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53. AI with Hoffman.
CHAPTER 21
1. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit., p. 93.
2. Poitier, The Measure of a Man, op. cit., p. 121.
3. Author interview with Katharine Houghton, Karen Kramer, and Marshall Schlom.
4. Poitier, The Measure of a Man, op. cit., p. 122.
5. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit., p. 93.
6. Poitier, This Life, op. cit., pp. 285–286.
7. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit., p. 92.
8. Hernton, Calvin. White Papers for White Americans (New York: Doubleday, 1966), p. 64.
9. Prelutsky, Bert. “Hollywood’s Negroes Mired in Stereotypes.” Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1967.
10. AI with Houghton.
11. AI with Karen Kramer.
12. Columbia Pictures memo from Gordon Stulberg to Seymour Steinberg, January 30, 1967, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner production files, Margaret Herrick Library.
13. AI with Kramer and Eggar.
14. AI with Houghton.
15. Memo from Gordon Stulberg to Samuel Zagon, February 10, 1967, and memo to Zagon from Earl Kramer, March 22, 1967, Kramer Collection, UCLA.
16. Swindell, Larry. Spencer Tracy: A Biography (New York: NAL/World, 1969), p. 267.
17. “Location Delays, but ‘Dolittle’ Not Way Over-Budget.” Variety, January 11, 1967.
18. Memo from Marjorie Fowler to Arthur Jacobs, December 15, 1966; Fox interoffice memo from Sam Beetley to Stan Hough, January 3, 1967; letter from Fowler to Jacobs, January 7, 1967, all from Jacobs Collection.
19. Walker, No Bells on Sunday: The Rachel Roberts Journals, op. cit.
20. AI with Trundy.
21. Walker, Fatal Charm, op. cit., p. 336.
22. AI with Holder.
23. Ibid.
24. Letter from Jack Schwartzman to Richard Zanuck, March 9, 1967, Jacobs Collection.
25. Fleischer, Just Tell Me When to Cry, op. cit., pp. 264, 270–271.
26. Variety, April 19, 1967,
27. “Fleischer: Other Awards Hurtful to Acad Oscars.” Variety, April 12, 1967.
28 “20th’s $11,000,000 Budget for ‘Dolittle.’” Variety, September 13, 1967.
29. Bart, Peter. “Movies: A Sweet Young Thing.” New York Times, July 17, 1966.
30. Davidson, Bill. “The Entertainer.” New York Times Magazine, March 16, 1975.
31. Alpert, Hollis. “Offbeat Director in Outer Space.” New York Times Magazine, January 16, 1966.
CHAPTER 22
1. Penn and Allen, speaking at an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute to Allen in New York City, November 7, 2006.
2. Author interview with Penn.
3. Crist, Judith. New York World Journal Tribune, March 24, 1967.
4. Variety, February 15, 1967.
5. Crowther, Bosley. “The Significance of Sidney.” New York Times, August 6, 1967.
6. AI with Jewison; also Archerd, Army. “Just for Variety.” Variety, November 14, 1966.
7. Wexler, on commentary track for In the Heat of the Night, op. cit.
8. Interoffice memo from Harold J. Mirisch to Oscar Steinberg, August 23, 1967, Jewison Collection.
9. Memo from Nadine Phinney to Ashby and Jewison, January 13, 1967, Jewison Collection.
10. AI with Jewison.
11. O’Steen, Cut to the Chase, op. cit.
12. AI with Joel Schiller.
13. AI with Hoffman.
14. The Graduate by Buck Henry, Best American Screenplays, op. cit.
15. AI with Hoffman.
16. AI with Henry.
17. AI with Hoffman.
18. AI with Henry.
19. AI with Nichols.
20. AI with Wilson.
21. AI with Nichols.
22. AI with Wilson.
23. Rollin, Betty. “Mike Nichols: Wizard of Wit.” Look, April 2, 1968.
24. Lester, Elenore. “Dustin’s Shrinker Will Let Him Know.” New York Times, March 12, 1967.
25. AI with Hoffman.
26. AI with Hoffman and Nichols.
27. AI with Daniels.
28. AI with Henry, Nichols, and Wilson.
CHAPTER 23
1. Author interview with Houghton.
2. AIs with Katharine Houghton, Robert C. Jones, Karen Kramer, and Marshall Schlom; also Assistant Director’s Daily Production Reports, Kramer Collection, UCLA.
3. Manners, Dorothy. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, March 22, 1967.
4. AI with Houghton.
5. Frook, John. “Hepburn Comes Back Big, Bringing a Niece Who Calls Her Aunt Kat.” Life, January 7, 1968; Edwards, Anne. A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn (New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1985).
