Liberation

by Christopher Isherwood

  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