Anderson Cooper strips for Michael Phelps

[Lookin]

RE: Are you a gay role model?

 

What all does he do actually? Is it worth a trip to New York to catch him in flagrante delicto?

[RockHard]

RE: It's never as simple as it seems.

 

"Unless you have first-hand knowledge"

 

I'll never tell. :-)

 

"If he had recorded hit songs it wouldn't have mattered."

 

The record industry defines a "hit" song by the number of units sold. An artist defines a hit song by one he loves after he wrote and recorded it. What does an artist know, right?

 

No one can say definitively why an artistic endeavor doesn't work. Your opinion is just your opinion. Post analysis by professionals is all speculation. But when it doesn't work, after you've just announced, "I'm GAY!," guess in what direction some of the fingers point? (Let's wait and see if Clay Aiken records another album. Show me the bank that wants to invest in his recording career now.)

 

"everyone is free to make a judgment as to whether they believe his behavior is acceptable or even logical"

 

Sure they're "free" but that doesn't make their judgement smart, insightful, based on facts, or relevant to Anderson Cooper's truth.

 

"My contention is that his public behavior renders his protestations null and void."

I'm not aware that Cooper's "public behavior" screams gay. And I also think "protestations" is a gross exaggeration of a characterization.

 

"If you want your sexuality kept private, then don't parade it in public."

 

That's not how I define FREEDOM. I would say, "If you don't want your sexual preference discussed in the press, politely change the subject when the subject arises and find a nice way to say it's none of your business." Then move on and live free, prosper, and be happy. Never alter your freedoms to appease anyone but yourself.

[Guest MickeyMoosie]

RE: It's never as simple as it seems.

 

>"everyone is free to make a judgment

>as to whether they believe his behavior is acceptable or even

>logical"

>

>Sure they're "free" but that doesn't make their

>judgement smart, insightful, based on facts, or relevant to

>Anderson Cooper's truth.

 

 

Yikes! "Anderson Cooper's truth"

 

Last time I checked, truth wasn't fungible.

 

If we begin living our lives by defining truth as we see it or would like it to be, the next step is moral anarchy.

 

Let's not go there.

[RockHard]

RE: It's never as simple as it seems.

 

"Last time I checked, truth wasn't fungible."

 

Then you must not work in show business.

 

Let me share one simple fact from someone on the "inside": The Press is not your friend.

 

A ratings game is a ratings game and let me be perfectly clear: The game is all about numbers. The only time the media cares about truth is when the truth drives a controversial story. (Ask Jennifer Aniston whose off-the-cuff remark ended up being a featured quote on this month's Vogue cover. The coverage has been endless and quite nasty.)

 

No one in show business owes anyone in the press the truth. If the truth even hints at the slightest controversy, some would say to ignore it like the plague. Our culture loves to kill a success.

 

Anderson Cooper knows how to play the media game. I don't know if he has an agreement with the money men who employ him. It wouldn't surprise me if he did. Again, there are certain truths the general public will never know.

 

What I do know is that Anderson Cooper is not giving the press what they want: a never-ending discussion about whose hole he's buggering. For any gay man in any business other than porn, that's a good thing.

[RockHard]

Disclaimer

 

"Unless you have first-hand knowledge, your (Calvin Klein) scenario is gross speculation at the very least."

 

Disclaimer:

 

None of my comments that feature celebrity names are meant to be read as factual. Each name can be substituted with any other famous name to demonstrate the worthiness of publicly saying, "I'm gay!," in the context of big business. The commentary I offered is for example and instructional purposes only. All the examples may be considered hypothetical.

 

Much has been written about Calvin Klein's business dealings, his marriages, his Fire Island home, and his sexuality. Readers are free to research and come to their own conclusions. However, I have never slept with Calvin Klein and he has never told me he is gay. Many publications claim he is bisexual.

 

IMO, publicly announcing any sexual preference other than heterosexual may have negative ramifications in business. And this is the instructional point of my posts. Thank you.

[Guest MickeyMoosie]

RE: Disclaimer

 

>Disclaimer:

>

>None of my comments that feature celebrity names are meant to

>be read as factual. Each name can be substituted with any

>other famous name to demonstrate the worthiness of publicly

>saying, "I'm gay!," in the context of big business.

>The commentary I offered is for example and instructional

>purposes only. All the examples may be considered

>hypothetical.

 

I'm glad you cleared that up because your first paragraph, referring to Klein's loan process, was written as fact and no where in that paragraph did you infer you were fabricating the entire scenario.

 

For those who don't feel like scrolling up, it read:

 

"Calvin Klein is a good case study. He needed mega-money to grow his business but no financial institution would "trust" lending to a suspected homosexual who played on Fire Island Pines (with all the requisite inferences that come with the word "play" in the age of HIV-AIDS). How did he fix the trust issue? He was advised to get married (as in hetero) and he did. And he got his formal loan (and paid back the temporary one that Geffen provided). He got it both ways."

 

My theory is that he just wanted to get married.

[RockHard]

RE: Nothing is clear.

 

"I'm glad you cleared that up"

 

Actually, nothing is clear when the full truth can't be known. And that really is my point in this thread.

 

ps Unfortunately, this board limits the time to perform an edit. If I could, I would rewrite my posts to read more hypothetical. It was not my intention to call anyone a liar, feed the gossip mill, or disparage anyone.

 

Klein told Playboy in 1984, “I think it’s more fun if you have the reputation and people don’t know everything — a little mystery isn’t so bad.” Frankly, I fully subscribe to this line of thinking and I have great admiration for Calvin Klein. He's a brilliant businessman, gay or not.

[Guest MickeyMoosie]

RE: Nothing is clear.

 

>Klein told Playboy in 1984, “I think it’s more fun if

>you have the reputation and people don’t know everything — a

>little mystery isn’t so bad.”

 

 

1984 was also the height of the AIDS crisis and the last thing he needed was to come out about was being gay since GAY equalled AIDS at the time and as the head of a corporation, the last thing he needed was people thinking he was dying. (How he's still alive is one of the great mysteries of life, but that's another topic for another time.)

 

Fortunately, in 2008, the two are no longer synonymous.

[Guest zipperzone]

Having read the subject of this thread dozens of times, I still find the thought to be hugely erotic.

[+ glutes]

Guess Anderson Cooper isn't the only one that strips for Michael.

A threesome with lap dancers, GO MICHAEL!

 

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