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141 “You can’t possibly” and following: AI, 6/7/94.
142 “give her a kick”: John Schlesinger, John Schlesinger Collection, BFI, 3/11/68, JRS/66/8, Folder W.
142 “I am ridiculously”: Melvyn Bragg, Richard Burton: A Life, Boston, 1988, p. 262.
142 “Wouldn’t it be ironic” and following: Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 162.
143 “It was the end”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 165.
143 “There I was”: Callan, Julie Christie, p. 118.
143 “Warren doesn’t drink”: Robert Ottaway, “The Unlikely Magic Between Julie Christie and Warren Beatty,” Daily Sketch, 8/22/70.
144 “About a year ago”: Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 175.
144 “I went up”: AI, 3/16/95.
144 “All over town”: AI, 4/7/93.
144 “Roman did a press conference”: AI, 3/16/95.
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146 Epigraph: AI, 6/28/94.
146 “Let’s find a picture” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
146 “He was this bombastic rebel”: AI, 10/17/94.
147 “He did not wear”: AI, 6/28/94.
147 “It was the first time”: AI, 10/17/94.
148 “Julie never wanted” and following: AI, 6/11/94.
148 “Don’t do anything”: Tony Earnshaw interview with Mitch Brower, “It’s All a Crapshoot,” Cinema Retro, vol. 3, #7, 2007.
148 “Assigning those three”: Vincent Canby, New York Times, 3/5/70.
149 “feel like Lassie”: Michael Feeney Callan, Julie Christie, New York, 1984, p. 117.
149 “foolishly absent” and following: Britt Ekland, True Britt, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1980, pp. 131, 132, 133–34.
150 “selling tool”: Jacoba Atlas and Ann Guerin, “Robert Altman and Warren Beatty Make the Western Real,” Show, vol. 2, #6, 8/19/71.
150 “It had all the clichés”: Walker Arts Center, 4/25/92.
150 “and Brian [McKay] had”: Patrick McGilligan, Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff, New York, 1984, p. 340.
150 “Your words brought”: McGilligan, Robert Altman, p. 340.
150 “It was pretty clear” and following: AI, 6/28/94.
151 “I would take these”: AI, 6/11/94.
151 “I worked quite a bit”: Michael Wilmington and Gerald Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty,” Velvet Light Trap, #7, Winter, 1972/73.
151 “It was good for me”: AI, 3/16/95.
151 “Warren was not”: AI, 6/7/94.
151 “Simply turned Julie’s stuff”: McGilligan, Robert Altman, p. 340.
151 “I like to play schmucks,”: Wilmington and Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty.”
151 “shared a sort”: AI, 6/28/94.
151 “Let’s have him”: Margaret Walters, “Digging Up the Past,” The Listener, April 12, 1990.
152 “We didn’t have a clue”: Brian Case, “Fraught in the Act,” Time Out, 2/19/97.
152 “Bob had a talent”: AI, 6/28/94.
152 “One of the big problems”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
152 “It was considered”: AI, 6/28/94.
153 “Bob had a lot of guys”: AI, 11/16/94.
153 “Sam Peckinpah is a prick”: Jim Margellos, AI, 6/28/97.
153 “He stormed off”: McGilligan, Robert Altman, p. 344.
153 “Bob was crazy” and following: AI, 3/1/05.
153 “nit-picking”: Altman, Gerard Plecki, Robert Altman, Boston, 1985, p. 39.
153 “He’ll chew something”: Jack Nicholson, AI, 1990.
153 “Warren wouldn’t start rehearsing” and following: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
154 “We shot it once” and following: AI, 10/18/95.
154 “It was like”: AI, 6/28/97.
154 “Finally, Bob said”: AI, 10/18/95.
154 “The path to success”: AI, 10/13/95.
154 “A lot of times”: AI, 6/28/94.
155 “Warren was buried”: Margellos, AI, 6/28/97.
155 “If we are”: James Spada, Shirley and Warren, New York, 1984, p. 138.
155 “Warren never allowed”: AI, 10/8/97.
155 “Infidelity destroys love” and following: Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred, Julie Christie: The Biography, London, p. 179.
155 “She used to sit”: Callan, Julie Christie, p. 130.
156 “It’s not easy”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 140.
156 “If ever we split up”: London Daily Mirror, 3/3/72.
156 “That script didn’t work”: AI, 3/6/95.
156 “Badge can get me” and following: Confidential source.
156 “Warren was a terrible”: AI, n.d.
156 “Like so many”: AI, 12/7/94.
