Pictures at a Revolution

by Mark Harris

  35. AI with Benton.

  36. Kael, Pauline. “Movies on Television.” The New Yorker, June 3, 1967.

  37. ———. Introduction to For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies (New York: Dutton, 1994).

  38. ———. “Circles and Squares”, Film Quarterly, 1963. The piece was a direct response to Sarris’s “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962.”

  39. All quotations in this paragraph and the next are from Kael’s Bonnie and Clyde review, The New Yorker, October 21, 1967.

  40. Menand, Louis. “Onward and Upward with the Arts: Paris, Texas.” The New Yorker, February 17 and 24, 2003.

  41. Information on Bonnie and Clyde’s weekly box office performance and Kansas City/Omaha run comes from Variety, August 23, August 30, September 6, September 13, September 20, September 27, October 4, and October 11, 1967.

  42. “September as Sidney Poitier Month; His ‘Heat’ and ‘Love’ Rate One, Two, Longruns Otherwise Dominant.” Variety, October 4, 1967.

  43. United Artists Inter-Office Memorandum to Norman Jewison, May 22, 1968, with attachment “Daily Accumulated Gross Receipts,” Jewison Collection.

  44. Variety, November 8, 1967.

  45. Canby, Vincent. “Poitier, as Matinee Idol, Is Handsomely Rewarded.” New York Times, November 18, 1967.

  46. Mason, Clifford. “Why Does White America Love Sidney Poitier So?” New York Times, September 10, 1967.

  47. Poitier, This Life, op cit., p. 336. In Poitier’s two autobiographies, he misplaces the Mason article as appearing in 1969 (in This Life) or the early 1970s (The Measure of a Man) and mistakenly says it included an attack on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

  48. Hoffman, William. Sidney (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1971), pp. 8–9.

  49. AI with Houghton.

  50. AI with Mason.

  51. Hoffman, Sidney, op. cit., pp. 8–9.

  52. Johnson, Pete. “Harry Belafonte—No Bargain with the Devil.” Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1967.

  53. Gold, Ronald S. “While He’s Sole U.S. Negro Star Seen Regularly, Sidney Poitier Expects to Play Only Heroes.” Variety, October 4, 1967.

  54. “Brock Peters on Negro Skepticism; One Colored Star Hardly a Trend.” Variety, December 20, 1967.

  55. Canby, “Poitier, as Matinee Idol, Is Handsomely Rewarded,” op. cit.

  56. Poitier, The Measure of a Man, op. cit., p. 119.

  CHAPTER 27

  1. Author interview with Zanuck.

  2. John Gregory Dunne, The Studio, op. cit.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Minneapolis preview results, Box 17, Jacobs Collection.

  7. AI with Zanuck.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Letter from Richard Fleischer to Rex Harrison, September 25, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

  10. Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, October 31, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

  11. Cable from Richard Zanuck to Rex Harrison, undated, Jacobs Collection.

  12. Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, undated, Jacobs Collection.

  13. San Jose and San Francisco preview results, October 27, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

  14. Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, November 10, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

  15. Cable from Darryl F. Zanuck to Richard Zanuck, November 9, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

  16. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘Camelot’ Arrives at Warner.” New York Times, October 26, 1967.

  17. “The Castle That Never Was.” Time, November 3, 1967.

  18. AI with Zanuck.

  19. “Helen Winston in $4 1/2-Mil. Suit vs. 20th’s ‘Dolittle.’” The Film Daily, October 3, 1967.

  20. Screenplay by Larry Watkin for Helen Winston Productions, Aug. 13, 1962, Jacobs Collection.

  21. AI with Lofting.

  22. Dunne, The Studio, op. cit.

  23. Publicity and promotion notes, undated, Jacobs Collection.

  24. AI with Nichols.

  25. Ibid.

  26. AI with Hirshan.

  27. AI with Nichols.

  28. Greenfeld, Josh. “For Simon and Garfunkel, All Is Groovy.” New York Times Magazine, October 13, 1968.

  29. AI with Henry.

  30. AI with Nichols.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Canby, Vincent. “Filmmakers Show Less Fear of Catholic Office.” New York Times, October 13, 1967.

  33. ———. “A Growing Issue: Nudity in Movies.” New York Times, April 20, 1967.

  34. AI with Hirshan.

  35. AI with Hoffman.

  36. Frederick, Robert B. “’68: Levine’s Year for Action.” Variety, September 6, 1967.

  37. AI with Nichols.

  38. AI with Hanley, Henry, Nelson, and Turman.

  39. AI with Daniels, Nichols, and Wilson.

  40. AI with Henry.

  41. Sullivan, Dan. “Newfound Stardom Worries Dustin Hoffman.” New York Times, December 30, 1967.

  42. AI with Hoffman.

  43. New York Daily News, December 6, 1967.

  44. The Graduate Supper Dance Seating Listing, The Graduate file, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

  45. AI with Hoffman.

  CHAPTER 28

  1. Walters, Barbara. How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (New York: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 194–195.

