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i have worked in hollywood, but, i'm not going to expose myself..........perhaps, you all don't realize, that for as many tabloids offering you money..........and they do, they do ,they do/ i don't do that shit/............there is a wicked evil lurking over hollywood/ it has been here since inception/ that you/one does not make the private 'scandals' public.......one does not tarnish the business, one does not! ruin the money grabbing that the execs etc. are producing, that hollywood must keep secret.....or else they will ruin you...you will be never hired again....hollywood must rule........no matter what.
the reason many closeted gay stars sleep with black men, is that the publicity team, the managers, the stusios.........find it easier to discredit/ shameful/ a black mans story.......it is as simple as that...........when a white guy, paul baressi, a male erotic entertainer, told of his long affair with john travolta, it was in the rags.......but, did my aunt in kansas city, believe it? no...........a black mans sworn tesimony would never even be allowed in the rags.........don't expect changes soon......every straight person i have ever met wants to hear the dirt from me, like i'm some guru........no, no, no
Yes money runs Hollywood and the film/TV and now streaming biz. Nepotism, the casting couch, and drugs also play a part.
Quite a number well known actors/actresses are gay, or bisexual, or for the women lesbian/bisexual, in marriages of convenience set up for appearances, for the media, selling/earning power, etc. There are many who are well known to be gay, or bi in fake marriages, and it is well known to everyone in the industry but to the general public they are seen as "straight" even though they are in marriages of convenience, or ones that are set up for networking, $$$, or both people get media attention they crave.
Age, or actual age is very frequently lied about, changed, etc. but all the plastic surgery, botox, etc. cannot hide it, and eventually roles dry up or stop.
There are heterosexual actors and actresses. Drug addiction/abuse, alcoholism, are rampant, and most actors/actresses smoke tobacco, or were daily smokers in the past, even those that now claim to be anti-smoking, into health, etc. It would be more difficult to list actors/actresses who never used any drugs-and I don't mean just soft drugs like pot, acid, mushrooms, etc. but hard drugs like coke, METH, heroin, opiate pills, etc. are very easy to get both from dealers, doctors, and studios used to or probably still do have budgets for drugs-all of the star wars and the Blues brothers films are well known for this with the entire cast, crew, etc. using lots of coke and pot, and basically as long as the actor/actress is not so fucked up they cannot film or forget lines-nowadays ear pieces are used, it is no big deal.
Actors and actresses who are bisexual or gay/lesbian and who are actually out are maybe 2-3%. It is changing with older Gen X actors who were born in the late 1970s or up until 1983, Gen Y, Millennials, and Gen Z who are LGB tend to be very out, but the vast majority are still closeted. Being out can limit the number of roles someone gets cast for or picked for, or basically they get forced into roles for LGB/LGBT films or series, low budget indie films, as gay/bisexual characters only, etc.
For all the ways the film/TV biz claims to be super progressive, it is actually very conservative or you had better stay in line, keep $$$ coming in to studios/production companies, etc. The old rule about doing basically whatever, or whoever you want is true, but keep it super discreet, out of the media/public, etc. Still applies. The studios and actors/actresses have PR teams who monitor these things, 'fix' scandals or make it so they are never mentioned by the media, etc.