He was never an altar boy. Robbins went to a public school, Stuyvesent High School. Robbins made up this story to attack Catholics.
Pray for him, he needs it.
Dr Thorne is that you?
He might be lying - I don’t know. But public school kids serve as altar boys too.
Of course, it must have cramped Gore a bit, as he was somewhere in the range of 19 or 20 at the time!
We don't refer to people who earn their livings by pretending to be someone they are not, as Hollywierd-Os for nothing!
And Al Gore's mother used to sing him the Union Label song when he was just a babe.
I could go on...
If you did not know about homosexual rape, I doubt the scene would have told you much.
If you did not know about homosexual rape, I doubt the scene would have told you much.
Deliverance is one of two movies I have walked out on the other being A Clockwork Orange. I have avoided other movies - so here’s a question - do I want to watch either of the Kill Bill movies? My son loves them and now my dear sweet daughter in law loves them. Sigh.
What does one have to do with the other?
Robbins is a liar, little different from other celeb attention whores who need to go public about phony childhood abuse.
He must have a movie coming out.
Who is Tim Robbins and why should we care what movies he saw thirty years ago ?
Sure, Tim. Whatever you say.
D-bag.
So Timmy, do you like gladiator movies?
I knew him very well in HS, he was super talented, but I’m sure he was always very left.
I think I saw Deliverance when it first came out, and it certainly wasn’t with my parents or any adult. (I did see it in the movies, but it might have been later, remember no Videos or anything back then - so you might go see an “old” movie a few years after it came out, for like $1!)
Back in those days that “R” thing was not enforced.
This was NYC, in the 70s, the best of times, the worst of times; in truth I miss it.
It’s a good movie, and you don’t see anything in the rape scene, it’s setup with lots of tension but then it jumps ahead. So long as the priest didn’t make any of the kids squeal like pigs no big.
Hey Timmy, did you squeal like a pig???
For what it’s worth, an online story about Robbins, not related to the Deliverance story says he was an altar boy. It talked about his father being a devout Catholic and that in his youth, Robbins was indeed an altar boy. The rest of his story about his age and why he bothered to tell it are another matter.
He was apparently raised Catholic, so I’m open to the possibility he was an altar boy, but he was born in October ‘58 and “Deliverance” dropped the end of July ‘72, so even if his priest took the fellas and did it on opening night, he was 13 if he was a day.