Bonus video! King Tut's mysterious poem
Hello there! In this week's bonus video, we're diving into some of the more obscure work by Victor Buono, the gay actor you may recognize as King Tut on Batman or as the uncomfortable pianist in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As it turns out, in addition to being an excellent campy villain, he was also a very charming poet ... although Johnny Carson's audience clearly has NO idea what to do with him. Also this week: I'm taking a closer look at some clips sent to me by Patrons, including a fun catch regarding a nebbish from a gay bathhouse; and also sharing a fun sly reference by Nathan Lane at the Tonys. What could be gayer???
Here's a backup link in case the embed doesn't work:
https://youtu.be/GG_WL4a3-jE
Here's Victor Buono on Carson: https://youtu.be/P0g8reK9RgY
Here's Nathan Lane's full Tony speech: https://youtu.be/IFJxGlXwzgA
Comments (6)
Victor buono was crazy in the silencers
Oh I haven't seen that one!
How exciting about your new studio! Will your reference materials be moving with you? I’d miss your library background on the videos. :-)
I think the bonus videos will stay where they are! But the studio will have lots of space for more reference material, that's another reason I needed to build it out.
NBC did take a stab at a gay-ish sitcom in 1983 with a show called Love, Sidney. It starred Tony Randall as Sidney Schorr a closeted gay man who befriends a single mother and her daughter. It wa watered down a lot, and Sidney's sexuality was kept ambiguous because of pressure from the (so-called) Moral Majority.
Oh yes of course -- though I'm sure plenty of people watched and never even realized he was gay.