James Brolin Might Be A Bigamist But Evidence of Sugar In Tank Doesn't Exist
Lisa Pease
movies being real or fake. I'm doing this to show that any claims of
sugar in James Brolin's tank are illogical and unfounded. Same goes
for Bud Cort, best remembered as the star of "Harold And Maude" from
1971. Some dingaling placed these two men in a same-sex affair.
Let's clear up the confusion that may have caused that fantastic
double outing. It came from a woman accusing Brolin of bigamy as
opposed to homosexual cheating.
It seems James Brolin married his first wife, the former Jane Agee, in
1967 when both were in their twenties. Nothing phony about that. The
Texas - born Jane's occupation was never identified by the press.
That's also on the level. The co-star of a stupid TV show like Marcus
Welby doesn't have to marry an actress or model. Maybe she was a
schoolteacher or nurse.
Jan Smithers, whose only claim to fame is the now-dated sitcom WKRP In
Cincinnati, was Mr. Brolin's second wife. Barbra Streisand is Mr.
Brolin's third wife. But let's move from number one to number two
while we look at allegations of bigamy, not male homosexuality.
Gossipers seem confused. Let's quote in full a short dispatch from
United Press International that referred to Jane's accusation without
naming her. It's dated Monday, September 8, 1986. The "Domestic
News" section of the PM cycle.
THE BROLIN AFFAIR by Ellis E. Conklin, United Press International
James Brolin reports that his divorce from Jane Agee will be final by
the end of October, when he and actress Jan Smithers will tie the knot
-- again. The "Hotel" star was accused of bigamy by his almost - ex
when he and Smithers engaged in what he termed a "symbolic" wedding
ceremony at a Nova Scotia church June 29. He says that hassle has
been resolved with the wife from whom he officially split in 1984,
after a marriage of 17 years. Brolin also says that for the next turn
before the altar, he and Smithers "would like to go to Bali to be
married by some colorful people who don't know me." END
Jane Agee Brolin died in a motor vehicle accident on February 13, 1995
at the age of 55. By that time she and Brolin had been kaput for
almost nine years. The Los Angeles didn't report the accident.
Neither did Variety or The Hollywood Reporter. Jane wasn't newsworthy
anymore if she ever way. Remember that UPI omitted her name.
A month after Jane died, the Associated Press profiled James Brolin to
promote his new TV series "Extreme." It later flopped. The profile
dated March 12, 1995 made no reference to the expired Jane even though
she was the mother of aspiring actor Josh Brolin. It said the
following about his current marriage: "A real hardship, he says, is
being away from his wife, actress Jan Smithers and daughter in Santa
Monica. If "Extreme" proves successful, the family might consider a
move to Utah, Brolin says." [The ill-fated series was about a
search-and-rescue team in the snowy mountains of Utah.]
Later that year (1995), James and Jan Smithers divorced. He met
Barbra Streisand soon after. There is no evidence and there have been
no published reports that James is bisexual or gay. The National
Enquirer never has made such an allegation. Same goes for Bud Cort,
remembered as the star of the 1971 film "Harold And Maude." In the
1993 film "Ted And Venus" Bud's character gets aroused by a bikini -
clad babe much like Dudley Moore was rejuvenated by Bo Derek in "10."
Bud also directed this film in which James Brolin acted.
If you use the credits of "Ted And Venus" and Barbra Streisand's
friendships with gay men to out James Brolin and Bud Cort, then you're
really twisted. Nobody knows what they do off-camera, and most
people don't care. Watch out for Barbra's heavily staffed security
force with fortresses in Los Angeles and New York. Maybe Bud Cort
doesn't have such security at the LA Classical Theatre that he helped
found. If someone still insists he's gay, could they please explain
how they could know that without stalking ? If you are a stalker
please keep quiet. Avoid flaming, too.
Ambrose Meineke
as I earlier posted, Bud Cort was outed in the Andy Warhol Diaries. James
Brolin was referenced as being at least bisexual in several zines around the
time of his marriage to Babs and had been suggested as such in an interview
by Margot Kidder when she was coming off her whirlwind of sucess following
the superman films when she was discussing her relationship with Richard
Pryor and other affairs with her leadind men. She was given to speaking very
recklessly. There was also, I believe a mention of Mr. Brolin in one of the
boutique Ms. Magazines before it was revived. The Late Cliff Gorman did a
film around 80 with Brolin in which he made unkind remarks about Brolin's
acting and his sexuality. Gorman, a straight man, was an odd, strong
character actor who had become famous playing a rather flaming homosexual,
in the watershed film "Boys in the Band."
Most of this info is quite old, and much of it going back before the
time of web archeiving, and most of what I know comes from people I trust
who work in the industry, including my ex wife who is a journalist, from
whom I learned the rule of trying not to toss out information unless I've
heard it from two sources. Anyway, I'm not married to my allegations and if
I'm proven wrong I'll accept it because I don't tend to be a fan or a star
hater, I just find their strange world interesting. But for the record, I'll
see if I can dig up some of the old stuff and post it at a later time. Like
I said most of this is old and it might take some time.
