Liberation (147 page)

Yogeshananda.
See Buddha Chaitanya.

York, Michael (b. 1942) and Pat McCallum York.
British film star and his wife, a photographer and writer. He was educated at Oxford, where he acted for the Oxford University Dramatic Society. His real name is Michael York-Johnson. In 1965, he had a small role in Franco Zeffirelli's stage production of
The Taming of the Shrew
for Olivier's National Theatre Company and afterwards appeared in the movie with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Subsequent films include
Romeo and Juliet
(1968),
Justine
(1969),
Something for Everyone
(1970),
Cabaret
(1972),
England Made Me
(1973),
The Three Musketeers
(1974),
Murder on the Orient Express
(1974),
The Weather in the Streets
(1983),
The Wide Sargasso Sea
(1993),
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
(1997),
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
(1999),
Borstal Boy
(2000),
Megiddo
(2001), and
Austin Powers: Goldmember
(2002). He has often appeared on television, notably in “The Forsyte Saga” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and on Broadway, and he has a prize-winning career recording audio books. She was born in Jamaica to an English diplomat and his American wife, educated in England and France, married for the first time as a teenager, and in 1952 had a son, Rick McCallum, later a Hollywood producer. From the early 1960s, she worked as a fashion journalist at
Vogue
, then as a photographer and travel editor at
Glamor
before becoming a freelance photographer with a few lessons from David Bailey. Her portraits of celebrities have appeared in
Life
,
People
,
Town and Country
,
Playboy
, and
Newsweek
; she has published several books and had numerous gallery exhibitions, in particular of her later avant-garde work featuring dissected cadavers and nude portraits of professional people at work. She met Michael York when photographing him for a magazine profile, and they married a year later, in 1968. Isherwood was introduced to them in 1969, probably at the Vadims' lunch party described in the diary entry for January 15, 1969 in
D.2
.

Yount, Kurt.
A blind man Isherwood met at Fullerton State in 1976, and with whom he became friendly, partly because Yount is an obsessive reader and partly because Isherwood felt curious and sympathetic about his predicament. Isherwood invited him to dinner once to introduce him to Don Bachardy.

Yow, Jensen ( Jen, Jens).
Artist and curator. He was a friend of Lincoln Kirstein and had a room in Kirstein's house. He appears in
D.1.

Index

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Works by Isherwood appear directly under title; works by others appear under authors' names.

Page numbers in
italic
indicate entries in the Glossary.

 

ABC (television network) 290, 308, 372 Abedha (Tony Eckstein) 346, 368, 369, 428, 456,
689

Abhaya 348–9, 352, 369, 449, 461, 468, 489, 526

Abrahams, Gary 286, 290, 297, 302

Abrahams, Willie/Billy 551, 556, 568

Academy Awards (Oscars) 139, 222, 350, 476, 502, 669

Aces High
(film) 511

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco 667

Ackerley, J.R. (Joe) 23, 26, 432,
689
;
My Dog Tulip
351;
We Think the World of You
165–6

Ackerley, Nancy
see
West, Nancy

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) 554–5,
689

acupuncture 220, 564

Adam at Six A.M.
(film) 139

Addis, Keith 553, 583,
689

Adiswarananda, Swami 420, 518

Adjemian, Bob 368–9, 401, 427–8, 436, 444, 612, 623,
689

Adler, Gusti 383

Adler, Stella 244

Adler, Steve 399

Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, England 512

Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God,
The
(Shaw): C.I.'s stage adaptation 3, 47, 121, 206; proposed film version 28, 310, 360; proposed musical version 298

Advocate, The
(magazine) 83, 194, 476, 477, 485, 489, 599

Afghanistan 626
n
, 630
n

After Dark
(magazine) 238

After Many a Summer
(Huxley; proposed television version) 556, 557, 560

“Afterwards” (C.I.; story) 97–8, 322

Agnew, Spiro 277, 396

Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles 179, 259, 589
n
, 610

Ahunt, Marsh 657

AIDS xxxviii, xxxix, 687
n

Aigues-Mortes, France 33, 43

Albee, Edward 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 41, 46, 63, 67, 513,
689–90
;
All Over
539;
Seascape
478;
Tiny Alice
39–40, 41;
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
232