157 “Don’t tell anybody”: Confidential source.
157 “Bob claims to have done”: AI, 6/11/94.
157 “You cunt”: Confidential source.
157 “Towne was tremendously” and following: AI, 3/29/95.
157 “Towne treated Jack”: AI, 2/27/94.
158 “Never underestimate”: AI, 3/16/95.
158 “one of the most conceited” and following: Leonard Lewis and Andrew Crofts, “Leonard of Mayfair,” London, 2000, extracted in London Daily Mail,
3/20/00.
158 “He was very possessive”: AI, 3/15/95.
159 “very persuasive”: Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us, New York, 2008, p. 360.
159 “Oh, let’s be honest”: Official Carly Simon Web page.
159 “It certainly sounds”: Washington Post, 1983, quoted on Official Carly Simon Web page.
159 “They find a new girl”: Weller, Girls Like Us, p. 367.
159 “I just got out” and following: Jennifer Lee, Tarnished Angel, New York, 1991,
p. 29.
160 “ball-and-chain”: Ibid., p. 32.
160 “For all his reputation”: Ibid., p. 30.
161 “The extra person becomes”: Ibid.
161 “then have sex” and following: Confidential source.
161 “What do I care”: Confidential source.
162 “Where are you?”: Confidential source.
163 “I couldn’t hear”: AI, 6/28/94.
163 “The soundtrack was”: AI, 6/7/94.
163 “Warren was infuriated”: Bruce Williamson, Playboy, 8/76.
163 “The principals thought”: AI, 10/18/95.
163 “It still is bad”: McGilligan, Robert Altman, p. 344.
164 “You think we”: AI, 12/11/97.
164 “Things had progressed”: AI, 6/28/94.
164 “I can hear it”: AI, 5/3/96.
164 “There was something wrong”: AI, 5/3/96.
164 “It wasn’t checked”: AI, 5/13/96.
164 “The intentions”: Vincent Canby, New York Times, 6/25/71.
164 “a beautiful pipe dream”: Pauline Kael, The New Yorker, 7/3/71.
165 “It still hasn’t grossed” and following: AI, 5/3/96.
165 “It prevented it” and following: AI, 6/28/94.
166 “I’ve spent”: AI, n.d.
166 “The McGovern campaign”: AI, 6/28/94.
167 “painfully earnest”: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, New York, 1973, pp. 81, 125.
167 “Mr. Peepers”: Chris Chase, “Warren Beatty Stars in the Great McGovern Money Hunt,” Life, 6/23/72.
168 “ski instructor”: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, p. 174.
168 “The potential of women”: AI, 9/9/04.
168 “It was a howling”: George McGovern, AI, 1990.
169 “It was not only”: Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 190.
169 “I felt that”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 241.
169 “She’s in bed” and following: Dick Sylbert, AI, 10/8/97.
169 “the permanent enfant terrible”: Howard Fineman et al., “A Blood Sport,” Newsweek, 4/6/92.
170 “I was so young” and following: AI, 3/4/05.
170
“Beatty operated at”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 243.
170 “‘Mr. Beatty, what is’”: Ibid., p. 242.
171 “I won’t take that”: Pat Caddell, 3/4/05.
171 “Warren invented”: AI, 6/19/04.
172 “I said, ‘Is there’”: AFI Life Achievement Award, 6/12/08.
172 “looked at the draft”: Bob Shrum, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner, New York, 2007, p. 43.
173 “Eagleton went out”: AI, 3/4/05.
173 “Don’t you think” and following: Caddell, AI, 3/4/05.
174 “would have been”: Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, p. 474.
174 “represents that dark”: Ibid., p. 417.
174 “He was one of”: McGovern, AI, 1990.
174 “I’m real good”: Beatty, Carr, op. cit.
175 “brought out all”: John Higgins, untitled, New York Times, 4/29/76.
176 “He liked chaos”: AI, 4/26/07.
176 “We always said”: AI, 11/16/06.
176 “It was done sub rosa”: AI, 6/3/96.
177 “Every morning during”: AI, 4/26/07.
177 “call me and say” and following: AI, 11/16/06.
177 “Both Alan and Warren”: AI, 4/26/07.
178 “Warren Stirs Soup”: Koch, AI, 11/16/06.
178 “Gordon had no patience” and following: AI, 4/26/07.
179 “Mike Nichols wanted to do it”: AI, 1/25/08.
179 “Medavoy is fuckin’ senile”: AI, 3/6/95.
