In any case… does this pique your interest in the movie?

Naaa
I’ll wait for the latest Republican got caught story.

Hoover was gay… that is a fact. But he also made a lot of enemies and knew a lot of peoples dark secrets. It’s not shocking to me that the cross-dressing thing might have been made up to embarrass him after his death by those he had files on.

BTW… Hoover didn’t spread or collect LIES about people. He collected truth and facts about people. Facts they didn’t want the world to know. That is how he kept his power so long.

Liberals never get caught doing anything??? Really?

It’s been proven that the cross-dressing thing was invented by the wife of a mobster J. Edgar was investigating. Why people still believe it amazes me.

This is exactly why the public needs to know the details of Supreme Court Associate Justice Kagan’s sexuality. 

Hoover’s alleged homosexuality is fair game, and he’s been dead about 40 years.  We just can’t have self-hating, closeted gays and lesbians serving in powerful roles in government.  Despite this compelling public interest in knowing the details of a person’s character, the media refuse to report on details of Kagan’s private life (or John Roberts’s alleged sexual misconduct outside of his marriage).  We can’t get information on two of the youngest and most important people who have been appointed to life terms in our democratic government.  We just get stuff on Hoover, who has been dead 40 years.

“As part of the the research for their upcoming biopic on former president J. Edgar Hoover”
J. Edgar Hoover was never president. He was the director of the FBI. Perhaps you’re thinking of Herbert Hoover.

Dohhh!

my guess is Eastwood and Dicaprio were trying  to get the truth, people liking it or not is completely irrelevant, they wanted to hear it from the horses mouth, says to me that they’re trying their best to make sure they get stuff right

and considering eastwood and dicaprio are pretty respected for the movies that they’ve made in the last decade i can’t say i see anything wrong with the questions

“i dont like them” isn’t a defense specially when its relating to stuff that alot of people seem to think have merit, and my question is, if it turns out to be true, so what? get over it

“…get caught” being gay?

liberals are not usually against ‘the gays.’

That’s your side’s hang-up.

“He collected truth and facts…”

Wow!

I’M SURRISED HE AND CLYDE DIDN’T HOLD SHORT-ARM INSPECTIONS OF THEIR AGENTS. WHO PLAYS BOBBY?

I thought this film was supposed to be Leonardo DiCaprio’s first hardcore gay porn film?

Wait – there’s a J. Edgar Hoover Foundation?
What next? Trying to rehabilitate Father Coughlin?

Was the fact that he lived with his male subordinate and vacationed with the same for almost forty years, made up by a mobster’s wife too???

Just wonder’n…
Take off the rose colored glasses and accept the fact that the man was into another dude. It happens in the best of families. 

Just say’n…

Strangely enough I’ve seen pictures of Hoover dressed in drag in a magazine years ago. I cut them out & taped them in the back of my copy of A. Summer’s “Official & Confidential”. Hoover sure makes one ugly female. Him & Tolson lifelong bachelors? Hoover never marrying or even having a girlfriend, or showing any interest in the opposite sex? That sets off alarm bells all over the place.

It is interesting how people who portray themselves as very strong, are in fact the weakest, think of Hoovers mother telling him not to be week like a flower…..

I guess Oprah must be gay. She’s never been married, and she’s always crying about how much she loves Gayle.

Was curious if any of Mr. Josrph L Schott’s book, “No Left Turns” was used for the new movie “J Edgar Hoover”? His accounts, as an ex FBI agent, reveal Hoover the same as the upcoming movie depicts.
I had the privilege & honor of being Mr Schott’s typist for his manuscript and have a first print, autographed copy.

Wasn’t Hoover’s codename something with “pink” in it?

J. Edgar Hoover headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, from 1924 until his death in 1972.  With his death, it was disclosed that Hoover had seriously abused his power during his tenure as FBI Director.  Some of the most outrageous abuses concerned Hoover’s use of FBI surveillance agents to obtain defamatory information–much of it sexual–on prominent persons to be used for political and blackmail purposes.
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk would later say:  “Hoover passed along gossip to the President he served, and that practice could raise questions in a President’s mind.  What did Hoover know about him?  In theoretical terms, that put Hoover in the position of a veiled blackmailer.”
In the case of Martin Luther King, Jr. the blackmail was not veiled, but veritable, with Hoover threatening to make information he had on King public. In the book Official and Confidential, author Anthony Summers presents evidence that Hoover had the tables turned on him and was subjected to blackmail by both the Mafia and the CIA.
http://edgar-hoover.tripod.com/

The reason Hoover would never admit Organized Crime (Mafia) existed in the U.S.
(when everyone else knew the Mafia existed) was because the mobster’s wife
Big_Willie talks about - said her husband had a photograph of Hoover giving a BJ
to his long time lover Tolson in a toilet stall. Read about this at
http://edgar-hoover.tripod.com/