mansions (1959), where she plays Rima the Bird Girl. Made in Venezuela, I believe? (He grunts assent.) She was wonderful, and the jungle, the animals—although it was a sad story—and you...were extremely appealing.
A: I was?
Q: Yes. Was it wonderful to make?
A: She was wonderful to work with, like a real person, almost a sister.
Q: And then it failed, commercially.
A: Because it was good but unusual.
Q: I can see why you were a bobby-soxers’ pin-up. Didn’t you record an album for them?
A: Bad topic. Boring topic!
Q: Will you forgive the observation that in your pre- Psycho movies you smiled a lot, but since then, not a lot?
A: I might. What’re you offering?
Q: Tea and sympathy?
A: Bad topic!
Q: It’s interesting how the character of Norman Bates is so braided with that of his mother....
A: I don’t know.
Q: You would say he has a mother fixation? (No reply.) Some actors do, don’t they?
A: Mother fixations are a boring topic.
Q: What about father fixations?
A: Boring.
Q: Have you got any interesting fixations?
A: Sexual fixations are fascinating.
Q: Tell me about them?
A: Not for this interview.
Q: You were in a (1963) French film with Brigitte Bardot whose English title was A Ravishing Idiot . I don’t think it was released in the USA. What was it about?
A: She played the title role.
Q: How did you get along?
A: We didn’t. This is boring, forget her. What a brainless topic! I don’t think any Australian magazine would ask you to ask me about Bardot-dodo.
Q: Most of these are my questions. Do you read, Mr. Perkins?
A: Yes, I learned how in elementary school.
Q: Read any good books lately?
A: No, but I’ve been trying to read one by a French writer, (Jean-Jacques) Rousseau. I hate it, it’s boring and dry.
Q: What’s it about? (No reply.) What have you learned from it?
A: That he didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Q: Is it a geological treatise?
A: (Laughs, finally.) Yes. No. He doesn’t know. This Frenchie wrote pages and pages on how masculine and feminine roles are supposed to be completely natural and heaven-sent, except he’s continually instructing people who read his book on how to get their boys and girls into these roles, how to make them stay in these roles. It’s only the humor that’s kept me reading, but I’m gonna quit.
Q: Then and now, molders of society offer a vision of what they want and what suits them, and present it as if it were “natural” and desired by all.
A: Or even good for everybody.
Q: And the word “natural” and its alleged opposite. Sounds like propaganda. What led you to read it?
A: I can’t even remember the title. I thought Rousseau was a great thinker. But he’s boring!
Q: Sounds misguided but not boring. It’s an interesting topic.
A: Not to me. When I was in France, people younger than me were reading him. I thought he was some revolutionary French thinker.
Q: He may have been progressive for his time. In some things. Few people are progressive across the board. There are usually individual biases and contradictions.
A: Most of what I read, if people recommend it, is dull.
Q: Now some assigned questions. Can you name your favorite actress and actor that you’ve worked with?
A: Think I should? I liked Shirley Booth. And Audrey Hepburn. Melina Mercouri was fun. Janet Leigh. I liked most of the actors. Not so much Gary Cooper or Fred Astaire, they were standoffish.
Q: Your favorite actor you’ve worked with?
A: I can’t say.
Q: You can’t?
A: If I did,
Q: Drugs?
A: No comment.
Q: Audrey Hepburn is a favorite of mine.
A: Me too. But I worked with her.
Q: I know. That’s what I’m about to say. One of her least known but most unusual and enchanting films is Green Mansions (1959), where she plays Rima the Bird Girl. Made in Venezuela, I believe? (He grunts assent.) She was wonderful, and the jungle, the animals—although it was a sad story—and you...were extremely appealing.
A: I was?
Q: Yes. Was it wonderful to make?
A: She was wonderful to work with, like a real person, almost a sister.
Q: And then it failed, commercially.
A: Because it was good but unusual.
Q: I can see why you were a bobby-soxers’ pin-up. Didn’t you record an album for them?
A: Bad topic. Boring topic!
Q: Will you forgive the observation that in your pre- Psycho movies you smiled a lot, but since then, not a lot?
A: I might. What’re you offering?
Q: Tea and sympathy?
A: Bad topic!
Q: It’s interesting how the character of Norman Bates is so braided with that of his mother....
A: I don’t know.
Q: You would say he has a mother fixation? (No reply.) Some actors do, don’t they?
A: Mother fixations are a boring topic.
Q: What about father fixations?
A: Boring.
Q: Have you got any interesting fixations?
A: Sexual fixations are fascinating.
Q: Tell me about them?
A: Not for this interview.
Q: You were in a (1963) French film with Brigitte Bardot whose English title was A Ravishing Idiot . I don’t think it was released in the USA. What was it about?
A: She played the title role.
Q: How did you get along?
A: We didn’t. This is boring, forget her. What a brainless topic! I don’t think any Australian magazine would ask you to ask me about Bardot-dodo.
Q: Most of these are my questions. Do you read, Mr. Perkins?
A: Yes, I learned how in elementary school.
Q: Read any good books lately?
A: No, but I’ve been trying to read one by a French writer, (Jean-Jacques) Rousseau. I hate it, it’s boring and dry.
Q: What’s it about? (No reply.) What have you learned from it?
A: That he didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Q: Is it a geological treatise?
A: (Laughs, finally.) Yes. No. He doesn’t know. This Frenchie wrote pages and pages on how masculine and feminine roles are supposed to be completely natural and heaven-sent, except he’s continually instructing people who read his book on how to get their boys and girls into these roles, how to make them stay in these roles. It’s only the humor that’s kept me reading, but I’m gonna quit.
Q: Then and now, molders of society offer a vision of what they want and what suits them, and present it as if it were “natural” and desired by all.
A: Or even good for everybody.
Q: And the word “natural” and its alleged opposite. Sounds like propaganda. What led you to read it?
A: I can’t even remember the title. I thought Rousseau was a great thinker. But he’s boring!
Q: Sounds misguided but not boring. It’s an interesting topic.
A: Not to me. When I was in France, people younger than me were reading him. I thought he was some revolutionary French thinker.
Q: He may have been progressive for his time. In some things. Few people are progressive across the board. There are usually individual biases and contradictions.
A: Most of what I read, if people recommend it, is dull.
Q: Now some assigned questions. Can you name your favorite actress and actor that you’ve worked with?
A: Think I should? I liked Shirley Booth. And Audrey Hepburn. Melina Mercouri was fun. Janet Leigh. I liked most of the actors. Not so much Gary Cooper or Fred Astaire, they were standoffish.
Q: Your favorite actor you’ve worked with?
A: I can’t say.
Q: You can’t?
A: If I did,
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