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In the writing and making of their films, the following book/play characters mysteriously turned
from gay or bisexual to straight. Which character would you most have liked to have seen as the
book author or playwright originally wrote them?
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George Peppard in Breakfast at

Tiffany's (1961) Recent Activity
Paul 'Fred' Varjak - Breakfast at Tiffany's
clthomas-81896
voted for #21

UnclGeorge
voted for #20

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Belladonna_of_Sadness
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Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for #2
(1958)
Brick Pollitt - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof rleegray-569-58158
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#20

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#20

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jwerty80
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Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple danil-33427

voted for #21
(1985)
Celie Johnson - The Color Purple
bradchase
voted for #21

nathanfredaigues
voted for #1

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Keanu Reeves in Constantine (2005) andreyzice
voted for #18
John Constantine - Constantine

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#5
Samuels - Crossfire

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Véra Clouzot and Simone Signoret in

Diabolique (1955)
Christina Delassalle and Nicole Horner - Les diaboliques

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Lynn Browning, Virginia Dabney, Dick

Powell, Mildred Dixon, and Marie
Arbuckle in 42nd Street (1933)
Billy Lawler - 42nd Street

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Warner Baxter in 42nd Street (1933)

Julian Marsh - 42nd Street

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Mary-Louise Parker in Fried Green

Tomatoes (1991)
Ruth Jamison - Fried Green Tomatoes

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Honor Blackman in Goldfinger (1964)

Pussy Galore - Goldfinger

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Lou Ferrigno in Hercules (1983)
Hercules - Hercules

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Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview

with the Vampire: The Vampire
Chronicles (1994)
Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac - Interview with
the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

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"The Lost Weekend" Ray Milland 1945

Paramount Pictures
Don Birnam - The Lost Weekend

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Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face

(1993)
Justin McLeod - The Man Without a Face

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John Cusack and Bobby Coleman in

Martian Child (2007)
David - Martian Child

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Brad Davis in Midnight Express (1978)

Billy Hayes - Midnight Express

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John Cusack in Midnight in the Garden

of Good and Evil (1997)
John Kelso - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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James Van Der Beek in The Rules of
Attraction (2002)
Sean Bateman - The Rules of Attraction

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Adrien Brody in The Thin Red Line

(1998)
Cpl. Fife - The Thin Red Line

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Brad Pitt in Troy (2004)

Achilles - Troy

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Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: Days of

Future Past (2014)
Mystique - X-Men/X2/X-Men: The Last Stand/X: First Class/X-Men:
Days of Future Past/X-Men: Apocalypse

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