The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969

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by Christopher Isherwood


  Relationship with C.I. xi, xiii–xvii, xviii–xxii, xxviii–xxix; C.I.’s love for viii, xxxvi–xxxvii, 44, 52, 58, 64, 118, 158, 260–61, 360, 392, 423, 465, 478, 515; C.I.’s jealousy over lovers xiv, xix–xx, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, 264–5, 289, 295, 296, 455, 524; hides friends from C.I. xiv, 75; spiritual and mystical dimensions of relationship xv, xx, xxxvii, 296, 438, 465, 503, 510, 515, 519, 543; moral and emotional support for C.I. 5–6, 158; C.I.’s pride in 10, 26 –7, 71, 99, 119, 388; C.I. misses while apart 18, 20, 21, 45, 49, 126, 130, 131, 132, 140, 207, 274, 335, 341, 345, 347, 348, 356, 366, 391, 393, 451, 502, 510, 512, 513, 516 –17, 517, 558; seeks greater independence from C.I. 26 –7, 35, 178, 195, 212, 226, 244, 371; C.I. fears separation from 43, 73, 87, 120, 123, 159, 370, 522; C.I.’s happiness with 52, 64, 96, 100, 149, 173, 176, 182, 201, 205, 242, 336, 350, 361, 376, 385, 399, 400, 436, 438, 455, 457, 459, 492, 497, 539, 541, 580–81; jealousy over C.I.’s relationships 92, 260; C.I. worries about 144, 274, 445, 531; crises in relationship 154, 155, 156, 219 –20, 269, 272, 276 –7; love for C.I. 205–6, 423, 465, 478; tenth anniversary of meeting 265, 266; C.I. buys ring for 276 –7; twelfth anniversary 354; fifteenth anniversary 497

  Bachardy, Glade (Don’s mother) 15–16, 17, 172, 177, 219, 261, 365, 485, 548, 606

  Bachardy, Jess (Don’s father) 177, 485, 493, 548, 606

  Bachardy, Ted (Don’s brother) 45, 176, 212, 225; mental breakdowns 49, 51, 252–3, 258, 340, 354, 379, 380, 383, 482, 484–5, 534, 535, 541, 599; Don’s relations with 87, 379, 485, 535, 541; and Vince Davis 125–6, 188, 236, 258; C.I.’s relations with 126, 354; and Don’s relations with their mother 172; imprisonment for shoplifting 175, 187, 188; on Don’s depressions 235; claims to have agent 340; childhood 365; plans to renew Screen Actors’ Guild membership 380; C.I. and Don see on beach 461; arrested for threatening policeman 482, 484–5; 606 –7

  Bacon, Francis 118, 119, 248, 263, 607

  Baker, Wakefield 221

  Bakersfield, California 273

  Balanchine, George 352, 392, 567, 607

  Baldwin, James 354; Another Country 295

  Balzac, Honoré de 196; La Peau de chagrin 329; Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes 196

  Banfer Gallery, New York 343, 344, 347

  Bankhead, Tallulah 458

  Barasat, West Bengal 324n

  Barber, John 80–81

  Barbette (performer) 194, 199, 227–8, 229, 607

  Barclift, Edgar Nelson 508

  Bardot, Brigitte 436, 452

  Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood 184

  Barnett, Jimmy 132, 133, 397–8, 582, 607–8

  Barod, Nick 181, 192, 217

  Barrie, Michael: treated by Dr. Max Cutler 36n; and Gerald Heard 54, 127, 172, 197, 208, 243, 338, 389, 406, 409; on guest list for C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55; friendship and socializing with C.I. 127, 172, 174, 186, 248, 256, 259, 372; tells joke 130; and Charles Laughton 195; travels to Europe with Heard 208, 259; gives bed to Don Bachardy 233; photographs of Europe 259; sends Triple Revolution pamphlet to C.I. 354; and documentary on Stravinsky 359; and Aldous Huxley 361; brings puppy to supper with C.I. 372; feud with Chris Wood 379 –80; at opening of Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and dedication of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 406, 411; trip to Hawaii 409; and Heard’s illness 442–3, 458–9, 462, 464, 474, 485, 508, 522, 524, 530, 553, 557; 608

