Relationship with C.I. xi, xiii–xvii, xviii–xxii, xxviii–xxix; C.I.’s love for viii, xxxvi–xxxvii, 44, 52, 58, 64, 118, 158, 260–61, 360, 392, 423, 465, 478, 515; C.I.’s jealousy over lovers xiv, xix–xx, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, 264–5, 289, 295, 296, 455, 524; hides friends from C.I. xiv, 75; spiritual and mystical dimensions of relationship xv, xx, xxxvii, 296, 438, 465, 503, 510, 515, 519, 543; moral and emotional support for C.I. 5–6, 158; C.I.’s pride in 10, 26 –7, 71, 99, 119, 388; C.I. misses while apart 18, 20, 21, 45, 49, 126, 130, 131, 132, 140, 207, 274, 335, 341, 345, 347, 348, 356, 366, 391, 393, 451, 502, 510, 512, 513, 516 –17, 517, 558; seeks greater independence from C.I. 26 –7, 35, 178, 195, 212, 226, 244, 371; C.I. fears separation from 43, 73, 87, 120, 123, 159, 370, 522; C.I.’s happiness with 52, 64, 96, 100, 149, 173, 176, 182, 201, 205, 242, 336, 350, 361, 376, 385, 399, 400, 436, 438, 455, 457, 459, 492, 497, 539, 541, 580–81; jealousy over C.I.’s relationships 92, 260; C.I. worries about 144, 274, 445, 531; crises in relationship 154, 155, 156, 219 –20, 269, 272, 276 –7; love for C.I. 205–6, 423, 465, 478; tenth anniversary of meeting 265, 266; C.I. buys ring for 276 –7; twelfth anniversary 354; fifteenth anniversary 497
Bachardy, Glade (Don’s mother) 15–16, 17, 172, 177, 219, 261, 365, 485, 548, 606
Bachardy, Jess (Don’s father) 177, 485, 493, 548, 606
Bachardy, Ted (Don’s brother) 45, 176, 212, 225; mental breakdowns 49, 51, 252–3, 258, 340, 354, 379, 380, 383, 482, 484–5, 534, 535, 541, 599; Don’s relations with 87, 379, 485, 535, 541; and Vince Davis 125–6, 188, 236, 258; C.I.’s relations with 126, 354; and Don’s relations with their mother 172; imprisonment for shoplifting 175, 187, 188; on Don’s depressions 235; claims to have agent 340; childhood 365; plans to renew Screen Actors’ Guild membership 380; C.I. and Don see on beach 461; arrested for threatening policeman 482, 484–5; 606 –7
Bacon, Francis 118, 119, 248, 263, 607
Baker, Wakefield 221
Bakersfield, California 273
Balanchine, George 352, 392, 567, 607
Baldwin, James 354; Another Country 295
Balzac, Honoré de 196; La Peau de chagrin 329; Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes 196
Banfer Gallery, New York 343, 344, 347
Bankhead, Tallulah 458
Barasat, West Bengal 324n
Barber, John 80–81
Barbette (performer) 194, 199, 227–8, 229, 607
Barclift, Edgar Nelson 508
Bardot, Brigitte 436, 452
Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood 184
Barnett, Jimmy 132, 133, 397–8, 582, 607–8
Barod, Nick 181, 192, 217
Barrie, Michael: treated by Dr. Max Cutler 36n; and Gerald Heard 54, 127, 172, 197, 208, 243, 338, 389, 406, 409; on guest list for C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55; friendship and socializing with C.I. 127, 172, 174, 186, 248, 256, 259, 372; tells joke 130; and Charles Laughton 195; travels to Europe with Heard 208, 259; gives bed to Don Bachardy 233; photographs of Europe 259; sends Triple Revolution pamphlet to C.I. 354; and documentary on Stravinsky 359; and Aldous Huxley 361; brings puppy to supper with C.I. 372; feud with Chris Wood 379 –80; at opening of Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and dedication of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 406, 411; trip to Hawaii 409; and Heard’s illness 442–3, 458–9, 462, 464, 474, 485, 508, 522, 524, 530, 553, 557; 608
Bates, H.E. 108
Batson, Susan 546, 548, 549, 550, 559, 563, 608
