Charles Winecoff
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Anyway, Tony Perkins's father was a famous actor who died when he was 5; his mother was domineering and withholding. She was in a long term relationship with another woman. Through his life older women were drawn to him and took take care of him and he lived a closeted gay life until he made a conscious decision to become straight, encouraged by his therapist, Mildred Newman of How To Be Your Own Best Friend fame. He was convinced that all the problems in his life were because he was living the “empty” gay lifestyle, and he wanted a conventional family. He married Berry Berenson and they had two kids and apparently a happy marriage, though the book has plenty of gossip about whether he continued to have gay relationships. He died of AIDS. He was driven by worry about how good his acting was and he could be cruel to people who cared about him; he was unhappy for much of his life.
I hadn’t known a lot about his career beyond The Friendly Persuasion where I developed a crush on him, and Psycho. The book goes into great detail about his stage and movie jobs which I found interesting, along with the descriptions of other theater people. I’m surprised at how many of his movies I’d seen and forgotten, and enjoyed the 60s-70s-80s nostalgia. It’s a good biography though I was annoyed by the constant foreshadowing (“Ten years later they would meet again under very different circumstances.”)… (mehr)