Bronson pinchot is he gay
Today, we look at Rebeca Arthur (Mary Anne on Perfect Strangers) talking about her problems with Perfect Strangers star, Bronson Pinchot, including some shocking allegations about his conduct during the series.
This is Quite a Story, a sort of catch-all feature where I share short, engaging anecdotes from interviews or books that don’t really fit into any other feature.
Perfect Strangers was a star vehicle for Bronson Pinchot, whose Serge character was a standout part of the 1984 hit film, Beverly Hills Cop. ABC basically took the “foreign man” traits that Pinchot did in that film, dropped the gay aspect of the character and gave him his own sitcom where he plays a dude coming to America from the fictional island of Mypos. He moves to Chicago where he stays with his distant cousin, Larry Appleton (played by Mark Linn-Baker). The two are very different from each other (perfect strangers, you might even say). Melanie Wilson and Rebeca Arthur played Larry and Balki’s love interests, respectively, for most of the show (they eventually had a double wedding and even had kids at the same time).
Arthur talked to the very interesting Perfect Stranger
There's No Way Bronson Pinchot is Straight
He was engaged to Soap Actress Marcy Walker - from an interview
TV Guide - Bronson Pinchot recently told Movieline magazine that you broke up with him by leaving his engagement ring on his windshield wiper. Sounded kinda frosty, Miss Marcy! Will you respond to this on the record?
Marcy Walker - Well... yeah. When I broke it off, he left this box of clothes on my doorstep with every sock and every pair of underwear that I'd ever bought him, every scrapbook thing, every napkin, anything that [reminded him of our relationship] was placed in a big box with this note. He asked me to give support his ring. But he didn't want to view me again. I didn't know where he was staying but I saw his car, so I left the ring with a note on his car.
TV Guide - How do you feel about him sharing it with the press?
Marcy Walker - Well, he never did share it with the press. This happened in 1983, '84. He never said anything about it before. I can't assume he'd say it all these years later. He must be pretty pleasant with his success to come pickin' on me. Because, the fact is, I love Bronson. I think he's an incredibly talented man. Very, very funny. And
For many years, tv has disguised gay couples as heterosexuals with some other reason for being together -- they work in the same office, or split an apartment, or are brothers. So censors, skittish network executives, and shrieking homophobic audiences remain ignorant, but if you're "in the know," the queer subtext is obvious.
Bronson Pinchot broke into film as Tom Cruise's buddy in Risky Business (1983).. After several years of playing swishy gay-vague characters, such as Dennis on Saraand Lloyd in After Hours, he was cast in the gay-vague buddy sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986-1993). He played Balki Bartokomous, an exuberant free-spirit from the faux-Greek country of Mypos, who descends upon his stick-in-the mud distant cousin Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) in Chicago. You can anticipate the the standard "let's carry out something wacky"/"but I include a dentist appointment" plotlines.
It's supposed to be a brief visit, but the two end up falling in love, their warmth explained as fraternal adoration, and Balki stays on.
I watched during the first season when Perfect Strangers led into Head of the Class and Night Court on Wednesday nights
AKA Bronson Alcott Pinchot
Born:20-May-1959
Birthplace:New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Balki on Perfect Strangers
Bronson Pinchot is a comic actor best known for playing foreigners or oddballs. On the long-running sitcom Perfect Strangers, he played Balki Bartokomous, the na�ve shepherd from Mypos who immigrated to America.
Pinchot's father was a drunk who often beat his wife and children. Pinchot vividly remembers one Christmas when his father "kicked the presents around the house like soccer balls and beat my mother with a telephone cord". After his father abandoned the family, Pinchot was raised by his functional mother, and earned a scholarship to Yale, where he studied drama. He made his film debut as one of the kids in Risky Business with Tom Cruise, and had memorable supporting roles as the gay gallery salesman "Serge" in Beverly Hills Cop, the office trainee in Martin Scorsese's After Hours, and the cocaine connection in True Romance.
Since Perfect Strangers, Pinchot has reappeared in several failed sit
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