Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild wit. The novel's chief strength is a marvelous ranter, "Dr. Matthew-Mighty grain-of-salt-Dante-O'Connor." He roars on for pages, mocking himself as a wretched transvestite, reviling dead gods and performing feats of verbal wire-walking, all to take a distraught Lesbian's mind off her wandering mate. "Do you know," he says in lyrical exasperation, "what has made me the greatest liar this side of the moon? Telling my stories to people like you, to take the mortal agony out of their guts, and stop them from rolling about, and drawing...
Walk on the Wild Side (Columbia). "I want to sit and drink with a man," snarls the high-fashion New Orleans harlot (Capucine) to the lesbian madam (Barbara Stanwyck), "not with you!" The madam gasps: "You're being perverse!" She doesn't know the half of it. Suddenly the shameless hussy runs off to marry a "po' buckra" boy (Laurence Harvey) from the backblocks of Texas who can't possibly provide as nice a house as the one she has been living in. Indignant, the madam collects her bullyboys and gives chase. The pigeon refuses...
...triangle is clearly irregular in the remake, and Shirley MacLaine, all forlorn, gives the best performance of her career as the teacher who is sickened to find that she is partly homosexual. Though the taboo word "lesbian" does not defile the sound track, the handling of "that kind of love" is reasonably adult (it is customary to praise Hollywood for being reasonably adult, as one praises a three-year-old for not spilling too much oatmeal...
...with the inexorable intrusion of Fate, up from the drowned city come not only the deeds but evidence that Sappho-in an Oedipal twist-is her own husband's daughter. To placate an angry populace, Pittakos sends her into exile, where she successfully plots the destruction of the Lesbian state...
...ensuing years, Hollywood's attitude toward sex, natural and otherwise, has undergone a radical change. A case in point is Director William Wyler's forthcoming remake of Lillian Hellman's play, The Children's Hour, a study of two teachers falsely accused of Lesbianism. When the picture was first made in 1936, the Hays office kept Producer Sam Goldwyn both from announcing that he had purchased the play and from using its title (the film was released as These Three), insisted that he change the plot to a conventional heterosexual triangle. Director Wyler...