179 “Obviously, it’s very tempting”: Fiona Macdonald Hull, “Warren’s Women,” News of the World, 9/10/78.
179 “as a charmer” and following: AI, 4/26/07.
180 “I’d fuck you” and following: Confidential source.
180 “Oh, how wonderful”: Weller, Girls Like Us, pp. 524–25.
180 “This is Warren Beatty”: AI, 10/7/08.
181 “As long as I had control”: Sue Clarke, “Beatty,” Photoplay (U.K.), 7/75.
181 “We talked about”: Ralph Appelbaum, “Positive Thinking,” Films and Filming, 7/78.
182 “Warren was a giant star”: AI, 6/20/94.
182 “Hal and Towne” and following: AI, 3/6/95.
182 “He’s always answering”: Karin Winner, “Warren Beatty on Movies and Politics,” W, 5/3/74.
182 “Everything is very secret”: Dick Sylbert and Sylvia Townsend, Designing Movies, Westport, Connecticut, 2006, p. 194.
183 “Anyone who can”: AI, 6/11/94.
183 “He exploits everybody”: AI, 6/17/94.
183 “Warren could get anybody” and following: Designing Movies, p. 140.
184 “Robert’s failure to deliver”: AI, 3/6/95.
184 “Warren saw Nic”: AI, 6/7/94.
184 “I got the picture”: AI, 2/27/94.
185 “Don’t tell [Towne]”: Nick Dawson, Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, Lexington, Kentucky, 2009, p. 153.
185 “I’m gonna make”: AI, 3/6/95.
185 “Warren used his”: AI, 11/6/97.
185 “Well what if”: Richard La Gravenese, 8/17/03.
185 “the most creative ten days”: Dawson, Being Hal Ashby, p. 153.
186 “Warren is the kind”: Joseph McBride, ed., “Robert Towne,” in Filmmakers on Filmmaking, vol. 2, Los Angeles, 1983.
186 “Did Warren really write” and following: Jeremy Larner, AI, 4/1/95.
186 “He was so courageous”: AI, 6/12/94.
186 “It was very hard-hitting”: AI, 2/25/95.
187 “Warren knows how” and following: AI, 6/11/94.
187 “He turned out”: Beatty, AI.
187 “People thought Columbia”: AI, 3/6/95.
187 “Up to a week”: AFI seminar with Robert Towne, moderated by James Powers, 10/13/76.
187 “When Begelman reneged” and following: AI, 3/6/95.
188 “I had to go back”: Beatty, AI.
188 “it’s not true”: Beatty, AI.
188 “Everybody hated”: AI, 6/3/96.
188 “I said, after reading”: AI, 2/25/95.
188 “I never made you” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
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190 Epigraph: AI, 4/7/93.
191 “Being the producer”: Mary Murphy, “Don Juan with a Social Conscience,” Los Angeles Times, 5/31/74.
191 “We had a rough start” and following: Ken Gross, “Lee Grant,” People, 10/23/89.
191 “I was not happy”: Christopher Wilson, Absolutely Goldie: The Biography, London, 1999, pp. 105–6.
191 “He’s a multitalented”: Peter Haining, Goldie, London, 1985, p. 125.
192 “He offered to”: Rolling Stone, 10/15/92.
192 “I said, ‘You’re’”: Sylbert and Townsend, Designing Movies (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006), p. 141.
192 “Warren treated him”: Nick Dawson, Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, Lexington, Kentucky, 2009, p. 152.
192 “One day, Warren” and following: Anthea Sylbert, AI, 7/22/93.
193 “I hate even”: Sylbert and Townsend, Designing Movies, 2006, p. 141.
193 “I’ll show you”: Karin Winner, “Warren Beatty on Movies and Politics,” W, 5/3/74.
193 “We’d get three different”: Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty, A Private Man, New York, 2005, p. 417.
193 “Hal would never”: Confidential source.
193 “Warren just chewed”: AI, 8/18/95.
193 “It was tough”: AI, 10/5/94.
194 “‘I can’t take it anymore’”: AI, 3/15/95.
194 “not to be too harsh”: AFI seminar with Hal Ashby, moderated by Rochelle Reed, 3/12/75.
194 “It was very difficult”: AFI seminar with Hal Ashby.
194 “I’m not a hired actor”: Tag Gallagher, “The Stud as a Thoughtful Man,” Village Voice, 2/24/75.
195 “usually the right thing prevails”: Beatty, AI, n.d.
195 “You’re fucking whining” and following: Dick Sylbert, AI, 3/3/94.