Battle, Tom 240
Baxter, Anne 126, 387, 444, 608
Baxter, Walter 120
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) 60, 63
Bayless, Mr. (handyman) 125, 126
BBC 85, 96, 99, 565; adaptation of Turgenev’s The Torrents of Spring 422, 428, 445
“Beach of Falesá, The” (proposed film) 3, 6 –7, 159
Bean, Marshall 483–4
Beatles, The (band) 339, 588
Beaton, Cecil: Don Bachardy meets in New York 14, 16; C.I. and Bachardy visit and socialize with in England 76, 117, 118; reads C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 79; dines with C.I. in California 272, 297, 344; on Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones 272; argument with Elsa Lanchester 277; at Bachardy’s birthday party 277; and Kin Hoitsma 472; 608 Diaries 96, 100; The Wandering Years 77n
Beats (cultural movement) 473
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau film) 457
Beckerman, Sidney 550–51, 564, 566, 569
Beckett, Samuel 342; Happy Days 427
Beckmann, Mathilde von Kaulbach 304, 306, 330, 609 –610
Bedazzled (film) 517
Bedford, Brian 387, 543–4, 609
Bedford, Sybille 541
Beerbohm, Max, Seven Men 470
Beesley, Alec 66, 73–5, 103, 104, 447, 501, 609
Beesley, Dodie Smith 66, 73–5, 103, 104, 373, 445, 447, 501, 609; Autumn Crocus 105; Dear Octopus 493; The New Moon with the Old 292
Behrman, S.N. 215n, 609
Bellow, Saul 367
Belmondo, Jean-Paul 347
Belur Math, West Bengal xxii, 278, 291, 303– 314, 320, 326, 328–33, 396, 406, 432–3, 525, 592–3
Benares 307
Benchley, Robert 575
Bengston, Billy Al 465, 609 –610
Bennett, Alan 65n, 87, 610
Bennett, Arnold 122
Bennett, Lou 170
Berchtesgaden 414, 573
Bergfeldt, Bill 212, 240
Bergman, Ingrid 465–6
Berkeley, University of California at: Writers’ Conference (1960) 32–3; C.I.’s lectures and talks at 191, 273n, 275, 284; possibility of lectureship for C.I. 238, 267, 269
Berlin crisis (1961) 70, 73, 77, 79, 84, 85, 95, 98–9, 101–2, 103, 105–6, 106 –7, 114, 125, 131, 139, 224, 610–611
Best Years of our Lives, The (film) 106
Beyond the Fringe (satirical revue) 65, 87
Bhaghavad Gita, C.I. and Prabhavananda’s translation 9 & n, 265n, 399, 516
Bhave, Vinoba 136
Bierman, Dr. 199
Big Sur, California 340, 341
Biswas, Dr. G.K. 319, 320
Black Power (political movement) 473, 486, 522–3, 546
Blakeston, Oswell 100
Blanch, Lesley 4, 611
Blow-up (film) 429
blue movies 476 –7, 485
Blum, Irving 565, 566, 593, 595, 597, 598, 611–12
Blumberg, Morrie 141, 142
Boer War 542, 544, 560
Bogart, Paul 544
Book Society (book club) 197
Booth, Bradford 483
Boothby, Robert 97
Bopp, Bill 253, 256, 259, 260, 264–5, 266, 272, 612
Bora Bora, Leeward Islands 571, 575–6
Boris Godunov (opera) 234
Bornstein, Stephen 387
Boston, Vedanta center 226, 236
Bouché, R.R. 16, 264, 283
Bouman, Mrs. (at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture) 314
“Boutique” (television show) 508
Bower, Antoinette 387, 402, 472, 635
Bower, Tony 125, 612
Bowles, Paul xx, 256, 612
Boyer, Charles 215, 216
Brackett, Charles and Muff 130–31, 188, 423, 500–501, 612
Bradbury, Ray 251, 519 –20, 612–13
Bradley, Alan 61, 90–91, 123–4, 613
Bradley, Edna (Alan’s wife) 123–4
Bradley, Evelyn (Dan’s wife) 419, 420
Bradshaw, Booker 572, 577, 613
Bradshaw, Judge John (17th-century ancestor of C.I.) 589
Brahman 34, 157, 301, 377, 478, 613
Brahmananda, Swami (Maharaj): and Prabhavananda 133, 210, 253, 267, 279, 303, 357, 410, 438, 507, 532, 561, 562; and Ramakrishna 257, 562; puja 262; C.I. article on 277; native village 322, 324; on morality 401; 613
