I just read an article about the Nancy Olson book on Yahoo News. what hit me, very personally, was that she was also married to Alan Livingston (born Levinson), who headed Capitol Records; the genius who refused to release the first two Beatles albums because he couldn't imagine they had any sales potential. in 1965 (the summer I saw "Cat Ballou" in Denver), I was in a writers' workshop in Aspen with his son, Peter. Peter was Byronic, even down to the limp (hemophilia had eroded his ankle bone). he wrote a lot of bad but very flashy pseudo-Ginsberg, which garnered him a LOT of female attention. he was also a nasty, cruel scumbag who took a pathological delight in insulting me, so I obviously remember him well. and every time I see his dad's name (or that of his uncle, who wrote the lyric to "Che Sera Sera"), I get a tiny shudder of what I nowadays could say was PTSD but which I prefer to call "loathing." he was all set to be a literary superstar but didn't get there. hahaha.
and Alan Jay Lerner was no bargain, either...he had to wear gloves because his amphetamine addiction caused him to chew on his fingers until they were chronically infected. speed is not a drug to foster great relationships. I mean, like, EIGHT wives? it puts him in Artie Shaw territory.
Uncle Jay Livingston wrote a LOT of songs, and he and his partner Ray Evans actually had a cameo in the movie with Olson. At any rate, she and her husband apparently were active in Democratic causes, as was Lerner. One nice thing we can say for those two guys.
Lerner wrote the song "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life." That described him well. At least he wrote some great musicals.
The Washington Post, I believe, did a story on his love for the movie and they talked to her about it.
I just read an article about the Nancy Olson book on Yahoo News. what hit me, very personally, was that she was also married to Alan Livingston (born Levinson), who headed Capitol Records; the genius who refused to release the first two Beatles albums because he couldn't imagine they had any sales potential. in 1965 (the summer I saw "Cat Ballou" in Denver), I was in a writers' workshop in Aspen with his son, Peter. Peter was Byronic, even down to the limp (hemophilia had eroded his ankle bone). he wrote a lot of bad but very flashy pseudo-Ginsberg, which garnered him a LOT of female attention. he was also a nasty, cruel scumbag who took a pathological delight in insulting me, so I obviously remember him well. and every time I see his dad's name (or that of his uncle, who wrote the lyric to "Che Sera Sera"), I get a tiny shudder of what I nowadays could say was PTSD but which I prefer to call "loathing." he was all set to be a literary superstar but didn't get there. hahaha.
and Alan Jay Lerner was no bargain, either...he had to wear gloves because his amphetamine addiction caused him to chew on his fingers until they were chronically infected. speed is not a drug to foster great relationships. I mean, like, EIGHT wives? it puts him in Artie Shaw territory.
Uncle Jay Livingston wrote a LOT of songs, and he and his partner Ray Evans actually had a cameo in the movie with Olson. At any rate, she and her husband apparently were active in Democratic causes, as was Lerner. One nice thing we can say for those two guys.
Lerner wrote the song "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life." That described him well. At least he wrote some great musicals.
yes, that he did.