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"If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise." By the hour Joel Grey comes to this conclusion, he has put in pages of autobiography and some seven decades of searching for his authenticity as a person and performer.
He calls his memoir "Master of Ceremonies" after the wicked, seductively seedy emcee in Cabaret, unarguably his most iconic creation. "I was always going to utilize that title," he says. "It's about both types of mastering: mastering a life and mastering a career.
"The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions. Sometimes they are vast ones, such as the nature of death in On Borrowed Time [his first play, at age 9] or they are painful, such as in The Normal Heart, where I first talked to the world as a gay man."
I like how things that gnaw at you in life surface in this book. You're very frank and frontal about how gayness evolved for you. It reads like a human history.
Joel Grey: Writing this was hard and, at the same time, inevitable. I'd be
It is perhaps the biggest piece of non-news of the year to date: Joel Grey, the Academy Award-winning star of Cabaret and a Broadway legend for roles such as the Wizard in Wicked, has, at age 82, finally comes out publicly as gay, in an interview with People magazine.
If you perceive crickets chirping, I’m not surprised. Despite being the father of actress Jennifer Grey, Joel has frequently been at the fore of gay causes. So why hide it for so long? (As Nathan Lane noted when he came out years ago, “I’m single, I’m 40, I do musical theater …. you do the math!”)
The People interview sheds little light on that matter, other than the fact he grew up “in a diverse time.” But those times have long passed, and now in his ninth decade, you’d think he would have come out long ago. But no.
Ah, well. Better delayed than never. Welcome to the party, Joel! Your toaster oven is on its way.
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Actor Joel Grey turns 93 years old today. The actor is best known for his role as the Emcee in the stage and movie version of the film Cabaret.
Grey has been the unique actor in many well known musicals, he was the first person to play the Wizard of Oz in Wicked, and also starred Amos Hart in the Broadway revival of Chicago and as Moonface Martin in Anything Goes.
Born in Ohio in , Grey went to High University in Los Angeles and began his acting career in children’s theatre in the ’s. In the ’s and 60’s he appeared in many skillfully known TV shows.
He won the Tony Award for his performance in Cabaret in , he returned to the role for the film version in and won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Oscars.
Grey has continued to appear in films and television over the decades. In he appeared in the original show of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart, and he co-directed the revival of the play.
He married in , the coupl
Joel Grey, 82, Comes Out as Gay: Broadway Legend and Father of Jennifer Grey Adds, "I Don't Like Labels"
Legendary Oscar and Tony-winning actor Joel Grey, father of Dirty Dancing actress Jennifer Grey, has come out publicly as a gay man.
The year-old thespian, best known for his role as the Emcee in the film and original Broadway movie of the musical Cabaret, made his comments in an interview with People magazine that was posted on Wednesday, ahead of the release of a planned memoir.
"I don't like labels," says Joel, "but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man."
The player was married to Jennifer's mother, former actress Jo Wilder, for 24 years. The two, who divorced in , are also parents to a son, James.
"All the people close to me have known for years who I am," Joel told People, adding, "It took time to embrace that other part of who I always was."
"I notice very happy for my dad that he has come to a point in his existence where he feels safe and co