6. Berg, A. Scott. Kate Remembered (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003).
7. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit.
8. Ibid.
9. Kramer, Stanley. “He Could Wither You with a Glance.” Life, June 30, 1967.
10. Davidson, Spencer Tracy: Tragic Idol, op. cit.
11. Kramer, A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, op. cit.
12. AI with Kramer.
13. AI with Mead.
14. Kramer, “He Could Wither You with a Glance”, op. cit.
15. Hamilton, Jack. “A Last Visit with Two Undimmed Stars.” Look, July 11, 1967.
16. Frook, “Hepburn Comes Back Big,” op. cit.
17. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit., p. 62.
18. AI with Houghton.
19. Israel, Lee. “Last of the Honest-to-God Ladies.” Esquire, November 1967.
20. Ibid.
21. Hamilton, “A Last Visit with Two Undimmed Stars,” op. cit.
22. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit.
23. Hamilton, “A Last Visit with Two Undimmed Stars,” op. cit.
24. Ager, Cecilia. “Katharine Hepburn: ‘Come, I Want You to Meet My Niece.’” New York Times, June 18, 1967.
25. AI with Schlom.
26. AI with Houghton.
27. Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, op. cit.
28. Salary memo, November 11, 1966, Gordon Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
29. Handwritten note on early draft of William Rose’s script, Kramer Collection.
30. Goudsouzian, Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon, op. cit., p. 246.
31. Salary sheets and cast contact lists, Stalmaster Co., Jewison Collection, op. cit.
32. The quotations from Richards, Davis, and Silvera, and valuable background on Richards’s life and career, come from the documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, produced by Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, LisaGay Hamilton, and Joe Viola and written and directed by Hamilton (Clinica Estetico, Ltd., and LisaGay, Inc., copyright 2003).
33. AI with Houghton.
34. Assistant Director’s Daily Production Reports, Kramer Collection, UCLA.
35. Letter from George Glass to Roy Newquist, May 10, 1967, Kramer Collection, UCLA.
36. AI with Schlom.
37. Letter from Geoffrey Shurlock to Mike Frankovich, February 20, 1967, Production Code Files, Margaret Herrick Library.
38. Poitier, This Life, op. cit., pp. 286–287.
39. AI with Jones, Karen Kramer, and Schlom.
40. Kanin, Garson. “Tracy: He Did His Job Before He Died.” New York Times, June 25, 1967.
41. Final draft, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, February 15, 1967, Kramer Collection, UCLA.
42. Kramer, in Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute, op. cit., p. 572.
43. AI with Jones.
44. Assistant Director’s Daily Production Reports, Kramer Collection, UCLA.
45. Kramer, A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, op. cit., pp. 227–228; AI with Karen Kramer and Schlom.
46. Swindell, Spencer Tracy: A Biography, op. cit., p. 271.
47. AI with Kramer; also Kanin, “Tracy: He Did His Job Before He Died”, op. cit.
CHAPTER 24
1. Author interview with Daniels.
2. AI with Hoffman.
3. The four-line exchange between Hoffman and Nichols comes from Zeitlin, “A Homely Non-Hero…,” Life, op. cit.
4. Williams, Michael. “Tales of Hoffman in ‘The Graduate.’” Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1967.
5. AI with Hoffman.
6. AI with Nichols.
7. AI with Henry.
8. AI with Schiller.
9. Day, Barry, “It Depends on How You Look at It.” Films and Filming, November 1968.
10. The Graduate by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, in Best American Screenplays, op. cit.
11. AI with Nichols.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. AI with Henry.
15. AI with Schiller.
16. AI with Nichols.
17. Brackman, Jacob. “Onward and Upward with the Arts: ‘The Graduate.’” The New Yorker, July 27, 1968.
18. AI with Nichols.
19. AI with Hoffman.
20. Ross, in “The Graduate at 25.” Produced by New Line Home Video, interviewer and creative consultant Craig Modderno (New Line Home Video, available on MGM Home Entertainment’s 1999 DVD of The Graduate, copyright 1992).
21. O’Steen, Cut to the Chase, op. cit.
22. Ibid.
23. AI with Wilson.
24. AI with Nichols.
25. AI with Hoffman.
26. Ibid.
27. O’Steen, Cut to the Chase, op. cit.
28. AI with Wilson.
29. Lahr, John. “Profiles: Making It Real—How Mike Nichols Re-Created Comedy and Himself.” The New Yorker, February 21 and 28, 2000.
