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In a fit of Idle Speculation, someone here once ventured that a major male sports figure will come out of the closet before a leading man in Hollywood. Now Ian McKellen confirms that Hollywood is remarkably closeted:

Sir Ian McKellen has said openly gay US actors are prevented from having successful Hollywood careers.

“It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality,” the gay British actor said.

“And even more difficult for a woman if she’s lesbian. It’s very distressing to me that that should be the case.”

The Lord of the Rings star added: “The film industry is very old fashioned in California.”

The question is why . . . and we’re still looking for a good answer.

(Obscure, ahem, post title reference comes from Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why,” which he wrote in 1970; much later he admitted that he had no idea what he meant by “Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself when you’re old enough to repay but young enough to sell?” — to this day it is probably one of the most convoluted thoughts in rock music — and that’s saying a lot!)