  Bates, H.E. 108

  Batson, Susan 546, 548, 549, 550, 559, 563, 608

  Battle, Tom 240

  Baxter, Anne 126, 387, 444, 608

  Baxter, Walter 120

  Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) 60, 63

  Bayless, Mr. (handyman) 125, 126

  BBC 85, 96, 99, 565; adaptation of Turgenev’s The Torrents of Spring 422, 428, 445

  “Beach of Falesá, The” (proposed film) 3, 6 –7, 159

  Bean, Marshall 483–4

  Beatles, The (band) 339, 588

  Beaton, Cecil: Don Bachardy meets in New York 14, 16; C.I. and Bachardy visit and socialize with in England 76, 117, 118; reads C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 79; dines with C.I. in California 272, 297, 344; on Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones 272; argument with Elsa Lanchester 277; at Bachardy’s birthday party 277; and Kin Hoitsma 472; 608 Diaries 96, 100; The Wandering Years 77n

  Beats (cultural movement) 473

  Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau film) 457

  Beckerman, Sidney 550–51, 564, 566, 569

  Beckett, Samuel 342; Happy Days 427

  Beckmann, Mathilde von Kaulbach 304, 306, 330, 609 –610

  Bedazzled (film) 517

  Bedford, Brian 387, 543–4, 609

  Bedford, Sybille 541

  Beerbohm, Max, Seven Men 470

  Beesley, Alec 66, 73–5, 103, 104, 447, 501, 609

  Beesley, Dodie Smith 66, 73–5, 103, 104, 373, 445, 447, 501, 609; Autumn Crocus 105; Dear Octopus 493; The New Moon with the Old 292

  Behrman, S.N. 215n, 609

  Bellow, Saul 367

  Belmondo, Jean-Paul 347

  Belur Math, West Bengal xxii, 278, 291, 303– 314, 320, 326, 328–33, 396, 406, 432–3, 525, 592–3

  Benares 307

  Benchley, Robert 575

  Bengston, Billy Al 465, 609 –610

  Bennett, Alan 65n, 87, 610

  Bennett, Arnold 122

  Bennett, Lou 170

  Berchtesgaden 414, 573

  Bergfeldt, Bill 212, 240

  Bergman, Ingrid 465–6

  Berkeley, University of California at: Writers’ Conference (1960) 32–3; C.I.’s lectures and talks at 191, 273n, 275, 284; possibility of lectureship for C.I. 238, 267, 269

  Berlin crisis (1961) 70, 73, 77, 79, 84, 85, 95, 98–9, 101–2, 103, 105–6, 106 –7, 114, 125, 131, 139, 224, 610–611

  Best Years of our Lives, The (film) 106

  Beyond the Fringe (satirical revue) 65, 87

  Bhaghavad Gita, C.I. and Prabhavananda’s translation 9 & n, 265n, 399, 516

  Bhave, Vinoba 136

  Bierman, Dr. 199

  Big Sur, California 340, 341

  Biswas, Dr. G.K. 319, 320

  Black Power (political movement) 473, 486, 522–3, 546

  Blakeston, Oswell 100

  Blanch, Lesley 4, 611

  Blow-up (film) 429

  blue movies 476 –7, 485

  Blum, Irving 565, 566, 593, 595, 597, 598, 611–12

  Blumberg, Morrie 141, 142

  Boer War 542, 544, 560

  Bogart, Paul 544

  Book Society (book club) 197

  Booth, Bradford 483

  Boothby, Robert 97

  Bopp, Bill 253, 256, 259, 260, 264–5, 266, 272, 612

  Bora Bora, Leeward Islands 571, 575–6

  Boris Godunov (opera) 234

  Bornstein, Stephen 387

  Boston, Vedanta center 226, 236

  Bouché, R.R. 16, 264, 283

  Bouman, Mrs. (at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture) 314

  “Boutique” (television show) 508

  Bower, Antoinette 387, 402, 472, 635

  Bower, Tony 125, 612

  Bowles, Paul xx, 256, 612

  Boyer, Charles 215, 216

  Brackett, Charles and Muff 130–31, 188, 423, 500–501, 612

  Bradbury, Ray 251, 519 –20, 612–13

  Bradley, Alan 61, 90–91, 123–4, 613

  Bradley, Dan 419 –20, 613

  Bradley, Edna (Alan’s wife) 123–4

  Bradley, Evelyn (Dan’s wife) 419, 420

  Bradshaw, Booker 572, 577, 613

  Bradshaw, Judge John (17th-century ancestor of C.I.) 589

  Brahman 34, 157, 301, 377, 478, 613

  Brahmananda, Swami (Maharaj): and Prabhavananda 133, 210, 253, 267, 279, 303, 357, 410, 438, 507, 532, 561, 562; and Ramakrishna 257, 562; puja 262; C.I. article on 277; native village 322, 324; on morality 401; 613

