Growing up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Growing up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1Growing up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 12:42pm
It could be the lives of so many gay men of my generation. Today on NPR's Here and Now... within the next few minutes if you're at your computer and want to listen live.
It could be my life
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 12:45pmI have to listen when when I get home- in my experience, a LOT of gay kids strongly identified with Bewitched.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 12:48pmI first heard Jaffe Cohen reference Bewitched when he was touring with Funny Gay Males. That was when I first realized how common the obsession was.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 12:51pmListening now. Thanks for the heads up!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 12:55pmSo far not enough Bewitched, g d it.
#5Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 12:59pmCame in just at the end, missed everything but the theme tune...but still, I never connected my love of Bewitched with anything other than Elizabeth Montgomery and Agnes Moorehead before!
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#6Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 1:16pm
I was a straight little girl and equally obsessed! I wish I could listen from work.
Who was more flamboyant a character than Uncle Arthur? That was a pretty out there character for the sixties, no? He reminds me of Mario Cantone a little bit.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#7Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 1:33pmIt was a let down. Pretty much a discussion about being raised religious by an OCD mother and being taught that magic was of the devil. Bewitched was only mentioned in passing.
#8Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 2:24pm
I'll give his book a miss, then.
I watched the re-runs of Bewitched as a child, and had no clue that they had been made decades before. I wasn't thick though, I knew the magic couldn't have been real...I thought they filmed it the day before I saw it. I loved Elizabeth Montgomery so much...so sad when I found out she was dead.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 2:31pmBewitched resonates because Sam has a FABULOUS secret- and an amazing secret family- and the "normals" want to keep her in the closet. I thought Bewitched should have been like The Wizard of Oz and all the scenes in the "real" world should have been in black and white and everything would explode into color when Serena or Endora came by.
#11Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 2:41pm
Who was more flamboyant a character than Uncle Arthur?
Paul Lynde didn't have to act. He just showed up for work.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#12Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 2:45pmI would have paid extra if every Serena sequence had been in 3-D.
#13Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 3:33pm
Is anybody watching this on Anderson Cooper tonight?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
#14Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 4:47pm
I was obsessed with Bewitched from the debut episode in 1964.
I was 8 years old, and I wanted to BE Samantha. Agnes Moorehead frightened me deeply, because I thought I was, somehow, like her. I didn't understand how I could be or why I would be. I wanted to be like Samantha and be able to crinkly my nose and make everything better.
#15Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 4:59pmI had a crush on the second Darrin, Dick Sargent.
#16Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 5:04pm
I was wondering why I absolutely had to own the entire series on DVD ...
Really, I wasn't wondering. I understood the connection years ago, and I agree with it being a strong one.
When I first started working on DVDs well over a decade ago, there was a guy in our office who had acted on TV as a kid. A few months later I learned he played Adam on "Bewitched." I about fell out of my chair.
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#17Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 5:39pmI would've fallen out of my chair too...Adam was played by twins too, right? I met Richard Dreyfus at the stage door a few years ago, and couldn't believe I'd actually spoken to someone who had appeared in Bewitched!
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#18Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 7:30pm
To this day, I acknowledge many of my relatives as Serena would..
"HIGH CUZ!!!"
#19Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/7/11 at 7:43pmAlso as a child, I didn't realise Elizabeth Montgomery played Serena too. I thought Pandora Spocks was a real person. The wonders of a black wig!
#20Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/8/11 at 8:33am
Was it about this book: http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-My-Wand-Alienation-Carpeting/dp/0399156550 ?
I just finished it last night. Really funny.
#21Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:22am
Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
(eyes roll)
#22Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:23am
NAMO! you misspelled growing ....a word you should be very familiar with
(another eye roll)
#23Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:26amYou need to get that eye-rolling tic checked out by a doctor.
#24Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:28am
I was home a few years back for my mother's funeral. I'd just checked into a hotel and had turned on the TV for company. I was in the bathroom when I heard a voice from the other room shouting in Paul Lynde's inimitable (though much imitated) voice: "YOU OLD MEANIE!!!"
And I started laughing. Stumbling on"Bewitched" that morning really helped get me through the day, somehow.
Updated On: 6/8/11 at 10:28 AM
#25Growng up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:46am
I DETESTED This show....
"The Mothers in Law" re-runs...THOSE were great!
The most under-rated sitcom of the 1960's.
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