Nicky
Can anybody tell me if Nicky (Jack Lemmon's character) is supposed to be gay in this movie? Kim Novak say's he uses his powers for his love life, and he summoned Retlich (Ernie Kovak) to them, and ended up collaberating with him.
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That's the one thing that makes me sick of the time we live in--"Is he gay? Is she gay?"
He summons Retlich to get fame and money for himself.
End of story. That's all.
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It's implied that he's gay. The author John Van Druten, actually constructed the whole play as a coded story on gay life. Nicky is implied to be gay. Though it's Gillian who summons Retlich, not Nicky.
I didn't know it was deliberately supposed to be about gays. This explains why lots of gay people like Bewitched too, in addition to the fact that it's simply about people who are different and have to stay for the most part in the closet. Can you tell me where you read about Van Druten's authorship of the original play?
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That's the one thing that makes me sick of the time we live in--"Is he gay? Is she gay?"
Has nothing to do with the time we live in. Has to do with the time when the film was made - when you couldn't come out and openly identify a character as gay so you had to suggest it.
I don't find Lemmon's character obviously gay, but there is definitely an effminate air in his performance.
We never see him with a girlfriend, and he seems absolutely disgusted by the thought of male-female romance (judging from his raction of his sister's affair).
And of course his closest relationship is with another man, the Kovaks character.
I don't find any of this definitive proof, but it's easy enough to read the character that way. share