1960s Hollywood sex symbol Mamie Van Doren can still kick it! Photos by Alan Mercer and others.

At one point in Hollywood, Mamie Van Doren, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, was considered one the most beautiful women on the silver screen. The three of the them were collectively known as the “Three Ms” and shared a special bond of sexy sisterhood.

Always at odds with the censors during one of America’s most conservative periods, Mamie Van Doren was known as the Bad Girl. Viewed as too darn hot, Maimie was sidelined to roles in B movies where she could show off her shapely feminine form.

Yeah he was that hot. Taken in 1954, Mamie Van Doren might have been one of the few women ever to get her groove on with gay actor Rock Hudson. Photo courtesy of Mamie Van Doren.

Today, Mamie Van Doren is as alive and kicking as ever and has a fantastic new Country music album “Still a Troublemaker.” The album features a trio with country music stars Lynn Anderson (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden) and Linda Davis.

Listen as we talk with Mamie about her amazing life and she gives us a rare look at dating many of Hollywood’s Golden age hunks, and even Henry Kissinger.

What was it like to be intimate with gay hunk Rock Hudson?

What did Joan Crawford really think about Marilyn Monroe?

Mamie shares it all on today’s show, you don’t want to miss it!

[Originally posted on 12.17.10]

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1960s Hollywood sex symbol Mamie Van Doren can still kick it! Photos by Alan Mercer and others.

At one point in Hollywood, Mamie Van Doren, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, was considered one the most beautiful women on the silver screen. The three of the them were collectively known as the “Three Ms” and shared a special bond of sexy sisterhood.

Always at odds with the censors during one of America’s most conservative periods, Mamie Van Doren was known as the Bad Girl. Viewed as too darn hot, Maimie was sidelined to roles in B movies where she could show off her shapely feminine form.

Yeah he was that hot. Taken in 1954, Mamie Van Doren might have been one of the few women ever to get her groove on with gay actor Rock Hudson. Photo courtesy of Mamie Van Doren.

Today, Mamie Van Doren is as alive and kicking as ever and has a fantastic new Country music album “Still a Troublemaker.” The album features a trio with country music stars Lynn Anderson (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden) and Linda Davis.

Listen as we talk with Mamie about her amazing life and she gives us a rare look at dating many of Hollywood’s Golden age hunks, and even Henry Kissinger.

What was it like to be intimate with gay hunk Rock Hudson?

What did Joan Crawford really think about Marilyn Monroe?

Mamie shares it all on today’s show, you don’t want to miss it!

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Mamie Van Doren – Still a Troublemaker: iTunes

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Tongues are wagging worldwide at the news, as gay men, straight women and everyone in between rip up their Christmas lists and wish for one thing and one thing only under their tree:  Ryan Reynolds, preferably as undressed as possible.

One theory goes that if a male lead is known to be homosexual, he won’t be “believable” if paired with a female lead in a romantic role. But somehow it works great the other way, with straight male actors like Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sean Penn netting awards and nominations for playing gay men!

How do yo u spell delicious? G-Y-L-L-E-N-H-A-A-L.

Apparently it turns out no one knows how to pronounce actor Jake Gyllenhaal’s last name especially the people who he shares the screen in his action film debut “Prince of Persia.”

Anyone going to see his new movie? I forgot how sexy Mr. Brokeback Mountain was.

Director Sam Raimi, of the Spiderman and Evil Dead films is set to produce it.

You saw him at the Oscars, now on today’s show we have longtime gay rights activist Cleve Jones talking about what it was like to walk the red carpet at the Academy Awards, dance with Madonna at the after-party and hold Dustin Lance Black’s hand during the momentous evening.

The Oscar win for the film Milk certainly gives the national gay rights moment a shot in the arm but can we leverage the movie’s success into a comprehensive bill that ensures equality for all Americans?

Here are some memorable quotes from the interview:
On being at the Oscars with Madonna and a room full of celebrities celebrating Milk:

“It was an odd sensation to be in a room full of people and the only face I did not recognize was my own!”

On what an average citizen can do to fight for equality:

“I always go back to Harvey Milk. The single most important thing that we must all do as individuals is to come out of the closet and reveal ourselves to our families, neighbors and coworkers and let people understand who we are. I think the greatest obstacle that remains that individual queer people have about coming out.”

“The second step is to finally demand that straight people really get with the program and show their support. I think Sean Penn’s speech was very helpful in that regard. Too long we’ve accepted compromise and allowed our own leaders to sell us out. This is what President Clinton did… we need to hold all our leadership accountable.”

Cleve shares with us his thoughts on President Clinton crossing the picket line.

The fishy biological origins of sex.

Here’s another reason for pushing marriage equality: the environment. If Australian Senator Steve Fielding is right and divorce is ecologically unsound, then allowing same-sex couples to legally marry just may save the earth.

American Idol Judge Simon Cowell clarifies the rumors of him wanting to be frozen upon death. For now he’ll just enjoy being icy in life, not in death, thank you very much.

The world’s most unfortunate names.

Check out the world’s most windowed office building. Isn’t it cute? It looks like some cubist block of swiss cheese. Wouldn’t it totally blow if you worked there and didn’t have an office with a window?

How ecologists use magnets to confuse crocodiles.

If you got a moment, please vote for Feast of Fools in the Chicago Reader best of Chicago awards. We’re hoping to win Chicago’s award for the Best Gay News Source.

The podcast enjoyed by most commie, homo-loving sons of guns- Feast of Fools.

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Gay travel writer Michael Luongo joins us to expand on some of the ideas from his last appearance on our show about the gay experience in the Muslim world. Just what lies beneath the surface of all that same-sex affection? Is there sex involved?

Just to entice your appetite, here is an awesome Flickr group “Male Beauty of the Middle East”- it’s very hot.

I highly recommend Michael’s book “Gay Travels in the Muslim World” which is a collection of short non-fiction stories about a variety of men’s perspectives on places like Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan on what it means to be sexually attracted to other men.

The tell-all stories make a great bedtime or summer beach vacation read. They are an enticing hybrid of the romantic “Lawrence of Arabia” and the gritty intensity of a 1960s pulp fiction novel.

Honestly, these day’s I just don’t know what’s real anymore. We’ve been busy helping to tape a special reality TV show project which we aren’t ready to talk about, but it’s a whole lot of fun and joyful to be a part of the process.

But the show edits make Marc out to be the “good” guy and me out to be the “bad” guy. Just because I look like Jeffrey Sebela on Project Runway doesn’t mean I’m a jerk!

For crying out loud, Marc is the one who keeps a twitter blog on INSULTS. Subscribe via text message and you can get it on your phone!

Speaking of gritty celebrities, did you hear? Lin Lo said OK-go to being a lesbo.

I’m not sure just what I wrote out. OK, this means Lindsay Lohan just officially came out and used the word LESBIAN to describe herself, as in “lesbian relationship.” You go Lin-Lo! FYI, it may be a Hollywood first, as most famous entertainer Daughters of Bilitis prefer to use the word “gay” or “omnisexual” to describe their passion for ladies.

I’ve heard of bats in your belfry, but a young women found a bat in her padded bra. She thought it was her mobile phone vibrating when she took it out and it was tinny little bat. She let it go and go and felt terrible that she may have frightened the poor thing.

Kuwait a minute, yes, it’s the podcast that is rarely Syrian but will always Afghanistan by your man- Feast of Fools.

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