Table of Contents
I Growing Up
Klamath Falls 3
Eating in the Depression 36
Dramatics: Blomie 61
II Queer as Jack's Hatband
The Boy Who Would Not Speak 85
Jimmy Boyd 88
Fraternity Sickness 95
At Dr. Zeck's 103
Another Bill 116
III With Letters of Introduction
Venice 129
Kabul 147
IV Making Movies
What I Do 167
Standing By in Bhopal: In Ismail's Custody 181
Maestro 192
Call Me by Your Name 207
V Portraits
Kenneth Clark 217
George Cukor 222
Lillian Ross: A Day with Wonder Woman 228
Dorothy Strelsin 241
Raquel Welch 249
Vanessa Redgrave 255
Bruce Chatwin 277
Lillian Ross, Continued 302
Stephen Tennant 307
Susan Sontag 315
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 321
Ismail Merchant 333
VI Etcetera
The Great Ball at Wilton 351
The Ismail Merchant Collection 366
A Rajput Dinner Party 373
Lake of the Woods 379
Solid Ivory 386
The Undeveloped Heart 388
Acknowledgments 401