Liberation (170 page)

 

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American colorist (1923–1994), born in San Mateo, California, educated at Berkeley and at the School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He worked in Paris in the 1950s, then settled in Santa Monica.

 

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American sculptor and video artist (b. 1941), from Louisiana; notorious for her 1974 ad in
ArtForum
in which she appeared naked holding a dildo at her crotch.

 

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Their gardener, from Mexico.

 

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Musician, playwright, film director (1944–1994), son of Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, who invented the Barbie doll, named after her daughter Barbara, and of Barbie's boyfriend doll, named after Ken.

 

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Hillbrand was directing plays at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA; he and Fusco later married. He sat for Bachardy several times; she sat once. Eventually he settled in San Francisco.

 

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Journalist and author, born in the Bronx and raised in Fresno, then working for Goodstein at
The Advocate
. He later wrote the bestseller
Recreating Yourself
(1988).

 

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A doctor.

 

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Director of the Gay Media Task Force, founded in 1972 to monitor gay themes on network T.V., and an
Advocate
contributor.

 

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Dieter's lover and partner; he sat for Bachardy in 1977.

 

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Lawyer (b. 1939); Los Angeles City Councilman 1971–2000, mayoral candidate in 1973 and subsequently. He wrote the first U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against AIDS sufferers. In 2001, he became president of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York.

 

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Flowers (1939–1988) was famous for “Madame,” a bawdy old woman puppet. They appeared on T.V. in “Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In” and “Hollywood Squares” and eventually on her own show, “Madame's Place.”

 

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Sandra Holtz, fifth wife, 1981–1984, of British film director David Lean (1908–1991). His sixth wife, from 1990 to his death, was Sandra Cooke. His award-winning films include
The Bridge On the River Kwai
(1957),
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962), and
A Passage to India
(1984).

 

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Maggie Smith's second husband; see Glossary.

 

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British moral philosopher (1920–2010), educated at Oxford, where she was a tutor for twenty years. She was a professor at UCLA from 1969 until 2002.

 

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Art collector and curator, part owner of the Dootson-Calderhead Gallery in Seattle, where Bachardy exhibited in December 1975.

 

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Austrian actor (1939–1993), in German-language films, and in many small Hollywood roles, including
Venus in Furs
(1968) and
Skyraiders
(1976), and on T.V.

 

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American photojournalist and portrait photographer (b. 1940), educated at the University of Pennsylvania; she contributed to
Life
,
Rolling Stone
,
The New Yorker
, and
Vanity Fair
.

 

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Later a powerful agent, branching out into management, production and packaging.

 

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Evidently old ones, for Littman to review so he could understand the rights situation.

 

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A 1970 graduate of U.C. Riverside, where he majored in history, starred at water polo, and attended Isherwood's lectures; he also wrestled and weight lifted competitively.

 

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Art dealer (b. 1919, New York); he ran a Los Angeles gallery until 1966 where, as early as 1952, he showed Motherwell, Rothko, and de Kooning. He was Diebenkorn's first dealer, from 1950.

 

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Austrian-born Canadian film critic, author, collector (1940–1991); he mounted major exhibitions from his personal archive of images of Hollywood stars and drew on the archive for his more than thirty books about American entertainment.

 

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English-born Hollywood hairstylist (d. 1997), long at MGM.

 

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Co-founder, with Sidney Felsen in 1966, of Gemini Graphic Editions Limited, and his wife, an architect. Isherwood wrongly wrote her name as “Aileen.”

 

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Vedanta devotee (1928–1981) and cellist, one of the “Venice gang”; he ran a jewelry store in Santa Monica with his wife Lavanya (Felicia Michel).

 

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New York art collector and philanthropist (1898–1986) settled in San Francisco, a long-time friend of Cukor; he was a cousin of the Vanderbilts, and his father was an architect of Grand Central Station.

 

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Isherwood and Bachardy's architect.

 

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Evidently assisting Day; he was later a local real estate agent.

 

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A lawyer neighbor.

 

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The 1974 Japanese film, sometimes translated as
Brothel 8.

 

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New York model; he met Hockney in Paris and was a subject of “Friends,” a series of prints Hockney made at Gemini that year, and of other portraits. He died of AIDS.

 

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A young, blond friend of Dambacher; he occasionally sat for Bachardy.

 

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A restaurant.

 

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Gallegly played Cinderella in the musical comedy by Bill Solly and Donald Ward.

 

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Isherwood mistakenly wrote Vincent Haacke.

 

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Costume designer, from Philadelphia; he won a BAFTA with Charles Knode for
Blade Runner
(1982).

 

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Leslie Caron recalls this was close friend Guy Webster (b. 1939), photographer of rock musicians—The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Doors—film stars, and other celebrities.

 

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A different person than Nellie Carroll, whose real name was Jean Dobrin.

 

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American stage and screen actress (1910–2010); she was a film star in the 1930s—
The Invisible Man
(1933),
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(1938),
The Three Musketeers
(1939)—retired in the 1940s and learned to paint, then returned to T.V. and appeared in
Titanic
(1977).