  Brahmo Samaj 178

  Braine, John 101

  Brando, Marlon 82, 135, 136, 342, 381, 613–14

  Brecht, Bertolt, The
Threepenny Opera 26

  Breese, Eleanor 58, 614

  Bridger, Bill 82

  Bridges, James (Jimmy, Jim): friendship and socializing with C.I. 192, 216, 217, 218, 229, 297, 361, 366, 392, 397, 402, 426 –7, 433, 466, 494, 496, 500, 507, 555, 557, 599; relationship with Jack Larson 192, 361, 366, 426 –7, 433, 477, 496, 509, 510, 540, 555; creates “secret conversations” 229; in C.I.’s dream 308; recalls first love affair 361; film script writing 366, 381, 563, 599n; story about Navajo extras 381–2; suggests C.I. for film script work 386; The Papyrus Plays 393; and Nellie Carroll 427; and project to film Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” 457, 469, 479, 525; and stage adaptation of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 457, 466, 475, 479, 496, 499, 507, 509 –510, 520, 521, 522, 528, 532, 538, 547, 563, 570, 576 –7; at Jerry Lawrence’s blue movie party 476; buys Frank Lloyd Wright house with Larson 477, 493, 494; Leslie Caron stays with 502–3, 507; attends Vedanta temple 510; on Los Angeles Press personal ads 513; trip to San Diego with C.I. to see Hamlet 517–18; and Larson’s play Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul 521, 522, 526, 563, 570; brings two young lovers to dinner with C.I. 528; watches Apollo 8 lunar mission 534; in New York 538, 554; receives bad reviews for plays 538; and The Living Theatre company 547; screenplay for The Babymaker 563, 599n; 614

  Bristow, Mark 492, 521

  Britten, Benjamin 443

  Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights 140, 170, 421

  Brooks, Richard 428, 431, 433

  Brown, Anthony Cave 220, 221

  Brown, Bill (painter): C.I. first meets 248; painting style 248; and Paul Wonner 248, 288; C.I.’s friendship and socializing with 260, 287, 288, 362, 374, 425, 472; gives drawing to C.I. 260; gives directions to San Francisco 273; shares studio with Don Bachardy 280, 283, 289; in C.I.’s dream 308; views on Bachardy’s work 343, 362; and the Stravinskys 374, 559; recommends chiropractor 396; house above Malibu 478; meditation 517; sees Fortune and Men’s Eyes with C.I. 541; and Jo Masselink 557, 576; new house at Montecito 565; trip to South America 565, 576; 614

  Brown, Harry 185, 297, 615

  Bruckner, J.D.R. 459 –60

  Brush, Albert 202

  brush fires 79, 130, 132, 137, 144, 272, 273, 343, 478

  Buchholz, Horst 462, 496, 615

  Buchholz, Myriam 462

  Buckingham, May 71, 76, 447, 448, 615

  Buckingham, Robert (Bob) 71, 76, 191, 447, 615

  Buckingham, Robin 191

  Buckle, Christopher Richard (Dicky) 543, 546, 554, 615

  Buckley, William F. 502, 523, 615–16

  Buddha 564–5

  Buddha Chaitanya see Griggs, Philip

  Budhananda 393

  Buñuel, Luis 44, 266

  Burd, Helen 284

  Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange 273, 394

  Bürgi, Maria 309 –310, 321, 322, 616

  Burns, David (pseud.) 523, 524, 525–6, 533, 534

  Burns, John Horne, The Gallery 407–8

  Burton, Philip 113, 116

  Burton, Richard 58n, 95, 97, 113, 116, 336, 342, 450; “The Beach at Falesá” project with C.I. 3, 6, 159; 616 Burton, Sybil 58n, 95, 116

  Butler, Samuel, Notebooks 403–4

  Byron, George, Lord 170, 289, 345, 404; Don Juan 366 –7, 374

  Cabaret (film): success of xxxiv; sale of rights446, 550–51, 585; Tony Harvey as possible director 550–51, 554, 556, 564, 566; C.I.’s and Don Bachardy’s treatment 556, 560, 563, 564, 566, 569; income from 556, 566, 569

