Kaufman, Doris see Dowling, Doris
Kaufman, Leonard (Len) 3, 207, 500, 655
Kaye, Danny 135
Keach, Stacy 529
Kearsey, A.H.C., War Record of the York and Lancaster Regiment 560
Kennedy, Jacqueline (later Onassis) 68, 531–2
Kennedy, John F.: 1960 election 20, 23–4, 25–6; Berlin crisis 70n, 95; and Gore Vidal 131, 299; and crackdown on U.S. Steel 182; Cuban Missile Crisis 241, 243; assassinated 297, 298, 299, 350
Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier 299
Kennedy, Paul 48, 54, 218; cancer and death 192, 193–4, 195, 196, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203, 205, 211–12, 212–13, 260; 655
Kennedy, Robert (Bobby) 262; assassinated 518
Kerouac, Jack, The Dharma Bums 403, 470
Kerr, John 192
Khrushchev, Nikita: Berlin crisis 70n, 98; exposure of Stalin’s purges 130n, 142; and Nehru 136; Cuban Missile Crisis 234
Kid from Spain, The (film) 456
Kimbrough, Clinton: and Gavin Lambert 391, 397, 427, 433, 460, 466; trip to Mexico with Lambert 393; acting career 427–8, 431, 433, 436, 438; 655
Kincheloe, Bill 477
King of Kings (film) 198–9
King, Martin Luther: assassinated 502, 503, 504n, 506; funeral 506, 507
Kingston, Jeremy 115, 656; The Prisoner I Keep (unpublished) 69, 70
Kinsey, Alfred 50
Kipling, Rudyard, “If” 369
Kirov Ballet 345, 346
Kirstein, Lincoln 114n, 147, 148, 153, 352–3, 366, 375, 594, 656; Rhymes of a PFC 353
Kiskadden, Peggy 261; and Aldous Huxley 282, 297; C.I.’s relations with 297, 369, 380, 474; and Gerald Heard 457; breast cancer 494–5; 656 –7
Kiskadden, William (Bill) 282, 494–5, 657
Klein, Roger 286
Kneale, Nigel, Quatermass and the Pit 98
Knight, Franklin 133, 240, 301, 309, 657
Knight (magazine) 522
Knox, George 432
Knox, Ronnie: relationship with Renate Druks 237, 259, 272, 387, 394, 405; family background 258, 259, 405; football career 258–9, 394; C.I. visits 272; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and Gavin Lambert 391, 466; friendship and socializing with C.I. 393, 442, 524; writings 394–5, 405, 522; deliberately scratches himself 409; Bachardy loans car to 502; drives Stravinskys’ car to New York 524; 657
Kolisch, Dr. Joseph 134, 279, 657–8
Kopit, Arthur 81
Kowloon 303
Kraft, Henry (pseud.): relationship with Don Bachardy 269, 277, 280, 282, 283, 289, 291, 295, 296, 298, 455; leaves boyfriend 286 –7; photography 287; C.I. gives books to 288; C.I. refuses to meet again 289, 296; calls with news of Kennedy assassination 297; C.I. encounters at cinema 534
Kraft, Mickey (student at U.C. Riverside) 395
Krakatoa eruption (1883) 356
Kramer, Stanley 176
Krishna (earlier George Fitts): character 9; visits C.I. 23; in Laguna Beach 212; at Trabuco 278–9, 598; and Prema 278–9, 313; trip to India with Prabhavananda and C.I. 301, 302, 308, 309, 314, 315, 318, 322, 323–4, 333; 658 Krishna Menon, V.K. 236 –7 Krishnamurti 135, 539, 545, 658
Kruger, Rayne, Goodbye Dolly Grey 560
Kubrick, Stanley 200, 499; 2001 506, 519, 525
Kuch, Dick 97
Kuh, Fred 488
Kurella, Tania see Stern, Tania Kurtzman, Dr. (dentist) 466
Laguna Beach xvi, 18, 174, 175; “monks’ picnic” 210, 285, 286; Camel Point Drive (Ruth Conrad’s house) 212, 286
Lal, P. 329
