***BOMBSHELL ALERT ***
Did Rudolph Valentino think Natacha Rambova was a lesbian? Yes. In the S. George Ullman manuscript Ullman wrote of a quick exchange with Rudy telling him Nita Naldi had been seen around New York with Natacha Rambova. Rudy turns to Ullman and (referring to Naldi) says "Dont tell me she's a lesbian too!" That means he already thought Rambova was a lesbian.
Sadly, you wont get to read that passage in the book marketed by Viale Industria Publications called "The S. George Ullman Memoir" Evelyn Zumaya, who wrote the foreward to the book is a fierce opponent to anyone who dares to question Valentino's sexuality. Certainly Rudy calling Rambova a lesbian threw Zumaya a curve ball. In 2009 Zumaya gave a public lecture on Valentino's sexuality and ripped apart two Valentino authors who's viewpoints on his sexuality differed from hers. At the time she received the Ullman manuscript she mistakenly thought she held the only copy, therefore she probably thought that she could quietly censor the lesbian paragraph out and no one would be the wiser. To me that stands as a true example of homophobia.
To think that Evelyn Zumaya who on her podcasts wailed about censorship of her book and even brought up book burning would, at the same time quietly snip the lesbian paragraph out and thus deliberately extracting a part of George Ullman's Valentino history. Would S. George Ullman approve of her deed? I would think not. I fully believe he would denounce both Evelyn Zumaya and her self-publisher "husband" Renato Floris.
The Madwoman of Turin is being selective when she is screeching about what Valentino may or may not have done in the boudoir, or who he may or may not have done it with. She lives, breathes, sleeps, sups, poos and eats HOMOPHOBIA. Such is her homophobia that one might be excused for not thinking SHE invented the plague she applauds. It is an undisputed fact that 90% of the people she attacks on a daily basis are gay or bisexual.
ReplyDeleteSelective? Two of many examples:
Robert Florey and Paul Ivano see their recollections trashed by her, aside from the little snippets she wants to believe because they make Valentino into some kind of super-stud. The Ivano “bedroom” quote where Rudy’s erection won’t go down? Had this been with a man, it would have been trashed—similarly episodes recalled by Robert Florey. She denounces magazine articles as “made up fiction”. That is, until Mr. Mumbles makes an “amazing discovery” about Rudy’s “womanizing” and translates a few, whence they become fact to fit in with the homophobic theories of this pair of elderly scumbags and are added to their catalogue of overpriced bilge.
In fact, ANYONE can find these features because they have been archived years ago, many of them already translated. Mr. Mumbles in not scholarly—he’s just an old duffer with an ego the size of a gasometer.
And The Madwoman’s perception of Valentino, to “normalize” him to fit in with her barking mad, homophobic agenda? The world saw him as a romantic Latin who appealed to fans of all ages, of all persuasions and creeds. She portrays him as:
a drunken, one-eyed, syphyllis-infected sex-pest with halitosis, one who passed his disease on to the hundreds of women he slept with including his sister-in-law, who he bunged up the duff—a simpleton who holds a book upside down because he is unable to see what he is pretending to be reading because he has only one eye.
And those she has attacked and lampooned over the last twenty years, all in the name of her muse, Saint Homophobia?
Tracy Terhune, Donna Hill, David Bret, Bill Self, Brad Steiger, Jeanine Villalobos, Simon Constable, Emily Leider, Cindy and Dallas Martin, Donny Spielberg, Michael Morris, Sylvia Huber, Vlad Kosloff, Paolo Orlandelli, Eleanor Gribbin, to name but a few.
In a recent blog post, Mr. Mumbles proclaimed that he did not wish to “dialogue” with those who mock and insult him. Really? This is the scumbag who called us…
POS, bastard, porn-fiction writer, moll, thief, arsehole, monkey, pissant, baboon, masturbatory raver, Nazi, old slapper, kobold, etc,
This is the creep who said that I lived in squalor…the pathetic excuse for a human being who posts pictures of himself wearing a dress, then has the audacity to call we men “gals” and “tarts”, and who denounces Tracy as “Mistress of Ceremonies”. If that’s not HOMOPHOBIC, I don’t know what is.
And The Madwoman screeches that he is her HERO!!!
I would say NERO, for while he fiddles away with his nonsensical “announcements”, the Rome that is burning is what little remains of what never was—HER career!
Finally, an interesting fact about children’s author Jeanne de Recqueville, and the clip of film The Madwoman (getting the date and the year wrong) once posted where the lady was being interviewed for French television, and where she speaks to a Rudy lookalike actor on the beach. The Madwoman boasted that Mumbles would be translating this, which of course he has not because de Recqueville categorically repeats what she writes in her original book—that Valentino was amorously interested in both women and men, and the actor does not delay when proclaiming how much he fancied him.
For someone to try and delete someone’s words just so they can fit into their paradigm is truly a shame. We live in an enlighten age, where old taboos are gone, and people are free to live their lives as they see fit. The past always has a way of coming to the light and no matter how hard they try they cannot deny it. This is one example
ReplyDeleteIf Rudy said that he was being sarcastic. There were rumors about her being a lesbian after she was hanging around Nazimova's "sewing circle". Ullman took it out (if he even wrote it in) due to the misconceptions that it would cause. I have not seen evidence of this so I would say it is a rumor not fact.
ReplyDelete"If Rudy said that he was being sarcastic" Since when is calling someone a lesbian considered 'sarcastic'? Also - you're saying it is him being sarcastic is pure guess work. You have provided no basis for coming to this conclusion. "Ullman took it out due to misconceptions that it would cause" - once again, you have provided nothing to base this claim on. I have the original manuscript and it's there. He did NOT take it out,as you suggest. Since Ullman passed away prior to the completion of the book its obvious that he didn't do any editing. He hadn't even finished writing. You're conclusion that since YOU haven't seen evidence, so you call it rumor not fact. Well, it's not rumor, it's IN HIS BOOK in the edition he himself wrote. With all due respect, everything you stated in your comment is guess work or denial of the fact that this quote is indeed in Ullman's book. Believe it or not, that's your prerogative but it wont change the facts.
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