Strensall, Yorkshire, England 84
Stromberg, Hunt: and “Frankenstein” television film 106, 114, 115, 118, 125–6, 130, 132, 133, 134, 138, 140, 144, 149, 151, 158, 160–61, 162, 177, 178, 185, 186, 187, 188, 192–3, 199, 211, 213, 214, 222, 227, 228, 231, 233, 235, 242, 247, 256, 286, 290, 292–3, 294, 309, 312, 316, 318, 323, 347, 357, 358, 380–81, 404, 406; relationship with “Dick Shasta”107, 125–6, 178, 259, 266, 312, 316; work with Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell 162; and “The Mummy” television film 199, 214, 221, 226–7, 242, 257, 265, 328, 385; drinking 242, 347, 358; proposes A Tale of Two Cities television project 439; 806–7
Strong, Roy 391
Stuart, Gloria 504
Sudhir 373
Sudhira (earlier Helen Kennedy) 448, 452, 453, 454, 807
Sullivan, Dan 232–3
Summers, Claude 490, 618, 807
Sunday Bloody Sunday (film) 311
Sunday Telegraph, The 208, 644
Sunday Times, The 42, 71, 149
Sunshine, Norman 441–2
Susskind, David, “What It Means To Be a Homosexual” 175–6
Swahananda, Swami 179, 486n, 504, 518, 540, 547, 623, 807
Swami see Prabhavananda, Swami
Swamiji see Vivekananda, Swami Swananda, Swami 486
Sweet, Paula 295, 333, 371, 500, 501, 807–8
Swimming Pool, The (film) 139
Swisher, Viola Hegyi 238
Switzerland, C.I. and Don Bachardy visit 326, 336–9
Swope, John 611
Sylmar earthquake (1971) 139–41, 142, 148, 150–51, 155
Sylvester, Ralph 239, 241, 385
Symbionese Liberation Army 435, 754
Szczesny, Berthold 640, 808
Szczesny, Juan 640
Tahiti, South Pacific 3, 126, 184
Tahoe, Lake (California/Nevada) 399
Taking Off (film) 311
Takis, Vassilikas 18
Talcove, Rick, Ping Pong 505
Tallmer, Jerry 296
Tangier, Morocco 365, 402, 406, 516–17, 589
Tarpey, Tom 300
Taubman, A. Alfred 550n
Taupin, Bernie 255, 259
Taxi Driver (film) 501
Taylor, Elizabeth 134, 144, 160, 187
Taylor, Paul 43
Taylor, Roderick and Brenda 513
Tchelitchew, Pavel 8
Tear in the Ocean, A (film) 311
Tearle, Godfrey 11
Teel, Jim 669
Tenant, The (Polanski film) 518
Tennant, Stephen 389, 808
That Certain Summer (film) 311
That’s the Way It Goes (film) 47
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (film) 73
Third Man, The (film) 258
Thomas, Edward 380
Thomas, George 511
Thomas the Imposter (film) 248, 311
Thomas, Ross, The Fools in Town Are on Our Side 545–6
Thompson, Nicholas 13, 16, 41, 54, 808
Thomson, Virgil: appearance ix; C.I. socializes with in New York 169, 172, 305; Lord Byron (opera) 226, 230–31, 233; Don Bachardy’s drawing of 270, 377; at New York performance of A Meeting by the River 307; at Bachardy’s Municipal Art Gallery show 376; recommends dentist 422; New York apartment 424, 508; C.I. socializes with in California 444, 505, 663; in Roosevelt Hospital, New York 510; 808–9
Thorp, Charles 97
Thulin, Ingrid 45
Thürau, Fräulein (Berlin landlady) 125n
Tierney, Gene 594
Time (magazine) 639
Timmerman, Eric 89
Timmons, Stuart 619
Titanic, RMS 279, 302
To Be or Not To Be (film) 270
To Have and Have Not (film) 264
“Today” (television program) 218, 221
Tokyo Story (film) 264
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace 574
Tomkins, Ben 469–70
“Tomorrow Show, The” (television program) 552
Topanga Canyon, California 283, 400
tornadoes 149
