Liberation (154 page)

Professional activities
: television script work (
see also
“The Beautiful and Damned”; “Frankenstein: The True Story”; “The Mummy”) vii, xvi–xix, 89, 265, 434, 439, 471, 553, 556, 560, 568, 583; film script writing (
see also A Meeting by the River
(draft screenplay);
Monkey
; “Paul”;
The Vacant Room
) xvi–xvii, 2–3, 79, 260, 265, 281, 283, 395, 545–6, 613; stage adaptations xvi, 3; teaching at U.C. Riverside 80; introduces John Lehmann lecture on Woolfs 153; talks at Claremont College 212, 213, 355; promotional appearances for
Kathleen and Frank
218, 220, 221, 353; talk for John Rechy's class at Occidental College 234; speaks at Max Reinhardt memorial concert at Hollywood Bowl 366, 370, 379–80, 382–4, 385–7; recording of Seven Upanishads readings 373; talks to class at USC 402; speaks at Loyola University, New Orleans 432; speaks at California State University Honors Convocation 433; reads at Auden tribute event at USC 434–5; introduces Evelyn Hooker at Institute for the Study of Human Resources event 439; speaks at writers' conference at Cate School 442–3; speaks at Modern Language Association Forum on Homosexuality and Literature in New York 466; question-and-answer session at Cal. State, Long Beach 485, 489; recording of readings for Pelican Records 491, 496, 519, 521, 528; speaks at UCLA Gay Awareness Week event 498; talks to gay students at Cal. State Fullerton 498–9; speaks at USC Gay Week 505; speaks at National Portrait Gallery, London 515–16; promotional appearances for
Christopher and His Kind
529–30; attends Gay Academic Union meeting in Toronto 538; recording of Bhagavad Gita selections 541–2, 598, 602, 607; speaks at ACLU garden party 554–5; fundraising events in San Francisco for Gay Rights Advocates 618–19, 620–21, 631, 666–7; lecture at College of Marin 630, 631; appearance at National Gay Archives event 634; promotional appearances for
My Guru and His Disciple
634–5, 643, 645, 656; lecturing at U.C. Berkeley 645; speaks at Pomona College 670

Relationships
: with Don Bachardy
see separate entry under
Bachardy, Don; with Heinz Neddermeyer 54; with William Caskey 121, 202, 544, 615, 619, 636–7,
712
; with “Vernon Old” 544, 609, 612, 614,
779–80
; with Denny Fouts 614, 615,
728

Spiritual ideas and practices
: meditation xv, 94, 101, 103, 105–6, 107, 112–13, 125, 127, 141, 269, 282, 284, 286, 287, 294, 297, 356, 369, 401, 414, 423, 455, 458, 463, 484, 485, 486, 489, 522, 532, 558, 565; observations on conscious and unconscious mind xv–xvi, 65; and sexuality and relationships xxv, xxvii, 90, 97, 119, 162, 269, 282, 483, 489, 623; devotion to Swami Prabhavananda xxvi–xxvii, xl, 101, 167, 224, 282, 407; fear of derision in England xxxii–xxxiv, 554; speech at Vivekananda centenary celebrations xxxiii; religion and camp xxxv–xxxvi, xxxvii– xxxviii, 50; Vivekananda puja 4, 147, 217, 218–19, 419; prayers 32, 75, 81, 452, 463, 466, 591, 664, 679, 681; views on happiness and unhappiness 64, 110, 463; Swami's counsel to 82, 101, 103, 105–6, 107, 129– 30, 284, 286–7, 413–14, 482–3; Father's Day at Vedanta Society 88, 236, 361, 368, 373–4, 440; views on leaving monastery 110; takes the dust of Swami's feet 114, 116, 175, 221; Brahmananda puja 133, 134, 151, 494, 561; Ramakrishna puja 151, 221– 2, 346, 422, 499; making japam 181–2, 353, 442, 480, 484, 558, 559, 563, 564, 570, 571, 608, 611, 646; making pranams 269; acts of recollection 278; bead telling 278, 281, 570; Holy Mother puja 305; receives spiritual vibration from Swami 355–6; thoughts of Swami after his death 522, 535, 537, 543, 555, 558, 560, 563, 622, 630, 641, 643, 664, 668, 675, 678, 679, 681, 682, 686; Swami's bead added to rosary 537; at Golden Anniversary celebrations at Vedanta Center 643; description of karma 661–2

