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Orton, plainly bored by Halliwell's repeated threats of suicide - 'You'll learn then, won't you?' he would say. 'What will you be like without me?' - made no attempt to disguise his open interest in me when I was invited to a meal of fishcakes and baked beans in their claustrophobic and creepy Islington bedsitter. I was less concerned by Joe's overtures than by the fury and resentment in Halliwell's eyes.

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Halliwell is the subject of a monologue, Especially The Latter Part, by Richard Ely. It premiered in Lichfield, in 2009. Demi Moore,60, bares her washboard abs in a bikini while posing under a waterfall after rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon But for all the critical praise heaped upon the new production, I have resisted going to see it. The life and death of Joe Orton, and his startlingly autobiographical plays, are matters I have steadfastly avoided for four decades. After her retirement from the theatre in the mid-1950s, D.D., as her friends called her, transformed herself into an accomplished and discerning hostess. At the parties held in her yellow chartreuse drawing-room in Eaton Square, there would be an eclectic assortment of guests, ranging from the Queen Mother, one of Dorothy's lifelong friends, to actors, ambassadors, writers and composers.

Shepherd, Simon, 1989. Because We're Queers: The Life and Crimes of Joe Orton and Kenneth Haliwell, London: Gay Men's Press: 1989: ISBN 978-0-85449-090-5

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