#clyde tolson

[inwokewetrust1981]

The Plot to Kill King--Interview with William Pepper

The Plot To Kill King Interview With William Pepper

[yesornopolls]

Do you know who Edgar J Hoover was?

[citizenscreen]

Edward G Robinson (center) talking to FBI Director J Edgar Hoover on set of THE LAST GANGSTER (1937). Also pictured (L-R) are director Edward Ludwig, Lionel Stander, and Hoover's deputy, Clyde Tolson

[loveothislife]

Armie Hammer: American Spirit

Armie Hammer’s irrepressible drive—and Gary Cooper-like looks—have made him one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars.

Vogue Interview by John Powers Photography by Norman Jean Roy January 22, 2012

When Armie Hammer started out as an actor, he was, he admits, lazy. He’d stay out late carousing and turn up at auditions totally unprepared. Then he got a wake-up call: His agent said she was firing him. Terrified of failure, he persuaded her to give him one more chance—he had three auditions that week—and knocked himself out getting ready. He landed all three parts, yet what sticks in his memory is something else: “Those were the first times I was ever nervous in an audition.” He gives a wry smile. “That feeling has never gone away. Ever.”

Worrying has clearly worked out for him. Over the last eighteen months, the 25-year-old actor has won critical kudos for two wildly different performances: the privileged Winklevoss twins (he played both) in David Fincher’s The Social Network and, more touchingly, Clyde Tolson, the frustrated love of J. Edgar Hoover’s life, in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar. And he’s just beginning. On March 16, he’ll be seen as Prince Charming alongside Lily Collins’s Snow White and Julia Roberts’s Evil Queen in Mirror Mirror, Tarsem Singh’s cockeyed fairy tale, which Hammer calls “a visual trip.” As that comes out, he’ll be filming the title role in Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp as Tonto. All these parts play on Hammer’s most obvious quality: an aura of wholesome, almost prim virility that recalls Gary Cooper. As Collins says, “If you asked an artist to draw an all-American hero, he’d draw Armie.”

In person, Hammer is everything you expect him to be. He’s tall (six feet five), handsome, lean, intelligent, and blessed with the well-spoken graciousness befitting the scion of a distinguished family (his great-grandfather was the billionaire philanthropist Armand Hammer). Still, what strikes you first is his infectious enthusiasm. I instantly understand why Collins says she had so much fun with him on Mirror Mirror. He does impressions of Eastwood walking down the red carpet. He slips off his wedding ring to show the tiny, tattooed initials of his wife, Elizabeth Chambers, the model-actress-reporter who recently started a bakery in her hometown of San Antonio: “She’s interested in hard news,” Hammer jokes, “and cupcakes.” Although proud of his family’s achievements, he takes equal pride in charting his own destiny. “I’m not part of any dynasty,” he says firmly. But what he shares with his forebears is an ambition unembarrassed to declare itself. “I act because I love it,” he says. “I think you can make art doing it.”

Of course, Hammer knows that there’s more to life than acting. He hopes eventually to direct—his idea of film school is working with directors like Fincher, Eastwood, and Singh. And he tells me it’s his dream to open his own cigar company (he’s been smoking them since his childhood in the Cayman Islands). If that sounds a bit quixotic, such gung-ho spirit is endearingly in character. Just ask Aaron Sorkin, who spent months with Hammer making and promoting The Social Network: “Once we began our U.S. and European press tour,” he recalls, “Armie was always the guy knocking on your hotel-room door at 1:00 a.m. saying, ‘Dude, you can’t go to sleep yet, we’re in Madrid!’ I’d remind him that we were in Berlin and had to be up at 7:00 for a press conference. But he’s an irresistible force—you’d end up going out with him anyway.”

[freddieandflorence]

by jedgar i mean j edgar hoover and by clyde i mean clyde tolson. btw

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This J. Edgar Hoover biography talks a lot about his friendship with Walter Winchell, he and Clyde Tolson hobnobbing with Winchell’s social circle as a couple, and his gossip columnist allies embarking on a deliberate press gambit to promote the notion that Hoover might wed Lela Rogers (mother of Ginger) after his mother’s death left his enduring bachelorhood open to innuendo. But unfortunately I have two fucking brain cells so I am absolutely thinking about the various fictionalized noir Winchell analogues hanging out with the Hoov.

