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Nathan Lane: Robin Williams &#;Protected Me&#; From Coming Out as Queer on &#;Oprah&#; in Because &#;He Was a Saint&#;
Nathan Lane revealed on &#;Sunday Today&#; that Robin Williams once protected him from coming out as gay against his will on national television. The year was and Lane and Williams were on their press tour for Mike Nichols&#; &#;The Birdcage,&#; in which they play a gay couple trying to marry off their son to a conservative couple&#;s daughter. Path was nervous about doing an interview on &#;The Oprah Winfrey Show&#; as &#;The Birdcage&#; was one of his first major film roles, and he did not want to come out publicly as gay at the period.
&#;I was not prepared at all for that,&#; Lane said about openly discussing his sexuality at the time. &#;And I certainly wasn&#;t ready to go from table-to-table and tell them all I was gay. I just wanted to discuss about finally [getting] a big part in a movie, and I didn’t want to make it about my sexuality.”
Of course, Lane knew that playing a homosexual character in the motion picture would make discussing his sexuali
Rest in Peace, Robin Williams, You Were Truly a Gay Icon
By Dennis McMillan
Everyone on the world is mourning the tragic demise of comic extraordinaire Robin Williams, but none more than the LGBTQ community. Williams was definitely a queer icon.
In the movie The Birdcage, Williams portrayed the gay dad dealing with a hetero son, as well as the owner of a drag cabaret and gay lover of its actor drag queen performer.
He was the gay daddy in drag in Mrs. Doubtfire—as the kind, elderly Scottish nanny, calling himself Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire after seeing a newspaper headline with the words “doubt” and “fire.” In the hilarious film, straight Daniel Hillard enlists his gay brother Frank (played by openly gay Harvey Fierstein), a makeup artist, and Frank’s partner Jack to alter him into Mrs. Doubtfire.
My favorite personal moment with Williams was when I was dressed as Sister Dana Van Iquity in full-on nun drag and bumped into him walking down Castro Street. I joked to him, “Well, there goes the neighborhood,” and he laughed uproariously! At the time, I
Was Robin Williams gay?
The tenth anniversary of the passing of beloved American actor and comedian Robin Williams is this year, on August
Williams was best known for comedic roles be situated the Genie in the Disney motion picture Aladdin, the titular role in Mrs. Doubtfire, and Professor Phillip Brainard in Flubber. However, his more serious parts in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society proved his abilities as a multi-faceted star and earned him several Oscar nominations and eventually an Oscar win for Good Will Hunting.
He began his career performing stand-up comedy and eventually rose to fame through his role as Mork on Mork and Mindy. He even appeared on Broadway, in his own one-man demonstrate , and in the war drama Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.
Williams was married three times in his experience, first to Valerie Veldari from to , then to Marsha Garces Williams from to , and finally to Susan Schneider from until he died in He and Garces Williams joint two children; Zelda and Cody, and he and Schneider has one son named Zachary.
Robin Williams never came out public
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer(s): Elaine May
Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Road, Gene Hackman, Dianne West
Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) is a same-sex attracted Jewish man who owns a nightclub in Miami’s South Beach neighborhood – “The Birdcage” – a venue that has a well-known reputation for its queenly shows. In fact, Armand’s companion Albert (Nathan Lane) is the main attraction, performing under the name “Starina.” When Armand’s son Val, a product of a one-night stand with a miss, shows up and explains that he intends to marry a right-wing senator’s daughter, Armand and Albert are compelled to “go into the closet” and fictional to be straight men so that Val can introduce them to the girl’s parents. Things get sticky when a political scandal breaks out involving a colleague of the conservative senator who dies in the arms of a black prostitute, and the real identity of Armand, Albert, and their nightclub is in danger of coming to light.
Mike Nichols, who was deeply interested in the original Broadway adaptation, directs this hilarious cinematic adaptation of La Cage aux Folles, the French play by