Star

by Peter Biskind

291 “He had that charisma”: AI, 12/4/05.

  291 “All the women”: AI, 1/15/08.

  291 “One Sunday, I was”: AI, 1/15/08.

  292 “You didn’t have to” and following: AI, 9/8/08.

  292 “Little David didn’t know” and following: AI, 9/8/08.

  293 “You felt there was”: AI, 9/8/08.

  293 “Once, when Chynna”: AI, 3/4/08.

  293 “Chynna was wearing” and following: AI, 9/8/08.

  293 “Do you want”: AI, 1/15/08.

  293 “He came by my desk”: AI, 9/8/08.

  294 “He was very flirtatious” and following: AI, 1/16/08.

  294 “Once one of the temps”: AI, 9/20/07.

  294 “He really loved women”: AI, 1/22/08.

  294 “I had a great time”: AI, 1/15/08.

  294 “He had this”: AI, 10/23/07.

  295 “What would be frustrating”: AI, 1/15/08.

  295 “People were pulling him”: AI, 10/23/07.

  295 “We’d go through”: AI, 9/8/08.

  295 “A lot of time was spent”: AI, 10/23/07.

  296 “so we can just hose it off”: Confidential source.

  296 “Give me back”: Confidential source.

  296 “Elaine is probably”: AI, 2/15/08.

  296 “They drove each other crazy”: AI, 1/15/08.

  296 “The way she functions”: Confidential source.

  297 “It was terrible”: AI, 1/16/08.

  297 “There was a lot”: AI, 9/20/07.

  297 “She would eat herself up”: AI, 1/16/08.

  297 “Diane loved him desperately”: AI, 6/24/06.

  297 “Where are you?”: Judith Evans, AI, 10/23/07.

  298 “I could imagine Diane” and following: Janice Dickinson, No Life Guard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, New York, 2003, p. 216.

  298 “spent the entire shoot” and following: Ibid., pp. 218–19.

  299 “Look, that bitch” and following: Robert Younger, AI, 10/15/08.

  8. ONE FROM THE HART

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  304 Epigraph: AI, 9/8/93.

  304 “You want to”: Confidential source.

  305 “I’m the biggest narcissist” and following: Craig McKay, AI, 10/12/05.

  305 “The tenor of that”: AI, 5/4/05.

  305 “Jack was so good”: Confidential source.

  305 “You know Jack”: AI, 5/4/05.

  306 “Warren was a little”: AI, 10/13/08.

  306 “Jerry came in”: Confidential source.

  306 “I was shocked” and following: Confidential source.

  306 “Beatty couldn’t handle it”: Confidential source.

  306 “The big fight”: AI, 3/4/05.

  306 “a bullet is worth”: Trevor Griffiths, AI, 10/11/05.

  307 “For me, you will never”: AI, 1/14/06.

  307 “While we were mixing” and following: AI, 10/3/05.

  308 “I hated that” and following: Confidential source.

  308 “Poor Maurice had done”: AI, 10/3/05.

  308 “It was extraordinarily discouraging”: AI, 12/4/05.

  309 “they made the film”: AI, 1/22/08.

  309 “It was frustrating”: AI, 1/16/08.

  309 “I never liked”: AI, 6/28/94.

  309 “One of the things”: AI, 8/8/05.

  309 “Hey, Dil,” and following: Scharf, AI, 12/4/05.

  310 “John Reed definitely left” and following: AI, 10/11/05.

  310 “Warren made some” and following: AI, 5/3/05.

  311 “The last night”: AI, 10/3/05.

  311 “Films are never finished”: Quoted by Beatty, AI, n.d.

  311 “We were going crazy”: AI, 10/12/05.

  311 “Oh my God, Communism”: unsourced.

  312 “Everyone was telling him” and following: AI, 12/24/05.

  313 “for having financed”: Carr, “Dick Tracy Speaks.”

  313 “I was talking to Walt”: Avnet, AFI seminar.

  313 “I met Ronnie”: AI, 12/29/99.

  313 “We used to laugh”: AI, n.d.

  313 “Ronnie was not”: AI, 11/29/99.

  313 “We shot in studios”: AI, 6/7/94.

  314 “no one would ever say”: AI, 12/24/05.

  314 “I don’t know how much”: AI, 6/11/94.

  314 “lunacy”: Daily News, 8/19/81, p. 49.

  314 “spanked”: Village Voice, n.d.

  314 “quaint”: AI, n.d.

  314 “He had his own”: AI, 12/24/05.

