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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 391520" data-attributes="member: 7">I watched ROCK HUDSON (1990) yesterday. I&#039;m unsure if I knew this movie even existed before two days ago, but I must have come across somewhere along the way.This TV movie is based on the 1987 book &quot;My Husband, Rock Hudson,&quot; written by Phyllis Gates, Hudson&#039;s only wife back in the mid-50s. The marriage was supposedly arranged by Hudson&#039;s talent agent, Henry Willson, to camouflage the rumors circling about Hudson&#039;s homosexuality. The movie, however, doesn&#039;t portray that. According to the film, Rock loved Phyllis and asked her to marry him. No mentioning of Henry being involved in their actual marriage. But that may just be the restrictions of TV in 1989 when this was filmed.For what it is, I thought ROCK HUDSON -- the TV movie, that is -- was a decent enough little outing. I can&#039;t say I learned anything new about the actual person, but that wasn&#039;t the purpose of this film. We get some backstory, we see Rock become a big star, and then the story jumps ahead to 1966 after his career has started hitting the rocks.Thomas Ian Griffith, a relative unknown, plays Rock Hudson, and he&#039;s pretty good, too. He&#039;s handsome, he&#039;s tall, but maybe a little too lean. Rock was a bulkier man in actuality. But, overall, he&#039;s good, I&#039;d say.Most of the last half of the movie focuses on Rock&#039;s relationship with the younger Marc Christian, played by FALCON CREST&#039;s own William R. Moses. Every time I see Moses in the movie, I think to myself, &quot;Who let Cole Gioberti in here?&quot; Christian&#039;s trial about Hudson exposing him to AIDS bookends the story. They pitter-patter around showing too much of Hudson&#039;s homosexuality on-screen, but they play with the controversial side of his AIDS diagnosis a little. The scandal, not the reality. The kind of stuff cheesy TV movies are made of. What&#039;s your thoughts on this one?[ATTACH=full]51560[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 391520, member: 7"] I watched ROCK HUDSON (1990) yesterday. I'm unsure if I knew this movie even existed before two days ago, but I must have come across somewhere along the way. This TV movie is based on the 1987 book "My Husband, Rock Hudson," written by Phyllis Gates, Hudson's only wife back in the mid-50s. The marriage was supposedly arranged by Hudson's talent agent, Henry Willson, to camouflage the rumors circling about Hudson's homosexuality. The movie, however, doesn't portray that. According to the film, Rock loved Phyllis and asked her to marry him. No mentioning of Henry being involved in their actual marriage. But that may just be the restrictions of TV in 1989 when this was filmed. For what it is, I thought ROCK HUDSON -- the TV movie, that is -- was a decent enough little outing. I can't say I learned anything new about the actual person, but that wasn't the purpose of this film. We get some backstory, we see Rock become a big star, and then the story jumps ahead to 1966 after his career has started hitting the rocks. Thomas Ian Griffith, a relative unknown, plays Rock Hudson, and he's pretty good, too. He's handsome, he's tall, but maybe a little too lean. Rock was a bulkier man in actuality. But, overall, he's good, I'd say. Most of the last half of the movie focuses on Rock's relationship with the younger Marc Christian, played by FALCON CREST's own William R. Moses. Every time I see Moses in the movie, I think to myself, "Who let Cole Gioberti in here?" Christian's trial about Hudson exposing him to AIDS bookends the story. They pitter-patter around showing too much of Hudson's homosexuality on-screen, but they play with the controversial side of his AIDS diagnosis a little. The scandal, not the reality. The kind of stuff cheesy TV movies are made of. What's your thoughts on this one? [ATTACH type="full"]51560[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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