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Then, 2½ years ago, Andre left Dory to live with Mia Farrow, and Dory's psyche cracked. She spent four months in a sanitarium. "With Andre gone, I thought, 'God has canceled out, I'm canceled out.' And so, while I was in the hospital, I started writing, to get some order out of the chaos...
From Flophouse to Gallery. For New York's better-heeled artists, the reaction was straightforward: buy a SoHo building outright, or convert it into a coop. A pioneer of that gambit was Louise Nevelson, who purchased a vacant five-story sanitarium on Spring Street and turned it into a succession of mysterious caves lined with her black, white, gold and Plexiglas constructions. Roy Lichtenstein acquired one vast floor of a bankrupt bank on the Bowery (other floors were taken by Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman). Kenneth Noland bought a storage building; Robert Rauschenberg, a flophouse-cum-church on Lafayette...
This work's author, Aaron Latham, has smartly limited his territory-to Fitzgerald's various stints in Hollywood as a screenwriter. The novelist went to the movie capital several times during the last downhill decade of his life, partly to raise money for Zelda's sanitarium expenses, partly to save himself as a writer. What biographer Latham has done-and it is surprising that no one ever did it before-is go to Los Angeles and dig out the screenplays Fitzgerald wrote. almost none of which appeared on film in anything like their original form...
...from scandal, marries the nymphomaniacal Nina Ivanovna (Glenda Jackson). The outcome is nearly homicidal. (One night, wrote the tormented composer, "I was within a hairbreadth of succumbing to that blind, unreasoning, diseased loathing that ends in murder.") Tchaikovsky suffers a series of breakdowns. Nina ends her life in a sanitarium, hopelessly insane...
...good. There was a time in '21 or '22 when he was "drinking a little too much and loving much too much and working very, very hard." At one performance, he blew his lines -a failure that so unnerved him that he went to a sanitarium. "I had a gun. And suddenly, like the crazy man I had become, I put the gun in my mouth and started to play with it." Stepping back from suicide that time, Chevalier said, gave him the strength to return to the stage and "the 50 more important years of my life...