  314 “His whole approach”: AI, 5/3/05.

  315 “Warren grilled me”: AI, 1/16/08.

  315 “That was just a piece”: AI, 12/29/05.

  315 “an extraordinary film”: Vincent Canby, New York Times, 12/4/81.

  315 “Reds is a big”: Richard Corliss, Time, 12/7/81.

  315 “It isn’t really”: Kael, “Reds,” The New Yorker, 12/21/81.

  316 “I was the reason”: AI, 7/27/05.

  316 “Warren betrayed Pauline”: AI, 3/22/06.

  316 “I haven’t spoken”: AI, n.d.

  318 “Dede was in shock” and following: AI, 10/12/05.

  318 “It’s going to be you”: Andrew Yule, Fast Fade: David Puttnam, Columbia Pictures, and the Battle for Hollywood, New York, 1989, p. 103.

  318 “The character who had”: AI, 3/16/95.

  318 “I went out of my way”: Yule, Fast Fade, p. 207.

  318 “hated each other”: AI, 5/26/93.

  319 “A lot of people”: Confidential source.

  319 “You know, Warren”: Quoted by Dick Sylbert, AI, 4/9/93.

  319 “Warren doesn’t have”: Confidential source.

  319 “I sent him some sketches”: AI, 3/20/06.

  319 “Film schools gave us guys”: AI, 5/26/93.

  320 “Get rid of all that”: Confidential source.

  321 “In the subject matter” and following: AI, 1/7/98.

  321 “I think there was”: AI, 10/2/91.

  322 “It was said”: AI, 1/12/06.

  323 “was excited by being” and following: Ronald Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection, New York, 1990, p. 317.

  323 “Maybe if Reds ”: AI, 9/9/04.

  323 “He was disruptive” and following: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 321.

  324 “Warren has that manner” and following: AI, 9/9/04.

  325 “message doctor”: Peter Goldman, “A Voice for the Yuppie Generation,” Newsweek, 11/84.

  325 “He owed her”: AI, 4/14/06.

  325 “I wanted the director”: AI, 11/29/99.

  325 “Orson couldn’t get”: Jaglom, AI, 3/3/05.

  326 “Elaine wasn’t interested”: AI, 11/29/99.

  327 “In Warren Beatty”: Brian D. Johnson, Brave Films, Wild Nights: 25 Years of Festival Fever, Toronto, 2000, p. 118.

  327 “There was a feeling”: Ibid., p. 121.

  327 “We got high together”: Ibid., p. 119.

  327 “They wanted to control”: Ibid., p. 120.

  327 “We’ll take you” and following: Ibid., p. 121.

  328 “I didn’t know”: AI, 5/5/08.

  329 “Bert, anything she wants”: Feibleman, AI, 4/14/06.

  329 “nightmare was having” and following: Confidential source.

  329 “You have to be”: Blum, “The Road to Ishtar,” New York, 3/16/87.

  330 “I spent a lot of”: Pat H. Broeske, “Melting Cost of Ishtar,” L.A. Times, 5/24/87.

  330 “What happens sometimes” and following: AI, 10/2/91.

  330 “I originally went” and following: AI, 1/31/08.

  331 “made Warren tremble” and following: Paul Mazursky, Show Me the Magic: My Adventures in Life and Hollywood, New York, 1999, p. 179.

  331 “Just think of a dirty” and following: AI, 1/31/08.

  332 “a series” and following: AI, 1990.

  332 “I’m tired of Hollywood” and following: G. Mac Brown, AI, 8/7/08.

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sp; 333 “acne so bad”: Brad Darrach, “On the Road to Ishtar,” People, 5/25/87.

  333 “I was sort of self-conscious” and following: AI, 6/12/05.

  336 “could perhaps be made”: David T. Friendly, “First Look at the Studio,” Los Angeles Times, 9/4/86.

  336 “I was always aware”: Broeske, “Check the Pulse of Two Movies,” LA Times, 5/29/87.

  337 “Warren knew” and following: AI, 3/4/05.

  337 “provocative encounter”: People, 5/18/87.

  338 “An airport-limousine driver”: Tom Mathews, “Election ’88. Part 2: The Democrats’ Quest, Fatal Attraction,” Newsweek, 11/21/88.

  338 “We were still”: AI, 9/9/04.

  338 “He [was] always”: Howard Fineman, “Gary Hart: A Candidate in Search of Himself,” Newsweek, 4/13/87.

  338 “[I had] my problems”: AI, 3/4/05.

  338 “You’re in charge” and following: Bradley, AI, 9/9/04.