Albert, Eddie 417
n
,
690

Albert, Edward 254,
690

Albert, Margo 417,
690

Aldeburgh, Suffolk 511–512

Alderson, Brooke (Schjeldahl) 638

Aleutian islands, earthquake (1971) 138

Alexander, Clytie 203, 282–3, 357, 364, 371, 399, 494, 579, 656, 657,
690

Alexander Nevsky
(film) 421

Alexander, Peter: career xix, 107, 153; friendship and socializing with C.I. and Don Bachardy xix, 203, 216, 364, 494, 501, 656, 657; Bachardy's drawing of 157, 377; views on Bachardy's work 203, 361; house at Las Tunas Canyon 282–3, 357–8, 371, 399, 656;
690

Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay) 155, 578

All the President's Men
(film) 502

Allan, Rupert 507

Allen, Dr. Alan: treats C.I. 86, 134, 142, 154, 155, 156, 183, 212, 214, 289, 446, 491, 504; character 289; on older patients 289; treats Don Bachardy 345;
690

Allen, Edwin 168–9, 173–4, 304, 510, 652–3,
691

Allen, Hazel 545

Allen, Jay 529

Altman, Dennis 237,
691

Amador, Don 611

Amaya, Mario 400, 421, 426,
691

Ambler, Eric 403

Amendt, Rudolf (Rudi) 382–4,
691

American Booksellers' Association convention 368

American Civil Liberties Union
see
ACLU American Library Association
Booklist
529

Amiya (Countess of Sandwich) 28, 49, 54, 214, 216–17, 221, 325, 354, 511, 516, 644,
691

Amohananda, Swami (
earlier
Paul Hamilton) 124, 573,
691

Amsterdam, C.I. visits 635, 645

Anamananda, Swami (
earlier
Kenneth Critchfield
and
Arup Chaitanya) 191, 199, 366,
693

Anandaprana, Pravrajika (
earlier
Ursula Bond
and
Usha; Ananda): Swami vacations at Malibu house 94
n
; and Swami's health 125, 352, 419, 427, 449, 473, 510; at Vedanta Center 147, 161, 223; on brush fire at Montecito convent 204; initiation of daughter 221; on “personality cult” of Swami 223–5; on proposed sale of land at Trabuco 237; and Joseph Kaplan 360; and Anamananda 366; at Father's Day lunch 373; and Kali puja 396; and C.I.'s
Essentials of Vedanta
429; and Chetanananda 436; and plans for appointment of Prabhavananda's successor 468; and C.I.'s recording of the Bhagavad Gita 541–2, 598, 607; and C.I.'s
My Guru and His Disciple
609, 611, 612, 623;
810–811

And Now My Love
(film) 496

Andersen, Hans Christian,
Fairy Tales
447

Anderson, Bryan 411

Anderson, Judith 539, 540, 608,
692

Anderson, Ken 248–9

Anderson, Lindsay 260,
692
;
If
7;
Britannia Hospital
657
n

Anderson, Paul 244, 263, 270, 276, 286, 401, 491, 492, 496, 497, 559, 682,
692

Anderson, Tamiko 411

Andersson, Bibi 194

Andersson, Jon 171

Anderton, Piers 17
n

Andrew, Prince 681

Andrews, Mark (pseud.): relationship with Gavin Lambert 98–9, 114–15, 126, 135, 164–5, 215, 241, 245–6, 252, 264, 286, 289–90, 405; acting career 99, 141, 187, 274; appearance and character 103, 108, 115, 135, 141, 148, 149–50, 195, 272; socializing with C.I. and Don Bachardy 108, 135, 141, 149–50, 187, 194–5, 217, 228, 271, 272, 493; trip to South Pacific with Lambert 126, 131; trip to Las Vegas with Lambert 148; life in Hawaii 228; at Tennessee Williams's play reading 231; at performance of
A Meeting by the River
232–3; travels to Europe with Lambert for filming 272, 274, 286; returns from Europe 289; asks C.I. and Bachardy for loan 289–90; Lambert sends money to 291; marriage 404–5; Bachardy's drawings and paintings of 492