Brahmo Samaj 178
Braine, John 101
Brando, Marlon 82, 135, 136, 342, 381, 613–14
Brecht, Bertolt, The
Threepenny Opera 26
Breese, Eleanor 58, 614
Bridger, Bill 82
Bridges, James (Jimmy, Jim): friendship and socializing with C.I. 192, 216, 217, 218, 229, 297, 361, 366, 392, 397, 402, 426 –7, 433, 466, 494, 496, 500, 507, 555, 557, 599; relationship with Jack Larson 192, 361, 366, 426 –7, 433, 477, 496, 509, 510, 540, 555; creates “secret conversations” 229; in C.I.’s dream 308; recalls first love affair 361; film script writing 366, 381, 563, 599n; story about Navajo extras 381–2; suggests C.I. for film script work 386; The Papyrus Plays 393; and Nellie Carroll 427; and project to film Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” 457, 469, 479, 525; and stage adaptation of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 457, 466, 475, 479, 496, 499, 507, 509 –510, 520, 521, 522, 528, 532, 538, 547, 563, 570, 576 –7; at Jerry Lawrence’s blue movie party 476; buys Frank Lloyd Wright house with Larson 477, 493, 494; Leslie Caron stays with 502–3, 507; attends Vedanta temple 510; on Los Angeles Press personal ads 513; trip to San Diego with C.I. to see Hamlet 517–18; and Larson’s play Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul 521, 522, 526, 563, 570; brings two young lovers to dinner with C.I. 528; watches Apollo 8 lunar mission 534; in New York 538, 554; receives bad reviews for plays 538; and The Living Theatre company 547; screenplay for The Babymaker 563, 599n; 614
Bristow, Mark 492, 521
Britten, Benjamin 443
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights 140, 170, 421
Brooks, Richard 428, 431, 433
Brown, Anthony Cave 220, 221
Brown, Bill (painter): C.I. first meets 248; painting style 248; and Paul Wonner 248, 288; C.I.’s friendship and socializing with 260, 287, 288, 362, 374, 425, 472; gives drawing to C.I. 260; gives directions to San Francisco 273; shares studio with Don Bachardy 280, 283, 289; in C.I.’s dream 308; views on Bachardy’s work 343, 362; and the Stravinskys 374, 559; recommends chiropractor 396; house above Malibu 478; meditation 517; sees Fortune and Men’s Eyes with C.I. 541; and Jo Masselink 557, 576; new house at Montecito 565; trip to South America 565, 576; 614
Brown, Harry 185, 297, 615
Bruckner, J.D.R. 459 –60
Brush, Albert 202
brush fires 79, 130, 132, 137, 144, 272, 273, 343, 478
Buchholz, Horst 462, 496, 615
Buchholz, Myriam 462
Buckingham, May 71, 76, 447, 448, 615
Buckingham, Robert (Bob) 71, 76, 191, 447, 615
Buckingham, Robin 191
Buckle, Christopher Richard (Dicky) 543, 546, 554, 615
Buckley, William F. 502, 523, 615–16
Buddha 564–5
Buddha Chaitanya see Griggs, Philip
Budhananda 393
Buñuel, Luis 44, 266
Burd, Helen 284
Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange 273, 394
Bürgi, Maria 309 –310, 321, 322, 616
Burns, David (pseud.) 523, 524, 525–6, 533, 534
Burns, John Horne, The Gallery 407–8
Burton, Philip 113, 116
Burton, Richard 58n, 95, 97, 113, 116, 336, 342, 450; “The Beach at Falesá” project with C.I. 3, 6, 159; 616 Burton, Sybil 58n, 95, 116
Butler, Samuel, Notebooks 403–4
Byron, George, Lord 170, 289, 345, 404; Don Juan 366 –7, 374
Cabaret (film): success of xxxiv; sale of rights446, 550–51, 585; Tony Harvey as possible director 550–51, 554, 556, 564, 566; C.I.’s and Don Bachardy’s treatment 556, 560, 563, 564, 566, 569; income from 556, 566, 569
