Seductress Extraordinaire
Terry Castle: The vampiric Mercedes de Acosta, 24 June 2004
‘That Furious Lesbian’: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta
by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 210 pp., £16.95, June 2004,0 8093 2579 9 Show More
by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 210 pp., £16.95, June 2004,
Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 252 pp., £26.95, June 2003,0 8093 2509 8 Show More
by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 252 pp., £26.95, June 2003,
“... in the early 1960s, she nonetheless continued picking up nubile girls with aplomb, including (says Robert Schanke) a ‘tubercular young British actress who was a waitress in a coffee shop’. Once one might have welcomed such a seduction, fang marks, TB and all. I remember much relishing de Acosta’s gossipy 1960 autobiography, Here Lies the Heart, when ... ”