Andrews, Oliver 585,
692

Angremy, Jean-Pierre 58–9

Angremy, Odile 58

Anhalt, Edward (Eddie) 138,
692–3

Another Kind of Friend
see
My Guru and His Disciple
Ansen, Alan 642

Antaeus
(magazine) 170

anti-Semitism vii–viii, 462, 555

Antonioni, Michelangelo 24, 303;
Zabriskie Point
24, 139

Apollo space missions 53, 138
n
,
693

Applause
(musical) 181, 238, 274

Apple Tree, The
(film) 260, 274, 276

Approach to Vedanta, An
(C.I.) 244

Arab-Israeli conflicts 65, 280
n
, 328, 393, 395, 412–13, 416
n
, 435, 559,
754

Arabian Nights
(Pasolini film) 511

Arabian Nights, The
(folk tales) 130, 303

Argentina 681, 682

Argo, Allison 508

Arizu, Betty 220, 274, 448, 502,
693

Arles 32

Arnold, Steven:
Luminous Procuress
267; proposed
Monkey
film 267, 271, 272–3, 274–5

Arnoldi, Charles (Chuck) 282–3, 498, 576,
693

Arrizabálaga y Prado, Leonardo de 565

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena 455–6

Art Direction
(magazine) 593

Arup Chaitanya
see
Anamananda, Swami

As You Desire Me
(film) 170

Asaktananda, Swami: second in command at Hollywood Vedanta Center 2, 151, 159, 210, 219, 224, 360, 456, 463, 467–8, 484; relations with C.I. 151, 176, 427; and women Vedantists 204–5, 210, 480; C.I. dreams about 212; at Vivekananda puja 218–19; at Ramakrishna puja 221; counsels Evelyn Hooker 257, 261, 451; at Holy Mother puja 305; at Father's Day lunch 373; Prabhavananda rebukes 418–19, 463; rejected as Prabhavananda's successor 467–8, 470, 480;
693

Ascot Park motorcycle racetrack, California 112

Ashcroft, Peggy 11
n

Asheshananda, Swami 518

Ashmole, David 50

Ashokananda, Swami 260, 436

Ashworth, Dr. (hand surgeon) 86, 177, 197, 201–2, 203, 204, 205, 212, 214–15, 236

Asilah, Morocco 517

Assembly Bill 489, California (A.B. 489) 478, 479, 493
n
,
693–4

Asseyev, Tamara 587

Astor, Alice (Pleydell-Bouverie) 323

astrology 99–100, 101, 102, 113, 122, 379, 401, 411, 416

Aswell, Mary-Louise 300

At One With
(television program) 570, 571
n

Atkins, Eileen 492

Atlanta Film Festival 385, 391

Atulananda, Swami 575–6

Auden, John 515

Auden, W.H. (Wystan): death and funeral xxiii–xxiv, xxx, 393, 394, 395, 641; emigration in 1939 xxiv, xxx–xxxi, 398, 402, 677; homosexuality xxiv, xxxiv, 372; portrayal in
Lions and Shadows
xxiv; and in
Christopher and His Kind
xxiv, 475, 684; relationship with Chester Kallman xxx
n
, 102
n
, 466, 636; religious beliefs xxxiii–xxxiv; on love and sex xxxiv–xxxv; dislike of Rupert Doone 10; untidiness deplored by C.I.'s mother 54; and Forster 73; problems with intimacy 73; on C.I.'s story “Afterwards” 98; Don Bachardy's drawing of 132; in New York 221; and Spender 319; at Oxford 322, 335; and Cyril Connolly 322; C.I. looks through papers after his death 402; Edward Mendelson's researches on 433, 475, 509; tribute event at USC 434–5; memorial stone at Westminster Abbey 456–7; C.I. speculates on views on Armistead Maupin 577; Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 636; C.I.'s memories of 686; King's Gold Medal for poetry award 688;
694

City Without Walls
394;
Epistle to a Godson
279;
Journey to a War
(with C.I.) 59;
Love's Labour's Lost
(libretto; with Chester Kallman) 335;
The Orators
394, 647
n
; “The Platonic Blow” 156, 322

Austen, Howard 11, 102
n
, 134, 136, 138, 341, 403, 404, 462, 530, 537,
694

Austen, Jane:
Pride and Prejudice
211;
Emma
279

Austin, Linda 36

Australia, C.I.'s trip with Don Bachardy (1969) 3
n
, 120, 258, 310

Austria 394, 534

Avadhuta Gita, translation of 534

Avedon, Richard 552

Avis, Annie (Nanny) 54,
694

Avon (publishers) 397, 399, 404, 560, 593, 638, 639

Ayer, A.J. (Freddy) 515, 516,
694–5

Ayer, Dee (Wells) 515, 516

 

