Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time: Friday evening. Place: the apartment of Writer Jim Sherwood and his German wife Valdi, friends of Clifford and Edith Irving, in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel. Cast: the Irvings, the Sherwoods, and others in the Irving entourage, including Hyde Part-now, a self-described "Russian Jewish poet from Montparnasse and Ibiza," and Lester Waldman, a nomadic photographer expelled from Ibiza by the Spanish police. Also present: TIME Correspondent Bill Marmon...
...phony press conference by phone? I've been with high-priced public relations men all week. I know how it works. You call up seven newspapers and tell them you are Clifford Irving. They will be here with everything in 15 minutes and plug into the Chelsea switchboard. Then you read poetry to them. And even if they have voiceprints to show that you aren't really me, the voiceprints will match because they will be so eager...
...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
...meandering documentary account of the Algerian war-is almost worse than what is borrowed. Even when one sees the French Legionnaires and the Algerian revolutionaries, they seem like a confused army of extras recruited from Central Casting. This is not really the fault of Director Minos Volanakis or the Chelsea Theater Center, which has staged Volanakis' translation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rather the flaw is in the script's grandiose pretensions, which dwarf interest in any individual...
...reflective, robust 62, Losey lives comfortably in London's Chelsea with his fourth wife. He is planning to film a biography of Leon Trotsky, and spent some time recently in Mexico City with Artist David Siqueiros, who as a Stalinist had been involved in an attempt on Trotsky's life. "How are you going to make a true film?" Siqueiros asked him. "If it was true, how would any film company let you make...