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Racism III: A Night on the Town, a Day in Court
Donyale Luna, the first black supermodel, left the US for London in December, largely because Negroes were less discriminated against there. But in November racism raised its ugly head in the posh Cavendish Hotel.
Donyale with Ian Quarrier (back), Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate at the Paris premiere of "Rosemarys Baby." Photo from Sharon Tate blog
In a row that received sensational international media coverage, Donyale, Mia Farrow and three male companions were asked to leave the hotel restaurant at 4 am, ostensibly because the men weren’t wearing ties. When they pointed out that men at the other tables were tieless, management called the police. A fracas ensued and Donyale’s date, Canadian photographer Iain Quarrier, was arrested and charged with assaulting a bobby.
A few days later, in a courtroom scene in which Mia and Donyale stole the show, Quarrier was found guilty and fined $
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Fearless Vampire Killersor: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck
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not exactly the Marlboro manI recently watched two films from the late 60s, Wonderwall and the recently re-discovered Separation, the film written by and starring Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond. The films are poles apart in tone, Wonderwall being a quintessential piece of period whimsy and Separation a film in which the swinging sixties collides with dislocated film editing and theatre of the absurd alienation to provide a portrait of mental fragmentation which dramatises the ideas of a nascent feminism. In fact, the two films arent thematically so far apart, both featuring the subjective viewpoints of characters who are undergoing what amounts to a mid-life breakdown. Partly as a result of this subjectivity, both also display a characteristically 60s blurring of the divide between reality and dream-sequence fantasy. But what struck me was the presence in both films of the actor Iain Quarrier. I realised that he'd appeared in several of my favourite films from the era (and