Lambert, Gavin: friendship and socializing with C.I. 4, 5, 129, 130, 140, 194, 199, 202, 207, 221, 229, 234, 241, 250, 366, 397, 433, 435, 460, 478–9, 496, 498, 503, 505–6, 507; screenplay for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 5, 32; collaboration on script for The Vacant Room 35, 159; and Don Bachardy 42, 169, 170, 185; at Marguerite Lamkin’s party 46; praises C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 54; new house 129; recommends doctor 177; and Paul Kennedy 192; C.I. reads novel 193, 194; concerned about stock market 193; screenplay for The Night of the Iguana 216; buys Bachardy’s portrait of Lotte Lenya 222; on Cuban Missile Crisis 234; Another Sky 250; trip to Mexico 258; sees psychotherapist about panic attacks 261–2; and Gore Vidal 262; and Dorothy Parker 280; comments on C.I.’s draft of A Single Man 283; undiagnosed dysentery 285; composes telegram to Time magazine with C.I. 287; recuperates at Joan Houseman’s 287; advises taking Librium 299; criticizes Spender’s article on Huxley 299; in C.I.’s dream 308; suggestions for C.I.’s Exhumations 339; lends book to C.I. 345; Budd Cherry stays with 362, 366; outburst against Jews 367; reads drafts of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 367, 371, 397; trip to Europe 377; at supper with Allen Ginsberg 387–8; and Clint Kimbrough 391, 397, 427, 433, 460, 466; trip to Mexico with Kimbrough 393; trip to Haiti and Central America 430, 434, 435, 436; Norman’s Letter (novel) 435; goes to Ingrid Bergman’s birthday party 465–6; abscess 466; at Jerry Lawrence’s blue movie party 476; praises John Rechy’s Numbers 478–9; and Stephen Spender 506; at Marlene Dietrich show 511; at Jennifer Jones’s party 523; and proposed film of Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” 525; dislikes Jack Larson’s play 529; and stage adaptation of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 529, 543; watches Apollo 8 lunar mission 534; attends Krishnamurti seminars 539; anecdote about encounter in public men’s room 584; screenplay for The Woman Who Rode Away 584–5; 658–9
Lamkin, Marguerite: C.I. stays with in London ix, 447; marriage to Rory Harrity 6, 8; C.I. socializes with in California 46; twenty-first birthday party for Don Bachardy 119; in New York 146, 153, 156; interviews C.I. 156; Bachardy stays in New York apartment 299; trip to Cambridge with C.I. 448; Charles and Muff Brackett enquire about 501; Bachardy stays with in London 503; 659
Lamkin, Speed 130, 229, 659
Lanchester, Elsa (Mrs. Charles Laughton): relations with Laughton 14, 17, 29, 32, 38, 139, 202, 204; acting career 15, 36, 41, 47, 55; and Ray Henderson 29, 203–4, 500, 505, 514, 598; and Terry Jenkins 32, 204, 210; friendship and socializing with C.I. 129, 203–4, 277, 508, 513–14; and Laughton’s final illness 194–5, 196, 198, 202, 207–8, 210, 211, 221, 222, 237–8, 239, 244, 246, 249, 514, 515; and Laughton’s funeral 249, 250, 251–2; house neighboring C.I.’s 260, 435, 533; argument with Cecil Beaton 277; Don Bachardy’s views on 277; at opening for Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; and proposed Dogskin musical 475, 500, 505, 526, 579; research for book on Laughton 508, 513, 514; Bachardy dreams about 543; 659 –60
Lane, Homer xxiii, 660
Lange, David 1, 55, 660
Lange, Hope: friendship and socializing with C.I. 1, 6, 10, 34, 36, 39, 40–41, 55, 219; relationship with Glenn Ford 1, 40–41, 138–9, 140, 219, 263; marriage to Don Murray 40; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 223; 660
Lansbury, Angela 10n, 114, 173, 661
Lansbury, Bruce 173, 661
Laos crisis (1960-61) 38, 39, 40, 41, 70n, 661
Larmore, Alexandra (Xan) 130, 239, 661
Larmore, James 239, 280, 661
