Word: mias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother India has played auntie to many orphaned spirits. Christopher Isherwood, the Beatles, Mia Sinatra: the list lengthens every year. The latest addition is Paul Fraser, the tall, blue-eyed New Yorker who is the troubled protagonist of this novel. At 46, Paul is a successful playwright and lover but, alas, a spiritual cipher. And after botching a suicide attempt, he drifts off to India-where Author Brown feels thoroughly at home...
...GENERATION (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Presenting Mia Farrow and her thoughts on the Viet Nam war, her work and, of course, on her meditation in India with Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...
...Chaucer's in the Canterbury Tales. There, near the town of Rishikesh, 53 persons from ten nations gathered in a grove to pay their homage. Prosperous West German businessmen mingled with bearded Scandinavians. A 26-year-old Bengali interrupted his bicycle tour of the world to drop in. Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra's absentee wife, and her brother and sister put in appearances at one time or another. And over in Bungalow No. 6, topping off the list of those seeking wisdom and truth, were ensconced Britain's Beatles, the Who's Who of What...
Maybe being married to Frank Sinatra has nothing to do with it, but Mia Farrow, 23, has bagged her first photographer-handbagged him, in fact: she clouted a press-agency cameraman in New Delhi with her purse. The poor fellow had been waiting for Mia outside her hotel, hoping to catch her as she wended her meditational way to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, her publicity-prone swami. One of the Yogi's henchmen intervened, an altercation ensued, and Mia teed off. The photographer came away with bruises and a lump, and the Indian press came away dubious about Mia...
...people know more about wedding gowns than Elizabeth Taylor, 35, and it would be a shame to let all that experience go to waste. So when her two friends Mia Fonssagrives and Vicky Tiel showed their first collection in Paris, Liz contributed her own inspiration for a nuptial garment: a white body stocking worn under a diaphanous floor-length veil embroidered in flowers. But that was nothing compared with the outfit that Liz wore to the opening-a tunic and tights of hyperkinetic geometric pattern. "She's not supposed to be chic," explained Mia. "Her career requires that...