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by Peter Biskind


  423 “When he got”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.

  424 “almost a total recluse”: Aljean Harmetz, “Star Wars Is 10, and Lucas Reflects,” New York Times, 5/21/87.

  424 “Francis really tried”: Milius, AI, 1/9/92.

  424 “The same thing”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  424 “You’ve had your”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 277.

  424 “It took a long time”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.

  424 “The Godfather with music”: Evans, AI, 3/11/97.

  424 “gangsters, music, pussy”: Evans, The Kid Stays, p. 328.

  424 “I really need your help”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.

  425 “the IRS was in”: Richard Sylbert, AI, 8/25/92.

  425 “I didn’t want”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.

  425 “Gee, I’d like”: Confidential source.

  425 “I want to be him”: Confidential source.

  425 “I wanted to”: Evans, AI, 2/27/94.

  426 “Woody Allen sits”: Coppola, AI, 6/27/96.

  426 “I started warning people.”: Rosenman, AI, 1/28/92.

  426 “If you compare”: Paul Schrader, AI, 1/8/92.

  426 “I had always” and following: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/13/95.

  427 “Stephen Sondheim says”: Rosenman, AI, 1/28/92.

  427 “He’s smarter than”: Kael, AI, 8/5/95.

  427 “My brother finds”: Leonard Schrader, 11/l7/94.

  428 “I checked myself” and following: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.

  428 “Robert went ballistic”: Steve Roth, AI, 2/1/96.

  429 “Evans was that person”: Confidential source.

  430 “There are more crosses”: Evans, AI, 3/11/97.

  430 “a Jewish Chinaman”: Confidential source.

  430 “Bob had always” and following: Richard Sylbert, AI, 6/16/93.

  431 “I think Towne”: Ivor Davis, “Can Jack Save Jake,” Los Angeles, 12/89.

  432 “Towne has really”: Kael, AI, 8/5/95.

  432 “Jack was one”: Towne, AI, 11/6/97.

  432 “Bob was a Gatsby-like”: Bart, interviewed by Terri Minksy, 5/89.

  432 “When Huey went”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.

  432 “Despite Easy Rider’s” and following: Confidential source.

  433 “Bert was pissed”: Blauner, AI, 10/30/97.

  433 “The money was not” and following: Gittes, AI, 12/12/94.

  433 “Whenever you want” and following: Blauner, AI, 10/30/97.

  433 “Jack is the King” and following: Gittes, AI, 12/12/94.

  434 “I love Bert”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.

  434 “When the marriages”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.

  434 “Fuck you, Jack”: Confidential source.

  434 “Directors in order”: Don Devlin, AI, 6/17/94.

  434 “We had the naive”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 86.

  435 “You know”: Persky, AI, 2/26/95.

  435 “We finished shooting”: Mulvehill, AI, 8/25/94.

  435 “I just give up.”: Confidential source.

  436 “Hal said, ‘I’”: Dern, AI, 6/15/95.

  436 “I got this”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.

  436 “I got there”: Hellman, AI, 6/20/94.

  436 “Is there such a”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.

  437 “The truth is”: Hellman, AI, 6/20/94.

  437 “He saw Sherri”: Mulvehill, AI, 8/25/94.

  437 “Well, they’re here”: Berg, AI, 10/20/95.

  438 “Bob, they’re calling” and following: Jones, AI, 10/5/94.

  Index

  Abbott, Diahnne, 248

  ABC Pictures, 86, 215

  Academy Awards, 47–48, 74, 97, 122–23, 156, 158, 165–66, 172, 174, 181, 183, 188, 196, 205, 221, 252, 274, 282, 283, 296, 310, 315, 333–34, 353, 372, 390, 405

  Accatone, 228

  Actors Studio, 16

  Adams, Brooke, 296

  Adelson, Merv, 398

  Adler, Stella, 16, 30, 112

  After Hours, 407

  Airport, 16, 97, 136

  Albeck, Andy, 368, 391, 399, 400

  Albee, Edward, 21, 54

  Aldrich, Robert, 39, 137

  Alfie, 22, 146

  Algren, Nelson, 201

  Ali, Muhammad, 190, 385

  Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 230, 252–54, 274, 295, 296, 325, 330, 339, 448