  2. Memo from Walter MacEwen Collection, Warner Bros. Collection, USC.

  3. Thompson, “Under the Gaze of the Charmer,” Life, op. cit.

  4. Author interview with Beatty, Lederer, and Penn.

  5. Gold, Ronald. “Kalmenson Outside Inside; Close to Jack L., but Not to W7.” Variety, December 6, 1967.

  6. “Dick Lederer to Reorg W7 Ad-Pub.” Variety, November 1, 1967.

  7. Variety, November 8, 1967.

  8. AI with Penn.

  9. “250 Tinted Prints Pulled as W7 Reverses Huston Re ‘Eye.’” Variety, December 13, 1967; also Morris, Oswald, with Geoffrey Bull. Huston, We Have a Problem: A Kaleidoscope of Filmmaking Memories (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006), pp. 116–117.

  10. Letter from David Foster of Allen Foster Ingersoll & Weber to Norman Jewison, December 14, 1967, Jewison Collection.

  11. Morris, Bernadine. “Seventh Ave. Turns Soft at the Thought of Spring.” New York Times, November 3, 1967; and “Hats On.” Time, November 3, 1967.

  12. Jacobs, Jay. “Bloody Murder.” The Reporter, October 5, 1967.

  13. Kanfer, Stefan. “The Shock of Freedom in Films.” Time, December 8, 1967.

  14. AI with Beatty, Lederer, and Penn.

  15. Crowther, Bosley. “Style and the Filmic Message.” New York Times, November 12, 1967.

  16. AI with Gelb.

  17. Hoberman, J. The Dream Life; Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties (New York: New Press, 2003), pp. 172–173.

  18. “A Marriage of Enlightenment (Mr. & Mrs. Guy Smith/An Interracial Wedding).” Time, September 29, 1967.

  19. Letters. Time, October 6, 1967.

  20. Kennedy, Randall. “Loving v. Virginia at Thirty.” February 6, 1997, http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/3208-1.html.

  21. Hoffman, William. Sidney (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1971), pp. 9–10.

  22. Schickel, Richard. “Sorry Stage for Tracy’s Last Bow.” Life, December 15, 1967.

  23. Sarris, quoted in Stanley Kramer: Film Maker by Donald Spoto (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978), p. 280.

  24. Gill, Brendan. “The Current Cinema.” The New Yorker, December 16, 1967.

  25. Morgenstern, Joseph. “Spence and Supergirl.” Newsweek, December 25, 1967.

  26. Variety, December 6, 1967.

  27. Winsten, Archer. “‘Guess Who’s Coming’ Bows Here.” New York Post, December 12, 1967.

  28. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ Arrives.” New York Times, December 11, 1967.

  29. Champlin, Charles. “Movie Reviews: ‘Dinner,’ ‘Cold Blood’ to Bow”, Los Angeles Times.

  30. The Na
tion, January 1, 1968.

  31. Greeley, Andrew M. “Black and White Minstrels.” The Reporter, March 21, 1968.

  32. Kotlowitz, Robert. “Films: The Bigger They Come.” Harper’s (January 1968).

  33. Knight, Arthur. “The Now Look.” Saturday Review, December 16, 1967.

  34. Beaupre, Lee. “One-Third Film Public: Negro.” Variety, November 29, 1967.

  35. Variety, December 6, 1967.

  36. Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, op. cit.

  37. Goudsouzian, Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon, op. cit., p. 287.

  38. Hough, Hugh. “Poitier Film in Chicago Faced a Klan Gassing.” New York Post, March 11, 1968.

  39. Kauffmann, Stanley. Review of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. The New Republic, December 2, 1967.

  40. Sheed, Wilfrid. Esquire, date unavailable.

  41. Harris, cited in The Studio, op. cit., p. 246.

  42. Richard Burton’s diary, June 1 and 4, 1967, quoted in Rich: The Life of Richard Burton by Melvyn Bragg (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988), pp. 239–240.

  43. Invitation list for the Los Angeles premiere of Doctor Dolittle, Jacobs Collection.

  44. Dunne, The Studio, op. cit., pp. 240–241.

  45. Variety, December 20, 1967.

  46. Winsten, Archer. “‘Dr. Dolittle’ Opens at Loew’s State.” New York Post, December 20, 1967.

  47. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: That Grand Zoomanitarian, ‘Doctor Dolittle,’ Arrives For the Holidays on a Great Pink Snail.” New York Times, December 20, 1967.

