Paul Newman and Gore Vidal shared Three-Faced Eve, Joanne Woodward,
in the 1950s, living as a happy threesome for a while. Paul and Gore
remained close throughout the '60s, until Gore's live-in "husband"
got him to vermoose for Italy.

Paul took Robert "Babs" Wagner as a lover sometime in the early
1960s. He dumped him in the late '60s, after Old Blue Eyes became
the top box office star in America (1968-70, ranking #1 twice). His
disadain for Babs' TV career bled over into his relations with rival
(on the queen scene) James Garner. The two eyed each other warily,
but nothing came of that.

Chuck Connors and Ernest Borgnine ran in different circles; they
were not A-list. Babs Wagner dropped off the A-list into the B-list
dominated by TV personalities and tired old queens sometime in the
late '60s (it would have been sooner but for Newman's "patronage").
James Garner "straddled" both lists. Out-and-out queens like Rock
Hudson were a universe unto themselves, socializing with the Nancy
Reagans and other noveau riche.

Burt Lancaster had nothing to do with this crowd due to his own
insecurities over his lack of education and due to a lack of
consciousness when it came to the sexual politics these deviant
divas engaged in. The type of people who would be abashed by a fart
during the act of love didn't interest Burt.

Steve McQueen dropped out of "The Sundance Kid & Butch Cassidy"
(original working title, as Newman -- whose property it was -- was
originally slated to play Sundance) over the rumors about his own
sexuality, linked to his being a call-boy in his early days as an
actor in New York and Hollywood (he was the son of a 16-year old
prostitute, so whoring came natural to him; as his first wife said
in her autobio, he admitted leaving her to prove his manhood to
those in Hollywood he thought he was a sissy).

Charles Bronson dropped out of Hoillywood movies and went to Europe,
where he became a star, not to get better parts, as was assumed, but
to squelch the rumors about his own sordid past as a call boy.
Unlike former frogman Aldo Ray, whom had to consent to letting
George Cukor blow him for his role in "Woman of the Year," Chuckles
had to deliver even more "service" to the director to get his big
break.

Bob "Butch" Redford never made a sequel to his two blockbusters with
Newman not necessarily out of disgust with his onscreen pal's sexual
shennagins (which were winding down at that point anyways), but to
protect his standing as primo box office star (#1 three times in mid-
70s). Bob would rather go skiing to listening to the umpteenth bad
recording of Maria Callas arias.

Poor Babs Wagner was reduced to blowing Christopher Walken on his
yacht the night Natalie Wood went into the drink. Christopher, who
hit from both sides of the plate but mostly from the "left" like the
amorous Babs, had fatally rejected Natalie earlier that night due
to her notorious problem with "feminine odor" when she was in heat.
(Elvis ditched her for the same reason.)

Paul had a final fling with a young Tom Cruise in the mid-80s, which
is fitting, as Cruise has inherited Newman's mantle as the top "Non-
Butch" movie star of all time....

Yoko Ono used her contacts with the CIA to have MK-ULTRA program
graduate Mark Champman shoot John Lennon, who was threatening to
leave her and thus ruin her standing with the World Peace Movement
(itself a KGB front: mir = peace = world; thus, when the USSR and
Yoko said they wanted peace, what they meant was that they wanted
the world -- Jack Kemp, translator). She had only meant him to be
wounded, so she could nurse him back to health (and dependency), but
the "whistling" code that she was given by her CIA contact was
actually the MK-ULTRA code for Mark to empty his revolver into the
Beatle, rather than just shoot to wound him.

Cartoonist Al "Li'l Abner" Capp, who had the skinny on Yoko's past
(he called her "Madame Nhu" after the hated Dragon Lady of Diem's
Vietnam), was never allowed to approach Lennon to dish the scoop.
He was kept away from the Beatle by Yoko's palace guard, though it
likely didn't matter, as Lennon had turned against Capp after his
verbal assault on Yoko at their 1969 Bed-In at Monteral's Queen
Elizabeth Hotel. Capp was murdered by rogue CIA hands loyal to
former president Richard Nixon after two arranged sex scandals
failed to derail him. It was Nixon who pathologically hated Lennon,
who he blamed for his fall whilst in his cups.

Tom Smothers, who was at John and Yoko's bed-in in Montreal in 1969
and whom Lennon merciless heckled during a "comeback" show at the
Whiskey-a-Go-Go on the Strip in 1974, was Paul Newman's pimp in the
early'60s and a reputed drop-out from the CIA's MK-ULTRA program
himself. His brother Dick reportedly claims that he (not Tom) is the
bastard love-child of Judge Crater whem flying high on MDMA.