Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commercials to suit the format of a show. And in upcoming months, the programmers are preparing the TV, debuts of such film stars as Doris Day, William Holden, Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn, as well as more specials by such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal, who have returned to TV after a hiatus of several years...
...John Updike's Couples, said to be the "big book" that critics have accused him of shirking for years, is about ten married or mismarried pairs in a New England town, and Updike can be expected to use his apparently limitless descriptive gifts to detail sexual acts. Gore Vidal's new book poses the question of whether a transvestite can find happiness in Hollywood. Mordecai Richler's novel-a satire about movies and publishing in London-is called Cocksure, and the climax describes the ultimate in autoerotic acts. Terry Southern's Blue Movie promises...
...property for $75,000, intending to produce as well as direct under a contract with Warner Bros. Sister Shirley was to star as Bonnie. Eventually, he decided that he ought to play Clyde, which meant that Shirley had to go; after all, the picture featured more than enough gore and transgressions without seeming to add incest to injury...
...Beautiful People made the opening-night party for a Broadway gobbler called The 90 Day Mistress, but there was a pretty good assortment of Not-Too-Homelies: Tony Perkins, Joan Fontaine, Charlotte Ford Niarchos, Tallulah Bankhead, Gore Vidal and Joan Bennett, all of them crushed into a Manhattan nightclub no larger than an orgone box. Best job of capturing the jaded eye was turned in by Angela Lansbury, 42, Broadway's ever-eccentric Mame, who was clad in an all but invisible microskirt. Angela's big news was that she had just turned down a movie role...
With its usual combination of chic and cheek, Women's Wear Daily floated the most elegant rumor of the year -that Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, would announce her engagement to Britain's David Ormsby Gore, Lord Harlech, 49, former British Ambassador to the U.S., a 13-year friend of the Kennedys, and a widower since his wife was killed in a car crash last May. His lordship, in Washington at the beginning of a lecture tour, put down the report as having "no foundation," and Jackie denied it through her secretary. At week's end Lord Harlech, house...