30. AI with Nichols.
31. Ibid.
32. Lahr, “Profiles: Making It Real,” op. cit.
33. AI with Hoffman.
34. AI with Nichols.
CHAPTER 25
1. Swindell, Spencer Tracy: A Biography, op. cit.
2. Davidson, Spencer Tracy: Tragic Idol, op. cit., p. 213.
3. Hepburn, Katharine. Me: Stories of My Life (New York: Ballantine, 1991); and Barbara Leaming, Katharine Hepburn, op. cit.
4. Author interview with Kramer.
5. “Spencer Tracy’s Funeral Attended by 600 on Coast.” United Press International, June 12, 1967.
6. AI with Kramer.
7. “Spencer Tracy Dies at Age of 67; A Hollywood Star for 37 Years.” New York Times, June 11, 1967.
8. “Time to Retire.” Time, March 31, 1967.
9. Gill, Brendan. “The Current Cinema: Triumphs and Defeats.” The New Yorker, March 25, 1967.
10. Crowther, Bosley. “How Hath the Mighty?” New York Times, March 26, 1967.
11. Benton and Newman, “The New Sentimentality,” op. cit.
12. Loving Et Ux. v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, Decided June 12, 1967.
13. AI with Solo.
14. AI with Lederer.
15. AI with Solo.
16. Memo from Jack Warner to Walter MacEwen, March 9, 1967, and telegram from MacEwen to Warren Beatty, April 5, 1967, Warner Bros. Collection, USC.
17. Memo from Jack Warner to Walter MacEwen, May 15, 1967, Warner Bros. Collection, USC.
18. Ibid., April 14, 1967.
19. Letter from Walter MacEwen to Warren Beatty, November 2, 1966; memo from Peter Knecht to Walter MacEwen, May 31, 1967; memo from Walter MacEwen to Benjamin Kalmenson, May 31, 1967; telegram from Warren Beatty to Walter MacEwen, undated; and handwritten notes by Walter MacEwen, also undated, all from Warner Bros. Collection, USC.
20. AI with Ganis.
21. “Jack L. Warner Rolls ‘Finian’s Rainbow’; He ‘Starts Another Decade.’” Variety, June 28, 1967.
22. “World-Famous ‘Warner Bros.’ Name to Be Retained After 7A Merger; Jack L. Goes on Producing.” Variety, June 7, 1967; Francis Coppola’s commentary track on Finian’s Rainbow DVD (copyright 2005, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.).
23. AI with Penn.
24. Penn, “Making Waves,” op. cit.
25. AI with Penn.
26. AI with Beatty; Goldstein, “Blasts from the Past,” op. cit.
27. Gilliatt, Penelope. “The Current Cinema: The All-Right World.” The New Yorker, June 17, 1967.
28. Alpert, Hollis. “The Admirable Sidney.” Saturday Review, July 8, 1967.
29. “Poitier Redhot in TV Ratings.” Variety, April 19, 1967.
30. Barthel, “He Doesn’t Want to Be Sexless Sidney,” op. cit.
31. “ABC Makes Feature Deals with David, Nelson, Maybe Poitier.” Variety, June 14, 1967.
32. United Artists Pressbook for In the Heat of the Night, Jewison Collection, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
33. Letter from Norman Jewison to Fred Goldberg, Jewison Collection.
34. Ken Hughes, quoted in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (New York: Applause Books, 1997) by Roger Lewis, p. 205.
35. Woody Allen, quoted in Woody Allen: A Biography (Da Capo, 1991) by Eric Lax, pp. 222–223.
36. Wolf Mankowitz, quoted in Orson Welles: A Biography (New York: Crown, 1995) by Barbara Leaming, pp. 570–573.
37. “006 3/4.” Time, June 30, 1967.
38. Bart, Peter. “Sean Connery Vows He’s No Fan of James Bond’s.” New York Times, November 16, 1965.
39. Miller, Eugene L, Jr., and Edwin T. Arnold, eds. Robert Aldrich Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004), p. 50. Originally printed in Sight and Sound (Winter 1968–1969).
40. Silver, Alain, and James Ursini, What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich: His Life and His Films (New York: Limelight, 1995).
41. Miller and Arnold, Robert Aldrich Interviews, op. cit., p. 104. Originally printed in Movie (Winter 1976–1977).
42. Branch, Taylor, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965–68 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 607.
43. Ibid., pp. 632–633.
44. Time, August 3, 1967.
45. Archival footage from American Masters: Sidney Poitier—One Bright Light. Directed by Lee Grant, written by Prudence Glass, produced by Mary Beth Yarrow and Glass (a production of Thirteen/WNET in association with Joseph Feury Productions, copyright 1999).