  Allen, Herbert, 184

  Allen, Woody, 15, 25–26, 85, 95, 202, 212, 332, 414

  Alley, Kirstie, 422

  All That Jazz, 15, 413

  All the President’s Men, 15, 33

  Almendros, Nestor, 297

  Alonzo, John, 189

  Altman, Robert, 13, 15, 67, 93–98, 155, 174, 194, 197, 205, 266, 346, 409, 412, 441

  background of, 86–89

  Beatty and, 81–82, 102–5, 107–9, 190, 340

  Bogdanovich and, 138

  casting of unknowns by, 152

  Evans and, 369–72

  film industry denounced by, 345, 435

  Fletcher and, 215–16, 315

  genre deconstruction by, 164, 250, 281, 342, 383

  Ladd and, 340–41, 344, 369

  Kael and, 270, 282

  Platt and, 213, 216

  selected filmography, 447

  stops making studio pictures, 401, 406

  UA deal of, 214

  Amants, Les, 338

  Amarcord, 282

  Amblin, 257, 258

  American Dreamer, 134

  American Film Institute (AFI), 138

  American Gigolo, 132, 410, 448

  American Graffiti, 15, 73, 101, 102, 126, 137, 225, 234–37, 243–44, 252, 264, 283, 318–22, 324, 329, 335, 336, 343, 380, 381, 424, 447

  American Hot Wax, 403

  American in Paris, An, 24

  American International Pictures (AIP), 31, 41, 42, 45, 61

  Americanization of Emily, The, 83

  American Zoetrope, 81, 90–93, 100–102, 143, 153, 158, 167, 168, 183, 208, 237, 258, 320, 322, 381, 403, 408, 417–19, 425

  Amidou, 311–12

  Anatomy of a Murder, 289

  Anderson, Lindsay, 84

  Ann-Margret, 132

  Anne of a Thousand Days, 122

  Annie, 303

  Annie Hall, 15

  Antonioni, Michelangelo, 21, 22, 93, 211, 263, 314, 338

  Apocalypse Now, 15, 73, 93, 100, 167, 168, 235, 240, 268, 275, 308, 321 324, 336, 343, 346–48, 350–52, 355–58, 360–63, 367–68, 372–75, 383, 400, 416, 418, 419, 447

  Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The, 265

  Arkoff, Sam, 45

  Armstrong, Louis, 47

  Ashby, Hal, 15, 17, 173–75, 178–80, 195–96, 263, 346, 352–54, 408, 409, 428, 441

  background of, 170–71

  Beatty and, 192–94, 304

  conflicts with Columbia, 180, 183–84

  death of, 436–39

  drug problem of, 169–70, 196, 354 355

  Kael and, 303

  Nicholson and, 179, 195, 432

  pictures taken away from, 435–36

  selected filmography, 447

  Ashley, Ted, 82–85, 93, 98, 100, 101, 152, 222, 226, 280, 358, 441

  Astaire, Fred, 36, 54

  Atlantic City, 16

  At Long Last Love, 264, 275–76, 281, 299, 334, 447

  At Play in the Fields of the Lord, 119

  Autumn Afternoon, An, 294

  Avery, Tex, 36

  Aykroyd, Dan, 383

  Ayres, Gerald, 31, 50, 67, 106, 169–70, 174–75, 179–81, 184, 441

  Baby Doll, 25, 67

  Bach, Steven, 368, 389–91, 399, 441

  Bacon, Francis, 307

  Bad Company, 15

  Badiyi, Reza, 87

  Badlands, 15, 249, 298, 447

  Balaban, Barney, 18

  Ballad of Cable Hogue, The, 36

  Ballard, Carroll, 92, 361, 372–73

  Ballard, Jack, 156

  Band, The, 376

  Barry Lyndon, 282, 315

  Bart, Peter, 1
6–17, 20, 78–79, 142–44, 147, 148, 154, 155, 157, 160–61, 169, 173, 174, 182–83, 208, 225 226, 269, 353–55, 402, 404, 406, 412, 432, 441