Toronto 536, 538, 539
Toronto, University of 538
Toscan, Richard 234
Touch of Evil (film) 256
Touch, The (film) 194
Townend, Peter 50
Trabuco: C.I. visits with Michael Barrie 190–92; foundation and building of 237, 284; proposed sale of land 237, 540; Prabhavananda at 248; neighboring development 462; Thanksgiving lunch 462; 809
Tracy, Katherine 44
Tramont, Jean-Claude 462
Travels with My Aunt (film) 305
Travers, Ben, The Bed Before Yesterday 511
Travolta, John 628, 638
Trembly, Dennis 387
Trevor, Agatha 616n
Trollope, Anthony: The Eustace Diamonds x, 14, 16, 310; The Way We Live Now 249, 310
Trone, Buddy 417
Truffaut, François 493, 496
Trulin, Paul 531
Tuchman, Maurice 507
Turiyananda, Swami 261
Turner, Charles 293, 298, 809
Turner, Dan 687
Turney, Catherine 504
Turville-Petre, Francis 400, 809
Twentieth-Century Fox 265, 557
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (film) 421
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 632
Tyler, Parker, The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew 8
Tyler, Dr. Richard 564
Tynan, Kathleen 587, 588, 597, 640, 641, 809
Tynan, Kenneth (Ken) xxxii, 345, 532, 587–8, 589, 597, 809; death and memorial service 640–41
Tynan, Tracy 640, 809
Tyndall, Jim 541
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles): student newspaper 128; Royce Hall 143; medical school 189, 539; library 295, 403, 404, 497; faculty center 370; student protests 395; medical center 468, 469; Schoenberg Hall 487; Gay Awareness Week 498; C.I. filmed at 505; C.I. wills body to 539, 617; Melnitz Hall 645
Ullmann, Liv 520, 591
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), proposed television version 553
“underground” films 267
Underhill, Ben (pseud.) 89, 90, 381–2
Unger, Ray: Don Bachardy visits at Laguna Beach 96, 99, 101, 109, 279–80; analyzes Bachardy’s dreams 101; C.I. visits with Bachardy 101, 102, 354, 506–7; prescribes vitamin supplements 142; Bachardy visits at San Bernardino 178; and Lance Loud 379; C.I.’s concern for during land slides 585; 810
United Nations, New York 173
Universal Studios: and “Frankenstein” television film xviii, 130, 132, 158, 160, 162, 177, 178, 179, 193, 206, 211, 222, 242, 247, 288, 291, 294, 312, 336, 380, 399, 406; and “The Mummy” proposed television film 221, 228, 256, 288, 381, 385; picketed 346
University of California at Berkeley see Berkeley, University of California at
University of California at Irvine see Irvine, University of California at
University of California at Los Angeles see UCLA
University of California at Riverside see Riverside, University of California at
University of California at Santa Barbara see Santa Barbara, University of California at
University of Southern California see USC
Upanishads 50, 217, 218, 373, 418, 535, 561
Upton, Anne 516
Upton, Byron 516
Upward, Christopher 571
Upward, Edward: fantasy world with C.I. xviii, 310, 685, 776; communism xxxiii; influence of Forster on xxxvi; portrayal in Lions and Shadows xxxvi; visits C.I. in London 18–19; appearance and character 19, 457, 458; relations with C.I. 21, 685; mistrusted by C.I.’s mother 54; at Cambridge 75; on death of Auden 394; sends tapes of readings to C.I. 456, 457, 458, 685; C.I. visits on Isle of Wight 515; on Jonathan Fryer’s Isherwood 551; agnosticism 554, 572; teaching at Alleyn’s School 566; attacks of vertigo 571; and son’s multiple sclerosis 571, 572; on Auden’s King’s Gold Medal 688; 810
