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  • 2021-06-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Was 'Batman' Star Adam West Kicked Out of an Orgy for Staying in Character? (en)
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  • Sex is a popular topic on social media. Comics are popular, too. But rarely do we get a crossover trend that hilariously combines the two. That's what happened in June 2021, after Variety published an article about the subversion of the super hero genre. More specifically, Variety reported that the producers of the adult animated series Harley Quinn had asked the show to remove a scene in which Batman performed oral sex, saying heroes don't do that. This sparked a conversation about sex, masculinity, and Batman's love life. As this conversation was churning away on social media, Amanda Wong, a Vancouver artist who was worked on shows such as Carmen Sandiego and Rick and Morty, posted a screenshot of a piece of text that supposedly relayed a story told by Adam West, the actor who portrayed Batman on TV in the 1960s, about how he was once kicked out of an orgy because he refused to break character. This anecdote comes from an interview West gave to the entertainment news website Blastr (now Syfy Wire) in 2014. The actor was asked about his favorite memories of co-star Frank Gorshin, who played the Riddler, and West responded: West also wrote about this incident in his 1994 book Back to the Batcave, and told this story during an appearance on actor Gilbert Gottfried's podcast in 2014. You can hear West tell this story around the 44-minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjKHg8u6VikWhile West told this story for decades before his passing in 2017, we haven't been able to find any other sources to corroborate this chain of events. The one person who would have been able to confirm this story, Frank Gorshin (the actor who played The Riddler in the TV series), who was supposedly with West during this odd orgy, said that he did not remember the incident. 20 Apr 1997, Sun Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey) Newspapers.com The Asbury Press published a brief Q&A with Gorshin in 1997. The newspaper included an excerpt from West's book and then asked Gorshin about the event: We can't confirm that Adam West was really kicked out of an orgy for refusing to break character as Batman. While this anecdote truly did originate with the actor, his co-star (and alleged co-conspirator) said he had no memory of the event. If this story really is true, we imagine it looked something like this: (en)
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