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Incredibly sad to read the news this morning of Tab Hunter's death at the age of 86 - we've covered the actor pretty thoroughly since he officially came out in his 2005 memoir Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, which I can't recommend highly enough - the doc by Jeffrey Schwartz is also terrific, if you don't like to read or whatever. (Kidding - Tab's life was made for motion pictures.) I'm glad I got to see Tab in person with Robert Osborne (sigh, also RIP) at Film Forum a couple of years back when he was doing press..
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That was a terrific night, even if Tab remained incorrigibly rough around the edges when it came to "the gay stuff." (He was decidedly old school in his thoughts about it, that is.) Anyway just a couple weeks back it was announced that Zachary Quinto and JJ Abrams are producing a movie about Tab's brief romance with Psycho star Anthony Perkins - read about that here, and then you can read an interview with Tab on just that subject right here - so hopefully that will be a nice tribute to the actor.
Also good tributes - clicking on either of the three great big gratuitous posts we did for him, the first one here and the second one here and the third one here - they get across the point of Tab Hunter in a way no words can. If you'd like to try, with words I mean, tell us what Tab meant to you in the comments, and take it away, Tab...
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Sad news indeed though he seemed to have a pretty happy fulfilled life despite the limitations of many decades of his life.
LOVED his book in which he came across as a nice decent man with imperfections just like everyone else. He may have been only a passable actor, and in the beginning not even that (he's astonishingly handsome in Island of Desire-as the unfortunately nicknamed Chicken-but he is painfully bad and all the acting fell on Linda Darnell's shoulders) but he was always more charismatic and THERE than most of that bunch of cutesy named actors excepting Rock Hudson.
Sad news. I saw the doc "Tab Hunter Confidential" at SIFF a few years back and he was in attendance; he was incredibly lively and funny during the Q&A well into his 80's.
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