Myra-Breckinridge-Gore-Vidal

and are private because quote I am doing some researchon the I think she said post Rosen berg generation she isprobably a Commie along with everything else but I have tohandle little Miss Dynamite with kid gloves so I gave herpermission after all theres nothing interesting in any of themreports just a routine physical checkup at the be ginning oftheir academic life we did consider once taking nakedpictures like they do at Yale but the girls objected or to beexact the mothers and fathers of the girls objected eventhough this is the era of the Playboy bunny so that verygood idea came to naught period paragraph changemasseuses ap pointment from this afternoon to tomorrowas I must go in to town for a conference with Letitia VanAllen the best actors agent in this town for young stars oftomorrow having in her pocket practically her own key tocasting at Universal dont forget to pick up sour cream forBobbies beef Stroganoff 21 I am sitting beside Mary-Annat the CBS television studio on Fairfax Avenue. Though it isonly a caricature of a film studio, the ultimate effect isimpressive. So impressive in fact that I am more than evercertain that the movies are now a mere subsidiary to thiselectronic device for projecting images around the world at,literally, the speed of light. What it will mean, I have not yetworked out. But it is now plain that the classic age of filmshas ended and will not return any more than verse drama,despite the wonder of the Jacobeans, has a chance ofrevival. Of course visual narratives will always be filmed andshown if not in theatres on television. Yet the nature of thosenarratives is bound to change as television creates a new