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Hollywood star Tony Curtis has died of a cardiac arrest at his US home in Nevada aged 85. The Oscar-nominated actor, who starred in Some Like it Hot opposite Marilyn Monroe, passed away peacefully in bed, a family spokesman said. The star received an Oscar nod in 1959 for The Defiant Ones, in which he starred with Sidney Poitier. Continue reading the main story Related stories * Obituary: Tony Curtis * In pictures: Tony Curtis * Classic Curtis moments His career spanned six decades and he made more than 120 films including Trapeze, Spartacus and The Vikings. Clark County coroner Mike Murphy told the Associated Press that the actor died at 2125 local time on Wednesday. Born Bernard Schwartz on 3 June 1925 in New York, the actor served in World War II before taking on the name Tony Curtis when he began his film career in 1949. 'A fine actor' He began his career as a heart-throb, but became a respected actor after starring in more substantial roles, starting in 1957 with harrowing showbusiness tale Sweet Smell of Success. He went on to appear in The Defiant Ones as an escaped racist convict handcuffed to a black escapee. But he became best known for his role in Billy Wilder's acclaimed comedy Some Like It Hot, where he donned women's clothing. After his star faded in the late 1960s, Curtis shifted to lesser roles and fell into drug and alcohol addiction. In the 1970s he turned to television, starring in a number of TV series including The Persuaders! opposite Sir Roger Moore, and Michael Mann's Vegas. Sir Roger led the tributes to the actor, calling him "a fine actor". "We had a lot of laughs together for about 15 months, working together every day. He was great fun to work with, a great sense of humour and wonderful ad libs. We had the best of times." 'Wonderfully indiscreet' Sir Michael Parkinson, who interviewed Curtis several times, said his performance in Some Like It Hot would live forever. "Some Like It Hot is one of the greatest comedies of all time," he said. "Billy Wilder, did not suffer fools so for Tony Curtis to work with him and make that film shows just how good he was. He was an extraordinary man. "Hollywood tried to make him into a sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s but he was his own man. He was a great chatshow guest and was wonderfully indiscreet but he was very bright and did not take himself too seriously," he added. After recovering from addiction in the early 1980s, he later became a painter whose canvasses sold for as much as $20,000 (£12,600). The actor was married six times, including to Psycho star Janet Leigh, with whom he had two children including daughter and actress Jamie Lee Curtis. He is survived by his wife, Jill Vandenberg Curtis, and six children. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11443271

My best movie date in Thailand was at a movie. I had my BF and about 20 other boys that I was taking out to a disco one night and we all went bowling and to the movie first. A new boy was with the group. I took the back 2 rows of the theater (seats in Thailand are reserved). The seats in the very back are double seats almost like love-seats. They also bring you a blanket to those seats so you are not cold. Well, I went to the back row and sat in the middle and the new boy sat next to me. I thought that was pretty sweet as I guess he didn't know that I really didn't expect any attention from him. He held my hand and cuddled with me. It was very sweet, almost romantic. Then, part of the way through the movie he put his head under the blanket and sucked me off. I was shocked as most Thais are very shy. Once done, he swallowed all the jizz and then sat back up. My long term BF saw this and smiled. I looked at the BF and said, "can I keep this one?" He said OK and the boy was with us for another 2 years.

Prostitution is illegal in Thailand as well. Those bar boys and bar girls are not going off for sex. They are going off to have dinner and a movie.

It sounds like a good plan! The BF does have cousins. But, even if he didn't, he would say he did to introduce you to his friends. Plus, I'll have to tell you the story of how me met one day. It is a doozie!

I needed a few more nights for the year so I did book a conference room last week. I got my 10 nights. I was surprised. But, according to most, this works. If you only have a few nights left to make your elite status, check out this flyer talk info. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marriott-rewards/1121221-platinum-status-eight-days-800-no-stays-required.html

I am not sure how it can be prevented until all young people realize that it is OK to be gay. We have some a long way but there is so much more to do. I think Freedom of sexuality and acceptance of ones thoughts and desires is critical in a healthy life and world. I also believe that when others accept gays and gays accept themselves the world will be better for all especially children. Today's culture pounds into their head that bigotry and intolerance and hate is acceptable. You hear it on TV. You see it in school. It is part of our country and IMHO, we have become a more conservative society and we are going in the wrong direction.

LOL I break up with him and leave the country in a huff just to return for the make up sex. It is something to die for!

