New York City Ballet 169
New York marathon 599
New York Mattachine Times 239
New York Post 296
New York Times, The 177, 230, 296; bestseller list 272
New Yorker, The (magazine) 251, 638
Newman, Bob 492, 493, 512, 527, 534–5, 777
Newman, Lennie 245
Newman, Paul 156, 777–8
Newport Beach, California 396, 674
Newsweek (magazine) 245, 453, 639, 642
Niagara Falls 536, 538
Nice, France 27, 30–31, 33, 35
Nichiren Shoshu 524
Nichols, Mike 193, 778
Nicholson, Jack 207, 508
Nicole (film) 369, 376–7
Nicolson, Harold 397
Nicolson, Nigel, Portrait of a Marriage 397
Niedsialkowski, Stefan 71, 76
Nielson, Bodie 337
Niem, Jan (Tony Richardson’s chauffeur) 27, 33, 34, 778
Night of the Iguana, The (film) 138
Night Moves (film) 502
Nijinsky, Vaslav 62, 67, 91, 328; Diary 249
Nikhilananda, Swami 420, 778
Nilson, Bent and Elizabeth 15
Nîmes, France 33
Nin, Anaïs 136, 501, 536, 778–9
Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) 200
Nixon, Richard: Gore Vidal on 10; and Vietnam War 82, 161, 261, 268, 779; 1972 presidential election (1972) 247, 261, 268, 277, 287, 288, 289, 290; possible impeachment 290, 355, 360, 416; Watergate 355, 358–9, 360, 367, 404, 425, 816–17; and bombing of Cambodia 359; resignation 447; pardoned 452, 527
Nobel Prize for Literature 393, 443
Noguera, Gary 590
North, Melissa 76
Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco 666
nuclear war, threat of 32, 625–6, 642, 664
nudists 283
Nugent, Phyllis 493
Nunn, Trevor 291
Nureyev, Rudolf 18, 33, 35, 62n
Oahu, Hawaii 95, 131
Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 116
Oates, Warren 207
Oberon, Merle 181, 187, 271–2, 405, 454, 624, 779
O’Brien, Sean 324, 330, 459
Observer, The (newspaper) 29, 42, 76
Obst, Bryan 688
Occidental College, Los Angeles 234
Occidental Petroleum 250
O’Connor, Frank 132
October (C.I. and Don Bachardy): illustrations 618, 621, 664; writing and revision 618, 621, 623–4, 625, 626, 627, 629–30, 631–2, 633; readings from 634, 667; publication 644, 648, 649; sales 650
O’Dell, Chris 504
Oderberg, Phillip 100
Oh! Calcutta (theatrical revue) 8, 11, 62
O’Hilderbrandt, Mary Miles Minter 270, 491, 502, 655, 779
oil companies 102, 250, 287, 416
oil shortages and price rises 405, 416, 418, 527, 541, 546n, 630, 724
Ojai, California 273
Okun, Drew (Al Parker) 511
Old, Vernon (pseud.) 283, 544, 609, 612, 614, 779–80
Old Vic Theatre, London 11, 306
Olitski, Jules 550
Oliver, Michael 413
Olivier, Julie Kate 631
Olivier, Laurence (Larry) 491, 592, 631, 780
Olivier, Richard 631
Olsen, Dr. (skin specialist) 612
Olympia, London 383
Olympic Games: Munich (1972) 280; Moscow (1980) 630n
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 534
One, Incorporated 115–16, 299–300, 780; One (magazine) 47; National Gay Archives 634–5
Open Theater Company 406–7
Opliger, Curtis 374–5
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California 406
Ordinary People (film) 669
Oregon, criminal code 239
O’Reilly, Anna 33, 39, 57, 780
Orphanos, Stathis 239, 240, 299, 385, 491, 575, 780–81
Orton, Joe 572, 573; Entertaining Mr. Sloane 45; The Ruffian on the Stair 574
Osborne, John 508, 781; Look Back in Anger 69–70; A Sense of Detachment 320, 321; Watch It Come Down 515
Osborne, Kipp 508
Oscars see Academy Awards O’Shea, John 410, 487–8, 500, 506, 507, 545, 781
Ossorio, Robert 509
Outback (film) 216
Owen, Wilfred 252
Owens, Rodney (Rod) 385, 781
Owens Valley, California 586
Oxford, England 413, 512
Oxford University 196, 322
