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...Died. Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, 82, widow of the playwright, a minor actress but great beauty of the '20s; in Westwood, NJ. "The first time I met O'Neill," she once recalled, "I thought him the rudest man I'd ever seen. And he had no use for me." They both soon thought differently, and after a tempestuous courtship, were married in 1929. She brought a semblance of stability to his life, putting his affairs in order, typing his manuscripts and looking after his poor health. He responded with bursts of creative energy, notably Mourning Becomes...
...Joan Didion's updated version of Norman Mailer's Marion. Like Marion, BZ is homosexual. Yet he has all the accounrements to make it in the world Maria can no longer handle: he's a film producer; his body is fine and tan; and his mother, Carlotta, twice divorced and $35 million to her name, even sees fit to keep him provided with a present, if rarely loving, wife. But perhaps just because he knows he has made it, just as Maria knows she can never make it, BZ is a kindred spirit, capable of also seeing the nothingness beneath...
...Joan Didion's updated version of Norman Mailer's Marion. Like Marion, BZ is homosexual. Yet he has all the accouterments to make it in the world Maria can no longer handle: he's a film producer; his body is fine and tan; and his mother, Carlotta, twice divorced and $35 million to her name, even sees fit to keep him provided with a present, if rarely loving, wife. But perhaps just because he knows he has made it, just as Maria knows she can never make it, BZ is a kindred spirit, capable of also seeing the nothingness beneath...
Meanwhile, down in New York, Jensen Jensen's family is entirely different. Living in a sprawling apartment on Riverside Drive, Jensen maintains a group marriage menage. His marriage partners are Carlotta, Emery, Marian, and Clancy. Most often Jensen is paired off with Carlotta, and Emery with Marian. At odd times, when he is lonely, both Carlotta and Marian will pair off with Clancy. They have all studied the howling monkey society and they like what they have learned...
PHYSICALLY, Carlotta Wilsen is a performer difficult to miss. Her brilliant red hair, and chiselled Nordic-Gaelic features, combined with statuesque height and posture to match, give her a striking concert presence, one that has not been seen here in a long time...