Tab Hunter Confidential Page #10

that fulflls you,

you don't look to other

areas to fll you up.

Tab is an incredible

horseman and always has been,

and that is a career in itself.

Well, my acting career I look

at as being all in the past.

I loved it, bud I love

where I am now in my life.

And I am happy to be forgotten.

Tab's attitude to

his Hollywood career

is been there, done that.

He calls it his past life,

which drives me nuts.

I found this is at fea market.

It's something that

he could embrace,

but he doesn't care to do it.

He did it.

He let go of it.

He doesn't even want to

see himself on television.

If he's laying in bed and an

old movie of his comes on,

he doesn't stop for one second.

Forget it.

ALLAN GLASER:
He just

fips through the channel

like it was a dog food

commercial and keeps going.

Well, a-- a boy's best

friend is his mother.

We were casting

"Lust in the Dust,"

and there was this character

named Hardcase Williams.

And I thought Tony Perkins

would be perfect for that role.

ANNOUNCER:
22 years later,

Norman Bates is home.

"Psycho II" had just come out.

Tony was getting a tremendous

amount of publicity.

Tab was having a

career resurgence

at the same exact

time Tony Perkins was.

He said, Tony Perkins--

do you know him'?

(LAUGHING) I said,

yeah, Allan, I know him.

(LAUGHING) I contacted

Tony, went up

to his house up on Mulholland.

I hadn't seen him

in a long while.

His wife Mary answered the door.

Tony had married, had a family.

And I presented Tony

with the script.

And he said he really

would like to do it,

but he just didn't think it

was the right project for him

at the time.

And Tony and I said

goodbye that afternoon,

and that was the last

time that I saw Tony.

AIDS has taken the life

of actor Anthony Perkins.

He died Saturday at

his Los Angeles home.

I never felt that Tony was

struggling with his identity.

And when I did hear of it, I

was really quite surprised.

Maybe he was deep down unhappy

with himself about being gay

and wanted to change that.

His choice was right

for him, and it's

all par of a person's growth.

Tony was who he was, or

maybe he wanted to be.

That was good enough for me.

I had no right- no one does--

to be judgmental or to second

guess his pursuit of happiness.

There are an awful lot of

people who have feelings,

and they're in confict

with themselves.

And it's a terribly diffcult

thing to have to go through.

I think you have to

be true to yourself.

My mother never said

I love you a lot.

But she'd show it when

you'd least expect it.

My mother and I are

sitting on the back terrace

having breakfast one

morning after church.

And she leaned over and kissed

me on the cheek and said,

I love you very much.

I was in a good place with her.

I know that.

And she was in a

good place with me.

I miss her.

There's something

well-grounded about Tab.

That's why he's lasted all

these years is that he's real.

He's like the earh.

He's solid.

He's happy in his own

special way to live his life,

and he's had a happy life.

He chose that right road.

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