A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0306816229
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
When Tommy Weber and Susan “Puss” Coriat, London’s most beautiful couple, were married in 1964, it was the fitting end to a storybook romance. But the fast cars Tommy loved to race, their celebrity friends, and the huge trust fund Puss had inherited masked a tortured truth—both had suffered through oppressive and neglectful childhoods and were now caught up in a wildly extravagant lifestyle that neither Puss’ inheritance nor Tommy’s increasingly desperate schemes could support. Six years later, Puss found herself wandering around India with her two sons while Tommy, who was now smuggling drugs to survive, lived in London with a stunning young actress. A Day in the Life is also the stirring account of how the couple’s tow sons—one of whom is the well-known actor Jake Weber—somehow managed to survive a childhood that would have destroyed those of lesser spirit.
An unbelievable true-life tale that often reads like a novel, A Day in the Life follow the fortunes and misfortunes of one remarkable family while also introducing us to an extensive cast of supporting characters that includes Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Charlotte Rampling, as well as many of the movers and shakers who helped create the “Swinging London” scene.
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Now called Tanzania. Unlike Karen Blixen, Joyce Boyd viewed the natives who worked for her as lazy, shiftless children who had little or no ambition. She complained bitterly about trying to live a truly civilized life in a land still so untamed that she would sometimes step out onto her veranda only to find a leopard playing with the household cat. Becoming a dedicated and fearless hunter, she spent her days stalking through the bush in a cloche hat and a long dress with a rifle in her hand,.
And Tommy to be wed. A week before the wedding, the Daily Sun reported that the wedding promised to be “a swinging affair” because Puss had asked “the Negro cast of ‘Black Nativity’” to perform during the ceremony. Although that plan was scrubbed, Tommy did decide at the very last moment that Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” would not do for the ceremony, and so he instructed the organist to play Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue.” Four days before the ceremony, Jenny and Alan Ponte, who were scheduled to.
The word spread.” At the epicenter of London’s hip world, where everyone came to see and be seen on Saturdays, Puss first thought of opening a macrobiotic restaurant. Realizing that the kitchen on the premises was too small, she soon, in the words of designer Mike McInnerney, who worked with her on the project from its inception, “shifted her plans towards a teahouse serving light healthy meals.” Puss, who had already begun making LSD-influenced connections between events that others did not see.
Think about it. Nowhere in her letter did Puss mention that she had befriended, in Charley’s words, “a Turkish bloke who had a scooter and was much younger than her but good-looking and a really nice guy.” 180 a day in the life Now that her relationship with the young lord had ended, Puss again began asking Tommy to come rescue her. Like the star-crossed lovers they had always been, Tommy was doing all he could to find Puss, but to no avail. Because she had lost her passport in Turkey and.
Eat the fucking fish fingers.’ So there was still a spark left in her even then.” Which was not to say that Puss was also in her right mind. In Jenny’s words, “She was mad as a hatter. She had that schizophrenic thing of thinking that if you looked at her, she would shatter like glass. Amongst all the real loonies there, she walked 185.