Oxnard, California 343, 518
Ozawa, Roy 434
Ozu, Yasujiro: The End of Summer 245; Tokyo Story 264
Pabst, Georg Wilhelm: Diary of a Lost Girl 536, 538; Pandora’s Box 498
Pacific Overtures (musical) 508
Pacific Palisades, California 83, 116, 250n, 588
Padula, Edward 297–8
Page, Anthony (Tony) 52, 490n, 781–2
Page, John 504
Paget’s Disease 437, 782
Pagett, Nicola 51, 318, 347, 380, 782
Pagliai, Bruno 181
Pakistan 155n
Palavas, France 33
Palermo, Carol 127, 129
Paley, William (Bill) and Barbara (Babe) 173, 297, 782
Pallenberg, Rospo and Barbara 494
Palm Springs, California 399, 413, 430, 639; C.I. visits 348, 349, 410, 411–12
Palmdale, California 556
Palmer, Mark 198
Palmerton, Joy 221, 511
Palomar, California 95
Palos Verdes, California 605
Pandora’s Box (Pabst film) 498
Paper Chase, The (film) 259, 281, 308, 313, 346, 355, 378, 385, 391, 405, 575
“Paper Chase, The” (television series) 575, 582, 603
Paramananda, Swami 224
Paramount Pictures 387, 427
Paris, C.I. visits 30–31
Parker, Dorothy 162, 368, 782–3
Parone, Ed 133–4, 226, 232, 236, 238, 252, 539, 783
Pasadena, California 164, 364, 583; Vivekananda House 456
Pasolini, Pier Paolo: Arabian Nights 511; The Canterbury Tales 511; The Decameron 311
Patrick, Robert, Kennedy’s Children 504
Paul Bunyan (operetta) 512
“Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 243, 566; C.I. and Don Bachardy’s draft screenplay 646, 651, 653, 658, 662, 665, 666, 668, 669, 670, 672, 673
Pavitrananda, Swami 88, 101, 172, 175, 179, 246, 250, 260, 373, 425, 444, 445, 783
Paxton, Larry 249
Payne, Maurice 515, 587, 783
Pears, Peter 487, 511–12, 783
Pebworth, Ted-Larry 490
Peege (film) 385
Pelican Records 491, 496, 519, 521, 528
Pendergast, Sister Mary Carita 536
Penguin Books (publishers) 638–9
Penn, Arthur 502
Penn, William, Some Fruits of Solitude 421, 641
Pentagon Papers 359n, 783
Performance (film) 311
Perry, Troy D. 45, 154, 183, 240, 243, 247, 299, 569, 783–4
Perth, Scotland 512
Peru, earthquake (1974) 435, 754
Peter Rabbit (film) 178–9
Peters, Gilbert (Gib) 94, 152, 437, 784
Petit, Valentine 534
Pfeiffer, Virginia (Jinny) 236, 280, 352, 784
Phantom of the Opera (film) 441
Picasso, Pablo, retrospective (MoMA New York, 1980) 650
Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California 669
Pincus, Joseph (hotel doctor) 302
Pines, Burt 363
Pinewood Studios, England 316
Pinter, Harold 184; The Homecoming 496
Pippin (musical) 308–9
Plagens, Peter 593
Plante, David 24–5, 27, 515, 784; The Ghost of Henry James 25
Platypus Films 504, 505, 514, 537
Playboy (magazine) 91, 144, 349
Playfair, Nigel 11n
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p; Plomer, William xxiii, 394, 785
Plowright, Joan 511, 631, 785
Plummer, Christopher 62
Pochath, Werner 496
Poe, Barbara 221, 499, 785
Poe, Edgar Allan 596; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 434
Point Dume, California 395
Point Mugu, California 442
Polanski, Roman 227; Repulsion 217; The Tenant 518
Pole, Rupert 536, 778–9
Polidori, John 160n
Polish Mime Ballet Theatre 71, 75–6
Pollock, Jackson 80
Pollock, Toby 485–6
Pomerance, Bernard, The Elephant Man 648
Pomona College, California 670
Pope-Hennessy, James 324, 330, 459, 785
population growth 642
Post Office Tower, London 23, 27
postal strike (in Britain) 145, 155
pot (cannabis/marijuana) 52, 175, 290, 324, 410, 620
Potter, Beatrix 137, 178
Pound, Ezra: The A.B.C. of Reading 446; Cantos 444
Powell, Jane 403
Power, Tyrone 432, 594
Powers, Tim 605