195 “Warren was towering”: Towne, AI, 11/6/97.
195 “The difference between”: AI, 10/5/94.
195 “Hal understood something”: AI, 6/28/94.
196 “what the seventies”: Sylbert and Townsend, Designing Movies, p. 136.
196 “When you have a shot”: Ibid.
196 “You get a mirror”: Ibid.
197 “One day I’m going” and following: Michelle Phillips, AI, 12/99.
197 “I started seeing Warren” and following: AI, 3/4/08.
197 “I was concerned”: Fiona Macdonald Hull, “Warren’s Women,” News of the World, 9/10/78.
197 “He was very cautious”: AI, 3/4/08.
197 “You’re likely to feel”: Vincent Canby, New York Times, 6/20/74.
198 “It was a major film”: AI, 6/3/96.
198 “Had I produced”: AI, 6/28/94.
198 “Jack was always wild”: AI, 3/15/95.
199 “Carole was born”: AI, 2/7/95.
199 “was coughing herself”: AI, 9/26/94.
199 “Jack had no”: AI, 3/3/94.
199 “What is this arch”: Dick Sylbert, AI, 8/25/92.
199 “Jack is a kingmaker”: AI, 9/26/94.
199 “her arm so tightly” and following: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 422.
200 “I have theories”: Avnet, AFI seminar.
200 “I hated the script” and following: AI, 9/26/94.
201 “Don is extremely honorable”: AI, 4/19/96.
201 “I’m sure if Devlin”: AI, 2/7/95.
201 “I was the voice”: AI, 9/26/94.
201 “I didn’t read”: AI, 6/28/94.
201 “None of them” and following: AI, 9/26/94.
202 “I had no control”: AI, 3/6/95.
202 “Part of it in truth” and following: AI, 9/26/94.
202 “I stayed away”: AI, 10/5/95.
202 “There was another”: AFI seminar with Hal Ashby.
203 “When Warren wanted”: AI, 10/5/95.
204 “I noticed there was”: AI, 5/31/07.
204 “He won’t show you”: AI, 9/8/93.
204 “He really loved Chynna” and following: AI, 3/4/08.
204 “For a very long time”: Hull, “Warren’s Women.”
204 “carrot dangling” and following: Weller, “California Dreamgirl,” Vanity Fair, 12/07.
205 “never really knew”: Hull, “Warren’s Women.”
205 “The legend is Carole”: AI, 2/7/95.
205 “The script was”: AI, 12/22/93.
205 “Mike got more” and following: AI, 9/26/94.
205 “She’ll never fit”: Hank Moonjean, Bring in the Peacocks: Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer, Bloomington, Indiana, 2004, p. 317.
206 “We’re never going”: Confidential source.
206 “There was a tremendous”: AI, 9/26/94.
206 “Jack was doing”: AI, 4/19/96.
206 “Mike hated what”: AI, 9/26/94.
206 “It’s insane”: AI, 3/16/95.
206 “Warren turned to Mike”: AI, 9/26/94.
206 “This was her first”: AI, 4/19/96.
206 “like jerks”: Jack Kroll, Newsweek, 8/6/08.
206 “Mike Nichols had to bar me”: Weller, “California Dreamgirl.”
206 “She just ignored it”: AI, 9/26/94.
206 “I was madly”: Weller, “California Dreamgirl.”
207 “$30 million”: Confidential source.
207 “It wasn’t just a dirty moment”: AI, 6/28/94.
207 “The audience was”: AI, 6/28/94.
207 “One third of the audience”: AI, 11/22/94.
208 “They can’t all” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
208 “Sue Mengers hated it”: AI, 2/25/95.
208 “All of them”: Larry Salvato and Dennis Schaefer, “Interview with Hal Ashby,” Millimeter, 10/76.
208 “when the Teletypes”: AI, 9/26/94.
208 “Hal Ashby’s Shampoo”: Vincent Canby, New York Times, 2/16/75.
208 “Shampoo is the”: Kael, “Beverly Hills as a Big Bed,” The New Yorker, 2/17/75.
208 “Warren and Bob Towne”: AI, 3/22/06.
209 “Everyone knew that”: AI, 12/7/94.
209 “There’s a trick”: AI, 3/2/07.
209 “She’d take out”: AI, 7/27/09.
209 “Towne had Kael” and following: AI, 12/7/94.
209 “The ending is”: Jay Cocks, Time, 2/24/75.
210 “You can kill a movie”: “Warren Beatty Says Too Much Talk Hurts Films,” Box Office, 3/31/75.