  48. “Dr. Dolittle.” Time, December 29, 1967.

  49. Morgenstern, Joseph. Newsweek, date unavailable.

  50. Van Gelder, Lawrence. “Racism Ascribed to Dr. Dolittle.” New York Times, July 28, 1968.

  51. Mishkin, Leo. “Rex Harrison Talks to Horses.” New York Morning Telegram, December 20, 1968.

  52. Memo from Jack Hirschberg to Arthur Jacobs, undated, Jacobs Collection.

  CHAPTER 29

  1. Kael, Pauline. “Trash, Art and the Movies.” Harper’s (February 1969).

  2. “The Graduate.” Time, December 29, 1967.

  3. Simon, John. “Nulla Cum Laude.” The New Leader, February 26, 1968.

  4. Crowther, Bosley. “Film: Tales Out of School.” New York Times, December 22, 1967; and “Graduating with Honors.” New York Times, December 31, 1967.

  5. Winsten, Archer. “‘The Graduate’ at Lincoln, Coronet.” New York Post, December 23, 1967.

  6. Variety, December 20, 1967.

  7. National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures newsletter, undated, The Graduate file, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

  8. Ebert, Roger. “The Graduate.” Chicago Sun-Times, December 26, 1967.

  9. Alpert, Hollis. “‘The Graduate’ Makes Out.” Saturday Review, July 6, 1968.

  10. Schickel, Richard. “Fine Debut for a Square Anti-Hero.” Life, January 19, 1968.

  11. Brinkley, David. “David Brinkley’s Journal: What’s Wrong with The Graduate.” Ladies’ Home Journal, 1968 (date not available).

  12. Greeley, Andrew M. “Sons and Fathers.” The Reporter, (February 1968).

  13. Variety, December 20, 1967, op. cit.

  14. “Over-50s Vote for Oscar’s ‘Bests’ but Film Audience 48% Under 24.” Variety, January 24, 1968.

  15. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, op. cit., p. 747.

  16. “UA Bridges Generation Gap.” Variety, November 15, 1967; and “W7 Stress Upon Youth.” Variety, December 6, 1967.

  17. Alpert, “‘The Graduate’ Makes Out,” op. cit.

  18. Skolsky, Sidney. “Hollywords and Picturegraphs.” Citizen-News, January 3, 1968.

  19. Canby, Vincent. “Repertory Holds 20 Film Classics.” New York Times, March 9, 1966.

  20. Kael, “Saddle Sore.” Originally published in The New Republic, August 1967, reprinted in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, op. cit.

  21. Author interview with Sarris.

  22. Information on individual ballots comes from Film 67/68, op. cit.

  23. Sontag, Susan. “Persona.” Sight and Sound (Autumn 1967).

  24. Simon, John. Originally published in The New Leader, reprinted in Film 67/68, op. cit.

  25. AI with Sarris.

  26. Beaupre, Lee. “A Whisker-Close Oscar Race.” Variety, January 17, 1968.

  27. AI with Zanuck.

  28. Beaupre, “A Whisker-Close Oscar Race”, op. cit.

  29. Richard Brooks, interviewed in Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute, op. cit.

  30. Carmody, Deirdre. “Capote and Friends See ‘In Cold Blood’ at Quiet Screening.” New York Times, December 13, 1967.

  31. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: Graphic Quadruple Murder.” New York Times, December 15, 1967, and “Of Color, Crime and Punishment.” New York Times, December 17, 1967.

  32. Sarris, Andrew. “Facile Freudianism.” In Film 67/68 pp. 64–66, op. cit.

  33. Colville-Andersen, Mikael. “David Newman—Conversation at Hotel Chelsea.” October 1, 1998, http://zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/articles/david__newman__536.htm.

  34. AI with Jewison.

  35. “RFK Hands Critics Award to Mirisch; Nichols Broadens ‘Auteur’ Theory; Bos Crowther’s ‘Bon & Clyde’ Wit.” Variety, January 31, 1968.

  36. “‘Good, Bad and the Ugly.’” Variety, January 31, 1968.

  37. Jennings, Robert C. “Oscar and the Generation Gap.” Los Angeles Times West Magazine, April 7, 1968.

  38. Esquire, December 1967, cited in Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball by Deborah Davis (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), pp. 248–249.

  39. AI with Penn.

  40. AI with Zanuck.

  41. Harmetz, Aljean. “How to Win an Oscar Nomination, From ‘Anne’ to ‘Z.’” New York Times, April 5, 1970.

  42. Letter from Charles Champlin to Richard Fleischer, March 18, 1968, Fleischer Collection, USC.

  43. “Annual Wonderment in Gotham: How-Come Those Oscar Folkways?” Variety, February 21, 1968.

