{"id":73174,"date":"2021-10-03T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=73174"},"modified":"2021-10-03T23:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:35:43","slug":"rip-tommy-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/10\/03\/rip-tommy-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Tommy Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of this column, readers would often ask me to track down information about some of their favorite stars of yesteryear.&nbsp; One of the most popular people was <strong>Tommy Kirk<\/strong>, star of <strong><em>Old Yeller<\/em><\/strong> and numerous <em>Disney <\/em>films.&nbsp; He was also an early victim of homophobia.&nbsp; \u201cDisney was a family film studio, and I was supposed to be their young leading man.&nbsp; After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.\u201d&nbsp; Although his career did indeed take a hit, he did manage to find sporadic work over the years \u2013 and became somewhat legendary for going public with his sexuality at a time when it meant career suicide.&nbsp; Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else who wrestled with his sexuality was <strong>Aaron Hernandez<\/strong>.&nbsp; Although his story has been told <em>ad nauseum<\/em>, get ready for a new take\u2026courtesy of <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>.&nbsp; Yes, the tight end will be the subject of a new limited series called <strong><em>American Sports Story<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Details to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of this column, readers would often ask me to track down information about some of their favorite stars of yesteryear.&nbsp; One of the most popular people was Tommy Kirk, star of Old Yeller and numerous Disney films.&nbsp; He was also an early victim of homophobia.&nbsp; \u201cDisney was a family film studio,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73175,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73174\/revisions\/73175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}