I can't help but wonder about the reason why Buck ends up telling this version's "Crystal" that he won't be getting married for 40-50 years.
C'mon - the guy had no lack of attractive chicks after him - but it seemed once he got the fame he craved all "hetero-pretensionality" went out the window.
Like many a gay hustler I've known...
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
Gay? LOLOL, IMO, YES, but as in LAME. I thought Patrick Wayne would have been awesome in that role. ;-))
shareAre you serious? You think a man's reason for not marrying can only be that he's ugly or gay? He doesn't plan to marry because he wants to fool around with any woman he cares to.
The Republican Plan: repeal all reform; collect payoffs; go yachting (but not in the Gulf).
it's conceivable but you'd need info about the maker's intentions to call it that way. as it is in the movie he was a player who lost the necessity for a sugar mother and would continue to sleep around
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Watching it again, I noticed how - in the rowboat scene - he comes on to June Allyson, but then panics when she implies that she is going to strip so they can have sex.
Then Ann Miller's character explains how Buck avoided getting too intimate with her by claiming he ascribed to some "Texas code."
For all his smooth advances on these women (Joan Collins, too), it seems that Buck deliberately avoided any opportunity to screw any of these of these hot women.
How GAY is that???
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
Now that you mention it, it could be construed that way. But there was no outward confirmation of it. It was the fifties and being gay was not talked about. or even admitted to unless you were outed or friends and family knew. Maybe he was shy or a virgin. He sure came on to June Allison. She sure curled her toes to his lovemaking. He must have been a good kisser. I've even heard that in the original, the author friend who referred to herself as an old maid was gay. In the recent remake, there actually was a gay friend. Very interesting take.
shareThat's actually my point: being gay was not talked about - so Hollywood had all kinds of fun "implying" that someone is/was gay (like the self-decribed "frozen asset" female in the original "The Women"). So I guess my original post should be titled "Buck Winston - implicitly GAY?"
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
My take was that he was a gay man...yes ma'am!
shareMy take was that he was a gay man...yes ma'am!
shareThe implication was pretty clear that he was having sex with Crystal (Collins)---she didn't seem like the kind of girl who waited one second before trying out her talents--and those of her conquests-- in bed.
shareHmmm, I'm going to disagree on this one.
Now, I do get a kick out of ferreting out the coded gay characters in older films. Pictures made from the twenties through the fifties have no shortage of gay content, if you know what to look for---it's often very subtle, but it's there.
In this case, though, I had no impression whatsoever that Buck was gay. I think of him as being a player---only too pleased to cruise the field, bedding any woman who catches his eye and not adverse to using them to further his own personal ambitions, but not interested in settling down with only one woman and marrying.