The Spiral Ascent xxxiii, 19, 456, 457, 571
> Upward, Hilda 19, 515
Upward, John Mervyn 566
Urban Cowboy (film) 628, 638
Urbashi (earlier Anna Monday) 490, 499
Urquhart Castle, Scotland 412
Urquhart-Laird, Tommy 510, 516, 810
USC (University of Southern California): theatrical productions 230, 582; C.I. talks at 402, 434–5, 505; Gay Week 505; writing award 570; Jim White teaches at 666
Usha see Anandaprana, Pravrajika
USSR 4, 449, 625, 630n
Ustinov, Pavla 534
Ustinov, Peter 143
Vacant Room, The (C.I. with Gavin Lambert; screenplay) 260
Vaccaro, Brenda 583, 584, 811
Valen, Mark 550, 552, 664, 811 van der Post, Laurens, Jung and the Story of Our Time 578–9
van Druten, John 42, 612, 811; I Am a Camera (play) 40, 230; The Widening Circle 613
Van Horn, Mike: friendship with Don Bachardy 91, 96–7, 179, 182, 233, 434, 437, 440; art works 96, 437; visits Laguna Beach and Santa Barbara with Bachardy 96–7, 99; at Billy Al Bengston’s studio show 243; moves to New York 385, 440; relationship with Jim Crabe 385; and Tony Richardson 417; C.I. and Bachardy socialize with in New York 509, 650; relationship with Brian Campbell 509, 650; visits C.I. and Bachardy in California 620, 621; at Bachardy’s Robert Miller Gallery show 650; 811–12
Van Keppel, Hendrik 128n
van Petten, William (Bill) 1, 2, 142, 297, 812
Van Sant, Tom 189, 812
Van Vechten, Carl 259
Vandanananda, Swami 212, 526, 811
Vaughan, Keith 51, 52, 57, 513, 812
Vedanta Center, Hollywood (Vedanta Place; formerly Ivar Avenue), construction of new accommodation for nuns 237, 246, 431, 434, 454, 469
Vedanta Society of Southern California, Golden Anniversary 643
Vedanta for the Western World (anthology; ed. C.I.) 260, 436
Vehka-Aho, Eija 19
Velliquette, Scott 497, 504
Venice, California 248–9, 370, 558, 576
Ventura, Clyde 187, 232, 812
Verdon, Gwen 518
Verne, Jules, Journey to the Center of the Earth 554
Vidal, Alexis 30–31
Vidal, Gore: appearance and character 10, 147, 156, 404, 530; considers changing nationality 10, 85, 138; and Jack Kerouac 10–11; in London 10–11; and Truman Capote 10, 199, 341, 404; and Howard Austen 11, 102n, 136; recommends books 11; in California 85, 134, 136, 138, 156, 403–4, 462, 501, 530, 537; on Forster’s death 85; political career 85, 147; plans for novel on Sri Krishna 134; trip to India 134, 136; and Anaïs Nin 136; appearance on “The Merv Griffin Show” 147; on death of novel 157; contributor to Antaeus magazine 169; and National Institute of Arts and Letters 199, 404; Gerald Clarke article on 295–6; in Rome 340–41; villa in Ravello 341; and Gavin Lambert 404; on Nixon 404; on punishment for homosexuals 531; review of C.I.’s Christopher and His Kind 670; 812–13
Burr 341, 404; The City and the Pillar 11; Myra Breckinridge 263; Two Sisters 10, 136
Vidor, King 281, 813
Vidyatmananda, Swami (Vidya) see Prema Chaitanya
Viereck, G.S. 403
Viertel, Berthold 481, 614, 615
