Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, James Dean: New Memoir Reveals 1970s Hollywood’s Gay Underbelly
Image: Robert Reed (L), Joel Thurm, and Rock Hudson (R). Image: Facebook
The casting director behind movies such as Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show has released a revealing memoir, that, among other things, confirms details of an affair between James Dean and Marlon Brando.听
Written by Joel Thurm, the book titled, Sex, Drugs, & Pilot Season: Confessions Of A Casting Director, reveals behind-the-scenes stories of sexually liberated Hollywood, gay hookups, and porn parties.听
Tryst On The Hudson
In his memoir, Thurm tells the story of a party he went to in the 70s, where most guests were gay.
The get-together was arranged to watch the full-length, big-budget, gay-porn flicks called Boys in the Sand, which was the first of its kind.听
While there, he noticed actor, and childhood crush, Rock Hudson.
According to Thurm, Hudson motioned for him to join him in a bedroom.听
However, because Thurm was so star-struck, once they were alone, he couldn’t perform.听
鈥淚 was embarrassed and mortified,” he said in an interview with Page Six. 鈥淕etting it up was a specialty of mine. I couldn鈥檛 do it because he was Rock Hudson! It so intimidated me.听
鈥淪omeone said, 鈥榃ell, why didn鈥檛 you just b鈥搘 him?鈥� I said, 鈥楤ecause I was too 鈥︹�� I couldn鈥檛 do anything.鈥�
Thurm mentioned that Hudson was 鈥渦nperturbed鈥� by his lack of hardness.
Brady Bunch DILF
Another one of his sexual escapades involved Robert Reed, who played the dad on the TV series, The Brady Bunch.听
As Thurm tells it, in 1976, while on the set of the movie, The Boy In The Bubble, Reed was annoyed that he had to play 鈥渟econd fiddle鈥� to budding star John Travolta.
Thurm went to Reed鈥檚 dressing room in order to smooth things over. However, things got steamier than he anticipated.听
According to Thurm, 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 go in there with the intention of that. I went in there with the intention of just, 鈥楬ey, thank you for putting up with what we have to do. And then, I don鈥檛 know, I just started rubbing his back. I thought, 鈥榃ell that鈥檚 what you do in a situation like that.鈥� I had no intention of anything more than that. But he seemed to respond.鈥�
Apparently, the diplomatic tryst wasn’t effective and Reed 鈥渨ent back to being the same pr*ck he was before.鈥�
Thurm鈥檚 book, Sex, Drugs, & Pilot Season: Confessions Of A Casting Director, is available now.听
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