Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

by Peter Biskind

  207 “Frank, you’re really”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  208 “Coppola was playing” and following: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  208 “He was still”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  208 “It was no secret”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  208 “I loved Francis”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  209 “The first time”: Confidential source.

  209 “I don’t judge myself”: Aljean Harmetz, “Peter Still Looks Forward to His Citizen Kane,” New York Times, 11/71.

  209 “Cybill started out”: Rex Reed, “Peter and Cybill in the Chaos of Rome,” New York Daily News, 9/23/73.

  209 “Will you stop”: Bogdanovich, AI, 8/1/97.

  210 “I don’t drive”: Rosemary Edelman, “At Long Last... Love,” Los Angeles, p. 88.

  210 “Naw, it’s kindofa” and following: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.

  210 “Frank, it’s Peter”: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  211 “Well, I’ll do it if”: Platt, AI, 8/10/93.

  211 “The Conversation”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  211 “Francis said it was”: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.

  211 “They’ve gone through”: Pye and Myles, The Movie Brats, p. 97.

  211 “I thought it was like”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  212 “Once they took”: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  212 “Francis always said”: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.

  212 “She’s so right for it”: Donald Lyons, Jude Jade and Candy Darling, “Peter Bogdanovich on Paper Moon,” Interview, I, 7/73.

  212 “The next thing I knew”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  212 “I’ll give you a job”: Platt, AI, 8/10/93.

  212 “I don’t think”: Lewis, AI, 11/14/95.

  213 “a no-talent dame”: Hillary Johnson, “Cybill Shepherd: Breaking the Ice,” vol. 484, 1986.

  213 After Daisy”: Ibid.

  213 “When someone yells”: Margie Rochlin, “Peter Bogdanovich,” 3/85, p. 136.

  213 “I begged him”: Mengers, AI, 2/21/95.

  213 “Billy said he wanted out”: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.

  213 “I could see what”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  213 “They all wanted”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.

  213 “He was not in good shape”: Platt, AI, 11/11/93.

  214 “there was a lot”: Chris Mankiewicz, AI, 6/21/94.

  214 “I won’t do this”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.

  214 “Yeah, but we’re all here” and following: Tewkesbury, AI, 10/13/95.

  214 “Bob always did that”: Litto, AI, 11/16/94.

  215 “There was this wonderful”: Louise Fletcher, AI, 6/22/94.

  215 “He’d always position” and following: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.

  215 “He hated it” and following: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.

  216 “Nashville was in development” and following: Fletcher, AI, 6/22/94.

  216 “I hated the way”: Platt, AI, 11/11/93.

  216 “I didn’t know” and following: Blatty, AI, 11/9/94.

  217 “He’s the only guy”: Confidential source.

  218 “I’d rather work with”: Clagett, William Friedkin, p. 74.

  218 “Bill, you’re doing it”: William O’Malley, AI, 12/4/97.

  218 “He liked to”: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  219 “I grew up in the ’50s”: Jennifer Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  219 “Jennifer was stunningly”: Blatty, AI, 11/9/94.

  219 “Bill Blatty wants” and following: Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  220 “Billy was really bad”: Joe Hyams, AI, 4/9/92.

  220 “The movie was running”: Lederer, 6/23/92.

  221 “I’m sure they were”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  221 “They had the tiger”: Blatty, AI, 11/9/94.

  221 “There was a lot”: Calley, AI, 3/4/93.

  221 “It was all about”: Lottman, AI, 10/24/96.

  221 “Sounds like fuckin’”: Bud Smith, AI, 12/13/96.

  222 “If I can’t dance”: Nairn-Smith, AI, 9/29/94.

  222 “She was a wonderful”: Nelson, AI, 11/11/94.

  222 “What in the fuck”: Smith, AI, 12/13/96.

  222 “If The Exorcist had”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  223 “There was a shot”: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  223 “rather take a bath”: David Batholomew, “The Exorcist: The Book, the Movie, the Phenomenon,” Cinefantastique, Winter 1974, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 13.

  223 “If it’s a film”: Kael, New Yorker, 1/7/74.

  223 “They didn’t see”: Friedkin, AI, 4/19/96.

  224 “Kid, the fun”: Beckerman, AI, 6/22/92.

  224 “How could you keep”: Joe Hyams, AI, 4/9/92.

