R.I.P., C.N.R.

[fflo]

  Charles Nelson Reilly

I didn't know he was queer when I was a kid. I didn't know Paul Lynde was queer. I didn't know funny men doing that flamboyant thing were reflecting anything about sexuality.

When my buddy's brother reported having witnessed Neil Sedaka at a party asking Mick Jagger whether he could kiss his fingers, I dismissed the story as so improbable as to be certainly a lie.

I would have bet money I'd never seen a lesbian on TV.

Comments

[bigfinedaddy.livejournal.com]

I loved him so. He was so charming on Match Game, especially the ones that were filmed after lunch when he and Brett were SO SO very drunken and silly. He was delightful. I can't be too sure, but I believe that even I knew he was gay, even as a child. And I have the world's faultiest gaydar. And Paul Lynde? Come on, now. But Neil Sedaka is absolutely hot-off-press news to me. I had no idea. I hear laughter in the rain.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I have the world's faultiest gaydar.

really? this is news to me. mine ain't fine-tuned, that's fer sure.

I don't really "know" about Sedaka, but it hardly seems surprising. And ooh, how i love a rainy day & the happy way i feel insi-i-ide.

[bigfinedaddy.livejournal.com]

Also, I hope Charles' death won't embolden Jim J. Buttocks to try once and for all to don the CNR tiara. Sir, you're no Charles Nelson Reilly!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I am unfamiliar with that particular Buttocks....

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Jm J. Bullock was Monroe on The Ted Knight show and he's been trying to horn in on CNR for 25 years.