Prabhaprana, Pravrajika (Prabha; earlier Phoebe Nixon) 468, 540–41, 543, 547, 785–6
Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I.’s fears of embarrassing xxv, xxvii, 97, 162; leadership of Vedanta Society xxv–xxvi, xxx, 109–110, 124, 210–211, 218–19; concerns for the future of the Society xxv–xxvi, 109; C.I.’s devotion to xxvi–xxvii, xl, 101, 167, 224, 282, 407; views on sex xxxiv, 397–8; dreams 2, 200; ill-health 2, 85, 88, 125, 134, 147, 158, 191, 195, 198, 199, 200, 203, 205, 208–9, 210, 213–14, 363, 368, 397, 419, 427, 429, 448–9, 450, 452, 473; on body and mind 5, 93; and Peter Schneider 5, 93, 108, 237, 273, 274, 353; translation of Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination with C.I. 47, 60; Bhaghavad Gita translation with C.I. 64; counsel to C.I. 82, 101, 103, 105–6, 107, 129–30, 284, 286–7, 413–14, 482–3; meditation 93, 258, 356, 369, 397; and Jim Gates 94, 161, 237, 353, 484, 594; and Brahmananda (Maharaj) 110, 127, 148, 166, 200, 203, 219–20, 222, 237, 250, 261, 280, 281, 282, 345, 346, 353, 355, 363, 365–6, 397, 413, 418, 436, 439, 440, 452; on education 110; C.I. dreams about 114, 419, 472, 480, 543, 671; C.I. takes the dust of his feet 114, 116, 175, 221; holiday in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 116, 124–5; C.I. contemplates memoir of 119; birthdays 128, 214, 413–14, 488; and Ramakrishna 129–30, 221–2, 348, 355, 436; in Mount Sinai Hospital 133, 134; on declining numbers of monks at Belur Math 137; reaction to earthquake 140; visions 147, 200, 260, 435–6, 473; never depressed 148; young disciples 152–3, 224–6, 660; blesses baby 158; The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta 164, 179, 623; unprovoked by Haridas 166; on C.I.’s humility 175; on use of pot 175; and Prema (Vidyatmananda) 179, 344–5; recollection of being groped by Hindu priest 182–3; and runaway monk 186; and Gerald Heard 189, 237, 246, 354, 374; at Trabuco 189, 190–91, 248; and Michael Barrie 190, 191, 192; convalesces at Santa Barbara 195, 198, 203, 205; on death and dying 200n, 286–7, 352, 353; and Krishna (George Fitts) 210, 226, 250, 287, 356, 397, 469, 482, 557, 679; gives C.I. accounts of his life 219–20, 221–2; “personality cult” of 223–5; and jealousy 227–8; making japam 233, 368; at Father’s Day celebrations 236, 373–4, 440; on mantras for initiations 236; and construction work at Hollywood Center 237, 246, 431, 434; opposes sale of land at Trabuco 237; holidays in Malibu with Pavitrananda 246, 250–51, 255, 260, 262–3, 265–6, 269, 445; translation of Saradananda’s Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga 250; The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda, His Life and Teachings 251, 413n, 532; weight 255, 261, 410; and Premananda and Turiyananda 261, 281; no desire to return to India 280; cataracts 281, 282, 356, 488; C.I. interviews about his childhood 287; dizzy spells 287, 305, 345, 346, 448; on ages of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Vivekananda and Brahmananda 294; New Year greetings to C.I. 309; blesses C.I. and Don Bachardy before their trip to England 313; on Yogeshananda (Buddha Chaitanya) 327; and death of Mokshada 348–9; recalls double hernia operation 353; encourages C.I. to rejoin monastery 354; and Sarada (Ruth Folling) 354, 361, 365n; C.I. receives spiritual vibration from 355–6; and Joseph Kaplan 360–61; celebration of fifty years in United States 361; devotee dreams of being