  Chapter 8: The Gospel According to St. Martin

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  225 Epigraph: Scorsese, AI, 7/13/91.

  225 “Warners is bidding” and following: Jonathan Taplin, AI, 7/30/91; Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  226 “I really felt”: Bart, AI, 5/27/92.

  226 “We had”: Taplin, AI, 7/30/91.

  227 “I lived in a Sicilian”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94, 5/7/96.

  227 “When you go to the movies”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  227 “Marty is basically”: Mardik Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  227 “As somebody coming” and following: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  228 “He was on a whole”: McBride, AI, 6/3/94.

  228 “Every morning at NYU”: Corman, How I Made, p. 85.

  228 “What Godard was” and following: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  229 “Our wives hated us”: Martin, AI, 7/31/91; Peter Biskind, “Slouching Toward Hollywood,” Premiere, 11/91.

  229 “We were used”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  229 “It was all”: David Ehrenstein, The Scorsese Picture: The Art and Life of Martin Scorsese, New York, 1992, p. 160.

  229 “This movie is as good”: Jay Cocks, AI, 3/7/96.

  230 “Before they split up”: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  230 “three big-titted daughters”: Simpson, AI, 12/24/92.

  230 “I thought Marty” and following: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  231 “It was so tacky”: Salt, AI, 3/14/92.

  231 “Our attitude about drugs”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  232 “I was always thinking”: Salt, AI, 3/14/92.

  232 “The reality was”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  232 “The goal of all”: Carson, AI, 1/30/92.

  232 “We were the generation” and following: Salt, AI, 3/14/92.

  233 “C’mon, let’s go in”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  233 “Marty seemed”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  233 “The period from”: Scorsese, AI, 8/1/91.

  233 “People today complain” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91.

  234 “He failed production”: Katz, AI, 6/28/94.

  234 “What I couldn’t stand” and following: Walker, AI, 2/26/94.

  234 “I used to say”: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/8/94.

  235 “Paul was calling”: Walker, AI, 2/26/94.

  235 “George thought not only”: Robbins, AI, 5/2/97.

  235 “Don’t be so weird”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  235 “After THX went down”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  235 “Before American Graffiti”: David Sheff, “George Lucas,” Rolling Stone, 11/5–12/10/87; Paul Scanlon, “The Force Behind George Lucas,” Rolling Stone, 8/25/77.

  236 “Yeah, sure, great.”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/91.

  236 “Francis got the”: Huyck, AI, 6/16/94.

  237 “George was given”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.

  237 “George had no”: Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  238 “I was an opportunist”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  238 “No one succeeds”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/11/97.

  238 “He needed a lot”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  238 “Marty had a kind”: Taplin, AI, 7/30/91.

  238 “She was very”: Taplin, AI, 3/16/92.

  239 “He got angry�
�� and following: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  239 “Roger I swear”: Simpson, AI, 4/8/92.

  239 “Nice work, but”: Ehrenstein, The Scorsese Picture, p. 41.

  240 “This odd little”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  240 “I’m basically depressive”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91.

  240 “Paul was never”: Rosenman, AI, 1/28/92.

  240 “It was impossible”: Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  240 “Schrader was attracted”: Rosenman, AI, 1/28/92.

  240 “Schrader was in love”: Carson, AI, 1/30/92.

  240 “Kiss me!” and following: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  241 “Paul was a very”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  241 “I didn’t see what”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/6/95.

  242 “Communicating with Bob”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  242 “In order to get” and following: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  243 “What Marty and Bob”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  243 “There was always” and following: Scorsese, AI, 7/18/97.

  243 “Brian never believed”: Litto, AI, 10/17/94.

  243 “Brian was more”: Scorsese, AI, 7/18/97.

  243 “Ned wouldn’t sit”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 118.

  243 “The movie started”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  243 “This is in no”: AIs with Coppola, 7/31/97; George Lucas, 5/2/91; Marcia Lucas, 3/3/97; Murch, 11/18/93; Robbins, 5/2/97; Tanen, 1/22/93; Paul Hirsch, 11/15/93.

  244 “Francis, who would”: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.

  244 “I don’t know”: Huyck and Katz, AI, 6/16/94.

  244 “Francis really stood”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  244 “I read the whole thing”: De Palma, AI, 11/9/93.

