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...prosperous private trash collector, will be able to live up to the lofty standards of manners and deportment that prevail in the Graves family. Still, the weather is sunny and warm enough to soothe implicit tensions. And everyone is looking forward to another marvelous breakfast prepared by the houseguest of the past week, Chuck Burgoyne...
There are occasions, Amos admits, when the distortions of life far exceed those of art. Evelyn Waugh's scapegrace Basil Seal (Black Mischief) is based in part on an aristocrat who might have arrived from the set of early Monty Python. As a houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite...
DIED. Robert Gottschalk, 64, founder-president of Panavision, Inc., who invented light, noiseless, hand-held cameras and lenses that won him an Academy Award and made "Camera by Panavision" one of the screen's most familiar credits; of stab wounds; in Los Angeles. Police arrested a male houseguest with whom, they say, he had had a "falling...
...cover story. It was the reaction first of Paris Correspondent Barry Farrell, who began the interview in the South of France and then went to Mexico, where Moreau & Co. were on location near the resort city of Cuernavaca for the shooting of Viva Maria! Invited to be her houseguest at the villa she had rented for herself and staff, Farrell spent ten days interviewing at poolside, on the set, and on auto trips to Mexico City, Barry at the wheel. "Her whole household has a wonderful atmosphere," said Farrell. "People coming and going-Bardot and Louis Malle-and everyone singing...
...time. If one files a reservation weeks in advance and can afford it, he might get a room at one of the hotels. Otherwise, he can seek out the tourist homes on the PBH housing list, or try to convince a hospitable Radcliffe girl to take in a houseguest...