Rock Hudson was born 99 years ago today. I can never decide if it's more mind-blowing that these icons of the past could, potentially, still be alive in 2024, or that these mind-blowing icons many of us grew up with as elder stars have been dead forever and ever.
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ABOVE: Occasionally, SCOTUS accidentally gets something right.
BELOW: Rock Hudson, Joan Rivers, Will & Grace — yes, this is 2023, but ...
The tabloids ate it all up. (Image via NYP)
Rock Hudson would have been 95 this week. He died of AIDS complications 35 years ago in October. Check out this remembrance of the hoopla around his “mystery disease,” his confirmation he had AIDS and how even the world's most privileged person with AIDS had very few options in his final months.
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Rock Hudson would be turning 95 today; hard to fathom, since he was struck down by AIDS before turning 60.
Follow Gr8erDays here for a list of his dozen most quintessential performances, as well as some of his hottest poses.
Good guy with whom to be shipwrecked on a desert island ... (GIF via GIPHY)
George Nader, Rock Hudson's bestie, was born on this day 99 years ago. Oh, the stories he could have told. Keep reading to appreciate him in his prime ...
ABOVE: And I've held on to this clipping ever since.