Travels
: visits England (March-April 1970) xvi, 7–30, 38–77; trip to South Pacific and Australia with Don Bachardy (1969) 3, 49, 120, 258, 310; trip to South of France with David Hockney and Peter Schlesinger (March 1970) 26, 27, 28, 30–38, 43, 56; to England for “Frankenstein” filming (January-February 1973) 309, 312, 314–36; trip to Switzerland and Italy before returning to California 326, 336–41; in China (1938) 328; visits England and Scotland (June-July 1976) 510–516; trip to Morocco 516–17; returns to California via Madrid and New York 517–18; visits England (March-April 1977) 540, 542–3; to England and Holland for promotion of
My Guru and His Disciple
(1980) 635, 643, 645

Writings
: diary keeping xiv–xv, xl, 7
n
, 37, 64–5, 78, 79, 93, 150, 196, 197, 217, 249, 452, 486, 490, 545, 558, 609, 611, 618, 621, 626, 635, 680, 682; draft foreword to book of Hockney's drawings 3; translation of Shankara's
Crest Jewel of Discrimination
with Prabhavananda 47, 60; Bhaghavad Gita translation with Prabhavananda 64; notebook on relationship with Don Bachardy 156, 157, 166; translation of Seven Upanishads with Prabhavananda 373; prefaces to Chetanananda's anthologies 445, 446, 675; preface to omnibus edition of Berlin novels 465; proposed article for
The Advocate
476–7; translation of Avadhuta Gita with Chetanananda 534; foreword to Vividishananda's
A Man of God
570, 573; blurb for Warhol's
POPism
624;
see also
“Afterwards”;
An Approach to Vedanta
;
California
;
Christopher and His Kind
;
Down There on a Visit
;
Essentials of Vedanta
;
Exhumations
; “Gems of Belgian Architecture”;
Goodbye to Berlin
; “Hypothesis and Belief”;
Journey to a War
;
Kathleen and Frank
;
Lions and Shadows
;
Lost Years
;
A Meeting by the River
;
The Memorial
;
The Monsters
;
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
;
My Guru and His Disciple
;
October
;
Prater Violet
;
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
;
Sally Bowles
;
A Single Man
;
Vedanta for the Western World
; “A Visit to Anselm Oakes”;
The World in the Evening

Isherwood, Christopher (“Chris Connery”; disc jockey) 48

Isherwood, Elisabeth Luce Bradshaw (C.I.'s grandmother) 130

Isherwood, Frank Bradshaw (C.I.'s father): correspondence 49; courtship of Kathleen 72
n
; vertigo 72; military identity disk and uniform 95, 116, 542; death 96, 682; watercolors 264–5, 327, 333; anniversary of death 543
n
;
746

Isherwood, John Bradshaw (C.I.'s grandfather) 543
n

Isherwood, John (Jack) Bradshaw (C.I.'s uncle) 206

Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (C.I.'s mother): death 14; diaries 14, 54–5, 95, 96, 152, 398, 446; family history book 14, 18; dislike of C.I.'s friends 54; C.I.'s relations with 55, 398; courtship with Frank 72; and death of Frank 96; watercolors 265; and development at Wyberslegh 334, 342; religion 369; C.I. dreams about 625;
746–7

