Just One of the Valley Guys

 

Not convinced the "current" photo here is current, as I believe Joyce Hyser will be 67 in December and William Jacoby, aka Buddy, just turned 55. (Joyce seems to have legally changed her birth year to 1960, but I know better!) 

But having it pop up on my Threads feed the same day one of my own memories about everyone's favorite gender-bending aspiring journalist appeared in my Facebook memories definitely made me smile. 

Longtime readers might remember that I have a tangential connection to the wonderful '80s teen flick "Just One of the Guys": It was shot in my second hometown -- sadly I never ran into William Zabka once -- with one of my classmates scoring a supporting role (back when it was called "Lady's Man") and featured a scene at the Valley of the Sun's famed "beach," aka the wave pool known as Big Surf. 

But what I'm just learning while doing a little research for this post is that, according to Wikipedia, Hyser was in a four-year relationship in the 1980s with Bruce Springsteen and then subsequently lived with a pre-Madonna Warren Beatty for a year and a half. (She was also linked to David Geffen!) 

Bruce Springsteen and Joyce Hyser in Paris (1981) 

From "Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America":

When Beatty introduced [Hyser] to his friends, he often referred to her as "Springsteen's former girlfriend." He seemed inordinately proud of her. He's say: "Look at her. Isn't she just the greatest?" Hyser recalls, "He seemed genuinely taken with everything I said or did. I had this guy who was worshipping the ground I walked on, and it was Warren Beatty. It was really great -- for a while." 

The book also gives details about Beatty's fascination with her being Jewish -- "not the self-hating type in Hollywood" -- and how she reminded him of Natalie Wood and that he used his friendship with Bob Dylan (who was in a long-term relationship with a friend of Hyser's) to get to her. 

Beatty was so secretive that Dylan thought he was a Mason.

Needless to say this is all pretty shocking to me. And now I have to wonder: Does this mean two of my generation's biggest stars are therefore queer or at the very least pan? :-)

Tennis Tuesday: James McGee

You don't have to be Irish to get lucky seeing retired pro James McGee's shirtless workout BELOW.

Remains of the Day (05/06)

EW: Unless David Corenswet put out on the casting couch I don't see any reason for another "Superman"

The Advocate: Judy Shepard's Presidential Medal of Freedom hailed by LGBT rights groups 25 years after gay son’s murder

HuffPost: Caragh Donley came out as trans at 63

AZ Central: An Oscar-winning film made a historic Arizona gay bar a punchline -- and opened a conversation

GCN: Rainbow Book Fair draws full house at LGBT Center

Manspread Monday: Who's a good boy?

THR: Well, don't this beat all? For 50 years I've thought people were making a fat joke at the late Cass Elliot's expense when it turns out her manager -- that Allan Carr, who was no stranger to a double-decker delight himself -- actually conspired with a journalist to TELL THE WORLD Mama had choked to death on a ham sandwich. This isn't so much an urban legend but a deliberate coverup that turned out to be unnecessary when the autopsy later revealed she died of a heart attack, not a drug overdose or something else Carr might have thought would look bad. Unbelievable. Now any update on that gerbil?

The Daily Beast: "Who Is Stan Smith?" documentary tells the story of the man behind the shoe

PinkNews: Former NFL star Julian Edelman is "gay" for Tom Brady

Into: Why does JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg remind me more of Andy Dick than John-John?

NYT: Chacarita is Buenos Aires’s quirkiest neighborhood. Get there soon.

WaPo: How Pope Francis opened the Vatican to transgender sex workers

Hot Cat of the Day: He's got a ticket to ride 

Homo Box Office: Since the one topic everyone likes to discuss seems to be what to watch, off the top of my head I can tell you: "Unfrosted" (didn't know what I was getting, but silly fun); "You" (Damian watched without me years ago and I'm just finishing season two of this incredibly f**ked up series); "Hacks" (season 3 premiere was perfect); "Moonlighting" (have finally made it to season 3 of this highly uneven "classic"); "Finding Andrea" (WTF?); "The Idea of You" (it was there and Nicholas Galitzine looks like that!); and "The Layover" (horrific, but Matt Barr looks like that!). Best of all: Since "Curb Your Enthusiasm" ended I have been craving something else acclaimed, so have taken "The Larry Sanders Show" from the top. Not only does it hold up, it's somehow even better as a more wizened viewer who knows where celebrity "went" later.

Oy vey: I posted my stance on social media and quickly discovered 95% of the people who objected don't even know what it means. (I wish I could say I was surprised. But with TikTok becoming many people's No. 1 source of "information" our collective IQ was bound to plunge.) I don't engage in online debates (anymore), but I will say this: If you don't understand why Israel exists -- and will always have the right to exist -- then there's really nothing to talk about anyway.

Weekend Tennis Roundup

 

Rublev and Swiatek came out on top in Madrid. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.

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