Larson, Jack: friendship and socializing with C.I. 192, 216, 217–18, 229, 297, 366, 392, 397, 402, 426, 433, 494, 496, 500, 507, 599; relationship with Jim Bridges 192, 361, 366, 426 –7, 433, 477, 496, 509, 510, 540, 555; and Montgomery Clift 217–18, 402; and Paul Kennedy 218; in C.I.’s dream 308; dog killed in accident 356, 361; acting career 366; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; reads C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 397; and death of Frank O’Hara 402–3; worries about aging 426; libretto for Lord Byron 427, 554, 555; mental attacks 427; at Timothy Leary show 440; in New York 472, 526, 554, 555; at Jerry Lawrence’s blue movie party 476; buys Frank Lloyd Wright house with Bridges 477, 493, 494; Leslie Caron stays with 502–3, 507; patriotism 502; trip to San Diego with C.I. to see Hamlet 517–18; Bachardy consults about co-writing of A Meeting by the River 526; watches Apollo 8 lunar mission 534; and The Living Theatre company 547;
organizes protest letter against Life magazine 564; 661–2
Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul (play) 521, 522, 526, 529, 563, 570
Las Vegas 507, 557
Latouche, Paul (pseud.) 280, 281
Laughlin, Michael 545n, 563, 573, 662
Laughton, Charles: Plato/Socrates project with C.I. xii, 6 & n, 7, 35, 37, 38, 41, 42, 49, 139, 140, 143, 144, 148, 154; life-style xxix, 7–8, 204, 513; gall bladder operation 6n, 7, 13–14, 514; house neighboring C.I.’s 7, 29, 129; travels to Japan with Terry Jenkins 13, 17; relations with Elsa Lanchester 14, 17, 29, 32, 38, 55, 139, 202, 204; violent self-harming attacks 14; on Lanchester’s acting 15; relations with Jenkins 15, 29, 32, 47–8, 139, 195, 208, 514; acting style 91, 129; in New York 193; final illness 194–5, 196, 198, 201–2, 204, 207–8, 211, 221, 222, 514, 515; spiritual beliefs 195, 202, 247; in Cedars of Lebanon hospital 210, 226 –7, 237–8, 239, 246 –7; refuses to leave hospital 244, 246; returns home 249; death 250, 261, 366; funeral 250, 251–2; Lanchester and Ned Hoopes work on book about 508, 513, 514; 662
Laughton, Elsa see Lanchester, Elsa
Laughton, Frank 237, 239, 250
Laurence, Marlene 190, 196
Laurents, Arthur 245, 662
Lavenham, Suffolk 74
Lawrence, Brother, The Practice of the Presence of God 527
Lawrence, Christopher 96, 97–8, 109
Lawrence, D.H. 404, 451, 555, 571, 589; Lady Chatterley’s Lover 71; The Virgin and the Gipsy 140; The Boy in the Bush 585
Lawrence, Frieda 555n, 589
Lawrence, Jerome (Jerry): all-male parties xxxi, 47, 354, 476 –7; New Year’s Eve (1960) 37, 39, 40; friendship and socializing with C.I. 44–5, 170, 216, 219, 257, 266 –7, 467–8; and Paul Kennedy 205; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 223; lecture with C.I. at UCLA 225, 236; arrangement of books in lavatory 267; and Dorothy Tutin 270; signatory to telegram to Time magazine 287; reads final draft of C.I.’s A Single Man 290; on success of Cabaret 424; life-style 467–8; 662–3
Lawrence of Arabia (film) 256
Layard, John xxiii, 18, 663
Lazar, Irving (Swifty) 543, 663
Lazenby, George 597n
Le Corbusier 129
Leacock, Stephen 575
Leary, Timothy 439 –40, 453
Ledebur, Christian (Boon) and Henrietta 40, 663–4
Lederer, Charles 37, 39, 40, 349, 664
Lee, Robert (Bob) 287, 519 –20, 664
“Legend of Silent Night, The” (T.V. special) xxxiii, 401, 403, 407, 422, 425, 428, 534, 536, 597
Legg, Bill 355
Lehmann, Beatrix (Peggy) 103–4, 586, 664
Lehmann, Helen 68, 664
Lehmann, John 99, 103, 299, 544, 546, 547, 548–9, 552, 664–5
Lehmann, Rosamond 134, 453, 665
Leibermann, Rolf 359n
Leigh, Vivien 75, 344n; death 453; 665
Leighton, Margaret (Maggie) 99, 150, 400, 435, 665–6