Babes on Broadway
(film) 149

Baby Blue Marine
(film) 506

Babymaker, The
(film) 1, 16, 139

Bacall, Lauren 235, 238, 495, 500, 511,
695
;
Applause
181, 238, 274

Bachardy, Don: suggests titles for C.I.'s works xi–xii, 458, 537, 598; collaboration on dramatization of
A Meeting by the River
xvi, xxii, 7, 12–13, 79–80, 231, 233, 561, 563; collaboration on “Frankenstein” television film xvii, xviii, 135, 136, 138, 143, 162, 175, 176, 181, 196, 295; growing success of career xix–xx, 255, 257, 258–9, 412, 456, 660, 665; happiness when drawing xxi, 412; meditation xxi, 94, 127, 269, 297, 412; trip to South Pacific and Australia with C.I. (1969) 3, 49, 120, 258, 310; visits England with C.I. (1970) 5, 7; holiday in San Francisco with C.I. (June 1970) 9, 88–9, 90; visits Peter and Clytie Alexander at Las Tunas Canyon with C.I. 66, 282–3, 357–8, 371, 656; Hockney's views on work 73, 157, 210; meets C.I. at airport on his return from England 78; anxieties about work 81, 87–8, 106–7, 125, 157, 204, 309, 345, 361, 456, 592–3; back problems 81, 633; depressions 81, 82, 87, 434, 573, 629, 630, 632, 662, 682; and proposed Writers Guild strike 85, 86; investigates roller skating 87, 89; interviewed for proposed
Esquire
magazine article 89, 101–2, 104; help with writing of C.I.'s
Kathleen and Frank
90, 114, 116; friendship with Mike Van Horn 91, 96–7, 179, 182, 385, 437, 440; visits Ray Unger and Jack Fontan 96–7, 99–100, 101, 102, 109, 178, 279–80, 354, 506–7; visits Bill Brown and Paul Wonner 97, 99, 117, 211, 256, 270, 271; horoscope read by Jack Fontan 99–100, 122, 416; diets 101; dreams 101, 205–6, 262, 264; supper with Rita Hayworth 108, 375–6; shows new work to Billy Al Bengston 113, 142–3, 204; weight 114, 147, 178, 255, 262, 280, 350; visits John Lehmann in San Diego with C.I. 115; trip to San Francisco for joint show with Ed Ruscha (December 1970) 118, 121, 122, 123; reading Dostoevsky 136, 141; growths on feet 137, 138, 142, 143, 157, 164; mother's birthday 144; shows new work to Irving Blum 157; visits New York with C.I. following Stravinsky's death (May 1971) 159, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168–74; hair style, moustache and beard 160, 190, 215, 275–6, 280, 434, 435, 440, 488; offered work as art director on Michael Laughlin film 163; thirty-seventh birthday 166, 168, 171; at New York City Ballet 169; hopes for sitting with Willem de Kooning 172; prepares new drawings for possible show with Irving Blum 177; reads Proust 178; buys new car 193–4, 197–8; gift for C.I.'s sixty-seventh birthday 197; visits C.I. in hospital for hand operation 201, 202; unemployment payments 203, 502, 505, 519; minor car accidents 216, 449, 549, 599, 629, 683; keeps diary 217, 462; trip to New York for promotion of C.I.'s
Kathleen and Frank
218, 220, 221; draws up will 220; at Ramakrishna puja 221, 346; colds 223, 384, 599; collaboration on “The Mummy” television film 228, 239, 253–4; thirty-eighth birthday 233; suffers food poisoning 233; fast driving 237–8, 294; photographed by Stathis Orphanos 239, 240; taped interview with C.I. on working methods 245, 249; traffic ticket for driving wrong way in one-way alley 258; relations with parents 266; buys bigger new car 267, 268, 273; collaboration on proposed
Monkey
screenplay 267, 271, 272–3, 274–5; making pranams 269; gifts for C.I.'s sixty-eighth birthday 275–6; visits Beverly Baeressen 279, 506; friendship with Dan Price 288; votes in presidential election (1972) 289; collaboration on draft screenplay of
A Meeting by the River
292, 310, 350, 354, 355, 359, 378, 384, 397; trip to New York for performance of
A Meeting by the River
