Authors: Christopher Isherwood
Swami
see
Prabhavananda, Swami
Swamiji
see
Vivekananda, Swami Swananda, Swami 486
Sweet, Paula 295, 333, 371, 500, 501,
807â8
Swimming Pool, The
(film) 139
Swisher, Viola Hegyi 238
Switzerland, C.I. and Don Bachardy visit 326, 336â9
Swope, John 611
Sylmar earthquake (1971) 139â41, 142, 148, 150â51, 155
Sylvester, Ralph 239, 241, 385
Symbionese Liberation Army 435,
754
Szczesny, Berthold 640,
808
Szczesny, Juan 640
Â
Tahiti, South Pacific 3, 126, 184
Tahoe, Lake (California/Nevada) 399
Taking Off
(film) 311
Takis, Vassilikas 18
Talcove, Rick,
Ping Pong
505
Tallmer, Jerry 296
Tangier, Morocco 365, 402, 406, 516â17, 589
Tarpey, Tom 300
Taubman, A. Alfred 550
n
Taupin, Bernie 255, 259
Taxi Driver
(film) 501
Taylor, Elizabeth 134, 144, 160, 187
Taylor, Paul 43
Taylor, Roderick and Brenda 513
Tchelitchew, Pavel 8
Tear in the Ocean, A
(film) 311
Tearle, Godfrey 11
Teel, Jim 669
Tenant, The
(Polanski film) 518
Tennant, Stephen 389,
808
That Certain Summer
(film) 311
That's the Way It Goes
(film) 47
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
(film) 73
Third Man, The
(film) 258
Thomas, Edward 380
Thomas, George 511
Thomas the Imposter
(film) 248, 311
Thomas, Ross,
The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
545â6
Thompson, Nicholas 13, 16, 41, 54,
808
Thomson, Virgil: appearance ix; C.I. socializes with in New York 169, 172, 305;
Lord Byron
(opera) 226, 230â31, 233; Don Bachardy's drawing of 270, 377; at New York performance of
A Meeting by the River
307; at Bachardy's Municipal Art Gallery show 376; recommends dentist 422; New York apartment 424, 508; C.I. socializes with in California 444, 505, 663; in Roosevelt Hospital, New York 510;
808â9
Thorp, Charles 97
Thulin, Ingrid 45
Thürau, Fräulein (Berlin landlady) 125
n
Tierney, Gene 594
Time
(magazine) 639
Timmerman, Eric 89
Timmons, Stuart 619
Titanic
, RMS 279, 302
To Be or Not To Be
(film) 270
To Have and Have Not
(film) 264
“Today” (television program) 218, 221
Tokyo Story
(film) 264
Tolstoy, Leo,
War and Peace
574
Tomkins, Ben 469â70
“Tomorrow Show, The” (television program) 552
Topanga Canyon, California 283, 400
tornadoes 149
Toronto 536, 538, 539
Toronto, University of 538
Toscan, Richard 234
Touch of Evil
(film) 256
Touch, The
(film) 194
Townend, Peter 50
Trabuco: C.I. visits with Michael Barrie 190â92; foundation and building of 237, 284; proposed sale of land 237, 540; Prabhavananda at 248; neighboring development 462; Thanksgiving lunch 462;
809
Tracy, Katherine 44
Tramont, Jean-Claude 462
Travels with My Aunt
(film) 305
Travers, Ben,
The Bed Before Yesterday
511
Travolta, John 628, 638
Trembly, Dennis 387
Trevor, Agatha 616
n
Trollope, Anthony:
The Eustace Diamonds
x, 14, 16, 310;
The Way We Live Now
249, 310
Trone, Buddy 417
Truffaut, François 493, 496
Trulin, Paul 531
Tuchman, Maurice 507
Turiyananda, Swami 261
Turner, Charles 293, 298,
809
Turner, Dan 687
Turney, Catherine 504
Turville-Petre, Francis 400,
809
Twentieth-Century Fox 265, 557
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(film) 421
2001: A Space Odyssey
(film) 632
Tyler, Parker,
The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew
8
Tyler, Dr. Richard 564
Tynan, Kathleen 587, 588, 597, 640, 641,
809
Tynan, Kenneth (Ken) xxxii, 345, 532, 587â8, 589, 597,
809
; death and memorial service 640â41
Tynan, Tracy 640,
809
Tyndall, Jim 541
Â
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles): student newspaper 128; Royce Hall 143; medical school 189, 539; library 295, 403, 404, 497; faculty center 370; student protests 395; medical center 468, 469; Schoenberg Hall 487; Gay Awareness Week 498; C.I. filmed at 505; C.I. wills body to 539, 617; Melnitz Hall 645