  338 “radiant divorcee” and following: Gail Sheehy, “The Hidden Hart,” Vanity Fair, 7/84.

  339 “It was bullshit”: AI, 3/4/05.

  339 “You know, people”: Bradley, AI, 9/9/04.

  339 “I didn’t want”: AI, 3/4/05.

  339 “Even Warren couldn’t”: AI, 9/9/04.

  340 “It’s your campaign”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 326.

  340 “Warren, to his discredit”: AI, 9/9/04.

  340 “Gary was a lot better” and following: AI, 3/4/05.

  341 “dark and depressive”: Holly Millea, “Enduring Isabelle,” Premiere, 4/96.

  341 “I began meeting”: Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty: A Private Man, New York, 2005, p. 456.

  341 “I think you’re” and following: Fran Drescher, Enter Whining, New York, 1996, pp. 70–78.

  342 “She was the hatcheck girl”: AI, 11/8/07.

  342 “Is your name DeLauné?” and following: DeLauné Michel, AI, 7/25/09.

  343 “This was right before” and following: AI, 6/4/07.

  9. FATAL ATTRACTION

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  346 Epigraph: AI, 6/12/05.

  346 “We had been out looking”: David Blum, “The Road to ‘Ishtar,’” New York, 3/16/87.

  347 “We heard there were”: AI, n.d.

  347 “Dustin was very nervous”: AI, 8/8/05.

  347 “I was standing” and following: AI, 12/4/05.

  347 “The Moroccans were”: Peter Biskind, “Inside ‘Ishtar,’” American Film, 5/87.

  348 “The humps would be”: David Blum, “‘The Road to Ishtar,’” New York, 3/16/87.

  348 “In New York, before” and following: AI, 3/20/06.

  349 “None of that happened”: AI, 2/15/08.

  349 “Elaine was nobody’s fool”: Scharf email, 6/16/09.

  349 “She would change”: AI, 8/8/05.

  350 “Directors control in different”: Confidential source.

  350 “One problem”: Wooll, AI, 8/8/05.

  350 “Elaine, I love her” and following: Dustin Hoffman, AI, 6/12/05.

  351 “We all figured”: Paul Sylbert, AI, 3/20/06.

  351 “The notion of her eccentricity”: AI, 2/15/08.

  351 “Warren never pushed”: Nicola Pecorini, AI, 4/3/09.

  351 “one of the great” and following: AI, 6/12/05.

  352 “Isabelle’s greatest attribute”: Confidential source.

  352 “You know why”: AI, 3/20/06.

  352 “There wasn’t a lot”: AI, 6/12/05.

  352 “He was very cold” and following: Pecorini, AI, 4/4/09.

  353 “Why is this chair”: Scharf, AI, 12/11/05.

  353 “Then we said” and following: Pecorini, AI, 4/4/09.

  354 “Warren would never learn”: AI, 6/12/05.

  354 “she leaned against me” and following: AI, 3/20/06.

  356 “In any other circumstances”: Pecorini, AI, 4/4/09.

  356 “Warren did not have”: AI, 4/14/06.

  356 “Great composers are”: AI, 3/22/06.

  357 “Warren was going off” and following: AI, 6/12/05.

  358 “Halfway through the movie”: Scott Eyman, “The Commish Steps Up to the Plate,” Palm Beach Post, 4/9/06.

  359 “acting, I had to be” and following: G. Mac Brown, AI, 8/7/08.

  359 “Do what you do” and following: Biskind, “Inside ‘Ishtar,” 5/87.

  360 “So what are”: G. Mac Brown, AI, 8/7/08.

  360 “She picked up one”: AI, 3/25/06.

  360 “oozed integrity”: Margot Dougherty, reported by Richard Natale, “He Rode into Hollywood on a Chariot of Fire, but David Puttnam’s Job at Columbia Went Up in Smoke,” Los Angeles Times, 11/16/87.

  360 “After he went”: AI, 6/12/05.

  361 “Puttnam was on”: AI, 6/4/07.

  361 “I don’t want”: Andrew Yule, Fast Fade: David Puttnam, Columbia Pictures, and the Battle for Hollywood, New York, 1989, p. 204.

  361 “If your director’s not there” and following: Confidential source.

  361 “Towards the end”: Schopper, AI, 2/15/08.

  361 “How does this guy” and following: Julia Phillips, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, New York, 1992, pp. 526, 528.

  362 “You gotta do me”: Paul Sylbert, AI, 3/20/06.

