by Mark Griffin
“I asked him about”: Gunther Fraulob, interview with author, March 3, 2017.
“You’d have thought” . . . “no warmth or caring”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 171.
“You’ve got to”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 173.
“A brief affair”: Rupert Allen’s comments are taken from E! True Hollywood Story: Rock Hudson, which aired on E!: Entertainment Television on July 11, 1999, season three, episode 27.
“The fat hit the fire”: George Nader diary entry, February 3, 1984.
“I’m not the suing type”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine.
“Ron talked like”: Transcript: Marc Christian deposition, page 728, from the David Stenn Collection, archived at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“Whenever we met” . . . “During one of” . . . “I had just”: Gunther Fraulob, interview with author, March 3, 2017.
“It was getting close” . . . “My parents were”: Gunther Fraulob, interview with author, March 3, 2017.
“You’re thin, also”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 176.
“the beginning of where”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), p. 211.
“An inner voice said” . . . “I thought it was”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 178.
“so filthy”: Mills, Between Rock and a Hard Place, p. 366.
“He—[Hudson]—could” . . . “You’re absolutely right”: Mills, Between Rock and a Hard Place, p. 369.
“We recently had”: George Nader diary entry, June 8, 1984.
“Only one person”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), p. 213.
“Rock intimated that” (footnote): Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 156.
“Not in your condition”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), p. 215.
“The next week”: Jimmy Hawkins, interview with author, August 8, 2016.
“He loved the”: Jimmy Hawkins, interview with author, August 8, 2016.
“From the beginning”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, pp. 160–62.
“He’d call me in the morning”: Sharon Stone’s comments are taken from E! True Hollywood Story: Rock Hudson, which aired on E!: Entertainment Television on July 11, 1999, season three, episode 27.
“We became close friends”: Madison Mason, interview with author, January 13, 2015.
“I was married to” . . . “He didn’t want to be”: Dennis Holahan, interview with author, January 13, 2015.
“Everybody asks about”: “Rock Hudson on his Health, TV, ‘Dynasty’” by Jon Anderson, Chicago Tribune, February 17, 1985.
“I don’t have AIDS”: George Nader diary entry, June 12, 1984.
“story conferences”: George Nader diary entry, September 9, 1984.
“devising and bequeathing”: George Nader diary entry, August 16, 1984.
“I think they manipulated”: Robert Osborne, interview with author, June 23, 2015.
“When Sheft told me” . . . “I think that”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 234.
“I remember when Rock” . . . “He never sat me down”: “Between Rock and a Hard Place: Marc Christian Tells All” by Barry Adkins, Au Courant, January 20, 1986, p. 7.
“Q: Did you have any reason” (footnote): Mills, Between Rock and a Hard Place, p. 134.
a “successful business trip”: George Nader diary entry, August 26, 1984.
“middle stages of AIDS”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 167.
“If Rock had agreed”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 185.
“guardedly optimistic”: George Nader diary entry, September 10, 1984.
“I was on the street in Paris”: Robert Osborne, interview with author, June 23, 2015.
“Oh, so so”: George Nader diary entry, September 27, 1984.
“Rock has AIDS”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 185.
“He was a little too”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 168.
“There was no such thing”: John Poer, interview with author, August 7, 2015.
“Please don’t feel” . . . “What the hell”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, pp. 186–87.
“I remember that the director”: John Poer, interview with author, August 7, 2015.
“In retrospect”: Evans, Recipes for Life: My Memories, p. 163.
“I asked him if the cameraman”: Transcript: Marc Christian deposition, p. 735, from the David Stenn Collection, archived at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“Perhaps it’s my imagination”: George Nader diary entry, February 5, 1985.
“Room-temperature passion”: “Benefits and Backlash: The Reaction to Rock Hudson” by Michael Musto, The Village Voice, August 13, 1985, p. 24.
“What do I do?”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 7.
