Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Others. Meanwhile, Sue Lyon (Lolita, '62) is there, too, playing a young tourist; and U.S. newspapers have been cropping pictures madly-cutting out everyone but Sue and Burton-to suggest irrepressible tropical passions drawing the two together. Actually, Sue is 17 and old enough to have brought along her own outrider, like everyone else. His name is Hampton Fancher III. "You mean there are two others?" cracked one of the company. Fancher, a 25-year-old would-be actor, takes advantage of his position as consort to boss everybody around...
...More Parrots. Now Hollywood has arrived. Last September Director John Huston appeared with Richard Burton (chaperoned by Elizabeth Taylor) and Sue (Lolita) Lyon to shoot The Night of the Iguana. Huston liked the fishing so much that he bought a $30,000 house in a cottage colony eight miles outside town. Liz and Dick are house hunting too. Playwright Tennessee Williams, whose Iguana is set in an unspoiled Mexican resort in 1940, took one look at Vallarta and exclaimed: "This is precisely what I meant. This is Acapulco 20 years...
...general, Collins finds that celebrities are more reserved than most customers, but there are exceptions. Shelley Winters, for instance, stared deep into Collins' double-isosceles-shaped eyeglasses and recreated a scene from Lolita, using "her own words" so recklessly that she had to be put to sleep...
...original verr-ee French accents. But he has added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view, the screen now swings with poules on parade-Kiki the Cossack in fur-topped boots, Lolita in heart-shaped sunglasses, the Zebra Twins, and a nameless tart with a cantilevered bust...
Vladimir Nabokov has the gift of tongue-specifically Russian and English. Famed for his novels in his second tongue (notably Pale Fire and Lolita), Nabokov has now released the English translation (which is partly his own) of The Gift, which is the last novel he wrote-26 years ago-in his native Russian. Without being a great book, it is clearly a book by a great writer; each sentence delights the ear or some area of the mind...