The two teamed up again two years later in the 1958 romantic comedy The Girl He Left Behind. In 1956, he starred opposite Wood in The Burning Hills, a Western revenge tale about a pair of young lovers. “When the Confidential article came out,” he recalled, “I thought my career was over.”īut Hunter, who by the late 50s felt “the publicity had exceeded the product”, was actually entering the most prolific stretch of his career. The article, Hunter felt, insinuated he’d been party to a “gay orgy”, a rumor that might have torpedoed his career given the contemporaneous moral panic around homosexuality and the “lavender scare” that led to mass firings. But not before an article in Confidential, the bimonthly gossip rag from which Hunter’s memoir borrows its name, reported on the then 24-year-old’s involvement in an arrest at a “limp-wristed pajama party” where other gay males were in attendance. Ultimately, Hunter would end up with producer Allan Glaser, his partner of 36 years. The gossip columns of the day, penned by Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper, “made subtle references” to his sexuality, as Hunter wrote in the Hollywood Reporter in 2015, “wondering when I was going to settle down with a nice girl and then, after the studio began pairing me with my dear friend Natalie Wood on faux-dates, asking if I was ‘the sort of guy’ she wanted to end up with”. The man who was found at the creek claimed to have been at the Tomorrow World Music Festival days beforehand.Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter pose with trophies at the Audience Awards in Los Angeles on 6 December 1955.
And at least for a little while, he will be bringing someone with him when he goes. However, Sanders admits, not all hunters are as diligent about that procedure as he is.Īnd while he was too shaken up to continue his hunt that day, he will be back out there again soon. He says, there is little chance he would have shot the man because he would have waited to identify the source of the noise before preparing the fire. His bow was several feet away when the encounter began. Sanders was armed with a knife at the time. I want to assess the situation for my safety and for his because if he would have just started running at me, just needing help, I wouldn’t have known what to do. “I’m not just going to run up and approach, no questions asked. Why wouldn’t you just run up and help him,'” said Sanders. “A lot of people were saying, ‘You’ve got a weapon. In just a few days, it has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times on YouTube. Little did he know, the video would spread like wildfire. “I had told it 10 times in two days and I was just like, ‘I’ll just put it on Facebook, everybody will see it, and it is a cool story,'” said Sanders. It was the end of his strange encounter, but only the beginning of a wild tale. “I got something to eat for you, just don’t do nothing stupid right now,” said Sanders.įor the next hour, Sanders helped the man out of the woods. He then asked the hunter if he had anything to drink.Īt this point in the video, Sanders is somewhat satisfied that the man isn’t going to attack him and does need help. Not sure if the man was alone or if he was a threat, Sanders began recording the encounter with his cell phone.Īfter a couple of minutes questioning the man, trying to determine if his mental state was stable enough to approach, the man told Sanders he had been drinking creek water and eating rotten crab apples. He’s not wearing anything at all,” said Sanders. “I hear, ‘I’m naked,’ and I looked down and he’s standing there in the middle of the creek. Sanders’ shock turned to confusion when he realized where the voice was coming from.
“Of course, me being by myself in the woods not thinking anybody else is anywhere around, it startled me, shocked me.” “On the way to the game camera, I hear a, ‘hey’,” said Sanders. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ĭarrollton, GA ( WGCL) - A Georgia hunter had a bizarre encounter in the woods in south Fulton County and caught it all on camera.Ĭasey Sanders had just arrived at his hunting stand and set down his gear when he heard a sound nearby. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.