initiated by 365; lectures at Sarada Convent 368, 442; Seven Upanishads translation with C.I. 373; at Durga puja in Santa Barbara 396, 397; on God’s love 413–14; rebukes Asaktananda 418–19, 463; holidays near Montecito convent 420; and Nikhilananda 420; at Ramakrishna puja 422; and Girish Ghosh 436; shocked by C.I.’s questions 440; dismisses nun 444; C.I. transcribes taped reminiscences 452, 456; and Sudhira 452; lecture on Holy Mother 454; and Abedha 456; at Kali puja preparations 461; on Belur Math’s regulations 464, 482; decides against appointing Asaktananda as successor 467–8, 470, 480; requests Lokeswarananda as successor 467–8, 470, 473; recalls joke played by Larry Holt 469–70; refusal of lesbian woman’s application to be a nun 479; and Belur Math’s appointment of successor 486, 526; final illness 510; death 517, 525; special worship and memorial services for 518, 537, 547–8; C.I. remembers and prays to after death 522, 535, 537, 543, 555, 558, 560, 563, 622, 630, 641, 643, 664, 668, 675, 678, 679, 681, 682, 686; his bead added to C.I.’s rosary 537; anniversary of death 544; 786–7; see also My Guru and His Disciple
Prabuddhananda, Swami 266, 518
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain 517–518
Prater Violet (C.I.) 180–181, 273, 434, 538
Prema Chaitanya (earlier John Yale; afterwards Swami Vidyatmananda; Vidya): trips to India xxvii, 179, 344; and Prabhavananda 179, 344–5; appearance 343–4; at Gretz Vedanta Center in France 343, 344; stays at Hollywood Vedanta Center during trip to Los Angeles 343–5; sends C.I. a copy of Atulananda’s talks 575; and C.I.’s My Guru and His Disciple 592, 618; and Ritajananda 622; 787–8
Premananda, Swami 261, 281, 439, 788
presidential election 1972 235, 246–7, 261–2, 268, 277, 287, 288, 289, 290, 299n
presidential election 1980 623, 625–6, 657, 658
Presley, Elvis 148, 403
Preston, John 476
Price, Coral see Browne, Coral Price, Dan 288
Price, Kenneth (Ken) xix, 107, 381, 788
Price, Vincent 491, 503, 682, 788–9; Diversions and Delights 559, 582
Prideaux, James, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln 304–5
Prince, Hal 307, 789
Prince, William 439
Pringle, Chuck 517
Procktor, Patrick 24, 29, 43, 47, 66, 511, 789
Proposition 6 (California, 1978; “Briggs Initiative”) 569–70, 575, 576–7, 586, 587, 590, 594, 599, 600
Proposition 20 (California, 1972) 291
Prosser, Grace 492
Prosser, Lee 163, 276, 492, 789–90
Prosser, Mandy 492
Prosser, Mary 163
Proust, Marcel 213, 300, 618; Cities of the Plain 178; Swann’s Way 178
Prouting, Norman 8, 11–12, 25, 70, 75, 790
Pryor, Richard 549
Publishers Weekly (magazine) 529
Pucciani, Oreste 253
Puerto Escondido, Mexico 536, 538
Pugsley, Tom (driver) 314, 336
Punishment Park (film) 195
Purchase, Bonnie 571
Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity’s Rainbow 358
Quakers 106n, 570, 613, 615, 640, 677
Quennell, Sonia Leon “Spider” 67
Quinn, Joan 656, 661, 790
Quintero, José 510
Quito, Ecuador 437
Rabb, Ellis 91, 93, 99, 790
race riots 549n1
Raeburn, Andrew 413
Raft, George 659
Railton, Jeremy 229
Ramakrishna: cross-dressing xxvii; and C.I.’s meditation 101, 105–6; on education 110; and Prabhavananda 129–30, 348, 355, 436; puja 151, 221–2, 346, 422, 499; young disciples 153; Gerald Heard dreams about 183, 246; and Brahmananda (Maharaj) 219, 222, 355; mango tree planted at Kamarpukur 348; in C.I.’s My Guru and His Disciple 607; 790–91
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.