46. Lee Grant, on commentary track for In the Heat of the Night, op. cit.
47. Landry, Robert J. “Poitier: Negro Image-Maker—His ‘Know How’ over Rednecks.” Variety, July 26, 1967.
48. Robinson, Barry. “Press Junketing with Poitier and Steiger.” Asbury Park Evening Press, July 3, 1966.
49. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘In the Heat of the Night,’ A Racial Drama.” New York Times, August 3, 1967.
50. “A Kind of Love.” Time, August 11, 1967.
51. Schickel, Richard. “Two Pros in a Super Sleeper.” Life, July 28, 1967.
52. Kael, Pauline. “Trash, Art, and the Movies.” Harper’s (February 1969).
53. Sarris, Andrew. “The Inoffensive Hero.” In Film 67/68, op. cit., pp. 214–215. Originally printed in The Village Voice.
54. Gilliatt, Penelope. “The Current Cinema: Heated Bandwagon.” The New Yorker, August 5, 1967.
55. Mordden, Ethan. Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), p. 158.
56. Sheed, Wilfrid. “The Movie South.” In Film 67/68, op. cit., p. 220. Originally printed in Esquire.
57. “In the Heat of the Night.” New York Daily News, August 3, 1967.
58. Morgenstern, Joseph. “Red-neck and Scapegoat.” Newsweek, August 14, 1967.
59. Jewison Papers.
60. Sarris, “The Inoffensive Hero,” op. cit.
61. Ewers, Carolyn H. Sidney Poitier: The Long Journey (New York: Signet/New American Library, 1969).
62. Steiger, on Larry King Live, CNN, rebroadcast July 14, 2002.
63. AI with James.
64. Adler, Renata. “The Negro That Movies Overlook.” New York Times, March 3, 1968.
CHAPTER 26
1. Penn, Arthur. �
�Bonnie and Clyde: Private Integrity and Public Violence—From questions at a Press Conference in Montreal 1967.” In The Bonnie and Clyde Book, op. cit.
2. Author interview with Penn.
3. Crowther, Bosley. “Shoot-Em-Up Film Opens World Fete; ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Cheered by Montreal First-Nighters,” New York Times, August 7, 1967.
4. ———. “Screen: 8th Montreal Event Projects Weak Image.” New York Times, August 11, 1967.
5. ———. “Screen: ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Arrives.” New York Times, August 14, 1967.
6. Crowther, cited in Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film by Frank Eugene Beaver (New York: Arno Press, 1974), pp. 138–139.
7. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: Brutal Tale of 12 Angry Men.” New York Times, June 16, 1967.
8. “Don’t Watch This Part, Honey—I’ll Tell You When It’s Over.” Esquire, July 1967.
9. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘For Few Dollars More’ Opens.” New York Times, July 4, 1967.
10. ———. “Movies to Kill People By.” New York Times, July 9, 1967.
11. ———. “Reenacted Slaughter.” New York Times, July 27, 1967.
12. Steele, Robert. “The Good-Bad and Bad-Good in Movies: Bonnie and Clyde and In Cold Blood.” Catholic World, May 1968.
13. AI with Morgenstern.
14. “Low-Down Hoedown.” Time, August 25, 1967.
15. Sarris, Andrew. Bonnie and Clyde review. Village Voice, August 24, 1967.
16. AI with Benton.
17. AI with Morgenstern.
18. Morgenstern, Joseph. “Ugly.” In Film 67/68, op. cit., pp. 25–26.
19. AI with Morgenstern.
20. Ibid.
21. Morgenstern, “A Thin Red Line,” in Film 67/68, op. cit., pp. 26–28.
22. AI with Morgenstern.
23. AI with Benton.
24. Catholic Film Newsletter, September 7, 1967.
25. AI with Gelb.
26. “Crowther, Please Stay Home.” Variety, December 21, 1966.
27. Sarris, Andrew. “Humpty-Dumpty from Wisconsin.” Village Voice, reprinted in Film 67/68, op. cit., pp. 72–73.
28. AI with Sarris.
29. Gillatt, Penelope. “The Current Cinema: The Party.” The New Yorker, August 19, 1967.
30. Sarris, Bonnie and Clyde review, op. cit.
31. Gold, Ronald. “Crowther’s ‘Bonnie’-Brook.” Variety, August 30, 1967.
32. Beaver, Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film, op. cit.
33. “Movie Mailbag.” New York Times, August 27, 1967.
34. Crowther, Bosley. “Run, Bonnie and Clyde.” New York Times, September 3, 1967.