Myra Goes Hollywood
August, 1970
When 20th Century-Fox asked me to play the part of Myron--Raquel Welch's alter ego--in the film version of Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge, I showed the prescience to be very, very wary. I knew there had already been a great deal of trouble setting up this project--not surprisingly, since there are bound to be a few minor problems involved, even today, in adapting to the screen a novel about a transsexual who rapes a young man with a leather dildo and then runs off with his/her victim's girlfrien...