Isherwood, Muriel Bradshaw (C.I.'s aunt) 543
n

Isherwood, Richard (C.I.'s brother): appearance and character x, 13, 14; C.I. visits in Cheshire, England x, 13–15, 43, 51, 52–53, 55, 330–334, 341–342, 513, 542; drinking x, 14, 55, 331, 332, 333; death xi, 610; and C.I.'s research for
Kathleen and Frank
14, 96, 97, 101, 108; and C.I.'s attempts to acquire Mexican passport for Heinz Neddermeyer 54; sends birthday greetings to C.I. 276, 385; and C.I.'s research for
Christopher and His Kind
398, 446; miniature of as child 524; his will and estate 610, 616, 670;
747

Isherwood, Thomas (C.I.'s cousin) 14, 333–4, 610, 616,
747

Isle of Wight, England 515

Israel
see
Arab-Israeli conflicts

Italy: earthquake (1971) 138; C.I. and Don Bachardy visit 326, 339–41

Ivory, James 419, 422, 423, 424, 425, 429–30, 431, 433–4,
748
;
The Wild Party
437–9, 441, 455, 470

 

Jackley, Jolyon 29

Jackson, Glenda 542

Jagadananda, Swami 250
n

Jagannath Temple, India 260

Jagger, Mick 29, 271, 552

Jaglom, Henry 575

Jam Generation 1, 2

Jamaica Inn
(film) 264

James Dean
(television film) 497

James, Edward (Eddie) 248,
748

James, Henry 25, 325; letters 134;
The Aspern Papers
360; “The Turn of the Screw” 225
n
, 388, 390

Jancar-Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 637

Jarre, Maurice 356–7, 607,
748–9

Jasmine, Paul 551, 552

Jay, Karla,
The Gay Report
592

Jean-Christophe
(C.I.; screenplay) 265

Jeanmaire, Renée “Zizi” 534

Jebb, Julian 409, 410–411, 515,
749

Jewels
(ballet) 169

Jews for Christ (organization) 251

Jim, the World's Greatest
(film) 497

John, Elton 253, 256, 259, 496;
Honky Château
255–6

John Paul I, Pope 584, 585

Johnson, Bart (pseud.) 214,
749

Johnson, Clifford (Cliff; Bhuma) 93, 473,
749

Johnson, Lamont 28, 310, 360,
749
;
That Certain Summer
311

Johnson, Lyndon 154

Johnson, Moulton 546

Johnson, Robert 667

Joll, James 60–61

Jones, Allen 551, 552

Jones, David 291

Jones, Jack 189, 192,
749

Jones, Jennifer (Mrs. David O. Selznick;
later
Mrs. Norton Simon): birthday gifts for C.I. and Don Bachardy 94, 276; friendship and socializing with C.I. 103–4, 128, 235, 304, 411, 450–51; house on Tower Grove Drive 103–4; relationship with psychiatrist 104; marriage to Norton Simon 176, 235; and Bachardy's drawing of Simon 363; no-show at Bachardy's opening 376, 411;
Sister Carrie
592;
749–50

Jones, Paul 47

Joseph Andrews
(film) 510, 512, 535

Joseph, Tony 624

Josephina (maid) 109

Journey to a War
(C.I. and Auden) 59

Joyce, James 321

Julius Caesar
(film) 120, 121

Jung, Carl xiii, 30, 662;
Memories, Dreams,
Reflections
177, 387;
Jung and the Story of Our Time
(van der Post) 578–9

 

Kael, Pauline 638

Kafka, Dr. (foot specialist) 137, 142, 143, 157, 164, 310, 312, 508

Kafka, Franz 278–9

Kallman, Chester: relationship with Auden xxx
n
, 102
n
, 335, 466, 636;
Love's Labour's Lost
(libretto; with Auden) 335; in Oxford 335; and death of Auden 394; death 465–6;
750

