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Liberation: Diaries:1970-1983

Page 118

by Christopher Isherwood


  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 xxxn, 102n, 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, 14n, 49, 72n, 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 268n, 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 Pr
esley 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 135n, 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 11n

  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

  Lord Byron (opera) 226, 230–31, 233; Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul (play) 230

  Las Tunas Canyon, California 282–283, 357, 371, 656

  Las Vegas, Nevada 148

  Lassally, Walter 438

  Laster, Dale 465

  “Late Night Extra” (radio program) 7

  Latham, Aaron, Crazy Sundays 157

  Lathwood, Jo (Masselink): break up of relationship with Ben Masselink 4, 80, 98, 143, 181, 284; friendship and socializing with C.I. 4, 80, 98, 138–9, 274, 422, 430, 490, 492, 496, 502, 508, 518, 519, 672; advised by Evelyn Hooker 80; apartment in Santa Monica 98, 124, 138, 446; and Ben’s father 98, 359; loses job 100; age 113; horoscope analyzed by Jack Fontan 113; birthday 220; operation on foot 223; at Tom Hayden lecture on war in Indochina 266; swimming 269; reminisces with C.I. about 1954 Mexico trip 287; suffers allergic reaction 391–2; fear of death 430; Paget’s Disease 437, 782; complains about poor health 446, 448, 458, 460, 626; shingles 446; in hospital for tests 447, 448; walks with crutch 455, 458; flower paintings 502; and Brian Finney’s biography of C.I. 561; operation for diverticulitis 625, 626, 630; requires visiting nurse 637; on crime in the neighborhood 655, 657; 768–9

  Laughlin, Leslie see Caron, Leslie

  Laughlin, Michael: C.I.’s views on 3, 109, 244; shooting incident 109; C.I. socializes with 150, 217, 304, 450, 500, 501, 503, 515, 601; offers Don Bachardy work as art director 163; business projects 241–2; moves to France 343, 345; views on economy 345; Nicole 369, 376–7; gift for C.I.’s seventieth birthday 451; marriage problems 471, 472, 478; 760

  Laughton, Charles: marriage to Elsa Lanchester 102, 185; proposed biographies of 114, 185, 211; homosexuality 185; as King Lear 216; information on C.I.’s fossil 431

  Laughton, Elsa see Lanchester, Elsa

  Lavery, Emmett, Jr. 434

  Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover 568;

  Movements in European History 574

  Lawrence, Jerome (Jerry) 206, 231, 760

  Lawrence, T.E. 175, 632; The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia (Knightley and Simpson) 177

  Lawson, George 56, 511, 512, 513, 515, 760

  Lawson, Gladys 512n

  Layard, John 480, 760–61

  Lazar, Irving 235, 387, 391, 405–6, 425, 434, 439, 761

  Lazar, Mary 235

  Lazarus (ballet) 58

  Le Fanu, Sheridan 441

  Le Page, Richard 21, 41, 42, 54, 55, 56, 57–8, 74, 762

  Lean, David 495

  Leavitt, Natalie, cooks and cleans for C.I. 240, 263, 271, 492, 493, 494, 496, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 505, 506, 519, 576, 580, 631, 638, 761

  Leavitt, Thaïs 580, 640

  Lebanon 435

  Leddy, Eamonn 619

  “Legend of Silent Night, The” (television program) 534

  Léger, Jean 30–31, 38

  Legg, Bill 299–300

  Lehmann, Beatrix (Peggy) 235, 513, 761

  Lehmann, John: hopes to publish correspondence with C.I. xxxi–xxxii, 329, 379, 387, 390, 392–3, 395; C.I. annoyed and bored by visits of 3, 117, 208, 433; and Alexis Rassine 68, 69; C.I. visits in San Diego 115; and Morris Fry 115; New Writing (magazine) 115n, 329; teaches at San Diego State College 115, 117, 207; publishing company 117, 329; views on America 141; stays at C.I. and Don Bachardy’s house 145, 152, 153, 207–8, 433; in London 329–30, 510, 511, 516; proposed pseudonymous memoirs 329–30; on deaths of Auden and Plomer 394; on Auden’s memorial stone at Westminster Abbey 456–7; agnosticism 554; and William Caskey 615; review of C.I’s My Guru and His Disciple 644; 761–2 Thrown to the Woolfs 581–2

  Lehmann, Rosamond 317, 510, 516, 762

  Leicester, England 512; Phoenix Theatre 89, 90, 91, 222–223, 307

  Leighton, Margaret (Maggie) 1, 270, 347n, 762

  Lelouch, Claude 496

  Lemke, Cliff (carpenter) 125, 127
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  Leningrad 449

  Lennon, John 190

  Leonardo da Vinci 267–8

  Leopard, The (film) 574

  Leopold, Michael 118, 762

  Les Baux, France 33, 194

  lesbianism 12, 83

  LeSueur, Joe 169, 171, 509, 762

  Levant, Amanda 268

  Levant, June 268

  Levant, Lorna 305

  Levant, Oscar 268, 271, 762–3

  Leverson, Ada 325, 577

  Levy, Miranda Speranza (Mirandi) 584, 605, 763

  Lewes, George Henry 163

  Lewis, Ian 73, 74, 316

  Lewis, Mort 358

  Leyland, Winston 372

  Libman, Lilian 159, 162

  Lieberman, Archie, Farm Boy 451

  Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The (film) 341

  Limerick, Ireland 84, 86

  Lincoln, Abraham 305

  Lincoln Center, New York 169, 206, 259

  Lincoln Heights Jail, Los Angeles 488

  Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland, England 513

  Linkroum, Dick 138–139

  Linlithgow, Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of 389, 390

  Lion, Henry 234

  Lions and Shadows (C.I.) xxiv, xxxiii, xxxvi, 75, 393n, 398, 432

  Lipscomb, Mark 524, 587, 593, 598, 601–2, 607, 609, 639, 763

  Lipstick (film) 503

  List, Herbert 25–6, 763

  Listener, The (magazine) 208

  Little, Barbara 560

  Little, Penny: friendship and socializing with C.I. and Don Bachardy 112, 135, 182, 188, 216, 233, 240, 244, 302, 385, 427, 494, 497, 500, 505, 519, 520, 533, 560, 577, 598–9, 620, 676; relationship with Billy Al Bengston 112; trips to Mexico 143, 536, 538; recommends store 153; Bachardy’s drawing of 182; running 562, 599; trips to Hawaii 577, 580, 676; birthday 580; 763

  Littman, Doris 506

  Littman, Robert (Bobby) 497, 506, 553, 763

  Litvinov, Ivy, She Knew She Was Right 250

  Livermore, California 625

  Lloyd, Peggy 354

  Locke, Charles O. (Charlie) 5–6, 130–31, 136–7, 138, 763

  Lokeswarananda, Swami 467–8, 470, 473

  Lolita (Kubrick film) 490

  London: gay scene xxxviii, 49, 67, 324; C.I.’s trips to: (1970) 7–13, 16–30, 38–52, 55–77; (1973) 314–30, 334–6; (1976) 510–511, 513–16; (1977) 540, 542–3; (1980) 635, 643, 645; anti-Vietnam War protests 8; fashions 8, 22; Ramakrishna-Vedanta Centre 9, 77, 255, 327, 470; high-rise developments 27; C.I.’s views on 28, 314, 316, 322; see also England

 

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