Lenya, Lotte 26, 104, 174, 222, 666
Leonard, Rosemary 537
Leopard, The (film) 292
Leopold, Michael 362, 379, 429 –30, 666
leprosy 320
Lesser, Julian 189
Lester, Dr. Jim 253
LeSueur, Joe 403, 427, 434, 435, 496
Levant, Oscar 41, 666
Levitt, Amy 518
Levy, Miranda (Mirandi) 254, 359, 552, 666
Lévy, Raoul 386
Lewenstein, Oscar 34
Lewis, C.S., The Screwtape Letters 452
Lewis, Dr. Jack 16 –17, 131, 666
Lewis, Jerry, restaurant of 262, 263
Lewis, Sinclair 134
Lieberson, Goddard 57
Life (magazine) 285, 310, 393, 409, 534, 564
Limerick 445
Lind, Roger (pseud.) 484
Lindbergh, Charles, We 267
Lindsay, John 350
Linville, William 373
Lion in Winter, The (film) 551
Lions and Shadows (C.I.) xxiii, 441
List, Herbert 216n, 412, 667
Little Rock, Arkansas 181–2
Littlewood, Joan 85–6 Livermore, Robert 364
Living Theatre, The (theater company) 547–8
Locke, Charles O. 462, 667
Lodge, Carter 34, 36, 70, 159, 239, 551n, 667
Loew, Arthur 339 –40
Lokeswarananda, Swami 319, 320
Lolita (film) 200
London: C.I. joins Don Bachardy (1961) xiii, 58–9; Bachardy visits alone (1961) 44–5; (1968), 502, 503, 504, 509, 514; (1969) 572, 576 –7, 578, 581; youth fashions 61; traffic 62; C.I.’s views on 71, 83, 131, 413; C.I. stays on return from Austria (1966) 412–13, 419, 422; C.I.’s trip to (1967) 447–8, 452–3; see also England
London Magazine 170
Long Beach, California 241–2, 575, 576
Long Beach State College, C.I. lectures at 475, 481–2
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 251
Loos, Anita 452
Lord, Bart 49, 667
Lorenz, Konrad, On Aggression 537
Los Angeles: smog 41–2, 214, 377, 465, 486, 567; hillside developments 46 –7; brush fires 79, 130, 132, 137, 144, 478; downtown 175, 365; freeway construction 230, 253, 365, 567; high-rise developments 365, 385, 388, 469 –70; landslides 497, 542, 544, 545, 598
Los Angeles City College 183, 184, 185
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 44
Los Angeles Herald and Express 17
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 550, 551
Los Angeles Press, personal ads 512–13
Los Angeles State College (L.A. State): C.I. teaches at xii, 9, 140, 144, 159, 166, 169, 170, 175–6, 177, 181–2, 190–91, 192–3, 195, 468; C.I. declines teaching positions 23, 66, 192; chariot races 186; Pacific Coast Writers’ Conference 280; see also California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times 130, 136, 141, 224, 377, 384, 424, 459, 464, 550, 552
Loskota, Bill 477
Louis, Dorothy (Shraddha) 226
“Love-in” (Elsyian Park, 1967) 444
Loved One, The (film) xxix, 336, 337, 338, 339, 341, 344, 346, 348, 352n, 356 –7
Loy, Myrna 106, 146, 184, 383, 667
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) 2, 244, 254, 297, 306, 480, 481, 542
Luce, Clare Boothe 139, 254, 255, 257, 379 –80, 391–2, 409, 667–8
Luce, Henry 139, 254, 379 –80, 409, 667–8
Lüdecke, Wenzel 382–3
Ludington, Wright 24, 249, 261, 668
Lurie, Alison 362
Luscombe, John 109
Lyme Cage (hunting lodge) (Cheshire) 420
Lynes, George Platt 45, 668
lysergic acid see LSD
M. see Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (C.I.’s mother) and Gupta, Mahendranath
MacBird! (stage production) 446
McBurney, C.B.M. 105
McCallum, Pat 539, 721
McCarthy, Eugene 508
McCarthy, Mary 505
MacDermott, Christopher 395–6
McDonnell, Ken 275–6, 462–3, 469, 471, 488–9
Macgill, Moyna 224
McGuire, Dorothy 194
Mackenzie-Young, Mr. (dentist) 104, 115
McKinnon, Russell 126, 131, 225; supports Don Bachardy’s studies at the Slade 35, 37–8, 41, 42, 43; 672
Macklem, Francesca (Jill) 15, 668