J. Edgar Hoover vs. Rock Hudson

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This is probably of no significance, but I note that Nick Redfern has a book coming out soon about US government files on the personal lives of prominent people. Rick Redfern has been a character in the Doonesbury comic strip for over 30 years, specifically a newspaper reporter.

What does this mean? Nothing, but it got my attention.
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Rock Hudson was so hot. And a total bottom from what I've heard.



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From Rush & Molloy in the New York Daily News:

ROCK WASN'T G-MANLY ENOUGH FOR FBI CHIEF

J. Edgar Hoover's obsession with Rock Hudson's gay lifestyle caused Universal Studios to alter a movie in which he starred, a new book claims.

The FBI director, a lifelong bachelor who may or may not have been a crossdresser, had agents in the L.A. office interrogating men who'd partied with Hudson, claims Nick Redfern in "Celebrity Secrets: Government Files on the Rich and Famous" (Paraview), out Feb. 20.

Reports (filed under Hudson's given name, Roy Harold Scherer Jr.) reached the FBI as early as the 1950s that the straight-shooting Hollywood star wasn't quite so straight. "FBI agents were clearly in possession of incriminating data on Hudson, including information on a variety of his bedmates, orgies in which he had partaken, and motels where he would conduct his secret affairs," Redfern writes.

Things, um, came to a head when Hudson was tapped to play one of the FBI's finest in a movie that would become "A Fine Pair" with Claudia Cardinale.

"Variety's" 1967 report of the casting set off a flurry of FBI memos, and before long Universal producers changed Hudson's role to that of an NYPD captain.

When the leading man was again tapped to play an agent at the Bureau in "The Seven File," the resulting FBI memo read: "Our files indicate that Rock Hudson, a prominent leading man, has been alleged to be a homosexual and/or bisexual. The Los Angeles Office has been instructed to remain alert concerning all developments regarding this motion picture."

Hmmmm: The kidnap-caper flick was never made. Redfern, who also gives details of agents nosing into everything from Marvin Gaye's attitude to Bud Abbott's extensive porn collection ??? , says that as soon as Hoover died in 1972, they closed the file on Hudson.
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