  44. Jennings, “Oscar and the Generation Gap,” op. cit.

  45. O’Steen, Cut to the Chase, op. cit.

  46. Telegram from Stanley Kramer to Beah Richards, Kramer Collection, UCLA.

  CHAPTER 30

  1. Author interviews with Beatty and Towne; advertisement for Bonnie and Clyde listing specific theater grosses, Variety, March 6, 1968.

  2. Corliss, Richard. “Film Chronicle: The Graduate.” National Review, May 7, 1968.

  3. Newman, David. “What’s It Really All About?” in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, op. cit.

  4. AI with Parsons.

  5. AI with Penn.

  6. Coles, Robert. Trans-Action (May 1968).

  7. AI with Hoffman.

  8. Carroll, Kathleen. “Director and Star Shine in ‘The Graduate.’” New York Daily News, December 22, 1967.

  9. “The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle.” Time, February 7, 1969.

  10. Lester, “Dustin’s Shrinker Will Let Him Know,” op. cit.

  11. AI with Hoffman.

  12. AI with Henry.

  13. AI with Hoffman.

  14. Day, “It Depends on How You Look at It,” op. cit.

  15. Sullivan, “Newfound Stardom Worries Dustin Hoffman,” op. cit.

  16. AI with Hoffman.

  17. Farber, Stephen, and Estelle Changas. “The Graduate.” Film Quarterly, (Spring 1968).

  18. Brackman, Jacob. “Onward and Upward with the Arts: ‘The Graduate.’” The New Yorker, July 27, 1968.

  19. AI with Henry.

  20. Webb’s letter in response to a New Republic piece written by Kauffmann is cited in Alpert, “‘The Graduate’ Makes Out,” op. cit.

  21. AI with Webb.

  22. Brackman, “Onward and Upward with the Arts: ‘The Graduate,’” op. cit.

  23. Windeler, Robert. “Study of Film Soaring on College Campuses.” New York Times, April 18, 1968.

/>   24. Steinberg, Cobbett, Reel Facts, op. cit., p. 344.

  25. Gilmour, Clyde. “Kramer, Self-Critic, in Bearpit.” The Telegram (Toronto), June 8, 1968.

  26. Ebert, Roger. “Interview with David Newman and Jack Valenti.” Chicago Sun-Times, May 12, 1968.

  27. Kramer, Stanley. “Nine Times Across the Generation Gap: ‘On The Campuses Anything Less Than the Ultimate Is a Cop-Out’.” Action! (March–April 1968).

  28. Kramer, A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, op. cit.

  29. AI with Houghton.

  30. Kramer, A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, op. cit.

  CHAPTER 31

  1. “Tale of Hoffman.” New York Daily News, April 7, 1968.

  2. Skolsky, Sidney. “Oscar Show Dull, Then Bombshell.” Citizen-News, April 11, 1968.

  3. Graham, Sheilah. “How to Pick Oscar Winners.” Citizen-News, April 11, 1968.

  4. Author interview with Nichols.

  5. Heffernan, Harold. “A Spark for Oscar Show: Tracy Honor Seen as ‘Call from Grave.” Citizen-News, February 9, 1968.

  6. Kramer, quoted in The Record, July 18, 1968.

  7. “Catholic Accolade May Soften Coast Fears of Giving Oscar to ‘Bonnie.’” Variety, March 13, 1968.

  8. Transcript of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders report, February 29, 1968.

  9. Michie, Larry. “TV Advised to ‘Think Black.’” Variety, March 6, 1968.

  10. Beigel, Jerry. “Peck Tells Behind-Scenes Story of Oscarcast Postponement.” Variety, April 11, 1968.

  11. Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, op. cit., p. 706.

  12. Brescia, Matty. “Show Biz Hit Hard by Memphis Race Riot; Damage Tops $500,000.” Variety, April 3, 1968.

  13. Bal, Vidula. “The Martin Luther King Assassination.” Web site article for the Museum of Broadcast Communications, undated.

  14. AI with Nichols and Jewison.

  15. Bona and Mason, Inside Oscar, op. cit., p. 408.

  16. “Oscar Presentation Postponed Because of National Mourning.” New York Times, April 7, 1968.

  17. Telegram from Margaret Herrick, Stirling Silliphant Collection, UCLA.

  18. Beigel, Variety, op. cit.

  19. AI with Nichols.

  20. “King’s Last March.” Time, April 19, 1968; Jewison, This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, op. cit.

  21. Poitier, This Life, op. cit.

  22. AI with Penn.

  23. AI with Trundy.

  24. “Fans at Awards Younger Than Usual, and Very Enthusiastic.” Variety, April 11, 1968.