Kanin, Garson,
Remembering Mr. Maugham
2

Kantor, Paul 497

Kaper, Bronislau 379–80, 602,
751

Kaplan, Joseph 360–61,
751

Kaplan, Michael 502

Karloff, Boris xviii, 130

Karlow, Jeff 623

Kasmin, John 51, 55, 56, 320,
751

Katcher, Dee 540

Katha Upanishad 50, 217, 418, 535, 561

Kathleen and Frank
(C.I.): researching, writing and revising xi, 3, 8, 54–5, 79, 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95–6, 97, 100–101, 103, 108, 111, 113–14, 115, 116, 125, 129; themes xi, 14
n
, 49, 72
n
, 84, 92, 93, 96, 99, 104–5, 120, 132; Richard Isherwood's assistance and information 14, 96, 97, 101, 108; use of family papers 14, 54–5, 95, 96, 116, 152; ending 96, 99, 116, 123; Gavin Lambert reads 118, 123; publication and promotion 123, 125, 126, 127, 169–70, 202, 205, 206, 218, 353, 368; Christopher Wood reads 142, 149; C.I. reads from at Society of David meeting 161; proofs 167, 173, 176, 177; Truman Capote reads 173, 177, 309; Paul Wonner reads 197; Glenway Wescott's blurb for 205; reviews 208, 213; sales 213, 267; paperback edition 312–13, 353; narration 398

Katz, Dr. Alfred 664, 665, 666

Katz, James C. (Jim) 500, 503, 515,
751

Katz, Martin 506

Kazan, Elia 216, 490

Kearin, Jim 499

Keiserman, Mark 533

Keller, Richele 647

Kelley, Howard 373,
751

Kelly, Grace 443

Kempson, Rachel 321

Kennedy, Edward (Ted) 246–7

Kennedy, John (Canadian visitor to Vedanta Center) 598, 599

Kennedy, Neil 514

Kepner, Jim 634

Kerouac, Jack xxxii, 10–11, 178

Kerr, Deborah 302, 326, 336, 337,
751–2
;
The Day After the Fair
321–2, 387, 391

Kerr, John (actor and lawyer) 220

Kertess, Klaus 492

Keswick, Cumbria, England 513

Keyes, Sidney 56

K.H.3 (anti-aging preparation) 530,
752

Kight, Morris 83, 111, 299, 300, 594,
752

Kilhefner, Don 111–12, 299, 300, 635,
752

Kimbrough, Clinton 99, 172–3, 356, 403, 578,
752

King, Karen 494

King, Perry 438, 480, 494,
752

King Lear
(Peter Brook film) 215–16

King of Marvin Gardens, The
(film) 302

King's College, Cambridge 20, 21–2, 85

Kino, Carol 628

Kipling, Rudyard 395

Kirchstetten, Austria 394

Kirstein, Lincoln xxxvi, 170–71, 474, 561, 614, 677,
752–3
;
Ballet Alphabet
328

Kiser, Kirsten (Kiki) 661, 669,
753

Kiskadden, Peggy: and Derek Bok 132, 261; relations with C.I. 135–6, 197, 274, 416, 466, 475; and Michael Barrie 142, 248; and Gerald Heard 198; and Christopher Wood 261, 375; and Salka Viertel 416; C.I. sees at theater 540;
753