  245 “It was like”: John Landis, AI, 4/25/96.

  245 “Julia had a real eye”: Salt, AI, 3/14/92.

  245 “In those days”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  245 “Julia ‘Yes, I am’”: Simpson, AI, 6/9/92.

  246 “It’s not true”: Peter Biskind, “Good Night, Dark Prince,” Premiere, 4/96.

  246 “The partnership foundered”: Tony Bill, AI, 6/20/94.

  246 “Paul was never”: Scorsese, AI, 5/8/96.

  246 “I was blind” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/19/91.

  246 “That’s when Francis”: Scorsese, AI, 8/1/91.

  246 “I don’t think Francis”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  247 “Francis woke us up”: Scorsese, AI, 8/1/91.

  247 “Marty, Bobby, and I” and following: Taplin, AI, 3/16/92.

  248 “Ed was totally”: Salt, AI, 3/1/94.

  249 “I’ll put”: Confidential source.

  249 “We’re way over”: Confidential source.

  249 “If you were a fucking man”: Lou Stroller, AI, 10/24/96.

  249 “I would never”: Jill Jakes, AI, 1/8/98.

  249 “They didn’t listen”: Confidential source.

  250 “Do it, because”: Mary Pat Kelly, Martin Scorsese: A Journey, New York, 1991, p. 79.

  250 “Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets”: Kael, New Yorker, 10/8/73;New Yorker, 3/18/74.

  250 “She’d never written”: Taplin, AI, 3/16/92.

  251 “lets Bobby go over”: Andy Dougan, Untouchable: A Biography of Robert De Niro, New York, 1996, p. 123.

  251 “I was raised”: Kelly, Martin Scorsese, p. 31.

  251 “It’s pretty tough”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  251 “He started an argument”: Martin, AI, 10/14/95.

  251 “He’s a different”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  251 “We thought the”: Kelly, Martin Scorsese, p.79.

  251 “At Warners, we were”: Taplin, AI, 7/30/91.

  252 “coyly botched film”: “Cybill and Peter—Who Needs Marriage?” People, 5/13/74.

  252 “In every one” and following: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  252 “I don’t know”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 7/30/91.

  253 “Great, who’d you get” and following: Burstyn, AI5 4/10/96.

  253 “We knew her”: Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  253 “Marty called”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.

  253 “I know I stepped”: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  254 “Warners was concerned”: Scorsese, AI, 5/23/94.

  254 “He had a tremendous”: Sandy Weintraub, AI, 2/3/92.

  254 “Marty wanted the people” and following: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  254 “All I could think of”: Ehrenstein, The Scorsese Picture, p. 116.

  Chapter 9: The Revenge of the Nerd

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  255 Epigraph: Bogdanovich, AI, 10/19/95.

  255 “They’re overdoing it.” and following: Nancy Griffin, “In the Grip of Jaws,” Premiere, 10/95, p. 90.

  256 “wimpy years”: Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 5/30/82.

  256 “I was a loner”: Leo Janos, “Steven Spielberg: L’Enfant Directeur,” Cosmopolitan, 6/80, p. 238.

  256 “I had friends”: Lynn Hirschberg, “Will Hollywood’s Mr. Perfect Ever Grow Up?” Rolling Stone, 7/19–8/2/84.

  257 “You should be”: Ibid.

  257 “I didn’t work”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  257 “Everybody was up”: Carson, AI, 1/30/92.

  257 “He’s a kid”: Joseph McBride, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, New York, 1997, p. 187.

  258 “When I first heard” and following: Robbins, AI, 5/2/97. Robbins is referring to a Name of the Game episode called “LA: 2017.”

  258 “I saw in Francis’s eyes” and following: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  258 “the media were saying”: Simpson, AI, 4/8/92.

  259 “We were out”: Huyck, AI, 6/28/94.

  260 “Steven loved movies”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  260 “He didn’t want to be”: Carson, AI, 1/30/92.

  260 “Steven was the one”: John Baxter, Steven Spielberg, New York, 1996, p. 201.

  260 “That was why”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  260 “I never took”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 127.

  260 “They had thousands”: Huyck, AI, 6/28/94.

  260 “Every month he read”: Milius, AI, 1/31/92.

  260 “Basically, I was”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  260 “I’d like to get”: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.

  261 “Steven briefly brought”: Kidder, AI, 4/17/93.

