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J. Edgar Hoover Biopic Punts On Gay Question
Friends of Ours ^ | 09/21/11 | Friends of Ours

Posted on 09/21/2011 8:23:43 AM PDT by AtlasStalled

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To: AtlasStalled

J. Edgar was shown in a dress in the movie. The movie seemed to suggest that Hoover was gay.

Overall, the movie was good and a lot better than some films I have seen recently.


41 posted on 11/12/2011 1:08:05 AM PST by moviefan8
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Saw this movie last night. The only indication of Hoover's homosexuality is based on private conversations between him and Tolson, which, obviously, were never made public, and a blurb at the end of the movie that Tolson was the only beneficiary of the Hoover estate. Slim pickings, when the entire premise of the movie is less about what Hoover accomplished in a lifetime of dedication to his country, and more about "Brokeback Mountain" in really great suits and with fewer horses.

Incidently, the film also insinuates that Hoover couldn't blackmail Roosevlelt with a suggestive letter from his wife to her lesbian lover, because Roosevelt knew about the relationship, and was cool with it. It also has a wiretap of President Kennedy having sex with "as East German Communist," and AG Bobby Kennedy more interested persuing Martin Luther King than further prosecution of Communist infiltrators.

Look, it is high time people on this website come to terms with the fact that libertarians and conservatives are different KINDS of Republicans. Federal law enforcement is not popular among libertarians.

As the son of a retired FBI agent, I am glad I did not see this movie with my father, as we originally planned. I am going to to him and my mother into seeing the Margaret Thatcher biopic instead. Maybe it will get into her alleged affair with Ronald Reagan.

42 posted on 12/03/2011 9:13:17 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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I don’t buy the concept of Hoover as a flaming homosexual. If he was a homosexual, he kept it under wraps.

Those stories about him going to cocktail parties in drag and engaging in widely attended group orgies are horse hooey, in my opinion.

It is a standard slander by the left who claim to love homosexuality, yet use it as their favorite malediction against anyone who disagrees with them.


43 posted on 12/03/2011 12:01:23 PM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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To: AtlasStalled

Saw this movie tonight. Complete F A I L.


44 posted on 12/03/2011 10:06:20 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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I enjoyed the movie


45 posted on 12/03/2011 10:24:55 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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