Kissinger, Henry 268
n
, 363

Kitaj, R.B. (Ronald) 66, 76, 157, 323, 514,
753–4

Klebaum, Curt 647–8

Kleiser, Randal (Randy) 381, 385,
754

Klimt, Gustav 56, 58

Klosters, Switzerland 326, 336–9, 422

Kniest, John 491, 519

Knievel, Evel 452–3

Knight, Franklin xxii, 9, 191,
754

Knightley, Phillip,
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
177

Knott, Harley 319,
754

Knowlton, Perry 123, 405–6

Knox, Ronnie 118, 187,
755

Kobal, John 497

Kohner, Pancho 292

Kohoutek comet 418

Kokoschka, Oskar 460

Kolisch, Dr. Joseph 527, 528

Konigsberg, Frank 516

Kopay, David 507

Korda, Michael 126, 169,
755

Kosinski, Jerzy 170

Kotcheff, Ted,
Outback
216

KPFK (radio station) 234

Kramer, Terry Allen 502, 509, 556, 600,
755

Kray, Ronnie and Reggie 324

Kremlin Letter, The
(film) 311

Krier, Beth Ann 620

Krishna (
earlier
George Fitts; Swami Krishnananda): trip to Belur Math for sannyas ceremony (1963) xxvii; at supper with Len Schneider 108; daily chants at shrine 147; and Prabhavananda 210, 226, 250, 287, 356, 397, 469, 482, 537, 679; and death of Mokshada 349; and Jim Gates 364, 484, 535–6; meditation 369; at Father's Day lunch 373; at Sarada Convent, Montecito 442; hospitalized with bladder problems 482; tumors 535–6; C.I. takes the dust of his feet 537; and Swahananda 547;
755

Krishnamurti 37,
755–6

Krishnananda, Swami
see
Krishna

Kristofferson, Kris 519

Krost, Barry 504, 505, 508,
756

Kubrick, Stanley:
A Clockwork Orange
217;
Lolita
490;
2001: A Space Odyssey
632

Kurtzman, Dr. (dentist) 211, 283, 284, 288, 403, 429, 523

 

La Crescenta, California, Vedanta Center 224

La Garde-Freinet, France 36

La Grande Motte, France 33

La Verne, California, seminar (1941) 106, 283–4, 613

Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de,
Dangerous Acquaintances
279

Ladd, Diane 253

Ladner, John 524, 543–4, 593, 594, 601–2, 607, 639,
756

Lady Caroline Lamb
(film) 319

Lady Chatterley's Lover
(Lawrence; proposed television version) 568

“Lady from the Land of the Dead, The”
see
“Mummy, The”

Lady from Shanghai, The
(film) 258

Laguna Beach, California: Don Bachardy visits 96, 99, 109, 279–280, 379; C.I. visits with Bachardy 101, 102, 354, 506–507; land slides 586

Lahr, Anthea 572

Lahr, John,
Prick Up Your Ears
572

Laing, R.D. 92

Lake District, England 513

Lake of Dracula
(film) 245

Lambert, Gavin: considers buying house in Tangier 5, 340; ill-health 5, 98, 215; on C.I.'s NBC interview on sexuality 17; birthdays 93, 94, 252; C.I. visits when sick 98–9; relationship with “Mark Andrews” 98–9, 114–15, 126, 164–5, 215, 241, 245–6, 252, 264, 286, 289–90, 405; adaptation of Colette's
The Cat
99; and Clinton Kimbrough 99, 403, 578; horoscope read by Jack Fontan 101, 102; at goodbye dinner for Peter Schlesinger 103; dinner with Rita Hayworth 108; reads manuscript of C.I.'s
Kathleen and Frank
118, 123; trip to South Pacific 126, 131; use of women's names for male friends 126; proposed film projects 135, 141, 181, 187; diets 148; sees Elvis Presley in Las Vegas 148; on Don Bachardy's paintings 150; and Natalie Wood 164–5; and Merle Oberon 181, 187; views on economy 181; and Jim Bridges 187, 232–3; at Bergman film with C.I. 194–5; and Tony Richardson 215, 573; C.I. appoints as literary executor 217, 220; recommends masseur 220; decides to leave California 228, 241, 252, 258, 264; bitten by black widow spider 236; farewell party for 271, 274; leaves for New York 272; sells house and moves to Europe 274, 276, 281, 286; filming of
The Apple Tree
274, 276; in Rome 290, 326, 339–41; sends money to Andrews 291; biography of George Cukor 305; his Yugoslav lover Georges 340, 341, 365; settles in Tangier 365, 402, 406, 589; proposed book on thriller writers 403; and Gore Vidal 404; C.I. stays with in Morocco 516–17; and Peggy Hubrecht 517, 594, 596; and Dr. Elsie Giorgi 526; anecdote about previous incarnations 573; visits California (1978) 573, 576, 589; rents apartment in Los Angeles for a year 591–2, 604, 605; views on C.I.'s
My Guru and His Disciple
631; and Marti Stevens 632; on Ronald Reagan 657; on death of Rachel Roberts 659;
756 A Case for the Angels
578;
The Goodbye People
141;
GWTW: The Making of Gone with the Wind
253, 257;
Running Time
633;
The Vacant Room
(with C.I.) 260