I.) xxvi–xxvii, 383, 598
Ramirez, Darren 145–6, 659
Rampling, Charlotte 496, 498, 791
Ramsey, Logan 230
Rancho Mirage, California 413
Rappaport, Michelle 646, 671, 791
Rassine, Alexis 68–9, 791
Rattigan, Terence, Separate Tables 51, 543
Rauch, Doug 152, 191, 791
Rauschenberg, Robert 576, 791–2
Rauth, Thomas (dentist) 522–3
Raya, George 493
Razor’s Edge, The (film) 594
Reagan, Nancy 374
Reagan, Ronald 373, 657, 658; assassination attempt 669, 792
Reams, Lee Roy 238
Rebecca (Hitchcock film) 264
recessions, economic 81, 181, 196, 792
Rechy, John 234, 485, 792
Red Buddha Theater (theater company) 329
“red tides”179, 180, 185
Redgrave, Corin 24, 62, 417, 792
Redgrave, Lynn 61, 63
Redgrave, Vanessa 24, 35, 211, 417, 792–3; The Lady from the Sea 508
referendums, 1972 290–91; 1978 569–70, 575, 576–7, 586, 587, 590, 594, 599, 600
Regester, James Robert (Bob): relationship with Neil Hartley ix, 35, 62–3, 72, 74, 319; in London 12, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 57, 62, 67, 318–19; in South of France 33, 34, 35, 37, 72; visits Forster in Cambridge with C.I. 71–2, 74–5; in New York 305–6, 509, 518; 793
Reid, Roger 504
Reif, Adelbert and Ruth 616
Reinhardt, Edmund 382
Reinhardt, Gottfried 364, 366, 370, 380, 602, 793
Reinhardt, Max: memorial concert at Hollywood Bowl 366, 370, 379–80, 385–7; character and career 370, 382–4; 793–4
Reinhardt, Silvia 364, 366, 602
Reinhardt, Wolfgang 370, 794
Repulsion (film) 217
Revere, Paul 495
Reynolds, Jane 637
Richardson, Tony: aging and ill-health xxxviii, 442; quarrel with Henry Geldzahler 12; C.I. socializes with in London 17–18, 67, 69–70, 317; C.I. stays with in South of France 27, 33–8, 56; false alarm over car accident 27; dislike of John Hopkins 28; proposed studio for David Hockney 37, 38; on Edward Albee 38; finances 38; relations with C.I. 38; moods 57, 67; and Neil Hartley 57, 62, 441; proposed Nijinsky film 62, 67, 91–2; and Gavin Lambert 215, 573; relationship with Grizelda Grimond 215, 317; house in Australia 258, 310; C.I. socializes with in California 416–17, 441, 442, 490, 492, 493, 527, 534, 572–3, 587, 592, 607, 621–2, 626, 683; and Vanessa Redgrave 417; and Walter Lassally 438; resigns from Mahogany 463; and John Boorman 527; preference for life in Los Angeles 528; turns down Bob Gordon’s Leaks 528; on Kenneth Tynan 532; and Jackie Onassis 534; on Orton’s plays 573; and David Hockney 587; 794–5
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