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...problem of casting Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita provoked more of a stir in Hollywood than there would have been over an open call for dogs after the death of Rin Tin Tin. The late Errol Flynn once offered the services of his teen-age mistress, Beverly Aadland, along with his own for the part of Humbert Humbert, Lolita's tragicomic, middle-aged lover. Director Stanley Kubrick was swamped with letters from U.S. mothers who thought their daughters just right for the part, surveyed 800 budding teen-agers before finally announcing the winner last week. Kubrick's choice...
...intent on castigating his characters to really create them. Like many a transplanted American, English-born West, the son of British Author Rebecca West and the late great H. G. Wells, is drawn to the neon glare of U.S. life, but he lacks the gift of a Nabokov for rendering the garish horrors of motel culture. Author West obviously intends his critique of the horrible Hatfields to embrace the present-day U.S., but one rotting family tree scarcely makes a national forest...
Author Vladimir Nabokov was in the news in two distant lands, where his controversial novel Lolita was upsetting both decent and indecent folks. In New Zealand a Supreme Court judge upheld a customs ban on the book. Ruled Sir Douglas Hutchison: "With the best consideration I can give it, I think Lolita is aphrodisiac.'' A sort of proof of his contention came in Israel, where one Joseph Wahrhaftig was nabbed for behavior tending to corrupt the morals of a minor girl. Wahrhaftig recently translated Lolita into Hebrew...
...Fate. "Only three weeks ago," said Composer Nicolas Nabokov, cousin of the U.S.'s bestselling Novelist Vladimir (Lolita) Nabokov, "they held Boris Pasternak's funeral outside Moscow. Though the newspapers printed no word of it. 1,500 people came [TIME, June 13]. Though nothing of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago has ever been published in Russia, a single unknown young person stepped forward and began reciting a poem from Zhivago called 'Hamlet.' As he recited, voice after voice joined in until it seemed the whole crowd was reciting together." With that, Nabokov wound up the conference...
...doctrinal coercion is the fact, according to Lacy, that most of the reform groups warn against pornography but do little or nothing to bring about good reading. Whatever corrupts youth, "it is not the reading of words by John O'Hara or D. H. Lawrence or Vladimir Nabokov or, for that matter, Grace Metalious." In fact, it is the youngsters' very "inability to do sustained reading, frustrating the youth at school and cutting off a major avenue of escape from the limits of what is usually a mean and sordid environment, that tends to breed rebellious delinquency." Concludes...