Lambert, Verity 515

Lamborne, David 59

Lament of the Waves
(ballet) 50

Lamkin, Marguerite: C.I. socializes with in London 23, 24, 38, 50, 67–8, 77, 511, 514, 515; her lunch parties 23, 24; in South of France 36; and brother Speed 270; Don Bachardy's second choice to spend Christmas with 302; in India 312; sends birthday greetings to C.I. 385; C.I. socializes with in California 429, 507, 684; at Bachardy's Corcoran Gallery show 629;
757

Lamkin, Speed 135
n
, 269–70, 609, 668–9,
756–7

Lancaster, Mark 20, 21, 26, 27, 29, 74, 190, 208, 209, 499,
757

Lanchester, Elsa: friendship and socializing with C.I. 4, 546; relationship with Ray Henderson 4, 132, 187, 547; and
Esquire
magazine article on Don Bachardy 89, 102; marriage to Charles Laughton 102, 185; Dorothy Miller on 103; reaction to earthquake 111; and proposed biographies of Laughton 114, 185, 211; and Jack Grinnich 132–3; and David Graham 133; house neighboring C.I.'s 162–3, 186–7, 247, 250, 459, 524, 595; and proposed
Dogskin
musical 262; her gardener 289; at Bachardy's Municipal Art Gallery show 376; reads at Auden tribute event at USC 434–5; in hospital for tests and operation 446, 447; cancer 448, 455, 546–7, 595; and permit for enlargement of Bachardy's studio 503; birthday 595; and Michael Hall 595; and Broadway production of
A Meeting by the River
608;
757
land slides 3, 564–5, 578, 585, 586, 627, 628

Landau Gallery, Los Angeles 154

Landquart, Switzerland 326, 336

Lane, Homer 16,
758

Lang, Fritz,
Metropolis
193

Langan, Peter 26, 46, 76, 319–20, 513,
758

Lange, Hope 10, 450, 492, 500,
758–9

Langella, Frank 478

Langham, Michael 11
n

Lanigan, Mrs. (C.I.'s employer in 1919) 255

Lansbury, Angela 149,
759

Lansbury, Edgar 281,
759

Larson, Jack: friendship and socializing with C.I. 1, 81–2, 130, 193, 240–41, 252, 262, 263, 276–7, 296–7, 309, 343, 385, 407, 410, 494, 498, 506, 519, 533, 534, 575, 601, 620, 638; and Jim Gates 47; short plays 81; bitten by dog 95; relationship with Jim Bridges 95, 226, 296–7, 308; advises Don Bachardy on
Esquire
article 102; at goodbye dinner for Peter Schlesinger 103; pessimistic about economy 115; enthusiasm 130; warns of earthquake prediction 150; Bachardy's drawing of Warhol loaned to 157; suggestions for “Frankenstein” television film 213; and Gavin Lambert 232–3; skiing 241; attends Joe Chaikin's directing classes 252; at Tom Hayden lectures on Indochina 261, 275, 277; catches “London” flu 312; on Bridges's film
The Paper Chase
313; and Writers Guild strike 347; on current generation of actors 348; takes charge of fifteen-year-old runaway 399; Salka Viertel visits 405, 409, 410, 414, 415, 416; recommends Open Theater Company productions 406; and Bridges's involvement in
A Meeting by the River
film project 430, 431; on Bridges's
White Hunter, Black Heart
444; in New York 508; at party for Tennessee Williams 519; recommends doctor 563; and Proposition 6 campaign 576–7; at screening of
Urban Cowboy
628;
759