Ullmann, Liv 520, 591
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe), proposed television version 553
“underground” films 267
Underhill, Ben (pseud.) 89, 90, 381â2
Unger, Ray: Don Bachardy visits at Laguna Beach 96, 99, 101, 109, 279â80; analyzes Bachardy's dreams 101; C.I. visits with Bachardy 101, 102, 354, 506â7; prescribes vitamin supplements 142; Bachardy visits at San Bernardino 178; and Lance Loud 379; C.I.'s concern for during land slides 585;
810
United Nations, New York 173
Universal Studios: and “Frankenstein” television film xviii, 130, 132, 158, 160, 162, 177, 178, 179, 193, 206, 211, 222, 242, 247, 288, 291, 294, 312, 336, 380, 399, 406; and “The Mummy” proposed television film 221, 228, 256, 288, 381, 385; picketed 346
University of California at Berkeley
see
Berkeley, University of California at
University of California at Irvine
see
Irvine, University of California at
University of California at Los Angeles
see
UCLA
University of California at Riverside
see
Riverside, University of California at
University of California at Santa Barbara
see
Santa Barbara, University of California at
University of Southern California
see
USC
Upanishads 50, 217, 218, 373, 418, 535, 561
Upton, Anne 516
Upton, Byron 516
Upward, Christopher 571
Upward, Edward: fantasy world with C.I. xviii, 310, 685,
776
; communism xxxiii; influence of Forster on xxxvi; portrayal in
Lions and Shadows
xxxvi; visits C.I. in London 18â19; appearance and character 19, 457, 458; relations with C.I. 21, 685; mistrusted by C.I.'s mother 54; at Cambridge 75; on death of Auden 394; sends tapes of readings to C.I. 456, 457, 458, 685; C.I. visits on Isle of Wight 515; on Jonathan Fryer's
Isherwood
551; agnosticism 554, 572; teaching at Alleyn's School 566; attacks of vertigo 571; and son's multiple sclerosis 571, 572; on Auden's King's Gold Medal 688;
810
The Spiral Ascent
xxxiii, 19, 456, 457, 571
Upward, Hilda 19, 515
Upward, John Mervyn 566
Urban Cowboy
(film) 628, 638
Urbashi (
earlier
Anna Monday) 490, 499
Urquhart Castle, Scotland 412
Urquhart-Laird, Tommy 510, 516,
810
USC (University of Southern California): theatrical productions 230, 582; C.I. talks at 402, 434â5, 505; Gay Week 505; writing award 570; Jim White teaches at 666
Usha
see
Anandaprana, Pravrajika
USSR 4, 449, 625, 630
n
Ustinov, Pavla 534
Ustinov, Peter 143
Â
Vacant Room, The
(C.I. with Gavin Lambert; screenplay) 260
Vaccaro, Brenda 583, 584,
811
Valen, Mark 550, 552, 664,
811
van der Post, Laurens,
Jung and the Story of Our Time
578â9
van Druten, John 42, 612,
811
;
I Am a Camera
(play) 40, 230;
The Widening Circle
613
Van Horn, Mike: friendship with Don Bachardy 91, 96â7, 179, 182, 233, 434, 437, 440; art works 96, 437; visits Laguna Beach and Santa Barbara with Bachardy 96â7, 99; at Billy Al Bengston's studio show 243; moves to New York 385, 440; relationship with Jim Crabe 385; and Tony Richardson 417; C.I. and Bachardy socialize with in New York 509, 650; relationship with Brian Campbell 509, 650; visits C.I. and Bachardy in California 620, 621; at Bachardy's Robert Miller Gallery show 650;
811â12
Van Keppel, Hendrik 128
n
van Petten, William (Bill) 1, 2, 142, 297,
812
Van Sant, Tom 189,
812
Van Vechten, Carl 259
Vandanananda, Swami 212, 526,
811
Vaughan, Keith 51, 52, 57, 513,
812
Vedanta Center, Hollywood (Vedanta Place; formerly Ivar Avenue), construction of new accommodation for nuns 237, 246, 431, 434, 454, 469
Vedanta Society of Southern California, Golden Anniversary 643
Vedanta for the Western World
