Word: myron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacles are more terrifying than the New Woman, bearing the twin torches of Desire to Succeed and Disdain for Mere Man. This quality of savage purpose was etched to its satiric extreme in Myra Breckinridge. Gore Vidal's travesty dealt with a sex change?the conversion of Myron to Myra?and with America's compulsive devotion to movies. It was Myra's unholy quest to vanquish man; the locus of her attack was the wellspring of his contemporary myths, Hollywood. Clad principally in feminine indestructibility, she sought to blind men with her beauty, determinedly "unmanning them in the way that...
...inoffensive uncelebrity named Patrick Curtis. She does not flounce around studio sets in see-through blouses by day or boogaloo at the Factory by night. She does not smoke. She does not drink. She rarely entertains. Says Writer Rex Reed, who will make his screen debut as Myron Breckinridge, Myra's alter ego: "Raquel is a very complex girl. She is terribly, terribly interested in being taken seriously. She has elected to be a movie star, but underneath that creamy skin and those bulging blouses beats a Puritan heart. She is a Jane Austen heroine, and the conflict has made...
...have followed the William Buckley-Gore Vidal fight [Sept. 12] for over a year. There is a solution! If Raquel Welch and Rex Reed resign their roles as Myra and Myron Breckinridge, 20th Century-Fox could then hire Buckley and Vidal to take their roles. It would be up to the moviegoer to decide which of the two was playing Myra and which was playing Myron. MICHAEL L. WAYNE Los Angeles...
...Myron S. Augsburger, 40, wears the "plain coat" of the Mennonite brotherhood as president of Eastern Mennonite College and Seminary in Virginia. But Augsburger is anything but oldfashioned. He is both a dedicated integrationist and a pacifist who forthrightly insists, "I don't think a just war is possible in this century." A wide-traveling and well-known evangelist, Augsburger is also an intense intellectual who believes that "evangelicalism is both creative and contemporary. It is not tied to any given culture, economic structure or political philosophy...
...winner. With Raquel Welch, Mae West and John Huston already in the fold, 20th Century-Fox has just signed smart-set chronicler and film critic Rex Reed for a "starring role" in Myra Breckinridge. Reed wants everyone to know that he is not -repeat not-playing gay young Myron Breckinridge, who goes under the knife to emerge as Raquel Welch. His part now calls for a young writer who is Myra's "alter ego." Rex thinks the experience will help him as a critic and" is not afraid of fellow critics' brickbats. "What can they...