  Bartlett, Scott, 317

  Barwood, Hal, 92, 243, 259, 264, 284, 423

  Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 326

  Basil, Toni, 63–64

  Batman, 401

  Batman and Robin, 435

  Battle of Algiers, The, 21, 45

  Baumgarten, Craig, 402

  Bay of Angels, 115

  BBS, 52, 53, 73, 75–77, 88, 91, 111, 116–17, 119, 120–22, 124–26, 129, 146, 152, 165, 169, 175–77, 185, 187, 213, 255, 273, 281, 409, 432 433

  see also Raybert

  Beatles, 14, 19, 202

  Beatty, Warren, 15, 17, 27–39, 48, 49, 74, 85, 86, 120, 153, 169, 204, 211, 268, 294, 314, 364–65, 395, 400, 409, 410, 441

  Altman and, 81–82, 102–5, 107–9, 190, 340

  and Ashby’s death, 436–38

  Begelman and, 302, 304

  Caron and, 24–26

  Christie and, 46–47, 359–60, 364

  Coppola and, 373

  Evans and, 269

  Feldman and, 25–26

  Kael and, 41, 303, 346, 365–67

  and Manson murders, 78, 80

  Penn and, 28–29, 34–35, 338

  power in film industry of, 49, 364

  selected filmography, 447

  Towne and, 28, 30–33, 50, 51, 81, 105–7, 180–81, 190, 192–94, 286, 304–5, 392, 393, 428

  Warner and, 23–24

  Wells and, 358–59

  Beckerman, Barry, 83, 85–86, 93, 98, 101, 224, 441

  Before the Revolution, 228

  Begelman, David, 184, 185, 187, 190–193, 196, 245, 262, 284, 296, 300, 302, 306, 307, 364, 409, 441

  Being There, 170, 353, 438, 447

  Belson, Jerry, 284

  Belson, Jordan, 317

  Belushi, John, 280, 331, 383, 412

  Benchley, Peter, 263, 264, 278, 283

  Benedictus, David, 36

  Benjamin, Bob, 19, 214

  Benton, Robert, 15, 16, 26–28, 30, 32, 34, 39, 40, 48, 49, 112, 113, 120, 128, 137, 441

  Berg, Jeff, 236, 237, 243, 319, 320, 355, 437, 441

  Bergen, Candice, 34, 58, 78, 130, 138, 165, 178, 184, 185, 188, 296, 441

  Bergen, Edgar, 130

  Bergman, Ingmar, 21, 119, 228, 302, 338, 409

  Berri, Claude, 224

  Bertolucci, Bernardo, 16, 233, 295, 372

  Beverly Hills Cop, 404

  Bible, The, 20

  Bick, Jerry, 214–15

  Bicycle Thief, The, 86

  Big Country, The, 181

  Big Fix, The, 271

  Big Wednesday, 339–40, 409

  Bill, Tony, 83, 125, 244, 246, 402, 441

  Billy Jack, 85

  Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, The, 284, 435

  Birds, The, 114

  Birthday Party, The, 203

  Bisset, Jacqueline, 42

  Black, Karen, 63, 64, 129

  Black Hole, The, 403

  Black Panthers, 60–61, 130, 177, 186, 272

  Black Stallion, The, 168, 357, 361, 362, 372, 416, 424

  Black Stallion Returns, The, 373

  Black Sunday, 298

  Blair, Linda, 199–200, 223

  Blank, Les, 63

  Blatty, William Peter, 198–99, 216–21, 223, 441

  Blauner, Steve, 53, 55, 57, 73, 75, 76, 119, 124, 127, 129, 146, 184, 185, 271, 272, 280, 397, 433, 441

  Blazing Saddles, 67

  Bloom, Verna, 241

  Blow-Up, 22, 45, 136, 202, 211, 344

  Blue Collar, 15, 315, 348–50, 427, 448

  Blues Brothers, The, 403

  Bluhdorn, Charles, 143–48, 152, 154, 158, 160, 182, 206–7, 268–70, 298, 309, 310, 365, 369, 370, 397, 420, 429, 430, 441

  Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 95

  Bogarde, Dirk, 302

  Bogdanovich, Peter, 15, 120, 132–33, 137–41, 148, 149, 155, 164, 170, 176, 198, 204, 228, 250, 255, 259, 281, 337, 338, 364, 375, 376, 408, 412, 441

  background of, 111–14

  casting of unknowns by, 152

  Chaplin sequences selected for Academy Awards show by, 165

  Corman and, 115–16

  on decline of auteurism, 402

  directing style of, 177

  in Directors Company, 197, 206–8

  Mengers and, 409

  moves to Los Angeles, 114–15, 202

  at Museum of Modern Art, 26, 112

  Platt and, 112–16, 127, 128, 139, 216, 273

  Schneider and, 110–11

  Scorsese and, 253, 301

  selected filmography, 447

  Shepherd and, 121–22, 127–28, 130–132, 137–39, 209–13, 252, 275–76, 300, 305, 339, 415–16

  Stratten and, 387–89, 415–16

  Verna Fields and, 237, 264

  Bonnie and Clyde, 15, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26 36, 38–41, 45–50, 74, 79, 82, 103, 109, 116, 120–21, 124, 126, 139, 164, 174, 189–95, 223, 239, 264, 279, 283, 304, 314, 338, 365, 372, 383

  Bono, Sonny, 202, 352

  Boorman, John, 15, 22, 39, 84, 85, 198, 223, 401

  Boothe, Powers, 401

  Bom in the USA., 412

  Bostwick, Barry, 219

  Bottoms, Sam, 323, 347, 352, 367, 441

  Bottoms, Timothy, 122, 131, 139, 212

  Bound for Glory, 170, 195–96, 333–34, 352, 447

  Boxcar Bertha, 239, 246, 406, 448.

  Boyle, Peter, 231, 232

  Boys in the Band, The, 203

  Boys Town, 18

  Brackman, Jacob, 77, 123, 131, 175, 176, 186, 232, 248, 249, 279–80, 296, 441

  Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 415

  Branaman, Susan, 186

  Brando, Marlon, 25, 41, 153–56, 159, 161, 163–64, 181–83, 199, 294, 322, 323, 356, 364, 374

  Breakout, 277

  Breathless, 26

  Bremer, Arthur, 295

  Brennan, Eileen, 275

  Brennan, Larraine Marie, 229, 230

  Breslauer, Sandy, 420

  Breslin, Jimmy, 199

  Brewster McCloud, 98, 109, 447

  Bridge on the River Kwai, The, 347

  Bridges, Beau, 438–39

  Bridges, Jeff, 127, 132, 139, 273, 438

  Bridge Too Far, A, 316, 403

  Brief Encounter, 86

  Bringing Up Baby, 137, 139

  Briskin, Jerry, 215, 216

  Broca, Philippe de, 331

  Broken English, 398, 432

  Bronson, Charles, 277, 307

  Brooks, Mel, 143

  Brooks, Richard, 298, 366, 414

  Brotherhood, The, 142

  Brown, David, 96, 244–45, 259, 263–67, 278, 283, 441

  Brown, Helen Gurley, 263

  Brown, Jim, 175

  Bruckheimer, Jerry, 173, 403–5

  Bryant, Baird, 63–64

  Buffalo Bill and the Indians, 340, 447

  Bullitt, 204

  Bundy, McGeorge, 61

  Buñuel, Luis, 408

  Bum!, 153

  Burroughs, William Rice, 393

  Burstyn, Ellen, 16, 110, 120, 131, 141, 175, 176, 199, 200, 216–18, 223, 252–54, 273, 274, 296, 311, 338, 409, 441

