The death of the veteran game show contestant (and actor/director) is bringing a number of tributes and remembrances. My question to you today, those of you who like me watched him on game shows when you were a kid, is - did you know he was gay? I mean looking at it with the eyes of an adult, yeah, obviously. But for those of us who were tiny tykes in the 1970's, and really weren't focused on issues of sexuality ... was I the only one who just thought he was weird and stuffily dressed? Paul Lynde struck me as gay. Reilly just seemed odd and reminiscent of various side characters from old Warner Brothers cartoons. Am I alone in having that reaction?
Posted by armand at May 29, 2007 04:42 PM | TrackBack | Posted to CultureI knew he was gay, but I lived near the Burt Reynolds dinner theater, and Reilly was a figure in the area when he came down to do shows (which, as I recall, he did with some regularity).
Posted by: binky at May 30, 2007 02:30 PM | PERMALINKI'm not a good person to ask. I can't tell if anyone is gay, or not. Ever. Under any circumstances.
Thus, I did not know that Charles Nelson Reilly was gay. He was? Huh.
Posted by: baltar at May 31, 2007 02:11 PM | PERMALINK