Ambrose
Incidentally, Jan Smither's first came to public attention as a covergirl on
Newsweek for one of those endless vapid articles so common in the sixties
concerning the "new Youth of America." as a kind of perfect California girl
or some such thing. Ms. Smithers was pictured on the back of a motorcycle,
smiling at the camera. Her promising modeling career was curtailed when she
was ironically injured in a bad (motorcycle ?) accident which resulted in a
serious scar on her chin. Much her shy personna was a result of having her
beauty marred.
Ambrose
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Vinyltap
Welby? Is that who the guy is...the doc on the motorcycle? Wow-ie. The things
ya dont know. Guess he wasn't Welby, heh.
Barb's wedding sound like a hoot.
PhiladelphiaNationalEnquirer
> Time to correct what I said in the long thread about love scenes in
> movies being real or fake. I'm doing this to show that any claims of
> sugar in James Brolin's tank are illogical and unfounded. Same goes
> for Bud Cort, best remembered as the star of "Harold And Maude" from
> 1971.
"The Andy Warhol Diaries" says Cort is gay, but that book is
unreliable. Nobody could sue Andy when the book came out because he
was dead. In his last years he used drugs and lost most of his
friends. One of the few holdouts, Lou Reed, expressed grief over Andy
on the CD Songs For Drella, but the lyrics don't say how truthful Andy
was when he gossiped. I'll get back to Bud Cort in three seconds.
Andy wasn't the only famous New York media person who lied to his
following in the 1980s. Another was Janet Malcolm. She was alive
when people found evidence of her dishonesty so she got busted. Many
thousands of dollars in legal fees. In recent years she has made a
point of saying nice things about people such as praising J. D.
Salinger in the New York Review of Books. She wrote a nice book about
playwright Anton Chekhov. In it she speculates about the unknown
cause of his death. I'LL GET BACK TO BUD CORT IN TWO SECONDS.
Another respected writer, Lillian Hellman, published lies about real
people around the time that Bud Cort had a cult following. She never
paid for it or admitted it, but people proved she was a liar.
___---~~~*** So the final verdict on Bud Cort's sex life is: NOBODY
KNOWS OR CARES. iT's A bLaCk HoLe LiKe A vAgInA.
Ambrose Meineke
thing with Bud Cort? Because if it is, I'll back off because I don't intend
to attack someone's icon. I personally liked Brewster McCloud and enjoyed
Harold and Maude, especially the music.
I'm merely relating gossip. That's what this is, a gossip newsgroup.
Now, if you are a fan of Mr. Brolin or Mr. Cort, I meant no insult , not
that suggesting that either of them being gay or bisexual should be an
insult, but I realize there are a lot of homophobes who might not see it
that way. My point is, I have nothing against either man. I agree, that you
probably wont find evidence of either of the above mention men being gay in
most of the conventional press, but in case you didn't notice, the
conventionl press (with the exception of MS.) didn't even mention Rock
Hudson was gay until he was dying. I'm only repeating gleaned info and
inside gossip from friends in show biz. If my sources are wrong, then
they're wrong. It doesn't mean anything to me. But like I said in another
post, I have more than one source on this, which may not make a fire, but it
sure makes a lot of smoke.
Now, if you are a serious Barbara Streisand fan, and feel defensive
about her so-called perfect marriage, that's a whole other story, which I
will be willing go into in a separate thread, if you care to start one. I'm
just here because it's fun to hear what celeb gossip others have and to
offer what gossip I've heard.
Ambrose.
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Lisa Pease
> Ok, I seem to have hit a nerve here. So tell me up front, is this a cult
> thing with Bud Cort? Because if it is, I'll back off because I don't intend
> to attack someone's icon. I personally liked Brewster McCloud and enjoyed
> Harold and Maude, especially the music.
> I'm merely relating gossip. That's what this is, a gossip newsgroup.
Anyone can create gossip, right ? It means news without reliable
sources. I can say Arnold Schwarzenegger is gay and what can anyone
do about such garbage ?
> Now, if you are a fan of Mr. Brolin or Mr. Cort, I meant no insult , not
> that suggesting that either of them being gay or bisexual should be an
> insult, but I realize there are a lot of homophobes who might not see it
> that way. My point is, I have nothing against either man. I agree, that you
> probably wont find evidence of either of the above mention men being gay in
> most of the conventional press, but in case you didn't notice, the
> conventionl press (with the exception of MS.) didn't even mention Rock
> Hudson was gay until he was dying.
That's because nobody got fatally sick from butt fucking during 28 of
the 30 years he was very famous. You may recall his widely reported
comment "Go give it to the dogs" -- evidence that in that era he had
to give permission for the media even to suggest he might be gay in
connection with a new disease.
I realize you're being gentle, Mr. Meineke. I will repeat that
opinion later.
Outing as a media sport didn't start until the AIDS epidemic was
almost ten years old in 1990 and 1991. Nutsy gay activists like
Michelangelo Signorile not only dropped names recklessly but went on
talk shows like Geraldo to defend their practice. They shouted that
they were angry about the media and U.S. government forgetting about
HIV positive people now that the 1985 AIDS media blitz was several
years old. In his magazine Outweek ( mercifully terminated in the
late 90s ) Michelangelo ( Dig the humble pseudonym ) outed many actors
whose names rarely turned up in the "conventional press" to which you
refer.
