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Just a handful of some of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, its bright sunlight and dark corners, and the rot and horror of the damned, inexecrable dogs of boardrooms that, with a compliant and dim-witted theatre-going public, profited hugely by reducing even the strongest men to a status akin to castrate steer on their way to the abattoir, all the while catering to a collective societal mindset determined for the time to remain as uninformed about the universe as a five year-old or a Neolithic primitive.
Long since fragmented into a million jagged pieces, no Phoenix shall ever arise from these excrementitious ashes. The old system, like a battlefield flashback, presents us with a profoundly unreassuring reminder of some of America's darkest times, politically, legally, and morally, in which the brighter the sun shown, the darker the shadows it cast.
The sorrows and grief many of these men went through is only now entering the pages of formal history, as we reckon with the revelation that for many of these, the only real tears they shed were in private bedrooms long after the cameras ceased rolling, the arc lamps went cold, and the fickle public and false promise-spewing studio heads turned their backs.
The Universe has indeed a way of balancing its own scales, and the elites who held the reins on their careers and lives ultimately ended up thrust into the shadows of the very obscure cautionary tales they often inflicted upon their contract players whose reality did not befit the studios' image mongering propaganda. Hollywood, or Small Town USA, the venom is of the same snake. All the while, one must bear in mind that it was all a microcosm of the greater whole, and the many still prefer to be deceived, rather than revere objectivity, and the multitudes of private, hidden factual miseries of the many, disguised under elaborate cinema scripts of fiction, comprises the huge citizenry which dwarfs all the numbers of fallen super stars.
But now, perhaps, truth assumes its own momentum, and nears the breaking point of shattering the collective mental block the many have permitted mediocrity and thinly revamped mind conditioning to be shacked about their throats much as their cinema idols did.
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[ The Desperate Last Days of Love and The Final Tragedy]
Rock Hudson, the absolute pinnacle of Hollywood's divisive genius;
he played the double-life game better and longer than any of them---
wealth, acclaim and paying for it with 30 years of living hell.
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John Smith's tragic hell in the clutches of Hollywood
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George Nader's tragedy and triumph during and after Universal
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Tom Drake's sham marriage MGM arranged, and his eventual erasure
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https://youtu.be/eVaSQrHu7U8?si=b85mq-ct_Ou_PCmj
David Manners, an unforgettable face and even more inforgettable resolve---walking away from Universal Studios for the one thing that was real---his man!
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George Maharis, talent to burn, fantastically dedicated, and kicked out of Hollywood and TV when he refused to abandon his true self.
[Photo montage memorial]
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Tab Hunter, one of stardom's most iconic youthful beauties, who survived and thrived despite the Warner prison contract, which he bought out of! Tab Hunter's story betokens a survivor retaining full sanity and happiness!
Tab Hunter: The Secret Gay Life Behind Hollywood’s Cruelest Blackmail | Gay love story
The Secret Life and Loves of Tab Hunter
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https://youtu.be/Q7YlinYCvkE?si=S8PgknmOeHTYICQH
Tom Tryon's gut-wrenching story presents another tragic example of the cinema closet, and the supreme price paid; his beauty, voice and mystique endure decades after the handlers and manipulators of his career died namelessly, unloved and unneeded.
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Troy Donohue's exquisite persona and voice could only rival Tab Hunter, yet he was fated for a sadder ending, which only reinforces all belated love and respect such a man merits.
https://youtu.be/Z-OvXTSh2O8?si=cq4-YTCjmau7e0PO
Troy Donohue's stunning fall from grace
From 7,000 fan letters a week to homeless in New York
https://youtu.be/0ycH9xIkf6Q?si=Jl-2QAV6Rfzo3Mro
The stunning saga of Lon McCallister and his love, William Eythe; tragety, defiance, corporate obsenity and ultimately complete independence. At first, the press whitewashed their lives when the last had passed on, but truth is great and does prevail.
Guy Madison's legendary ascent with long-secret handling and pampering by some of the richest men in the world, in and out of Hollywood---as long as he was profitable!
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Rory Calhoun, rugged from reality, for once, and not drama coaches called in to teach how to hold a heavy Western revolver, his story follows though an infamous lavender marriage, and its long needed dissolution, even though he knew the bulk of his career would go down with it.
