In 1965 Putnam narrated a film entitled Perversion for Profit, in which he warned viewers about magazines containing nudity and homosexual material, saying homosexuals were perverts and misfits. The film was financed by Charles Keating. However, by the 1980s Putnam had changed his views. He stated on his radio show 'TALKBACK with George Putnam' that he felt gays were born that way, and added many of his friends and coworkers were gay and good people.
As I said to a friend who posted this on Facebook: Good Lord. To write copy like this, you have to be into it. How about this idea? If you're not interested, leave it alone. I finally watched it for the freakshow, and I got one. It was all in the narration, exactly as I expected.
There is an unbroken line from this to Jerry Springer.
racookster 1 year ago