It's illogical to compare, say, Time magazine's ignoring Bud Cort in
1991 to Time's respecting Rock Hudson's privacy for thirty years.
That's illogical *because Hudson's obviously sick appearance in 1985
was the very thing that started the entire AIDS media blitz.* It was
a media blitz so hysterical ( the first since underground bomb
shelters went out of style in 1964 ) that journalists got sick of it,
dropped the subject and made the great Michelangelo very angry and
self-righteous.
Obviously a major reason people panicked in 1985 is that lots of them
learned for the first time that many people spreading this horrible
disease were men who seemed very heterosexual. Hudson taught them
that. Women started to freak out in 1985 when their husbands came
home from work two hours late. Stupid people tried to console them by
claiming Rock actually promoted the gay lifestyle in "Pillow Talk."
If he did, twenty people in the United States caught it. The truth is
he was a very straight leading man who even played a convincing police
detective.
The media was so busy in 1985 - 86 shouting "when you sleep with
someone you're sleeping with everyone that person ever slept with"
that they didn't have the time or manpower to stalk Bud Cort or James
Brolin. Then several years passed during which journalists got sick
of visiting the invisible behavior that makes you sick. So America's
humble creative genius Michelangelo went ballistic.
Cliff Gorman isn't a very reliable source, either. He was a writer
slash actor who pretended to be iconoclastic but wasn't. He totally
accepted the questionable "grief theory" started by Elisabeth Kubler -
Ross when he wrote the comedy routine he did in the film "All That
Jazz."
I realize you mean no harm to anyone, Mr. Meineke. Your tires have
good traction, but nobody really knows which parts of the tread are
masculine and which are feminine. You can pin down electrical cords
but not other devices. That includes dildos.
Guy Bannis
bucke...@hotmail.com (Lisa Pease) wrote:
> Outing as a media sport didn't start until the AIDS epidemic was
> almost ten years old in 1990 and 1991.
Not quite true. Outing has always been a media sport, especially the
entertainment media. Remember that Rock Hudson bought off a gossip
magazine in his prime and then married a woman to cover up further. That
was loooong before HIV.
Ambrose Meineke
> good traction, but nobody really knows which parts of the tread are
> masculine and which are feminine. You can pin down electrical cords
> but not other devices. That includes dildos.
>
explained what about it upset you. All I can gather is you think I outed
someone, which I didn't. In fact, I generally avoid the "who is and who
isn't gay threads," in part, because not being gay, such threads bore me,
and frankly, I could care less who is gay or not. I only reported on some
gossip I heard. If you don't like, it ignore it. It's just gossip.
Ambrose
Lisa Pease
Right. As soon as he said "Go give it to the dogs" all bets were off.
He instigated a hysterical media campaign about a disease that had
been killing lots of people for two years. It killed a handful before
that. The Hudson scoop in August 1985 started a new era. In the
1950s * a few * media people wanted to out people, but you could buy
them off. As late as November 1983, when Hudson was involved with
whatever man gave him the virus, the Los Angeles Times reported that
the husband of Emmy-winning TV actress Lynda Day George had died of a
heart attack. Wrong. He wasn't famous enough for someone to correct
that five years later. You don't see reruns of his flop TV shows
anymore.
By the early 1980s so many non-celebrities were experimenting with all
kinds of sex (Jim Bouton wrote in his 1981 book "Ball Five" that
obscure minor-league baseball players sometimes kissed each other on
the lips and did God knows what else) that a journalist needed an
Apple computer to keep up with it. Then Rock Hudson showed everyone
that casual sex was dangerous. Then journalists, many of whom had
done all sorts of things, became so fixated on it that they eventually
got sick of it.
Then outing skyrocketed to the level of a national pastime in the
United States. It became impossible to bribe a print outlet to kill a
story about someone's gayness. That hasn't happened in at least
twelve years and won't happen again. If journalists know someone's
gay but they don't print it, that means they don't think it's
newsworthy or they're busy with more pressing stories. You think a
journalist wants the bribe money ? He or she can get even more money
selling the evidence on the Internet anonymously.
Lisa Pease
I'm not angry. Maybe my joke about your name wasn't funny.
Gossip, gossip, gossip, as Joan Rivers said on her syndicated talk
show in the early 1990s after the media got sick of talking about her
late husband. Gossip fuels the imagination and imagination fuels
gossip. There's nothing wrong with the imagination. Rolling Stone's
eulogy for John Lennon with his naked fetal pose on the cover said
it's easy to capture * the attention * of the public. The TV soap
"Dallas" can do that. But to capture * the imagination * of millions
of people as Lennon did is pretty hard. Usenet gossip groups don't
attract millions, and it's theoretically possible to do the math as
proof.
Right now I'm imagining something that makes me gossip as follows.
The following person is straight. The young actor on the new Dell
computer commercials who replaced the overexposed Ben Curtis. The
other Dell interns call him "Adam." Go figure.