Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Classic or simply crummy, the bulk of modern English lewd literature first tumbled into print in the Paris loft of Maurice Girodias, 45, proprietor of Olympia Press. Now, laments the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book, Lolita, Fanny Hill and Candy, "our role is ended." Through the imposition, by his count, of 60 bans, 100 lawsuits and six suspended prison sentences, the French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being...
Salome was 16 and slinky-slim. Birgit Nilsson is 46 and boatswain-burly. As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith Anderson as Lolita. But New York's Metropolitan Opera does, on occasion, have imagination, and for its long-awaited restaging of Salome, the Met put its money on Birgit...
Divorced. James Mason, 55, etched-in-acid British cinemactor (Lolita); by Pamela Mason, 46, radio and TV commentator; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty (she dropped the original charge of "habitual adultery"); after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: approximately $1,500,000. "A fleabite," said James...
...Catherine Spaak, 19, is a lithe, wide-eyed, legal-age Lolita type who calls Belgium's Foreign Minister Oncle Paul Henri. She got her start at 15 in Carlo Ponti's The Adolescents, recently taught herself English to appear in The Empty Canvas with Horst Buchholz and Bette Davis. Catherine recently finished a remake of La Ronde in Paris, then circled back to Rome to start work on Three Nights of Love...
Viadimir Nabokov will read excerpts from a new novel and from previous works, including Lolita and invitation to a Beheading, in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the Coop and at the door...