Tag: obit
William Hurt …. one of the very finest ‘gay for pay’ actors ….. dies aged 71
In the 1980s’ William Hurt was one of Hollywood’s sexiest and most successful stars who was nominated for Academy Award for Leading Actor three years running. In 1987, in his third attempt, he won for his remarkable performance In Kiss of The Spider Woman as Luis Molina, an effeminate homosexual in prison for…
Goodbye Sir Antony Sher : legendary Shakespearean actor + out-proud gay man
So very sad to read of the death of Sir Antony Sher one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of his generation. Sher may have been born in South Africa to Lithuanian-Jewish parents but after he came to London to study drama at the age of 19 in 1968, the Brits claimed him as one…
Nick Kamen : Buffalo Boy R.I.P.
It’s with deep sadness that we learn of the death of the English male model, songwriter, and musician. NICK KAMEN this week aged 59. It is just six years after his brother Barry passed away of a heart attack at 52. It is so sad that both left us fat too young. The pair…
The impeccable French Couturier PHILIPPE VENET dies aged 91
Philippe Venet, the French designer, and partner of the late Hubert de Givenchy has died in Paris. He was 91. Venet famously worked as an assistant to Elsa Schiaparelli from 1951 to 1953, and then worked beside Hubert de Givenchy at his couture house’s “tailleur” atelier through 1962, when Venet launched his own couture house. “As Monsieur…
