Hours after terminating his marriage of 33 years, the 57-year-old Loomis married his 36-year-old mistress and found himself drummed out of polite society.
3. As hunting lodges go, one of the more infamous is Mayerling, the Austrian retreat where Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Hapsburg Empire, killed his mistress, Mary Vetsera, and himself in 1889.
The captain of this quixotic craft, mourning a lost mistress, methodically keeps himself semi-inebriated; the boat's mechanic is a silent Indian; and the pilot's "features, gestures, voice, and other personal traits have been carried to so perfect a degree of non-existence that they can never stay in our memories".
It's the 1970s: he's half-Indian, he's gay, and his father is being egged on by Eva, his dynamic mistress, to set himself up as a prophet of eastern mystic values to plug the spiritual gap left by British materialism.
"But time and time again, he took money to benefit himself, his mistress, his family and his friends".
He finds and redecorates a house and then takes up the typical activities of a Viennese gentleman - he procures himself a mistress and falls in with bureaucratic projects.
When making "Mistress America," Baumbach put himself in the situation of Tracy, but as an older man, a mid-career filmmaker whose source of creative astonishment is a younger artist.
Goethe resolved to preserve as much as he could of the Roman atmosphere in Weimar, set about hiring artists he had met in Italy, and at once before there was time for any second thoughts took himself a mistress, Christiane Vulpius, the daughter of the duke's late archivist.
Under the pseudonym John Wells, he appeared as the violent Ramon in Sergio Leone's 1964 film "A Fistful of Dollars" and also acted in a 1965 sequel, "For a Few Dollars More". In the 1970 thriller "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion," he played a police inspector who kills his mistress and then implicates himself in the crime".Investigation" won an Oscar as best foreign film.
Whether Zoe was actually his mistress is uncertain; Leo himself strenuously denied this in later accounts.
