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Feb 3 05 1:54 PM
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Feb 3 05 4:21 PM
Quote:I also must question how "openly gay" anyone knows David Peel to have been. He seems to have eschewed interviews himself, and none of his colleagues have ever come forward with a definitive David Peel story, so I would imagine he was rather secretive about himself and his private life.
Feb 3 05 7:03 PM
Quote:Although his being gay might have been something not unknown to his co-workers, it also might explain why Hammer execs seemed reluctant to cast him again in such a high profile role.
Feb 3 05 7:25 PM
Feb 3 05 7:54 PM
Quote:Were they reluctant? Is this a fact? I thought Peel quit acting a year or so after BRIDES. The implication is that Hammer was not a "gay-friendly" environment. Well, they certain hired the bachelor Peel for the role in the first place, hired other gay/bachelor actors for important roles, and solidified the prominence of James Bernard as the Hammer horror composer man.
Feb 3 05 8:07 PM
Quote:But we were discussing how openly gay David Peel was....
Feb 3 05 8:37 PM
Quote:Was he openly gay in the late 1950s? I would tend to doubt it!
Feb 3 05 9:10 PM
Quote:See Basil Dearden's VICTIM (1961), starring Dirk Bogarde, for an idea of what it meant to even be suspected of homosexuality in Britain in the early 1960s.
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Feb 4 05 1:45 AM
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Feb 4 05 2:02 AM
Feb 4 05 10:18 AM
Quote:Ironically, the Sunday tabloids would be just as quick to point out that the sexual preference of his replacement -- David Peel -- was not entirely in keeping with what was being portrayed on the screen (and still illegal in 1960).
Feb 4 05 3:02 PM
Feb 4 05 4:18 PM
Quote:He lives for corruption; this is sport for Meinster and he keeps score by the number souls he ruins, his boyish spit curl mocking the world of the living. (His mother's blood must have been a grand slam in his vampire world.) Meinster is almost a prequel to the mature Dracula; he's like Dracula Year One.
Feb 4 05 5:25 PM
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