Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies of French provincial furniture, $140 bedspreads, a glass elevator-and split-level rooms. And at the Inn of the Six Flags, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, there is not only steak-dinner room service and vibrating beds for travel-weary bones, but also a three-bedroom Acapulco Suite with its own private swimming pool, patio, and fulltime butler-all for $100 a night...
...veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel near Acapulco, in Mexico. The hotelkeeper, the Widow Maxine Faulk, played by Bette Davis, is a hostage to devil-in-the-flesh sensuality. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal), a defrocked clergyman turned tourist guide, is spooked by guilt. As a man who was barred from his church for committing "fornication and heresy in the same week," O'Neal seems agonizingly nailed to a cross of nerves. Nonno (Alan Webb), a 97-year-old poet, is the prisoner of art and age, struggling between memory lapses to finish a new poem. Hannah...
...every two years. But before that, he marinates impressions, characters, experiences. Iguana emerged from a 1940 trip to Acapulco. By 1946, it was a short story. By 1959, it was a one-act play, produced at a theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. Four separate versions followed, and to compare them is to watch sand turning into Baccarat crystal. Says Williams: "It takes five or six years to use something out of life. It's lurking in the unconscious- it finds its meaning there." Essentially, Williams has been chosen by his subjects...
...second marriage. Her new choice: Bronx-born Gary Morton, 44, a tall, dark nightclub comic whom she met over pizza on a blind date a year ago. Said Lucy, busily making arrangements for a Bergdorf Goodman trousseau, the services of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, and an Acapulco honeymoon: "I'm looking forward to a nice quiet life...
...Broadway audiences will get their first look at much-acclaimed British Actor Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons, a study of Sir Thomas More (Nov. 22). Tennessee Williams has now gone so far south that his new play. The Night of the Iguana, is set in Acapulco, with Patrick O'Neal playing a defrocked minister turned tourist guide serving as a psychological shepherd for Bette Davis and Margaret Leighton (Dec. 28). A. E. Hotchner, whose text adaptations of Ernest Hemingway short stories have been scattered across the past two television seasons, has prepared The Short Happy Life...