WilliamM

You were not there. He was talking about his years as an escort, just before retirement. If I had know what he was going to say, I might have reacted differently. The comment was absolutely not meant as "Look who I know!"

Obviously I can not name the celebrity here or in a PM. The celebrity is not in the closet.

a) Escorts have never told me about a neighbor, or even the names of any of their clients. b) The major exception was someone who was retiring and talked about his life in general. The celebrity he mentioned would not surprise anyone on this site. And even if the name had been a surprise, it was a private conversation. I certainly knew enough not to repeat the name. c) Everyone already knows I am gay, so it would not bother me much if an escort mentioned my name occasionally

Live performance from Thanksgiving Eve 1957 on NBC in Bluray with Mary Martin and John Raitt. Worth it to see Martin and Raitt at the peak of their careers. Much better than any of the recent live TV show versions of Broadway classics. Mary Martin played Annie on the road in the 1940s while Merman played Broadway. Mary and John did "Annie" on the west coast first before this live telecast, so they were prepared in a way that recent performers, who have not had that opportunity.

And Max was not performing in low-rent plays. The "Salonica" casts also includes Academy Award winner Jessica Tandy. His break through role off-Broadway was in Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloan."

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Maxwell was hired for "Grease 2" because he was often naked in New York, off-Broadway

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Some good news for James Levine New York Times Law enforcement officials in Illinois said Friday that they would not bring criminal charges against the famed Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine, noting that the man accusing Mr. Levine of sexual abuse there three decades ago had been 16 at the time — which was then the age of consent. “As such, even if it were possible to establish the alleged acts took place, they do not constitute a criminal offense under the applicable law,” the Lake Forest Police Department said in a statement. The police had been investigating a complaint made last year by Ashok Pai, 48, who grew up in Illinois and said that he was sexually abused there as a teenager by Mr. Levine, who was then the music director of the Ravinia Festival, near Lake Forest. Mr. Pai accused Mr. Levine of lying naked with him in bed and touching his penis while at a hotel near the festival in 1986, when Mr. Pai was 16, beginning years of sexual contact. Mr. Levine, 74, was suspended on Sunday from the Metropolitan Opera, his artistic home of more than 40 years, after three men — including Mr. Pai — came forward with accusations that he sexually abused them decades ago, when the men were teenagers or students of his. (A fourth man came forward on Monday with a similar accusation.) Friends and relatives of the accusers said in interviews that the men had either complained of Mr. Levine’s abuse near the time it happened or in the years since.