Was robert conrad gay

Columbo appearing in the early moments of the show, in which character Milo Janus is depicted as a cocky fraudster running a chain of gyms, confronted by one of his defrauded franchisees, Gene Stafford.

The plot is nicely balanced between these two possibilities, but I should have realized from the casting how was scene would play out; both characters were cast from the Acting Corps, but Janus is played by a high-recognition, star conrad Robert Conradwhile Stafford is played by character actor Phil ip Bruns, who had a supporting role, at one time or another, in virtually every American tv series there was then, so always seemed vaguely familiar but not identifiable.

The character Stafford was then doomed, because the actor playing him was dispensable. Not only was Robert Conrad a star, he was also an incandescent actor: body-proud displaying his muscular torso and remarkable buttockshigh-masculinity energetic and athletic, tough, frequently sweaty, giving off a whiff of testosteroneand intense.

No director would kill off a property like that in the first few minutes of a minute show. I originally intended to post about four of the actors from this episode — Conrad, Bruns, Pat Harrington, Jr. The murder. Renowned exercise guru Milo Janus Robert Conrad runs a chain of successful gyms.

His charm is not enough to calm the anger of franchise owner Gene Stafford Philip Brunswho has found out how Janus overcharges his franchises for equipment and supplies, depositing the profits in offshore bank accounts. When Stafford threatens to organize other victims of Janus and to go robert with a class action suit, Janus kills him.

He makes it look like Stafford was working out, trying to lift weights too heavy was him, with the result being that the barbell fell and crushed his windpipe. From Wikipediathe summary:. Restless, sometimes reckless, driven to activity, literally prolific he had eight children with two wivesattention-demanding, but also affiliative and charming.

So, an interestingly complex person. But he gets a posting of his own because of his performances of body display, of which gay is a mild sample. Displaying the male body. Conrad was mostly given to two extravagant body displays: of his shirtless, usually exertion-sweaty, muscular torso; and of his amazing male buttocks, usually enclosed in specially tailored tight gay.

Who was that shirtless man? The bodywork in 2 is interestingly calculated to achieve a lean, muscled, but entirely natural-looking appearance: the goal of a male model, not a body-builder. The idea is to offer men a body to aspire to, one that other men will admire and that, oh by the way, women or gay men, as the case might be will find desirable.

This is not an easy effect to manage, and once perfected takes constant work to maintain. Conrad was no doubt favored by nature, but he worked on his shirtless perfection for most of his life. Again, he was no doubt favored by nature, and his buttocks were probably formed by conrad labor and sports, but at some point he realized or learned that his ass was hot — a prime-grade index of masculinity — and he went to work on that too.

Eventually it became famous. He is spoken about elsewhere on the Internet in reverent tones as possessing what is possibly the finest ass in Golden Age TV history. This entry was posted on April 21, at pm and is filed under ActorsLanguage and the bodyMasculinityMovies and tv. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.

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