Cabaret (musical): C.I.’s dislike of xxxiii, 425, 426; income from xxxiii, 425, 432, 436, 446, 452, 465, 519; New York production xxxiii, 422–3, 424; success of xxxiii–xxxiv, 424, 425, 436, 499; London production xxxiv, 499, 519
Caine, Michael 446
Calcutta 297, 303, 306 –7, 312, 316, 317, 321, 332; Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture 314–16, 317–18, 327; Calcutta Club 315–16; Star Theater 316
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, Lone Wolf 88
Calhoun, Tom 176
California: C.I. settles in xi, xii; earthquake predictions and scares 47, 367, 467, 543, 544, 550, 551–2; earthquakes 47, 335, 435, 467, 506, 546, 557, 560; C.I. misses while away 62, 64, 71, 82; brush fires 79, 130, 132, 137, 144, 272, 273, 343, 478; C.I.’s horror of “advertisement life” 131; chaparral 272–3
California State University, Los Angeles: C.I. takes part in television round table discussion 519 –20; see also Los Angeles State College
Calley, John 339, 356n, 616 –17
Camarillo State Mental Hospital 354, 379, 534
Cambridge: C.I.’s trip with Marguerite Lamkin 48; C.I. visits Forster in 103, 104–5, 117, 420–21; Corpus Christi College 448; St. John’s College 595
Campbell, Alan 160, 171, 173, 194, 280, 617
Campbell, Dean 266, 281–2, 617
Campbell, Douglas 546, 548, 549, 617
Campbell, Michael, Lord Dismiss Us 510
Camus, Albert 392; The Stranger 184, 188
Canary Islands 116
Canberra 571, 585–6
Cannes 109, 110
Capote, Truman: praises C.I.’s Down There on a Visit xiii, 77; Black and White Ball xxxiii, 422, 423, 425; C.I. meets in London 76, 77; in Europe 105; socializes with C.I. in California 346, 422–3; Don Bachardy’s views on 422, 500; on title of C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 422; “A Christmas Memory” (television show) 433; bookseller’s catalogue entry for autograph postcard 445–6; C.I. and Bachardy visit at Palm Springs 497, 540, 542–3; 617
Answered Prayers 543n; In Cold Blood 346
Carlson, Chester 304, 306, 311, 319, 332
Caron, Leslie 502–3, 507, 544–5, 563, 573, 597, 617–18
Carroll, Nellie 427, 436, 618
Carter, Allan (Michael Sean) 365, 396, 397, 405–6
Caskey, William (Bill) xvi, 18, 47n, 75, 140, 246, 275, 355, 373, 618
Cassini, Oleg 182, 198, 200, 201, 202
Castro, Fidel 60n, 235, 236, 241
Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady 38; One of Ours 38; The Song of the Lark 301, 311, 313
Cavafy, Constantine 140
Cavalcanti, Guido, Ezra Pound translations 494
CBS (television network) 181
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles 141, 210, 226, 237, 238, 246, 294
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara 503–4, 505
Cesar (circus performer) 228, 229
Cézanne, Paul 233
Chamberlain, Richard 130n, 618
Chant d’Amour, Un (film) 344n
Chaplin, Charlie 246, 495
Chapman, Bill 319
Chapman, Hester 68, 618–19
Chapman, Kent 53–4, 211, 619
Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film) 452, 453, 481
Charlton, Jim: Herald and Examiner delivered to 17; on 1960 presidential election 24; friendship and socializing with C.I. 45, 233, 265; character 47, 199; marriage 47; stays at C.I.’s house 47 & n; diary 172; in Japan 172; views on Japanese 199, 208; fictional writings 270; Japanese prints 275; in C.I.’s dream 308; relationship with “Mark Cooper” 308n, 387, 590–91; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and Gavin Lambert 391; settles in Honolulu 460, 493, 534, 590; life at Sandy Bay House 495; C.I. stays with in Honolulu 571, 590–91; 619
Charlton, Richard 452
Charterhouse (school) 421