  Burton, Richard, 219

  Burtt, Ben, 340

  Bush, Dick, 310

  Bush, George, 432

  Bushnell, Scott, 215, 371, 441

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 79, 96, 122

  Butler, Wilmer (Bill), 201

  Byrum, John, 264

  Caan, James, 16, 153, 159, 409

  Cabaret, 15, 181, 274

  Calley, John, 19, 57, 81–86, 92, 98, 101, 124, 130, 133, 138–39, 147, 148, 152, 158, 161, 185, 188, 198, 207, 219, 221–22, 226, 243, 249, 252 254, 280–81, 292, 303–4, 340, 358 -359, 364, 392–93, 400, 402, 409, 441

  Calvin Company, 86

  Camelot, 20, 24

  Cameron, Julia, 300–301, 306, 325–26, 376, 378, 441

  Camp, Colleen, 388 />
  Campbell, Joseph, 318, 356

  Canby, Vincent, 303, 399, 400

  Candib, Richard, 362

  Candidate, The, 50

  Cannes Film Festival, 247, 294–95, 315, 374, 379, 427

  Cannon, Dyan, 16, 195, 359, 409

  Cannonball Run, The, 403

  Capshaw, Kate, 421, 422

  Capucine, 25

  Carelli, Joann, 368

  Carey, Timothy, 306–7

  Carnal Knowledge, 15, 130, 132

  Carolco, 403

  Caron, Leslie, 24, 26

  Carpenter, Don, 68

  Carpenter, Linda, 356, 361

  Carradine, David, 239

  Carrie, 15, 327, 328

  Carroll, Diahann, 47

  Carroll, Kathleen, 399

  Carson, Johnny, 209

  Carson, L. M. (Kit), 134, 232, 240, 257, 260, 293, 402

  Carter, Jimmy, 314, 341, 364

  Carter, Joseph, 254

  Casablanca, John, 333

  Cassavetes, John, 15, 21, 104, 112, 126, 151, 229, 239, 313, 328, 378, 441

  Cassidy, David, 175

  Castaneda, Carlos, 318, 342

  Castle, William, 302

  Catch-22, 81–83, 86, 148

  Catholic Legion of Decency, 35

  Cat People, 410–12, 427, 448

  Champion, 339

  Champlin, Charles, 150

  Chandler, Raymond, 241

  Chaplin, Charlie, 19, 165, 188

  Chapman, Michael, 157, 178, 261, 277, 299, 392, 394, 396, 441

  Chartoff, Robert, 379

  Chase, The, 29

  Chávez, César, 171

  Cher, 202

  Cheyenne Autumn, 114

  Chinatown, 16, 51, 117, 141, 160–61, 165–66, 169, 182, 188–89, 195, 268 269, 274, 303, 305, 393, 410, 425

  Christie, Julie, 45–46, 81, 82, 86, 102, 104, 107, 190, 195, 302–4, 359–60, 364, 409, 442

  Cimino, Michael, 368, 372, 390–91, 400, 442, 447

  Cincinnati Kid, The, 45, 83, 171

  Cisco Pike, 179

  Citizen Kane, 112, 139, 201, 228, 229, 414

  Clair, Rene, 84

  Clayburgh, Jill, 16, 151, 244, 409

  Clayton, Jack, 84

  Cleopatra, 41, 219, 221

  Clift, Montgomery, 25, 124, 132

  Clockwork Orange, A, 15, 84, 85, 164, 251

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K), 233, 256, 262, 263, 283 285, 296, 308, 330–31, 335, 340, 363–64, 421, 426, 448

  Clouzot, Henri Georges, 224, 313, 338

  Cocks, Jay, 229, 240, 241, 254, 316, 335, 337, 376

  Coen brothers, 435

  Cohen, Leonard, 105

  Cohen, Rob, 276–77, 284–85, 328, 402, 442

  Cohn, Harry, 55, 100, 306–7

  Cold War, 14

  Colombo, Joe, Sr., 157

  Columbia Pictures, 14, 52, 55, 66–67, 71–73, 75, 76, 118, 124, 143, 169 170, 174, 175, 177, 180, 183–87, 190–91, 193, 262, 277, 283, 284, 297, 306, 318, 322, 331

  Coming Home, 15, 170, 193, 352–53, 372, 436, 447

 

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