 

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Broadway playwright, screenwriter, novelist, biographer (1906–1998), long at Warner Brothers; her films include
Mildred Pierce
(1945),
A Stolen Life
(1946),
The Man I Love
(1946) and
Winter Meeting
(1947).

 

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Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, since 1972.

 

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Not his real name.

 

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Curator (b. 1936, New York) of the Los Angeles County Museum. His books include
American Sculpture of the Sixties
(1967). He later organized the 1988 Hockney retrospective which travelled to the Met and the Tate.

 

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Kopay (b. 1942) was a running back for the San Francisco Forty-niners and other National Football League teams until 1972; in 1975, he was the first professional athlete in America to come out publicly. Perry Dean Young, non-fiction author and playwright, was co-writing
The David Kopay Story
(1977) with him, a best-seller.

 

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Allan (1913–1991), a journalist until 1955, handled public relations for Marilyn Monroe and other major stars.

 

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Osborne's fourth wife; see Glossary.

 

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London-born Australian actor of stage and screen (1916–1977) and his third wife; his films include
The Heart of the Matter
(1953),
A Town Like Alice
(1956),
Far from the Madding Crowd
(1967),
Sunday Bloody Sunday
(1972), and
Network
(1976), for which he posthumously won an Academy Award for best actor.

 

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Robert Ossorio (1923–1996), ballet dancer and patron, born in the Philippines, son of a wealthy sugar refiner; he founded the Manhattan School of Ballet and co-founded Manhattan Festival Ballet.

 

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Straus (1917–2004), co-founder and longtime chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Isherwood's new American publisher, and his wife.

 

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(1914–2008), Straus's partner since 1955, and from 1964, chairman.

 

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American philosopher, critic, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, director (1933–2004). She contributed to
The New York Review of Books
,
The Nation
,
Partisan Review
,
The New Yorker
,
The Times Literary Supplement
,
Granta
and others. Her books, including the next,
On Photography
(1977), were published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

 

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Poet, playwright, actor, essayist (1934–1999), born in Brooklyn. He was a professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin, translated French and Russian poetry, then returned to New York to write and translate for the stage and act in avant garde theater, on T.V., and in film.

 

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Vaughan Edwards (b. 1955), Welsh stage and film set designer working in the U.S.

 

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The play by Frantz Salieri, at the Round House.

 

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BBC radio director; in 1952–1953, John Lehmann broadcast a literary magazine for him called
New Soundings
, on the Third Programme.

 

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Eric Walter White (1905–1985), poet and musicologist. He worked at the Arts Council, produced many volumes of verse and critical works about music and poetry, including studies of Benjamin Britten and Stravinsky which Lehmann published in the late 194os.

 

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Gay porn star (1952–1992), born in Natick, Massachusetts, settled in Los Angeles; his professional name was Al Parker. He died of AIDS.

 

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British actor, singer, composer (b. 1946), Stevie Streeter in “Rock Follies”; he was in the original London cast of
Hair
, played Dr. Frank N. Furter in
The Rocky Horror Show
(1973) and in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
(1975) and on Broadway, Tristan Tzara in Stoppard's
Travesties
(1975), and Mozart in
Amadeus
(1980).

 

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British-born Margaret “Peg” Geddes, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (1913–1997), wife of Prince Ludwig. He was a cousin of Lord Harewood, who introduced them to Britten in the early 1950s, beginning a close friendship.

 

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American assistant on
Joseph Andrews
, then in his twenties; he went into publishing, became head of Little Brown's Books for Young Readers in New York and later a Managing Director of Walker Books U.K.

 

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Gladys Lawson.

 

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Peggy Stark, her unmarried sister.

 

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Student teacher (b. 1948, Montrose, Scotland), then at Moray House preparing to teach English as a foreign language. As an undergraduate reading history at Edinburgh University, he had lodged in Mrs. Lawson and Miss Stark's basement flat.

 

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Playwright and local theater owner; he and his wife, novelist and playwright Christine Orr, helped to start the Edinburgh Festival in 1947.

 

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I.e., the large stream flowing through the suburbs of Edinburgh to the port of Leith.

 

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I.e., in
Wuthering Heights
; the Taylors ran it as a weaving center and a bed and breakfast.

 

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Longtime friend who was a painter, now dead.

 

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Alexander “Ali” Boyt (b. 1957).

 

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I.e., Muriel Belcher's bar, The Colony.

 

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Barrister and, later, Queen's Counsel (1936–1993), from New Zealand. He rowed for Cambridge University and became Chairman of Henley Royal Regatta and a member of Britain's Olympic Committee.

 

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A friend of Coni, known as “Mrs.” Brewer; Charles Bronson's chef in Hollywood. He died of AIDS in the early 1990s.

 

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British actor, comedian, musician, composer (1935–2002), first known in
Beyond the Fringe
; he appeared often on T.V. and, later, made films, including
10
(1979) and
Arthur
(1981).

 

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New York-born actress (b. 1943), in
Play It as It Lays
(1972),
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(1977), and others. His second of four marriages, her second of three.

 

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Wife of Scottish art dealer and author Ian Dunlop, whose books include
The Shock of the New
(1972); he worked at Sotheby's in New York in the 1970s.