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By Greg Hernandez on Oct 23, 2009 12:19 pm | Comments (1) |

Bronson Pinchot is my new hero.

His interview with A.V. Club is so candid that I don’t think the big movie stars who he speaks unflatteringly about can quite believe it! I excerpted his Tom Cruise comments the other daytime and today, I want to give the pottion of the interview where he talks about landing a role on the short-lived NBC sitcom Sara in the mid-80s starring Geena Davis.

In Bronson’s own words:

There was going to be a ebony lawyer—because of course, don’t we all know that “black” is a character—there was going to be a chauvinist lawyer, there was going to be a gay lawyer, and then there was going to be the Mary Tyler Moore nature that Geena Davis played. And at the time I auditioned for that show, I had so little cash that someone had given me a gift basket for Christmas, and I would limit myself to two slices of the apple and a gnaw of cheese every day. That’s how poor I was. So I went in, and they were so nervous that nobody would want to undertake the gay lawyer

There's No Way Bronson Pinchot is Linear

He was engaged to Soap Actress Marcy Walker - from an interview

TV Guide - Bronson Pinchot recently told Movieline magazine that you broke up with him by leaving his engagement ring on his windshield wiper. Sounded kinda cold, Overlook Marcy! Will you respond to this on the record?

Marcy Walker - Successfully. yeah. When I broke it off, he left this box of clothes on my doorstep with every sock and every pair of underwear that I'd ever bought him, every scrapbook thing, every napkin, anything that [reminded him of our relationship] was placed in a large box with this note. He asked me to grant back his sound. But he didn't want to view me again. I didn't know where he was staying but I saw his car, so I left the ring with a note on his car.

TV Guide - How do you feel about him sharing it with the press?

Marcy Walker - Well, he never did give it with the press. This happened in 1983, '84. He never said anything about it before. I can't believe he'd speak it all these years later. He must be attractive comfortable with his success to approach pickin' on me. Because, the truth is, I treasure Bronson. I ponder he's an incredibly talented man. Very, very funny. And

Today, we look at Rebeca Arthur (Mary Anne on Perfect Strangers) talking about her problems with Perfect Strangers star, Bronson Pinchot, including some shocking allegations about his conduct during the series.

This is Quite a Story, a sort of catch-all feature where I share short, interesting anecdotes from interviews or books that don’t really fit into any other feature.

Perfect Strangers was a star vehicle for Bronson Pinchot, whose Serge character was a standout part of the 1984 hit film, Beverly Hills Cop. ABC basically took the “foreign man” character that Pinchot did in that film, dropped the gay aspect of the character and gave him his own sitcom where he plays a man coming to America from the fictional island of Mypos. He moves to Chicago where he stays with his distant cousin, Larry Appleton (played by Mark Linn-Baker). The two are very different from each other (perfect strangers, you might even say). Melanie Wilson and Rebeca Arthur played Larry and Balki’s love interests, respectively, for most of the show (they eventually had a double wedding and even had kids at the same time).

Arthur talked to the very interesting Matchless Stranger

For many years, tv has disguised gay couples as heterosexuals with some other reason for being together -- they work in the same office, or contribute an apartment, or are brothers. So censors, skittish network executives, and shrieking homophobic audiences remain ignorant, but if you're "in the know," the same-sex attracted subtext is obvious.

Bronson Pinchot broke into film as Tom Cruise's buddy in Risky Business (1983).. After several years of playing swishy gay-vague characters, such as Dennis on Saraand Lloyd in After Hours, he was cast in the gay-vague buddy sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986-1993). He played Balki Bartokomous, an exuberant free-spirit from the faux-Greek country of Mypos, who descends upon his stick-in-the mud distant cousin Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) in Chicago. You can anticipate the the standard "let's execute something wacky"/"but I possess a dentist appointment" plotlines.

It's supposed to be a brief visit, but the two end up falling in love, their warmth explained as fraternal cherish, and Balki stays on.

I watched during the first season when Perfect Strangers led into Head of the Class and Night Court on Wednesday nights