  261 “fresh crop of: Goodwin and Wise, On the Edge, p. 169.

  261 “She’s the greatest” and following: Frederickson, AI, 5/10/95.

  262 “There’s a horizon” and following: Leonard Schrader, AI, 11/17/94.

  262 “I want these people” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/6/95.

  263 “Steven didn’t like”: Robbins, AI, 5/2/97.

  263 “one of the most”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 266.

  263 “[I] swiped a copy”: Judy Klemesrud, “Can He Make the ‘Jaws’ of Outer Space?” New York Times, 5/15/77.

  263 “I didn’t know who”: Spielberg, AI, 2/9/96.

  263 “There are two” and following: Griffin, notes for “In the Grip of Jaws.”

  263 “I was hell bent”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  264 “that rarity among”: Kael, New Yorker, 3/18/74.

  264 “Steven was sitting”: John Byrum, AI, 4/5/94.

  265 “My goal was”: Baxter, Steven Spielberg, p. 125.

  265 “I wanted somewhat”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  265 “Then I saw”: Griffin, “In the Grip of Jaws.”

  265 “that it was just”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  265 “like a wake”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 400.

  266 “Jaws was not”: “Summer of the Shark,” Time, 6/23/75, p. 44.

  266 “turkey of the year”: Ibid.

  266 “I knew what”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 238.

  266 “Because we had”: Roy Scheider, AI, 9/16/97.

  266 “He would jump”: McBride, Steven Spielberg, p. 244.

  266 “Steven, where is”: Griffin, “In the Grip of
Jaws.”

  267 “Everywhere we went”: Baxter, Steven Spielberg, p. 136.

  267 “You know, this”: Griffin, “In the Grip of Jaws.”

  267 “The week before”: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.

  267 “It was a shonda”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.

  267 “That night, I had”: Griffin, notes for “In the Grip of Jaws.”

  268 “Towne hated it”: Evans, AI, 2/27/94.

  268 “Towne has this”: Beatty, 3/16/95.

  268 “This is a great”: Towne, AI, 3/3/94.

  268 “The first person”: Evans, AI, 2/27/94.

  269 “It is indescribable”: Bart, AI, 10/23/95.

  269 “If you’re on”: Evans, AI, 3/11/97.

  269 “They totally resented”: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  269 “How could they?”: Confidential source.

  269 “Legally you’re right” and following: Evans, AI, 3/11/97.

  269 “He tried to”: Ruddy, AI, 3/12/97.

  269 “I gotta tell”: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  270 “I’m asexual”: Confidential source.

  270 “I knew it would” and following: Yablans, AI, 6/3/96.

  270 “an orgy for”: Kael, New Yorker, 3/3/75.

  270 “Because we didn’t”: Bruce Williamson, Playboy interview, 8/76.

  271 “When he walked” and following: Blauner, AI, 3/1/94.

  272 “Uh, Bert, we have”: Charlie Goldstein, AI, 11/22/94.

  272 “a Cuban exile”: Bo Burlingham, “Politics Under the Palms,” Esquire, 2/77.

  272 “I did everything” and following: Blauner, AI, 3/1/94.

  272 “Artie’s take on”: Dorien Ross, AI, 11/3/93.

  272 Finally, Bert called: Goldstein, AI, 11/22/94.

  273 “It wasn’t out”: Toby Rafelson, AI, 9/8/97.

  273 “In both Bob’s”: Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.

  273 On January 17: Los Angeles Times, 1/19/75.

  274 “At first, Francis”: Richard Sylbert, AI, 8/25/92.

  274 “When Francis walked”: Evans, AI, 3/11/97.

  274 “It was in my deal”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.

  274 “If you don’t”: Andrew Tobias, “The Apprenticeship of Frank Yablans.”

  275 “greetings of friendship” and following: Wiley and Bona, Inside Oscar, p. 504.

  275 “Imagine, in 1975”: William Murray, Playboy interview.

  275 “This movie was”: Bogdanovich, AI, 6/29/94.

  275 “The audience was silent”: Mengers, AI, 2/21/95.

  275 “It was just”: Bogdanovich, AI, 10/19/95.

  275 “It was the most”: Ronda Gomez, AI, 6/22/94.

  276 “People loathed Peter”: Newman, AI, 2/15/94.