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4 The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, April 12, 1978
Bosworth reveals tragic
When Montgomery Clift,
handsome movie star of A Place in
the Sun, From Here to Eternity and
The Young Lions, was a little boy he
wrote his mother a note: "I love you.
Why not?"
Patricia Bosworth's splendid new
biography, Montgomery Clift,
(Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. 438
pp. $1195), tells us "why not," as she
notes the strange, alienated
childhood that eventually turned
Clift from his role as a romantic
screen hero to the life of a drunk, a
drug addict, a tortured bisexual and
to death from a heart attack at the
age of 45.
His affluent Tennessee banker
father went bankrupt in the
Depression; and his snobbish
mother, Sunny, deserted by her
unmarried mother and raised by an
adoptive family, spent her life trying
to be accepted by the family she
learned was hers: the prestigious
Blairs of Maryland and the
Andersons of Virginia. During
Monty's childhood, she carted her
three children all over Europe, trying
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to instill in them the culture and
noblesse she thought was rightfully
theirs.
Monty became infatuated with the
theater when he was eight and saw
the Comedie Francaise. He acted in
his first Broadway play at 1 4 and with
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in
There Shall Be No Night when he was
19 (the Lunts almost adopted him).
Montgomery Clift was an incredibly
handsome young man; and both men
and women were stongly attracted to
him.- Elizabeth Taylor, who played
with him in A Place in the Sun,
became his devoted friend and
remained so throughout his life. In
From Here to Eternity he played the
young soldier, Prewitt, and even
learned to play the bugle.
"I realized that Monty's best work
was always his remarkable paring
down to the essentials of a
character," writes Miss Bosworth in
her introduction. "In his movies
Monty personified nonconformists
and loners, who, in the midst of some
violent crisis, seemed to be groping
toward an understanding of
themselves and the world; in so doing
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life of Montgomery Clift
Monty always revealed some basic
human truth."
H is own violent crisis came in 1 956
when he attended a dinner party at
the home of his friend, Elizabeth
Taylor (they were acting together in
an epic of the Civil War, Raintree
County, and smashed his car in a
wreck on the way home, receiving
injuries that left his face a wreck. He
lived for ten more years, but as Miss
Books
By WALTER SPEARMAN
Montgomery Clift
Patricia Bosworth
Bosworth says, "nothing would ever
be the same for him after that."
His sexual ambiguity was one of
his greatest problems and his
biographer deals with that openly
and sympathetically. He had
countless affairs with both women
and men, but would never admit he
was homosexual. His friends said he
got several girls pregnant, but he also
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lived with one male lover, Josh, for
two years.
In his final years, when he was
suffering from drink and drugs, "he
often cruised on Fortv-second Street
before going to bed with Libby
Holman'Xa popular torch singer once
married to North Carolina's Smith
Reynolds). One of his friends told the
author: 'it didn't matter what sex
you were. If Monty really liked you
man or woman you ultimately
went to bed with him."
Patricia Bosworth really does a
superb job in this book. A former
actress and editor, she had known
Monty herself and then talked to
hundreds of his friends, fellow actors
and lovers of both sexes. Her
appraisal of his acting is as sensitive
as Monty's acting was; and when she
writes of his physical and sexual
difficulties, she portrays him as a
haunted, hunted person who never
found complete satisfaction in his
human relationships from his
childhood with his possessive and
obsessive mother, through his great
triumphs on both stage and screen to
his final tragic decline and death.
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By RACHEL BROWN
Staff Writer
The staff of the N.C. Department of
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insurance industry's system of classifying
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would increase rates charged to bad drivers
to provide discounts for farmers, multi-car
families and young drivers.
Under the revised system, auto insurance
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the point system used by the N.C. Division of
Motor Vehicles. Only liability insurance,
which is required by law, would be affected.
Liability insurance covers damage to
other cars and injuries to other people when
the insured driver is at fault.
"We want to surcharge people based on
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deputy commissioner of the state insurance
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Tatum said the proposals are in
accordance with recent N.C. Supreme Court
decisions saying use of the point system is in
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