“My official statement”: “Rock Hudson Has Cancer,” New York Times, July 24, 1985, p. C16.
“As far as we know”: “Rock Hudson stable after tests,” The Orange County Register, July 25, 1985, p. A14.
“What I know”: “Hospital Denies Hudson Cancer Report,” Special to New York Times, July 25, 1985, p. C21.
“I said, ‘Rock, you look’”: Dale Olson’s comments are taken from E! True Hollywood Story: Rock Hudson, which aired on E!: Entertainment Television on July 11, 1999, season three, episode 27.
“When I entered”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 8.
“Where’s Ron?” . . . “I shipped him home” . . . “There are photographers”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), p. 293.
“Mr. Rock Hudson has Acquired Immune” . . . “He came to Paris”: “Hudson Said to Recover From AIDS Symptoms,” New York Times, July 26, 1985.
“The last test”: “Hudson’s AIDS confirmed; diagnosis was made last year,” San Diego Union, July 26, 1985.
“Did you throw it”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), p. 296.
“I just remember having”: Howard McGillin, interview with author, February 5, 2016.
“I’m watching the television”: Marc Christian’s comments are taken from an episode of Larry King Live entitled “Rock Hudson’s Ex-Lover Speaks Out,” which aired on CNN on March 29, 2001.
“I was checked out”: “Between Rock And a Hard Place” by Barry Adkins, New York Native, Issue 140, December 23–29, p. 21.
“I thought I was”: “The Price of Betrayal” by Paula Chin and Dan Knapp, People magazine, March 6, 1989, p. 182.
“Marc Christian knew Rock”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2015.
Chapter 19: This Is Your Life
“I tell Tom he is”: George Nader diary entry, p. 317.
“I tried to visit him”: “Rock Hudson’s Lover Talks,” New York Daily News, December 6, 1985, p. 11.
“Well, Rock asked me”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 246.
“When Marc met with”: Brent Beckwith, interview with author, June 7, 2016.
“marriage with no”: “Marvin Mitchelson, 76, Father of Palimony, Is Dead” by Patrick Healy, New York Times, September 20, 2004.
“Trust me, you’ll be”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 213.
“I have no intention” . . . “If you go to court” . . . “If we allege it”: Transcript: Marc Christian deposition, p. 808, from the David Stenn Collection, archived at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“Why don’t we”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2016.
“I had a perfectly lucid” . . . “Hudson signed” (footnote): “The Dispute On Hudson’s Final Days: Friends Disagree Over Actor’s State of
Mind” by Carla Hall, Washington Post, October 9, 1985, B-3, Col. 1.
“He had good days”: “Encounters With a Man of Mystery” by Carla Hall, Washington Post, July 23, 1986.
“People deserted him” . . . “You never knew”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2016.
“It’s Dean!”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 220.
“When I saw my brother”: Alice Waier, interview with author, January 2015.
“Rock had always said” (footnote): “Rock Hudson’s Lover Talks,” New York Daily News, December 6, 1985, p. 11.
“Do you realize”: “Ex Wheel of Fortune Hostess, Susan Stafford Reveals How Hollywood Superstar, Rock Hudson, Received Christ Just Hours Before He Died from Complications From AIDS” by Dan Wooding, Assist News Service, October 19, 2015, posted on CrossMap.com.
“Shirley Boone . . . racing in”: “Between Rock and a Hard Place” by Barry Adkins, New York Native, Issue 140, December 23–29, p. 23.
“One has to imagine”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), pp. 337–38.
“Oh, for goodness”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007), p. 338.
“She is most cordial”: George Nader diary entry, September 28, 1985.
“People have told me”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, pp. 221–22.
“Rock Hudson never” . . . “The statement was not”: “Rock’s ‘quote’ wasn’t his: pal” by Marilyn Beck, New York Daily News, October 4, 1985, p. 4.
