seen come up from the heterosexual side; and I've seen the whole range of those, from sweet to top-quality bitch. On the unrealistic side is the complete reversal of the boy-friend resulting from Myra's prosthetic rape; I do not believe you could create a woman-hating sadistic homosexual out of a rather pleasant girl-lover that suddenly. Nor can I believe in the time-table that has her revert to a beard-growing male in a few weeks after she is struck by an automobile, just from lack of hormones. Her change in attitude is also quite too rapid; with the lack of hormones and removal of her damaged silicone breasts, she is "all man" and rushes into a marriage with the girl-friend, which can be at best on a Lesbian basis physically. You may want the paperback, just to check up on me, but NOT the $5.95 copy! Next, we shall have it as a movie; I think it will make up quite a bit easier than, for example, "Candy". Problem right now is what ACTOR to use; they say Vanessa Redgrave, Carol Channing, Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Streisand and Anne Bancroft are bidding for the role of Myra, but who wants to be Myron? (Why show him at all?)

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TRANSVESTITE, by Harry Guggenheim, Frimac Publications, Burbank, Cal. Paperback, about 95c; 160pp (1966)

Another one by a knowledgeable person who has departed from reality to spice up the story. A young TV, an aerospace engineer with a high security rating, finds himself being blackmailed on the basis of some photos. Frighteningly real, so far? He seeks help from a variety of people; most of them women, each of who seduces him into some Off-beat sexual activity ranging from the sublime to ridiculous, literally. And then a homosexual who wants to do the same, but is resisted by our "hero", and sends him at last to the right person, “a man called Virginia." Unfortunately, Virginia is murdered by the blackmailers before any help results (some readers will enjoy THAT!) and the TV, with the help of the most decent of the girls and a private detective, solves the case. It could have been worse or LOTS better.

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FROM THE TRASH BASKET

One of my less pleasant duties as Literary Editor is to scan the trash for TV stories. There are quite a few; Myra would fall

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