Thank you! Cheers back! I did have a very similar journey. I grew up in Alabama and in a very conservative family. I was expected to play sports, ride horses and love fishing. Instead, I played in the band, rode boys and loved porn. I guess I didn't meet my families expectations. I was lucky to have a fantastic mother who accepted me for whoever I was and whatever I did. I would not have made it otherwise. I did try to blend in with the southern Christian lifestyle for 28 years. I dated girls, studied to become a minister and went on missionary campaigns. It was all part of my growing toward acceptance. My first missionary trip overseas was to Scotland. I was only 16 and the rest of the group was in 20s - 40's. They let me have a room to my own. We stopped over in London and I slipped out at night. I found a handsome man who eyed me (you know, the gay eyes thing) and I followed him. It was my first gay bar. I was mortified when they all looked at me. But, I did go in anyway and I had sex in the bar with a guy. Of course, I felt guilty and thought I should be punished. I also did think about suicide often. It was on my mind constantly until I came out. It was so hard to live a life that was a lie. When I came out, I said I would never lie to my family again. I haven't.

Hey, how the hell did I get pulled into this? That is really off topic. And, the motor scooters were not cheap BTW. One was a red 400cc.

I'd have to go with Mike Stefano. That crush I had on him never got the attention it deserved.

This area now links to the wrong topics as we changed our forum and upgraded to the newest version. This upgrade changed all of our url's. We will be working to get all these links back up ASAP. Thank you for your patience.

I do realize that hard feelings exist over the contest. It turned into a mess. We tried our best to come up with a solution that would work for all and it had the opposite effect. Not much we can do about it now other than to apologize and move forward. I am not sure what heavy handed tactics you are referring to when you state that we made posts invisible that were critical of the board or of GT. Please give me some examples. It is common with most message boards that a handful of posters make the majority of the posts. Gaybutton was the most active poster on this board for years and he is now concentrating on his own board. We wish him well and have only nice things to say about his board. I have tested this on 5 different browsers and I didn't have to log in to see the posts on any of them. I can not seem to replicate your issue. I suggest you clear your cache on your browser and try again. Or, try another browser and see if you get the same results. The board is totally open for anyone to view regardless of being logged in or not logged in. It would be crazy to have it any other way. If that is happening, it is not our intent. However, I feel this may be an individual issue with your browser.

A good interview with one of the accusers. http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/iteam/bishop-eddie-long-accuser-talks-jamal-parris-20100928-es

This is only one of the nuts we are up against! This guy needs a fuck in the ass more than any politician I have seen recently. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/28/michigan.justice.blog/index.html?hpt=C1

I like both of them!

I do not quite understand how we have failed. Perhaps you can give some specific examples? The site is getting new members every day. Our Facebook ads were a success. Our Alexa and Google rankings keep going up. We just updated the entire forum software without any downtime. We are disappointed with the lack of posts on the forum but we are happy with the direction of the site. We are here for a long time and will keep working hard to make the site a success.

For those of you that missed it, here are some photos from the boy!

It is a temporary one I am sure. I just thought it was cute. Perhaps we can all put our heads together and help TY find an avatar that is perfect for him!

Lookin, nicely said.

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I guess you are right. I am not sure how much it says about humanity but perhaps a great deal of those trained for war. I have family in the military and I respect what they do for this country. I wish there was more training and supervision of our troops in times of war. And, we weren't meant to be in war this long. I blame this on our leaders.

I was at a many hotels recently and in a few of them I noticed the date on the HoHo's were out of date. I wasn't happy about that and I didn't eat them. Same thing happened to me today and I was tired of this so I went to the front desk. I said: Hey, look, I am a paying customer in your fine hotel and I want my fucking HoHo's. Seriously, I just asked why all the snacks that are perishable are out dated (some of the others you could see the dates). She said that some of the delivery companies do this on purpose. They take the old ones and put behind some new ones and hope people don't notice. They will then take the ones they swapped out and sell them. It adds money to the deliver man's pocket. She told me this and I had never heard this before. She said that they have complained to the company so much that one letter from me and they would switch vendors. Has anyone heard of shit like this happening? I mean, seriously, who messes with your hoho's?

Does this kid have any emotion at all? Is he void of caring for anyone? Using the term whacks over and over, I wonder where he grew up and with whom did he live? Sad commentary on our country.

It is interesting that Forster's retreat into imagination is such a part of many of us who are gay. I remember my imagination carrying me through some very dark days in my youth and were it not for my dreams, my writing, my poetry, I am not sure how I would have survived those years. I think this escape into the arts is part of what has drawn me to so many of my lifelong friends as they were in the same world I was in at one point or another.