Viertel, Peter 302, 326, 336–9, 387, 444, 481, 557, 594, 813; White Hunter, Black Heart 415, 422, 430–31, 444
Viertel, Salka: in Switzerland 302, 326, 337, 338, 339; in California 405, 409, 410, 414, 415, 416, 481, 614, 615; death 594; 814
Vietnam War: antiwar movement 8, 82, 779; Gore Vidal’s views on 10; C.I.’s anxieties about 81; Nixon and 82, 161, 261, 268; films on 83; Tom Hayden’s lectures on 261–2, 266, 270, 275, 277; peace talks 268; in Osborne’s A Sense of Detachment 321; Auden’s reported remarks on 394; Ivan Moffat joke about 478; deserters 527
Vijnanananda, Swami 417–18
Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat, France 36, 389, 390
Village Voice (newspaper) 221
Vincent, Jan-Michael 494, 506
Visconti, Luchino: The Damned 45; The Leopard 574
Vishwananda, Swami 9, 814
“Visit to Anselm Oakes, A” (C.I.; story) 521
Vivekananda, Swami (Narendra/Naren; Swamiji): centenary celebrations xxvii, xxxii; puja 4, 147, 217–18, 419, 493, 535; letter to Hale sisters 82; and C.I.’s meditation 101, 106, 286–7; on Americans running Vedanta Societies 109; C.I. dreams about 212; in C.I.’s introduction to Vedanta for the Western World 260, 436; Prabhavananda’s visions of 260, 436; writings 269, 294, 429, 436, 445, 446, 450, 490n; views on death and dying 286–7, 446; 814
Vivekananda House, Pasadena, California 456
Vividishananda, Swami 269, 815; A Man of God 570, 573
Voeller, Bruce 650–51, 815
Voight, Jon: marriage to Marcheline Bertrand 215, 311, 360; possible role in A Meeting by the River 226, 227, 433–4; possible role in “Frankenstein” television film 233, 242, 291; arranges lecture series on Indochina 261, 275; proposes film version of The Idiot 291, 311; twenty-fifth anniversary production of A Streetcar Named Desire 343, 346, 348, 349, 410; appearance and character 410, 425; in Hamlet 499; 815
Voight, Marcheline see Bertrand, Marcheline
Vollmöller, Karl, The Miracle 383
von Adlmann, Jan 431
von Praunheim, Rosa (Holger Mischwitzky) 65
von Stroheim, Erich 170
von Wiedenmen, Don 476, 477n
Wachs, Joel 495
Wagner, Robert 412
Walcott, Derek, In a Fine Castle 232
Walkabout (film) 197
Walker, Robert, Jr. 128
Wallis, Alan 504, 514, 537
Wallwork, Leslie 487, 582, 587, 595–6, 607, 612, 815
Walsh, Doug (pseud.) 160, 161, 180, 204, 529
Wan, Barney 511, 658, 815–16
Wanderings see Christopher and His Kind Ward, Simon 394, 566, 572, 600, 602, 816
Warhol, Andy 18, 26; Don Bachardy’s drawing of 157; Whitney Museum retrospective (1971) 168; interviews Truman Capote 350; C.I. socializes with 516, 649
POPism, the Warhol 60s 624
Warner Brothers 138, 222, 414–15
Warner, David 39
Warner, Tom 503
Warren, Whitney 499
Warshaw, Fran 381, 539–40
Warshaw, Howard 381, 503, 539–40, 545, 816
Wasserman, Lew 221, 222, 227, 231, 816
Watergate 355, 358–9, 360, 367, 404, 425, 816–17
Waterman, Clark 489
Waterston, Sam 228–9, 230, 231, 232, 238, 298, 306, 307, 308, 817
Watkins, Peter, Punishment Park 195
Waugh, Evelyn 532
Webb, Clifton 594
Webster, Guy 503
Webster, John, The Duchess of Malfi 492
Wedekind, Frank 373
Wedow, Christopher 94, 99
Weidenfeld, George 542, 544, 545, 551, 676, 817
Weininger, Ben 304, 668
Weintraub, Bruce 438
Weiss, Robert 169
Weissberger, L. Arnold 102, 296, 817