“There is no truth”: Transcript of Rona Barrett report for Entertainment Tonight, excerpted in Flaherty, “At Home” With Rock Hudson, p. 275.
“Elizabeth was just”: Wes Wheadon, interview with author, June 25, 2017.
“agreed wholeheartedly”: “The Dispute On Hudson’s Final Days: Friends Disagree Over Actor’s State of Mind” by Carla Hall, Washington Post, October 9, 1985, B-3, Col. 1.
“It was the single most important”: “Rock Hudson’s Death, the Turning Point of AIDS,” NewsNight report for CNN by Sandy Kenyon.
“I said to myself”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 254.
“final ministry”: George Nader diary entry, September 21, 1985.
“Jesus told me”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 254.
“Thanks for that”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 262.
“Liz, what would”: George Nader diary, October 1, 1985.
“I’m going downstairs” . . . “No, I don’t”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 262.
“I got a call from”: Ken Jillson, interview with author, April 2, 2017.
“I didn’t go to the service”: George Nader diary entry, October 19, 1985.
“I get to be”: Miller, Trio, p. 343.
“The Elizabeth Taylor Quaker Memorial”: George Nader diary entry, October 19, 1985.
“Rock would have wanted”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 226.
“He wanted to know” . . . “He was very charming” . . . “Christian and I had”: Gunther Fraulob, interview with author, March 3, 2017.
“blackmail and coerce” (footnote): “Hudson’s Estate Files Countersuit Vs. ‘Lover,’” Variety, March 19, 1986, p. 2.
“Marc, have you” (footnote): Marc Christian’s comments are taken from his appearance on Donahue, February 27, 1989.
“Marc asked for $300,000”: Brent Beckwith, interview with author, June 7, 2016.
“I didn’t want to drag”: Gunther Fraulob, interview with author, March 3, 2017.
“After the trial was over”: Paul Cohen, interview with author, December 3, 2017.
“nowhere near” (footnote): Robert Parker Mills, interview with author, August 3, 2015.
“Everyone at the service”: Gunther Fraulob, interview with author, March 3, 2017.
“Elizabeth Taylor and Stockton”: Mark Tillman-Briggle, interview with author, June 21, 2017.
“Tom Clark took”: Stockton Briggle’s comments are taken from the documentary, Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger, which was directed by Andrew Davies and André Schäfer and released in October 2010 by Florianfilm, GmbH.
“A lonely seagull”: George Nader diary entry, October 20, 1985.
“After he died, the one memory”: Peter Kevoian, interview with author, March 19, 2015.
Index
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Abbott, Betty (also Griffin, Betty Abbott), 73–74, 81, 101, 107,116, 203
Adams, Julie, 53,76–77, 84, 124–25
AIDS
“Commitment to Life” gala, 398
Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions, 372, 373, 382
Majors’s abandonment of Rock, 247
research foundations, 394n, 400
Rock’s AIDS and cancer diagnosis, xvi, xvii, 372–75, 378–79
treatment in Paris, 379–84, 387–89
UCLA Medical Center, 373–74, 391, 392–93, 395
alcoholism
Clark as an alcoholic, 315, 318–19
of Joy the housekeeper, 272, 317
Rock as an alcoholic, 86, 161, 311, 315, 318–19, 341, 354
Rock post–heart attack, 357
Rock’s portrayals of, 109, 153, 185, 235
and Universal Studios, 154
Aldrich, Adell, 208
Aldrich, Robert, 208–10
Allen, Corey, 338, 339
Allen, Flo, 268–69,323, 357, 380
Allan, Rupert, 320, 368–69
All That Heaven Allows (movie), 126–32
Ambassador, The (movie), 362–64
American Hospital, Paris, France, 387–89
Anderson, Richard, 260
Andrews, Ernie (“Green Gin”), 20.
Andrews, Julie, 236, 283, 284–91
Antonio, Lou, 351–52
Avalanche (movie), 336, 336–40
Bacall, Lauren, 154–55, 207-208, 329
Baker, Carroll, 142, 143–44
Bankhead, Tallulah, 206, 347.
