Word: cocteau
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...Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young men like himself sat on bar stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting him as a kind of cultural public-relations...
...Cocteau, shortly after he met Sachs, made what was perhaps the kindest judgment of him. He was, he said, "a deep-sea fish, luminous but blind...
...harder and harder to adapt yourself to the person you're dubbing. Eventually you want to play the character yourself." Last week Marni Nixon was actually mouthing the words as well as singing them. Appearing with the Seattle Symphony in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and the Poulenc-Cocteau short opera, The Human Voice, she proved herself a creditable actress, won critics' praise for "superb musicianship," a performance full of "ease and assurance...
...door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels for his Mouton Rothschild...
Died. Jean Cocteau, 74, France's Jack-of-all-arts; of a heart attack, on hearing of Edith Piaf s death; in Milly-la-Forêt, France (see THE WORLD...