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Annette Ferra, the 16-year-old nymph from Los Angeles, who won the title role in the Broadway-bound musical, “Lolita, My Love,” never read the novel or saw the movie version, but has an amazing mature concept of the character.
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Boys Will Be Boys
She confided that a boy her age who writes to her regularly and always starts his letters with, “Dear Lolita,” was shocked when she told him that she was really going to play the part. He didn’t believe it. Which added to Annette’s conviction that the boys she knows in her age group are immature as well as kind of obnoxious.
She remembered that one of her classmates, Barry Cowsill of the singing Cowsills, who sits behind her, once deliberately spit water right at her back. And another boy liked to phone her just so he could argue with her and knock people she liked.
“Now that isn’t very mature, is it?” Annette said. “To tell you the truth, I don’t like boys my age. Why? Because they’ve just discovered girls. They stare at you all goggly-eyed and blush over everything and you can’t be friends with them. They want to hold hands and etc., etc. I prefer older men, in their 20s.”
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