Barnett, James “Jim,” 230–33, 232n
Barrios, Richard, 199
Bart, Peter, 284, 286
Bast, William, 143
Battle Hymn (movie), 158–60
Baum, Marty, 357–58
Baxter, Anne, 124–26
Beckwith, Brent, 393, 405
Bend of the River (movie), 75–78
Bengal Brigade (movie), 103–5
Big Frame, The (movie; working title for Undertow), 54–55, 55n
Big Party by Revlon (TV series), 205–6
Blackboard Jungle, 163
Blatty, William Peter, 284–85, 288–89
Blindfold (movie), 257–59
body discovered in car (during Devlin Connection shoot), 354
Boone, Pat, 397, 401
Boone, Shirley, 397
Bowers, Lynn, 202, 252
“boy parties,” 327–29
Boyer, Charles, 255, 256, 338.
Briggle, Stockton, 150–51, 328, 331–34, 375, 406–7
Brooks, Richard, 163, 164–66
Burke, Joseph, 2
Burnett, Carol, 16 (Introduction), 227, 312–14, 320, 332, 344, 398, 403
Burstyn, Ellen, 363, 364
Butler, Betty, 234
Cabot, Susan, 61
Cage aux Folles, La (musical), 375–76, 375n
Calhoun, Rory, 38, 115
Camelot (theatrical tour), 331–34
Captain Lightfoot (movie), 106–9
Cardinale, Claudia, 257–59, 276
Caribbean cruise, 355
Carlino, Lewis John, 261, 262, 265–66
Carlyle, John, 150
Carol and Company (variety spec
ial), 313
Caron, Leslie, 255–57
Carson, John David, 296, 297
Case, Diane Sherry, 297
“Castle, The.” in Beverly Hills, 18 (Introduction), 224–27, 225n, 244, 311, 316, 327, 328, 391, 392, 400, 402, 403
Chandler, Jeff, 72-73, 81, 91, 94n
Channell, Ron, 370, 380, 382–83, 387–88, 392
Charisse, Cyd, 186–87
Chenault, Cynthia “Cindy Robbins,” 192–93
Chicago Reader, 183–84, 347
Childers, Michael, 114
Christian, Marc
biographical info, 360, 360–61, 360n
“golden period” with financial benefits, 363, 364–66
lawsuit post-Rock’s death, xx, 404–6, 404n, 405n, 406n
living in/at “The Castle,” xix, 361–62
meeting Rock, 360–61
on Rock’s AIDS diagnosis, 389–90
on Rock’s will, 381–82, 382n
alleged past as hustler exposed, 366–68
at spreading of the ashes, 407
unraveling of the relationship, 368–72
visiting Rock in hospital, 392–93
Chuck (movie), 292, 294
Clark, Cindy, 252
Clark, Ray, 252
Clark, Susan, 309
Clark, Tom
on The Ambassador, 363
and autobiography of Hudson, 394–95
on Avalanche, 338, 339–40
biographical info, 252–54, 253n
on Christian, 381
on The Devlin Connection, 355
eviction from The Castle, 356–57
on Gates, 161
living in “The Castle,” 314–18
meeting Rock, 251–52, 254–55
meeting with Briggle, 331
memoir of life with Rock, 225n
on MGM cuts to Pretty Maids All in a Row, 298
palimony lawsuit rumor, 369
on plot holes in A Fine Pair, 276
relationship with Rock, 318–20
on Rock’s proposed adoption of Veronique, 290–91
with Rock before his death, xix, 391–93, 395–402
Rock disinherits, 380–81
on Rock’s secret son rumor, 23–24
spreading the ashes, 407
on On the Twentieth Century, 344, 346, 347–48
Clift, Montgomery, 113, 140, 278
Coates, Jack, 270–72, 302, 325, 392
