Laurents Laughed When Tony Perkins Got Aids

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/25/08 at 6:14pm

This is from the Strouse book, which I haven't read. If anyone knows the whole story from the book, please post. I am disgusted.


Laurents Giggling Updated On: 6/25/08 at 06:14 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 6/25/08 at 6:18pm

You should hear how he talks abut Bernadette Peters.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/25/08 at 6:20pm

Oh I believe it. Just because you are a talented and successful writer doesn't mean you don't have your jackass moments.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/25/08 at 6:26pm

He always looked very mean spirited

I tried to get thru his book but gave uo 3/4 of the way thru.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/25/08 at 7:15pm

Out of context it's worse, but it's still hideous.

In context, it's reference to Perkins having bragged to their circle that after he and [NAME DELETED BECAUSE HE'S STILL ALIVE] got aversion therapy to cure them of their homosexuality, they were "no longer gay."

The aversion therapy, of course, did not work, and Perkins remained promiscuously homosexual for years, despite his protestations to the contrary.

So Laurents's giggles were NOT at Perkins having contracted the disease but at Perkins's hypocrisy being revealed.

Either way, it's hideous behavior but no more or less hideous than anything else Laurents has ever done or said.

NOTE TO DAME: As far as Bernadette goes, I think Arthur has always been careful never to say anything bad about her, just about Sam Mendes and that revival.

[DAME]

Posted: 6/25/08 at 7:16pm

I didn't say he said anything. All I said was you should hear how he talks abut Bernadette Peters.

Updated On: 6/25/08 at 07:16 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:59am

The unnamed person is a wonderful man, and his wife was a beautiful woman inside and out. But he and Tony were longtime lovers, and they both "went straight" and married hyper-beautiful woman.

I heard about the aversion therapy not from Arthur Laurents (whom I might have disbelieved) but from a woman who had been very close to Tony at the time.

Arthur Laurents will never reach his die-by date. He is one of the Undead, like your avatar.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 8:03am

I love picturing tiny Teresa Stratas tossing chairs and engaging in fisticuffs with Mr. Strouse. That's what happens when a Greek temper flares up.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:28am

A few years ago, either on this board or another, now-defunct one, someone wrote:

"Arthur Laurents is living proof that the good die young."

'Nuf said.

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:31am

I read Laurent's autobiography, which I thought was awful, but I did not think he was this disgusting.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:36am

"Arthur Laurents is living proof that the good die young."

That quote is often attributed to Harvey Fierstein

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:50am

I read Laurent's autobiography, which I thought was awful, but I did not think he was this disgusting.

That's what autobiographies are for.

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:04am

PJ, Is the "unnamed person" still married - or has he come out?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:30am

His wife is deceased and, no, he has not come out.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:35am

Damn, first Kathleen Turner's autobiography and now this. Poor, confused Tony is gettin' kicked around the corner in the last six months or so.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:02am

Aurthur Laurents always sounded like he was a pain - but Charles Strouse sounds like an absolute jerk. Not surprising, coming from someone who wrote some of blandest, bubble gum music in the musical theatre repetoire. if Theresa Stratas threw a chair at him, it was probably deserved. Too bad it didn't really hurt him

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:05am

How does Strouse sound like a jerk?

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:34am

I don't have any first hand knowledge of Strouse, but a friend of mine does and said he was very pleasant.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:43am

Bernadette Peters as Annie. Now that's funny!

[roquat]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 3:34pm

I liked Laurents' book--it was dishy and cutting, but no more than some of the threads on this board. Considering what he reveals about how desperately closeted Broadway and Hollywood were during his youth, I'm not surprised he should display some reflexive (if inappropriate) glee about yet another hypocritical celeb getting "outed" (although the manner of it was indeed hideous.)

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 3:38pm

Laurents is an odious little toad.

[roquat]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 3:44pm

Oh, do you know him?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 3:51pm

I've heard as many awful things about Laurents as I have about Jerome Robbins. And I remember some scathing stuff about someone else. Was it David Merrick or Gower Champion? I think it was Merrick, but my mind is all fuzzy at the moment. My entire move tomorrow morning to my new condo, meticulously planned 6 weeks ago, has just had a huge wrench thrown in the works today and I don't know what will happen. I blame Laurents.

Updated On: 6/26/08 at 03:51 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 3:52pm

Was it the appraisal?

[nitwit]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:56pm

that guy is old and way fugly