(anthology; ed. C.I.) 260, 436
Vehka-Aho, Eija 19
Velliquette, Scott 497, 504
Venice, California 248â9, 370, 558, 576
Ventura, Clyde 187, 232,
812
Verdon, Gwen 518
Verne, Jules,
Journey to the Center of the Earth
554
Vidal, Alexis 30â31
Vidal, Gore: appearance and character 10, 147, 156, 404, 530; considers changing nationality 10, 85, 138; and Jack Kerouac 10â11; in London 10â11; and Truman Capote 10, 199, 341, 404; and Howard Austen 11, 102
n
, 136; recommends books 11; in California 85, 134, 136, 138, 156, 403â4, 462, 501, 530, 537; on Forster's death 85; political career 85, 147; plans for novel on Sri Krishna 134; trip to India 134, 136; and Anaïs Nin 136; appearance on “The Merv Griffin Show” 147; on death of novel 157; contributor to
Antaeus
magazine 169; and National Institute of Arts and Letters 199, 404; Gerald Clarke article on 295â6; in Rome 340â41; villa in Ravello 341; and Gavin Lambert 404; on Nixon 404; on punishment for homosexuals 531; review of C.I.'s
Christopher and His Kind
670;
812â13
Burr
341, 404;
The City and the Pillar
11;
Myra Breckinridge
263;
Two Sisters
10, 136
Vidor, King 281,
813
Vidyatmananda, Swami (Vidya)
see
Prema Chaitanya
Viereck, G.S. 403
Viertel, Berthold 481, 614, 615
Viertel, Peter 302, 326, 336â9, 387, 444, 481, 557, 594,
813
;
White Hunter, Black Heart
415, 422, 430â31, 444
Viertel, Salka: in Switzerland 302, 326, 337, 338, 339; in California 405, 409, 410, 414, 415, 416, 481, 614, 615; death 594;
814
Vietnam War: antiwar movement 8, 82,
779
; Gore Vidal's views on 10; C.I.'s anxieties about 81; Nixon and 82, 161, 261, 268; films on 83; Tom Hayden's lectures on 261â2, 266, 270, 275, 277; peace talks 268; in Osborne's
A Sense of Detachment
321; Auden's reported remarks on 394; Ivan Moffat joke about 478; deserters 527
Vijnanananda, Swami 417â18
Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat, France 36, 389, 390
Village Voice
(newspaper) 221
Vincent, Jan-Michael 494, 506
Visconti, Luchino:
The Damned
45;
The Leopard
574
Vishwananda, Swami 9,
814
“Visit to Anselm Oakes, A” (C.I.; story) 521
Vivekananda, Swami (Narendra/Naren; Swamiji): centenary celebrations xxvii, xxxii; puja 4, 147, 217â18, 419, 493, 535; letter to Hale sisters 82; and C.I.'s meditation 101, 106, 286â7; on Americans running Vedanta Societies 109; C.I. dreams about 212; in C.I.'s introduction to
Vedanta for the Western World
260, 436; Prabhavananda's visions of 260, 436; writings 269, 294, 429, 436, 445, 446, 450, 490
n
; views on death and dying 286â7, 446;
814
Vivekananda House, Pasadena, California 456
Vividishananda, Swami 269,
815
;
A Man of God
570, 573
Voeller, Bruce 650â51,
815
Voight, Jon: marriage to Marcheline Bertrand 215, 311, 360; possible role in
A Meeting by the River
226, 227, 433â4; possible role in “Frankenstein” television film 233, 242, 291; arranges lecture series on Indochina 261, 275; proposes film version of
The Idiot
291, 311; twenty-fifth anniversary production of
A Streetcar Named Desire
343, 346, 348, 349, 410; appearance and character 410, 425; in
Hamlet
499;
815
Voight, Marcheline
see
Bertrand, Marcheline
Vollmöller, Karl,
The Miracle
383
von Adlmann, Jan 431
von Praunheim, Rosa (Holger Mischwitzky) 65
von Stroheim, Erich 170
von Wiedenmen, Don 476, 477
n
Â
Wachs, Joel 495
Wagner, Robert 412
Walcott, Derek,
In a Fine Castle
232
Walkabout
(film) 197
Walker, Robert, Jr. 128
Wallis, Alan 504, 514, 537
Wallwork, Leslie 487, 582, 587, 595â6, 607, 612,
815
Walsh, Doug (pseud.) 160, 161, 180, 204, 529
Wan, Barney 511, 658,
815â16
Wanderings
see
Christopher and His Kind
Ward, Simon 394, 566, 572, 600, 602,
816