SHORT TAKES : Film Upsets Hudson’s Secretary
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The former secretary to the late Rock Hudson said today he is upset over a movie to air on ABC-TV that he said falsely depicts his role in the life of the actor who died of AIDS in 1985.
Mark Miller, 63, said he believes that a film titled “Rock Hudson,” scheduled to air Jan. 8 as a “Monday Night At The Movies” feature, knowingly depicts an inaccurate picture of the former secretary’s role in Hudson’s life.
“They’ve established my character as Mr. Big, (which) is not true at all,” Miller said in an interview from his home in Hawaii. “My life is being made into a lie.”
However, the attorney for Konigsberg/Sanitsky Co., which produced the movie for ABC, said the script is based on information from this year’s court case involving Hudson’s former lover, Marc Christian.
Christian successfully sued the actor’s estate, claiming that the fact that Hudson had AIDS was deliberately kept from him while the two were involved intimately.
Other parts of the script came from interviews with undisclosed sources, attorney Susan Schaefer said.
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