Robert Q. Lewis

Who in the fuck WAS he? Was he on some TV show I'd never seen? This is one of the many things I worried about as a child.

Here's a picture with Charles Pierce and Michael Feinstein. I have this idea that he was Hedda/Louella's walker, although I may have made that up, e.g., senile fantasy.

On the reruns of What's My Line? you can tell that Bennett Cerf detested him. Once, after John Daly announced that time was running short, Lewis launched into an elaborately worded question and Cerf cut him short, brusquely reminding to him to heed the clock.

[quote]On the reruns of What's My Line? you can tell that Bennett Cerf detested him. Once, after John Daly announced that time was running short, Lewis launched into an elaborately worded question and Cerf cut him short, brusquely reminding to him to heed the clock.

Cerf was just pissed off that someone else was going on and on, asking elaborately worded questions. He did it himself a lot of the time but got impatient and bitchy when any of the others did.

True, R3, but Cerf seemed more genuine than the smarmy Lewis. Robert Q. tried a little too hard to replace Steve Allen as the next Bright Young Thing. He did a decent job of passing for a WASP-y egghead. Cerf, his fellow Manhattanite, who was higher born and better bred than Lewis, resented it.

CBS used Robert Q. as a last-minute substitute so often, he joked that when he phoned his mother to watch him on TV, she would ask, "Who's sick?" He also sang in nightclubs and on records, and did a fair amount of acting, including a part in the film musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Lewis never married or had children. A heavy smoker, he died of emphysema at 71 in 1991.

People in the industry said "You know what the Q stands for." He was born Robert Goldberg in the Bronx.

He had an afternoon weekday variety show that featured Jaye P. Morgan, Jan Arden, Earl Wrightson, and a variety of guest singers and comics.

he's a gay

He's not gay, he's a nerd.

Those labels aren't mutually exclusive, R8.

Friend of Judy.

[quotes]Lewis never married or had children. A heavy smoker, he died of emphysema at 71 in 1991.

Oh please he died in 1991 of AIDS you know it. He was more gay than Liberace.

[quote]He's not gay, he's a nerd.

He's not a gay, he's not a nerd -- he's a-dead.

He tricked with Johnny Ray, Dave Garroway, and Frankie Laine.

He made a cameo appearance in "An Affair to Remember".

Anyone who really believes he was straight had better get their eyes and ears checked out by doctors, pronto!

Dave Garroway was gay?

He was in the movie version of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (far right)

Also, R13, John Foster Dulles, Fulton Sheen, and Arthur Godfrey.

[quote]He tricked with Johnny Ray, Dave Garroway, and Frankie Laine.

Don't forget me!

Was Arthur Godfrey gay? I have never heard anything other than he was a complete asshole and fired Julius LaRosa on the air. Seems like THAT is what he is remembered for. Maybe he was just an angry homosexual from the 1950s.

Arthur Godfrey had only one hit record, a fat shaming song that wouldn't fly today.

r15

Anytime any woman who was even slightly attractive came on "What's My Line," Lewis would make remarks about a girl he was dating or how he wished he could get a girl that looked like that.

R21, He was famously a mean SOB. "A Face in the Crowd," still a very timely film about celebrity, was based on him, at least in part.

Another AIDS cover up.

Bisexual. Next.

r11

This is pretty much a cert