Sure, and there's no evidence the Pope is Catholic, either

[Scooter]

FBI Tells DiCaprio, Eastwood There's No Evidence Hoover Was Gay

By Jeremy Kinser

Leonardo DiCaprio and his J. Edgar director Clint Eastwood met with the FBI to investigate whether there's evidence that Hoover was gay, but learned "there is no evidence in the historical record on the issue," according to USA Today.

Assistant FBI director Mike Kortan says he met separately with Eastwood and DiCaprio, who plays Hoover in the upcoming film written by Dustin Lance Black, and both men inquired about Hoover's sexuality. Kortan says both men were told, "Vague rumors and fabrications have cropped up from time to time, but there is no evidence in the historical record on this issue."

Kortan says the bureau didn't attempt to shape the film, but simply provided information so the story would be accurate.

USA Today reports that former FBI agents campaigned to prevent any depiction of the long-rumored sexual relationship between Hoover and protégé Clyde Tolson.

William Branon, chairman of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, wrote to Eastwood this year, saying, "There is no basis in fact for such a portrayal of Mr. Hoover. It would be a grave injustice and monumental distortion to proceed with such a depiction based on a completely unfounded and spurious assertion."

Cartha "Deke" DeLoach, once a top aide to Hoover, says he and DiCaprio discussed the late FBI director's private life when the actor paid a three-hour visit to DeLoach's home in South Carolina.

"When the subject of homosexuality came up, I made it very clear that I never saw any evidence of it whatsoever," DeLoach says. "I traveled with him, I ate in his home and he in mine. I knew Clyde Tolson to be Mr. Hoover's companion and best friend. (ed - and butt monkey. Don't forget butt monkey) When you are somebody like Mr. Hoover, I guess you need somebody to talk to."

J. Edgar is scheduled for release November 9.

In other headlines, scientists have discovered that, contrary to popular belief, the world is actually flat.

[Lord Jim]

I'm still trying to get my mind around the idea of Leonardo DiCaprio playing J. Edgar Hoover...





Not exactly a dead ringer...

Of course, that's how we all remember Hoover...

A younger picture of The Director:



Makes it more believable...

[dgs49]

Although it seems (and is) a lifetime ago, it is not impossible to remember when our society included people who were called, "Confirmed Bachelors." They were adult men who chose not to get married. They were not homosexual, psychotic, misanthropic, or dangerous. They just decided that marriage was not for them.

Some of them even had close friendships with other men.

Seriously.

How fucked up is a society where it is presumed that anyone in the past who did not get married was queer?

And as far as Leo D playing the part of JEH, lest we forget, there is something to this "acting" thing. They are people who can convincingly play the part of someone who may be totally unlike what they are in reality.

Acting.

Imagine that.

I have only seen a couple trailers for the movie, but it looks to me like Leo pulls it off reasonably well.

[quaddriver]

not to mention, JEH was famously porking someone (female) scandalously.

At worst he hit from both sides of the plate