Bronson pinchot gay
Today, we look at Rebeca Arthur (Mary Anne on Perfect Strangers) talking about her problems with Perfect Strangers star, Bronson Pinchot, including some shocking allegations about his conduct during the series.
This is Quite a Story, a sort of catch-all feature where I share short, appealing anecdotes from interviews or books that don’t really fit into any other feature.
Perfect Strangers was a star vehicle for Bronson Pinchot, whose Serge character was a standout part of the 1984 hit film, Beverly Hills Cop. ABC basically took the “foreign man” nature that Pinchot did in that film, dropped the gay aspect of the character and gave him his own sitcom where he plays a bloke coming to America from the fictional island of Mypos. He moves to Chicago where he stays with his distant cousin, Larry Appleton (played by Mark Linn-Baker). The two are very different from each other (perfect strangers, you might even say). Melanie Wilson and Rebeca Arthur played Larry and Balki’s love interests, respectively, for most of the show (they eventually had a double wedding and even had kids at the same time).
Arthur talked to the very interesting Perfect Stranger
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By Greg Hernandez on Oct 23, 2009 12:19 pm | Comments (1) |
Bronson Pinchot is my new hero.
His interview with A.V. Club is so candid that I don’t think the big movie stars who he speaks unflatteringly about can quite believe it! I excerpted his Tom Cruise comments the other diurnal and today, I want to distribute the pottion of the interview where he talks about landing a role on the short-lived NBC sitcom Sara in the mid-80s starring Geena Davis.
In Bronson’s own words:
There was going to be a shadowy lawyer—because of course, don’t we all know that “black” is a character—there was going to be a chauvinist lawyer, there was going to be a gay lawyer, and then there was going to be the Mary Tyler Moore nature that Geena Davis played. And at the time I auditioned for that show, I had so little funds that someone had given me a gift basket for Christmas, and I would limit myself to two slices of the apple and a nip of cheese every day. That’s how poor I was. So I went in, and they were so anxious that nobody would want to execute the gay lawyer For many years, tv has disguised queer couples as heterosexuals with some other reason for creature together -- they labor in the alike office, or give an apartment, or are brothers. So censors, skittish network executives, and shrieking homophobic audiences endure clueless, but if you're "in the know," the lgbtq+ subtext is obvious. He was engaged to Soap Actress Marcy Walker - from an interview TV Guide - Bronson Pinchot recently told Movieline magazine that you broke up with him by leaving his engagement ring on his windshield wiper. Sounded kinda cold, Long for Marcy! Will you respond to this on the record? Marcy Walker - Well... yeah. When I broke it off, he left this box of clothes on my doorstep with every sock and every pair of underwear that I'd ever bought him, every scrapbook thing, every napkin, anything that [reminded him of our relationship] was placed in a big box with this note. He asked me to give back his ring. But he didn't want to observe me again. I didn't recognize where he was staying but I saw his car, so I left the ring with a note on his car. TV Guide - How do you feel about him sharing it with the press? Marcy Walker - Well, he never did give it with the press. This happened in 1983, '84. He never said anything about it before. I can't believe he'd say it all these years later. He must be beautiful comfortable with his success to come pickin' on me. Because, the fact is, I cherish Bronson. I think he's an incredibly talented man. Very, very funny. And
Bronson Pinchot broke into film as Tom Cruise's buddy in Risky Business (1983).. After several years of playing swishy gay-vague characters, such as Dennis on Saraand Lloyd in After Hours, he was cast in the gay-vague buddy sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986-1993). He played Balki Bartokomous, an exuberant free-spirit from the faux-Greek country of Mypos, who descends upon his stick-in-the mud distant cousin Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) in Chicago. You can anticipate the the standard "let's do something wacky"/"but I have a dentist appointment" plotlines.
It's supposed to be a brief go to, but the two end up falling in love, their affection explained as fraternal love, and Balki stays on.
I watched during the first season when Perfect Strangers led into Head of the Class and Night Court on Wednesday nights There's No Way Bronson Pinchot is Straight