293, 295, 296, 297–8, 300–301, 302, 304–5, 305–9; travels to England with C.I. for “Frankenstein” filming 312, 314–36; trip to Switzerland and Italy before returning to California 326, 336–41; inspects drawings at British Museum 328–9; stomach complaints 345, 359, 453, 504, 587, 606; considers changing doctor 345; picketing for Writers Guild strike 346; buys chihuahua for mother 352; bead telling 353; drives to see Rex Heftmann in San Diego 362–3; visits Yosemite and San Francisco with C.I. and John Schlesinger and Michael Childers 366–8; visits Charles Hill's and Guy Dill's studios 370–71; car seizes 371–2; letter from Joan Crawford 376; party at Ken Price's beach house 381; gift for C.I.'s sixty-ninth birthday 384; trip to New York (October-November 1973) 397, 400, 402, 403; BBC filming for “Arena: Cinema” segment on Hollywood 411; relationship with Bill Franklin (“The Downer”) 412
n
, 579–80, 594, 602, 606, 607, 608, 609–610, 612, 624, 648,
729
; in New York for Cultural Center show (February 1974) 419, 421–2, 425–6, 430; broken tooth 429; muscle pains 429; fortieth birthday 434, 435,
754
; works on
The Stepford Wives
film on East Coast 439, 441, 443; C.I. inscribes books for 443–4; and George Cukor's proposed biography 449; gift for C.I.'s seventieth birthday 451; feels he has no role at Vedanta Center 453–4; teaches life class at Art Center College of Design 455–6; visits Chicago with C.I. 463; in New York with C.I. for MLA convention (December 1974) 465, 467; visited by John Sonsini 467; receives Brandeis Medal for C.I. in New York 474, 477; at Billy Al Bengston's Academy Awards party 476; featured in
The Advocate
magazine 476, 477
n
; collaboration on “The Beautiful and Damned” draft television screenplay 479–80; spots on skull and face 479, 567, 600; at question-and-answer session at Cal. State Gay Pride Week 485; at Peter Pears concert at Schoenberg Hall 487; in Seattle for Dootson-Calderhead Gallery show (December 1975) 487; at David Bowie concerts 496, 567; enlargement of studio 498, 499, 500, 502, 503, 506, 507, 518, 521, 522, 524–5, 526, 528, 534
n
, 537; filming for Platypus Films's
Christopher Isherwood: Over There on a Visit
504, 505, 514; in New York with C.I. en route to and from Europe (May/July 1976) 508–510, 518; in England and Scotland 510–516; trip to Morocco 516–17; returns to California via Madrid and New York 517–18; at memorial service for Prabhavananda 518; buys new television set 519; with C.I. on promotional tours for
Christopher and His Kind
530; trip to Rochester, Toronto, Chicago and Minneapolis (February 1977) 536, 538; visits England with C.I. (March-April 1977) 540, 542–3; proposed book of drawings with commentary 542, 544, 545, 551, 556, 557, 565, 566, 568–9, 571, 618, 621; adoption by C.I. 543–4, 569; reads draft of C.I.'s
My Guru and His Disciple
550, 555; death of father 557, 558, 559; executor to father's estate 557, 559, 569; and C.I.'s planned knee operation 562, 563; palm read 567; relationship with Bill Bopp 579; citation in
Art Direction
magazine 593; nude drawings photographed for
The Advocate
magazine 599; trip to Mexico with Bill Franklin (November-December 1978) 602, 603, 604, 605–6; in New York for Broadway production of
A Meeting by the River
607, 608; trip to Texas and Louisiana (May 1979) 609, 610; argument in movie theater 620; relationship with Keith Coleman 626; studio floods 627; forty-sixth birthday 632–3; starts wearing spectacles 632; trip to San Francisco with C.I. for promotion of
My Guru and His Disciple
(June 1980) 634; relations with brother Ted 637; strained muscles 643; trip to New York for Robert Miller Gallery show (September-October 1980) 647, 648–53; relationship with Don Carr 648, 653, 654; vaccinated for hepatitis 648; in Cleveland for drawing commission (October 1980) 649; collaboration on draft screenplay of “Paul” 651, 662, 672, 673; in studio with Don Carr during break-in 653, 654; collection of paintings bought by Swedish dealer 665, 674; weekend in San Francisco for Gay Rights Advocates fundraiser (February 1981) 666–7; and C.I.'s final illness and death 688;
695–696