RIP J.J. Hunsecker, you would have hated his little dogs.

[azspot]

It’s striking how many of the warriors weren’t immune to same-sex desire. Hoover had a lifelong relationship with Clyde Tolson, who served as his deputy for 42 years. They not only worked together—they went everywhere together. We don’t know how sexual the relationship was. Maybe it was a male version of the Boston marriage, but there were also tales of lurid photos. Who knows? (The stories about him wearing a dress are very thinly sourced.) Roy Cohn, who denied he had AIDS up until his death from it in 1986, had plenty of male lovers.

Doug Henwood

[operationnewsreel]

Hoover remained director of the FBI until he died of a heart attack in his Washington home, on May 2, 1972, whereupon operational command of the Bureau was passed onto Associate Director Clyde Tolson. On May 3, 1972, Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray – a Justice Department official with no FBI experience – as acting director of the FBI, with W. Mark Felt becoming associate director.

Of course it was passed on to Mother Tolson, if only for a little while…

[globaltelevisionofficial]

hoover. the rumors about him and the guy… his. secretary or second in command or whatever.. clyde tolson.

Ah. I caught bits of those, I believe.

[thebrownees]

Essay Two: Table. 50 Queer Films from 1967-1976: Queer Cinema Comes Out

Another example of Eastwood’s homophobia during his seventies heyday, he matured enough over the years to direct a sympathetic is not alltogether successful treatmenmt of J. Edgar Hoover’s long term relationship with Clyde Tolson in “J. Edgar” from 2011. TABLE SUMMARY OF 45 QUEER FILMS RELEASED IN THE DECADE AFTER THE HAYS CODE WAS REPLACED BY THE MPAA (1967-1976) DIRECTORS who directed gay…

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THE FBI KILLED HIM

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[jerrylewis-thekid]

And Edgar J Hoover, in turn, was strongly suspected of being gay and having a stable relationship with another man. Hoover always remained a bachelor and starting from the 1940s insistent rumors began to circulate about his alleged homosexuality, which was never confirmed. Nor was her alleged relationship with Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI, with whom she had collaborated for years, established. Edgar J Hoover unleashed the communist "witch hunt", especially of those who were Jews of Russian origin (and Jerry was). Hoover always declared that he feared no one. Almost. Because it seems that only the Italian Mafia managed to keep Hoover in its grip. @fredandginger64

I wanted to ask you about the FBI files on Dean and Jerry. I've read some of Dean's that talked about an obscene recording made during the making of "The Caddy"and something about homosexuality. And what about Jerry? Were they accusing the two of them of being gay? I'm new to this Martin and Lewis fascination,they have really stolen my whole heart, so I'm devouring everything I can find about them. And I really really love and appreciate everything you do to keep these wonderful boys' memory alive

Thanks for your kind words! Glad to you dived into the emotional rollercoaster that is this fandom! haha

Sorry about taking so long to reply!

The record so upset the FBI that they kept bringing it up as some sort of evidence of moral depravity that Dean and Jerry committed. Edgar J. Hoover was obsessed with finding out if people were either gay or communists basically. I'm not sure how reputable this person is who outed Dean and Jerry and "classified them as gay." They are only known in the FBI files of Dean and Jerry's, as an "admitted homosexual" since the name is blacked out. I presume this person may still be alive, since their name is still redacted.

Jerry lost a contract to work on a project that he wanted the FBI to be portrayed in. FBI agents brought up Jerry's records (The Caddy outtake and the suspected gay accusation), to the FBI director who approved the project, and he canceled the contract and the approval of any FBI portrayal in Jerry's tv series that he wanted to produce.

Also Edgar J Hoover refused to meet with Jerry when he wrote to him asking for a meeting, because he suspected him of being gay.

[animusignus]

Love, Romance and FBI Agents

Soooo, I know there is a movie about it...kind of...

But how come I can’t find any books about it? Or inspired by?

I need a J. Edgar Hoover x  Clyde Tolson book. Definitely fiction, and preferably with some fantasy or sci-fi elements.

I mean...LOOK!

[mondonguita]

[raquelsantos92]

Apparently today is Give Clyde Tolson the love he deserves day around here, huh?

[delux2222]

"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."

Happy Birthday, J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)

Closeted Hoover with gay lover, Clyde Tolson, in matching outfits on vacation.