Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis & Eric Marcus

Author:Greg Louganis & Eric Marcus [Louganis, Greg & Marcus, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports & Recreation, Swimming & Diving, Biography & Autobiography, Sports, Social Science, Gay Studies
ISBN: 9781402206665
Google: ww0JWNTnTLYC
Amazon: 1402206666
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2006-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

I’d like to set the record straight about something. For years, people have spread rumors linking me to various Hollywood moguls.

In 1989 my agent set up a meeting for me with a casting director for a part in a police drama. I finished my reading and she asked me whom I was studying with, and I told her. She told me that I had some promise and that I should really talk to Barry about my career. I asked, “Barry who?” She looked at me skeptically and said, “Barry Diller.” I told her that I’d met “Barry Dillard”—which is what I thought his name was—only twice and probably wouldn’t even recognize him. She said, “You mean you’re not…” and then she caught herself and said she was sorry.

That wasn’t the first time I’d heard that rumor, and I’ve long suspected that Tom was the source. He probably thought it would be good for me to have my name linked to one of Hollywood’s biggest producers, and I guess he didn’t care how it was linked. It bothered me to think that I wasn’t getting work because people thought I had some kind of connection to him. It bothered me even more to think that people assumed he bought my house in Malibu for me. I paid for that house myself, with a lot of hard work. I started thinking that I should just call Barry Diller up and say, “As long as you’re not keeping me, the least you can do is get me work!”

For the record, I’ve never been kept by anyone, although it sounds like a nice life. But people believe what they want to believe.

I kept going to the occasional audition but pretty much put my performing career on the back burner and concentrated instead on training and breeding my dogs. And for the record, I keep them, and it is a nice life.

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