Top US casting director Joel Thurm allegedly had sexual encounters with Hollywood icons Rock Hudson and Robert Reed.
In his not too long ago launched memoir, Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director, Thurm explains that he had attended an business get together within the ’70s the place many of the attendees had been homosexual.
They had gathered to observe one of many first full-length, big-budget, gay-porn flicks referred to as Boys within the Sand. In attendance was Hudson, certainly one of his childhood crushes.
Thurm claims that the star caught his eye and beckoned him to observe him right into a bed room.
However, as soon as they had been alone, Thurm tells Page Six that he “couldn’t get it up” for Hudson.
“I was embarrassed and mortified … getting it up was a specialty of mine,” Thurm, now 80, explains with amusing. “I couldn’t do it because he was Rock Hudson! It so intimidated me. Someone said, ‘Well, why didn’t you just b**w him?’ I said, ‘Because I was too …’ I couldn’t do anything.”
Thurm claims that the Pillow Talk star – who died of AIDS in 1985 – was unperturbed by the failed sexual encounter as “it had happened to him before.”
Despite that small blip with Hudson, the casting honcho claims to have had a extra profitable rendezvous with Robert Reed, who was greatest recognized for enjoying Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch.
At the time, Thurm had solid and was producing the 1976 TV film The Boy within the Plastic Bubble, starring a younger John Travolta.
He claims that Reed was irked at having to play second fiddle to Travolta and notably incensed by having to have his hair kinked after which unkinked twice – a laborious course of – in in the future.
In an effort to clean issues over, Thurm allegedly went to Reed’s dressing room.
“It was known (that he was gay,)” Thurm says. “But I didn’t go in there with the intention of that. I went in there with the intention of just, ‘Hey, thank you for putting up with what we have to do …’
“And then, I don’t know, I just started rubbing his back. I thought, ‘Well that’s what you do in a situation like that.’ I had no intention of anything more than that. But he seemed to respond.”
Thurm notes with amusing that after the key rendezvous, Reed “went back to being the same pr**k he was before.”
Reed additionally died of AIDS in 1992 on the age of 59.
Thurm’s expertise are famously displayed in his solid choices for Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Airplane. He additionally labored on dozens of TV reveals, together with The Golden Girls, Taxi, The Love Boat, Family Ties and Miami Vice.
This article initially appeared on Page Six and was reproduced with permission
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