Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When they get up enough courage in their cups, some pressagents refer to her simply as "the old broad"-after glancing nervously around to see that only friends are present. The object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam; $3.95), to the legend of a girl reporter who came out of Dixon, Ill., to spend nearly 40 years...
...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
...brush for Sisley was not an instrument of attack or of dissection. What affected him in nature was not its force but its fragility. His paintings could be bright and gay, but almost never exuberant; they could portray sadness or loneliness, but never great grief. Sisley was drawn not to the powerful but to the perishable; he was moved not by stormy passion but by quiet poetry. His favorite part of any landscape, he said, was the sky: "It has the charm of things which disappear. And I love it particularly...
...poor country girl from Nebraska. Susan Hayward meets John Gavin, a rich city boy from Chicago, falls in love, finds out that he is married, runs away and becomes a famous fashion designer. When the handsome devil finds her again, he is revealed as anything but a gay seducer; he is in fact the all-American archetype of the mother's boyish male, a muddle husband with an alcoholic, homicidal wife (Vera Miles). Adultery thus spectacularly excused, massed violins take over and sweep the lovers away to a villa drowsing in jasmine by the passion-tossed Tyrrhenian...
...this season's nine-show series, 23,000 subscription books have already been sold in a city that also supports two other legitimate theaters. Most of the Fisher's offerings will be secondhand Broadway but Detroit can look forward after The Gay Life to two more special events: the road opening of a new musical called The Crime of Giovanni Venturi (with the Metropolitan Opera's Cesare Siepi), and the pre-Broadway trial of Richard Rodgers' No Strings...