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...point in his deposition it is hard to tell whether Clinton is making one of his paper-thin distinctions or having trouble keeping his stories straight. When he denied having a sexual relationship with Browning, he said she "was mad at me because I'd never been her lover, especially since she thought I was now Gennifer Flowers' lover, and...I told her Gennifer Flowers' story was bogus--it's very hard to prove your innocence in a case like this, but that we'd done it." Just four pages on, however, Clinton admitted his relationship with Flowers hadn...
...doesn't take her clothes off at all. I was hoping we'd have one of those love scenes like in The Lover, but we didn...
Haines was also gay, and he set a trend in Hollywood by living openly with his lover, Jimmie Shields. When the political waters changed around the early 1930s, Haines refused to play the studio "game"--to repudiate Jimmie, to enter into a sham marriage as so many other actors did, to pretend to be what he wasn't. And it is this that precipitated his early exit from the movies, around 1934. Now the biographer and journalist William J. Mann, fascinated by Haines's colorful rise and fall in the film world and his unique refusal to cave...
...wanted: a persona who fit the on-screen image of an acceptably "manly" man or "feminine" woman. Most actors acquiesced, to one degree or another. When Haines told MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer, in a scene that has become legend, that he was already married--to his lover, Jimmie Shields--he found himself "booted out" of the movie industry...
...their power and humor from their ability to candidly joke about, for example in Butler, the postmortem theft of Winston Churchill's penis. And yet even in the supposedly free era of the 1960s, Orton was unwilling to publically announce his homosexuality, and was killed by his jealous lover in a twisted murder-suicide...