Word: iguana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breath to waste on the totally fruitless complaint that we were not being fed with spoons of precious metal," that is his mother talking. The arias of gentility in Williams' plays, whether they be those of Amanda Wingfield, Blanche du Bois or Hannah Jelkes (The Night of the Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness for plush hotels, in his dropping−and sometimes drop-kicking−names and in his notion that people, particularly critics, are not properly genuflectory before some of his poorer works...
Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love...
...million resort, a by-lined story by Adelita Esterhazy last week dutifully recorded choice bits of fatuousness for WWD readers. But the piece ended on a dark editor's note: before leaving Mexico, "Adelita Esterhazy was walking the beach alone when she was attacked by an iguana. Dr. Eduardo Negrobien was unable to save her. This was her last article...
Born. To Sue Lyon, 25, former film nymphet (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana), and Roland Harrison, 33, a Los Angeles photographer; their first child, a daughter. Name: Nona Merrill...
...partly because he has an abiding concern for the violated heart. Many of his women spend an amazing amount of stage time in negligee, a provocation and an invitation to the bed. The widow Maxine Faulk (the surname is scarcely subtle) comes onstage in The Night of the Iguana with her blouse enticingly unbuttoned. Yet Hannah Jelkes in the same play is a stalwart saint of duty who has clearly transcended sex and is presented as a human being of nobility. Maggie the Cat is a tigerish temptress in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, though her prey...