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&lt;p&gt;Did you guys know that? More importantly: did you &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;gays&lt;/span&gt; out there know that? &amp;#39;Cause we had, like, no idea. No. Idea. Frankly we&amp;#39;re a little surprised he had sex at all! See, we grew up watching reruns of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Perry Mason&lt;/i&gt; every morning during summer break, just before &lt;i&gt;Dick Van Dyke&lt;/i&gt;. And frankly that whole time, or in all the years since: never once did we think about Raymond Burr&amp;#39;s sexuality. Not once. And then, you know, here we are, years later, chatting with the roomie and drinking our coffee, nice Sunday afternoon, and all of a sudden, &lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05042008/gossip/pagesix/we_hear_______109396.htm" target="_blank"&gt;there in PageSix&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;chael Starr&lt;/b&gt; will discuss his new bio, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Plain-Sight-Secret-Raymond/dp/1557836949" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr,&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; on the &amp;quot;Late Late Show with &lt;b&gt;Craig Ferguson&lt;/b&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Which, like, what the heck &lt;i&gt;else&lt;/i&gt; could that mean? That he was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad" target="_blank"&gt;Mossad&lt;/a&gt; or something? Nope. Apparently the unfailingly generous star of &lt;i&gt;Ironside&lt;/i&gt; and the American version of &lt;i&gt;Godzilla&lt;/i&gt; was so determined to keep his longtime partner Robert Venidedes a secret that &lt;a href="http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/05/the_secret_life_of_raymond_bur.php" target="_blank"&gt;he invented wives -- and a son who &lt;i&gt;died in childhood!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -- to keep his cover going with the press. Which, now that we think about is, is some Mossad kind of shit, actually.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Woah,&amp;nbsp;hang on - should we be &lt;i&gt;im&lt;/i&gt;pressed or &lt;i&gt;de&lt;/i&gt;pressed by this? Again, we have, like, no idea.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=90623" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/homosexuality/default.aspx">homosexuality</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/page+six/default.aspx">page six</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Raymond+Burr/default.aspx">Raymond Burr</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/Perry+Mason/default.aspx">Perry Mason</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/in+the+closet/default.aspx">in the closet</category><category domain="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/archive/tags/biographies/default.aspx">biographies</category></item></channel></rss>