Is it true that Barry Manilow took his wife's last name, and is he now openly gay?

mibmob

The IMDB has his last name as Pincus and his ex-wife's name as Manilow. I can't say anything for sure about his being gay. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005180/bio [Added reference link - McG] Mar 10 02, 5:56 PM

McGruff

"For the most part, speculation about the homosexuality of famous figures is limited to the safely dead. This did not stop Patricia Butler, author of a soon-to-be released biography of singer-composer Barry Manilow. According to the London 'Evening Standard', Manilow's 'avowed heterosexuality is placed in serious doubt' by Butler's book Barry Manilow: A Biography. But this is where I draw the line. Barry Manilow could never be gay." http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/people/102901pe.htm Mar 10 02, 7:48 PM

purplemoon112

His father's last name was Pincus but his mother's maiden name was Manilow and both he and his mother changed their last names to Manilow. As for him being homosexual, I don't care what Patricia Butler contends in her Barry Manilow bio, I don't believe he's gay. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Barry_Manilow.html Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York on June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter. Manilow's record label Arista took three years off his announced age when he was really 32, in 1975, and made him 29 years old so he would appeal to teens as well; this made him appear to have been born in 1946 instead of his actual birth year which is 1943. Manilow dominated the 1970s soft rock scene with a string of top ten hits and multi-platinum albums. As a boy, Manilow lived in the low-income Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. His father left his family when Barry was two years old, and eventually he changed his last name to Manilow, his mother's maiden name. At the age of seven he started playing piano and accordion. After graduating high school, Manilow went on to the prestigious Julliard School of Music. [Added text and reference link - McG] Aug 07 07, 9:04 PM

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