  Cabaret (musical): C.I.’s dislike of xxxiii, 425, 426; income from xxxiii, 425, 432, 436, 446, 452, 465, 519; New York production xxxiii, 422–3, 424; success of xxxiii–xxxiv, 424, 425, 436, 499; London production xxxiv, 499, 519

  cable television 497

  Caine, Michael 446

  Calcutta 297, 303, 306 –7, 312, 316, 317, 321, 332; Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture 314–16, 317–18, 327; Calcutta Club 315–16; Star Theater 316

  Calder-Marshall, Arthur, Lone Wolf 88

  Calhoun, Tom 176

  California: C.I. settles in xi, xii; earthquake predictions and scares 47, 367, 467, 543, 544, 550, 551–2; earthquakes 47, 335, 435, 467, 506, 546, 557, 560; C.I. misses while away 62, 64, 71, 82; brush fires 79, 130, 132, 137, 144, 272, 273, 343, 478; C.I.’s horror of “advertisement life” 131; chaparral 272–3

  California State University, Los Angeles: C.I. takes part in television round table discussion 519 –20; see also Los Angeles State College

  Calley, John 339, 356n, 616 –17

  Camarillo State Mental Hospital 354, 379, 534

  Cambridge: C.I.’s trip with Marguerite Lamkin 48; C.I. visits Forster in 103, 104–5, 117, 420–21; Corpus Christi College 448; St. John’s College 595

  Campbell, Alan 160, 171, 173, 194, 280, 617

  Campbell, Dean 266, 281–2, 617

  Campbell, Douglas 546, 548, 549, 617

  Campbell, Michael, Lord Dismiss Us 510

  Camus, Albert 392; The Stranger 184, 188

  Canary Islands 116

  Canberra 571, 585–6

  Cannes 109, 110

  Capote, Truman: praises C.I.’s Down There on a Visit xiii, 77; Black and White Ball xxxiii, 422, 423, 425; C.I. meets in London 76, 77; in Europe 105; socializes with C.I. in California 346, 422–3; Don Bachardy’s views on 422, 500; on title of C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 422; “A Christmas Memory” (television show) 433; bookseller’s catalogue entry for autograph postcard 445–6; C.I. and Bachardy visit at Palm Springs 497, 540, 542–3; 617

  Answered Prayers 543n; In Cold Blood 346

  Carlson, Chester 304, 306, 311, 319, 332

  Caron, Leslie 502–3, 507, 544–5, 563, 573, 597, 617–18

  Carroll, Nellie 427, 436, 618

  Carter, Allan (Michael Sean) 365, 396, 397, 405–6

  Caskey, William (Bill) xvi, 18, 47n, 75, 140, 246, 275, 355, 373, 618

  Cassini, Oleg 182, 198, 200, 201, 202

  Castro, Fidel 60n, 235, 236, 241

  Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady 38; One of Ours 38; The Song of the Lark 301, 311, 313

  Cavafy, Constantine 140

  Cavalcanti, Guido, Ezra Pound translations 494

  CBS (television network) 181

  Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles 141, 210, 226, 237, 238, 246, 294

  Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara 503–4, 505

  Cesar (circus performer) 228, 229

  Cézanne, Paul 233

  Chamberlain, Richard 130n, 618

  Chant d’Amour, Un (film) 344n

  Chaplin, Charlie 246, 495

  Chapman, Bill 319

  Chapman, Hester 68, 618–19

  Chapman, Kent 53–4, 211, 619

  Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film) 452, 453, 481

  Charlton, Jim: Herald and Examiner delivered to 17; on 1960 presidential election 24; friendship and socializing with C.I. 45, 233, 265; character 47, 199; marriage 47; stays at C.I.’s house 47 & n; diary 172; in Japan 172; views on Japanese 199, 208; fictional writings 270; Japanese prints 275; in C.I.’s dream 308; relationship with “Mark Cooper” 308n, 387, 590–91; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and Gavin Lambert 391; settles in Honolulu 460, 493, 534, 590; life at Sandy Bay House 495; C.I. stays with in Honolulu 571, 590–91; 619

  Charlton, Richard 452

  Charterhouse (school) 421

 

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