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...What vitamin will save the world, who is going to be Myra Breckinridge's agent, which Twin has his "brother" in stitches, and which 195-Ib. amateur makes a 280-lb. pro say "ouch"? (See PEOPLE...
...will be back in front of the cameras after 26 years, and the part is made to order. As Agent Letisha Van Allen, Mae West sets up shop on a huge bed to interview handsome young men-prospective victims for voracious, transsexual Myra Breckinridge. There was no press conference fanfare over 20th Century's latest casting coup ("Mae likes the press, all right," explained a studio flack, "but individually, one by one"); the word was simply passed that Miss West would share top billing with Raquel Welch (Myra) and get a minimum of $350,000 for her role. Still...
Buckley quotes an excerpt from Vidal's novel, Myra Breckinridge, describing in detail the "splendor" of the male buttocks, claims that Myra "sees all life as a naming of parts, an equating of groins, a pleasing and/or painful forcing of orifices-the essence of pornography." He also charges that the book "attempts heuristic allegory but fails, giving gratification only to sadist-homosexuals and challenge only to taxonomists of perversion...
...Johnny Carson chat with Author Truman (In Cold Blood) Capote on the Tonight Show. Suddenly she realized that they were talking about her. "A truck driver in drag," Capote was saying. "A born transvestite" who wears "marvelous wigs and sleazy dresses," he continued, "would have been so great" as Myra Breckinridge. Before the angry authoress was out of bed next morning, she had lawyers on the phone discussing damage suits against Capote and NBC. As for why Capote chose to attack her, she told reporters that "poor vulnerable Truman" was probably miffed about an imitation of his high, lispy voice...
Confident that it would not detract from her wonderwoman image, Raquel Welch prepared for her most ambitious role-as Myra Breckinridge, the man who changed his sex to turn temptress, in 20th Century-Fox's version of Gore Vidal's novel. At the announcement press conference, Producer Robert Fryer (The Boston Strangler, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) said that to the best of his knowledge only Miss Welch and eight transvestites had tested for the role. "It's a great step forward in my career," said Raquel. "But what will Laugh-In say?" Nothing uncomplimentary...