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...desert gambling resort called Desert D'Or, 200 miles from Hollywood-a suburb in the literary country of tough-guy nihilism mapped by James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. O'Shaugnessy does not get around to writing but he meets 1) a real lulu named Lulu who helps him over his embarrassing bedroom block; 2) a misunderstood film genius called Charles Francis Eitel (symbolically pronounced "eye-TELL"), who is trying to decide whether to tell all before a congressional committee. While skulking in Desert D'Or, Eitel dreams about the great film he hopes...
...this trouble for nothing. Untamed is a Zulu lulu-the sort of costume adventure that may, in a generation or two, produce a race of moviegoers with their eyes popped out on stalks. The picture offers: 1) a full-dress Irish hunt in full cry after a fox; 2) a formal ball in an Irish country house; 3) the great Irish potato famine of the 18405; 4) the Great Trek of the Boers from Cape Town to the fertile valleys of the interior; 5) the war dance of 3,000 Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring...
...visit was supposed to be heavy with old-fashioned protocol, with everybody bowing low. Carefree Daisy, lined up with the rest of the staffers' wives, took one look at her old friend the prince, and with a whoop and a holler greeted him with a lusty "Hi there, Lulu!" Shortly thereafter, Oskar Schlitter was transferred to London...
...Juliana Larson." After acting distracted last year in France, testified Helene, Arpels announced to her that "he didn't have much time to live and wanted to spend it with Juliana." Shortly after that, Helene, idly rummaging through Arpels' pockets, discovered a shockingly tender letter written to "Lulu, my angel, my adored one." The letter was signed "J." Of Helene's testimony, Juliana snorted indignantly: "Just cheap, slanderous insinuations dreamed up by a former 'mere French mannequin.' " Meanwhile, Helene stuck to her demands: a separation decree and about $2,500-a-month permanent alimony-almost...
...novel (3 for Bedroom C), start a play and marry famed Dancer Vera Zorina. Lately, he spends less and less time in the glass-fronted control booth supervising recording sessions, more and more behind his desk thinking up new ideas. Although he recorded Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and all the quartets of Schoenberg and Bartok, Lieberson discovered gradually that "it is becoming almost bourgeois to do contemporary music-everybody's doing it now." It is also too expensive for a major company to take a chance on unknown modern composers. At the same time, recordings...