Was jonathan harris gay
This weekend brings the annual Gay Pride festivities to West Hollywood, which is arguably the gayest municipality in the country if not the world. As one of relatively not many straight men in WeHo, my preference for women may not be apparent as I walk through "Boys Town" on my way to the common pool. Thus I uncover myself identifying with Dana Carvey's old SNL traits Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual. And so might these nine notable men.
- Baz Luhrmann. First, a disclaimer: who knows what any of these guys got up to in their private lives? Certainly, many gay celebrities of the past got married and had children while keeping their same-sex lovers a secret. Anyway, you might assume that only a homosexual could make lavish, over-the-top films like Moulin Rouge! and Strictly Ballroom, yet the dapper Australian director has been married to his costume/production designer Catherine Martin since 1997. They acquire two kids.
- LeVar Burton. Considering his soft-spoken personality, his drama geek background, his childhood desire to become a priest, and his involvement in AIDS and gay rights causes, you might be forgiven for thinking the Roots/Star Trek/Reading Rainbow star was gay. But Bu Millions of Baby Boomers realize exactly who Dr. Smith was: the foil/ pain in the neck/ comic relief on the iconic sci-fi series Lost in Space(1965-68).
A nuclear family (Mom, Dad, teenage girl, preteen boy and girl), blasts off into space to colonize Alpha Centauri (how are they planning to increase the population?)
Enemy peeper Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) tries to sabotage the ship, so it won't reach its destination -- instead it will be Lost in Space. But he is accidentally trapped aboard.
How on Earth is he going to be redeemed after that?
Easy -- the writers just neglect about it, transforming him from evil to a pain in the neck, occasionally helpful ("I'll negotiate with the aliens"), occasionally devious ("I'll sell you the boy in exchange for passage home"), but usually just annoying ("I'm much too fragile to do any work!"). A vain, prissy, glutonous, inactive, self-centered uncontrolled id.
Also the most interesting character amid the squeaky-clean Robinsons (quick -- name two personality traits of the teenage daughter).
Dr. Smith spends a lot of time with preteen Will Robinson (Billy Mumy), whom he hugs, grabs theshoulder of, and calls "my b
Jonathan Harris [1914-2002]: Dr. Zachary Smith
I hold completely immersed myself within the world of Lost In Space. Like anything else, I take on the task with transparent abandon [or until I get bored and donate up for a short time]. I have been absorbing all things Lost In Space. So, I bring you all things Dr. Zachary Smith and the man who played him, the late, wonderful Jonathan Harris [1914-2002].
I stumbled across Starlog #248 [March 1998] from my collection. This got me thinking about how much I miss Starlog Magazine. Starlog was a wonderful science fiction publication and one of the rare breeds that genuinely embraced though science fiction investigations on any subject it touched. I do miss it so. There isn't a magazine on the market today that comes lock. Starlog, like a number of publications stumbled in sales at the rotate of the century and hung on as drawn-out as they could before closing their doors. Given it's prestigious history and vast library of publications, it makes it all the more disappointing when considering it is gone. It was a truthful loss to folks fancy myself. In fact, getting back issues is not exactly easy today since its folding. Not only did they
"Dr. Smith... In a land called Oz"
By Ian Stahlhut:
It's been 12 years but I still keep in mind the time like it was yesterday. As a committee member of Australia's Lost in Space fan club and a budding young actor, I was in an absolute express when I learned that Jonathan Harris was actually comming to Sydney to appear live on stage. You see, like all the fans of the hit show Lost in Space, I had grown up watching it. In Australia the series has the dubious record of being the most repeated show in television history. We had no toys here in Oz, no model of the Jupiter-2, or ray guns, just our imaginations and lego and lots of bushland to play out our childhood version as the Robinsons after school. I was always Will, and no one wanted to be Dr. Smith. As I got older and became a serious motion picture buff, I rediscovered the shows and homed in to what an remarkable performance Jonathan Harris gave to his character. It was truly a one in a million. So sometime in 1992 I found an art cinema screening episodes of Missing in Space and Celestial body Trek on the large screen for a limited weekekends. I attended and met and be friended a remarkable man named Glenn Ware, who I discovered had just founded Austral
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