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To: katana; Bender2
the word "camp" would be replaced with its more modern euphemism "gay"

"Camp" as used to describe the TV Batman series does not mean gay. It means exaggerated and self parodying.

The movie Blazing Saddles is an example of "High Camp" humor, while the "French Mistake" scene was both camp in the gay sense in its content and high camp in its presentation.

Bendy, you were in the business. Back me up on this.

77 posted on 07/21/2012 10:16:40 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I miss Harriet Miers.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Re: "Camp" as used to describe the TV Batman series does not mean gay. It means exaggerated and self parodying.

I can say without doubt, "Camp" does not mean gay. As to the 1960s "Batman" TV series, Adam West was not gay.

He and I drank a lot together back in those days... and he never hit on me.

And he never hit on me either... that hot summer we had in Spain!

Adam West was a man's man... but that fella that played Robin? He gave me the eye a lot--

82 posted on 07/21/2012 10:56:22 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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