Welch, Raquel 438
Weld, Tuesday 514
Welles, Orson: The Stranger 252; The Third Man 258
Wells, H.G., Tono-Bungay 317
Wescott, Glenway 124, 168, 205, 300, 301, 307, 474, 493, 665, 817
Wessel, Horst 45
West, Mae 235, 435, 659
West, Nancy (Ackerley) 26, 74, 516
West, Nathanael, The Day of the Locust 379, 438
Weymers, Jeanne 595, 601
Wheeler, Hugh 306, 307, 441, 503, 817–18
Wheeler, Paul 74, 75, 190, 818
Whitcomb, Ian 492, 818
White, Christopher Jules 577
White, Dan 621, 818
White, Edmund vii–xiii, 639; States of Desire x
White, Eric 510
White, James P. (Jim) 577, 590, 648, 655, 666, 669, 684, 818
White, Janice 577, 655
White Line Fever (film) 494
White Hunter, Black Heart (film) 415, 422, 430–31, 444
Whitelaw, Billie 321
Whitemore, Hugh, Stevie 542
Whiting, Leonard 347, 380, 819
Whitman, Walt xxxii, 229, 268; Specimen Days 354
Whitman-Radclyffe Foundation 240, 241, 242
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 168
wife-swapping 397
Wilcox, Collin (Horne) 1–2, 16, 819
Wild Heart, The (film) 628
Wild Party, The (film) 437–9, 441, 455, 470
Wilde, Alan 466n; Christopher Isherwood 29, 150
Wilde, Oscar 559, 582; The Picture of Dorian Gray xvii, 19, 531
Wilder, Jo (Joey) 346–7
Wilder, Nicholas (Nick): Don Bachardy shows (1974) xix-xx, 361, 362, 407, 408–9, 416, 434, 445, 447, 449, 453, 456, 460–61, 467; (1977) 545, 547, 548, 549–50, 550–51, 551–2; appearance 84; C.I. and Bachardy socialize with 84, 347, 434, 450, 461, 494, 495, 499, 502, 505, 506, 508, 523, 570, 583; and Gregory Evans 347, 361, 362; C.I.’s views on 361, 362, 426, 461; talks at University of California at Irvine 364; at Bachardy’s Municipal Art Gallery opening 376; Bachardy’s drawing of 378; Bruce Nauman show 407–8; views on Bachardy’s work 408–9, 449; and Bachardy’s New York Cultural Center show 419, 426; gives up smoking following dream 426–7; Joseph Goode show 427; Bachardy hesitates to show work to 445, 447, 479; drinking 446, 461, 583; gift for C.I.’s seventieth birthday 451; trip to Catalina with C.I. and Bachardy 500; David Hockney show 507; introduces Robert Miller to Bachardy 541; business arrangement with James Corcoran 598, 621; gives up own gallery 621; at Bachardy’s Robert Miller Gallery show in New York 649; 819
Wilding, Michael 613
Williams, Brook 143, 144, 146, 819
Williams, Clifford 4, 8, 11, 12–13, 16, 61, 819
Williams, Emlyn 143, 144, 146, 819–20
Williams, John 505
Williams, Molly 146
Williams, Ralph 103, 491, 492, 820
Williams, Tennessee: C.I.’s friendship and socializing with xiii, 110–111, 184, 235–6, 488, 519; and Frank Merlo 102n, 349; account of experiences in mental institution 110–111; travels to Japan with Oliver Evans 110; contributor to Antaeus magazine 170; appearance 184; relationship with Victor Campbell 184; trip to South Pacific 184; attends rehearsal of A Meeting by the River 231; drinking 231; trip to Italy with “Victor” 235–6; writing of memoirs 259, 486; at twenty-fifth anniversary production of A Streetcar Named Desire 348, 349; interview with Playboy magazine 349; trip to Asia with Robert Carroll 349, 350; reputation 486; A.L. Rowse on his antecedents 605; 820
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