  362 “You think he wasn’t” and following: Brown, 8/7/08.

  362 “In terms of preparing” and following: AI, 7/8/08.

  363 “was like a brother” and following: Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star, quoted by Brian D. Johnson, Brave Films, Wild Nights: 25 Years of Festival Fever, Toronto, 2000, excerpted in Maclean’s, 8/28/2000.

  363 “You’re gonna get called”: Brown, AI, 8/7/08.

  363 “We all got called” and following: AI, 3/20/06.

  363 “We were in constant contact” and following: AI, 7/8/08.

  364 “I spent two years”: AI, 9/8/93.

  364 “Warren really loved”: AI, 9/8/08.

  364 “he distanced himself”: AI, 8/7/08.

  364 “Warren was basically in effect”: AI, 7/27/05.

  365 “I had hoped to work”: AI, 8/7/08.

  365 “I was staggered”: Yule, Fast Fade, p. 244.

  365 “Who gives a shit”: Ibid.

  365 “a stern man”: Shirley MacLaine, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain, New York, 1971, pp. 2–3.

  365 “My dad internalized”: Shirley MacLaine, My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir, New York, 1996, p. 7.

  365 “Shaving gel works”: Michel, AI, 6/4/07.

  366 “I remember my father”: Douglas Thompson, “Warren Beatty Has It All,” Mail on Sunday, 7/15/90.

  366 “Before my father died”: Michael Shelden, “I was always an oddball,” Daily Telegraph, 2/18/00; Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 459.

  366 “I had zero interest” and following: AI, 10/13/08.

  367 “It wasn’t entirely comforting”: MacLaine, My Lucky Stars, p. 19.

  367 “It was hard for him” and following: AI, 10/13/08.

  369 “If you don’t get”: Confidential source.

  369 “Elaine’s so smart” and following: Confidential source.

  370 “The idea was”: Tom Fleischman, AI, 12/3/05.

  370 “Warren and Elaine had”: AI, 10/13/08.

  370 “Bert Fields had” and following: Confidential source.

  370 “bullshit”: AI, 2/26/09.

  371 “It says, ‘Use’” and following: Confidential source.

  371 “Warren kept trying”: AI, 2/15/08.

  371 “We’re doing great”: Confidential source.

  371 “Elaine finally said”: AI, 2/15/08.

  371 “We have a movie!” and following: Confidential source.

  372 “there was a widespread”: AI, 9/9/04.

  373 “laughed and laughed”: Jennifer Lee, Tarnished Angel, New York, 1991, p. 55.

  373 “A lot of the time” and following: AI, 9/9/04.

  373 “If anybody wants”: E. J. Dionne, “The Elusive Front-Runner Gary Hart,” New York Times Magazine, 5/3/87.

/>   374 “What do people your age” and following: Bradley, AI, 9/9/04.

  374 “We knew there was”: Tom Morganthau et al., “The Sudden Fall of Gary Hart,” Newsweek, 5/18/87.

  375 “For Gary Hart, the end” and following: Walter Shapiro, “Fall from Grace,” Time, 5/18/87.

  375 “angry at everything” and following: Ronald Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection, New York, 1990, p. 335.

  375 “It amazed me” and following: AI, 3/4/05.

  375 “Everyone is telling him” and following: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 336.

  376 “You’re crazy”: Tom Mathews, “Election ’88. Part 2: The Democrats’ Quest, Fatal Attraction,” Newsweek, 11/21/88.

  376 “Warren, it’s raining concrete”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 337.

  376 “Warren told me”: Hart, AI, 1999.

  376 “The candidate had”: Caddell, AI, 3/4/05.

  376 “Under the present circumstances”: Morganthau et al., “The Sudden Fall of Gary Hart.”

  376 “I don’t think”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 459.

  376 “Warren was right there” and following: AI, 10/13/08.

  377 “He had poked” and following: AI, 9/9/04.

  377 “I’ve assumed since 1961”: Beatty, AI, n.d.

  377 “Not the Donna Rice part”: AI, n.d.

  377 “By the time”: AI, 11/27/99.

  378 “If Gary was going”: AI, 9/9/04.

  378 “It was a catastrophe” and following: Nicholson, AI, 1990.

  378 “I didn’t even know”: AI, 6/12/05.

  378 “turn movie production”: Richard Schickel, “They Got What They Wanted; Ishtar Directed and Written by Elaine May,” Time, 5/18/87.

  378 “the most expensive comedy” and following: Pat Broeske, “The High Cost of ‘Ishtar,’” Los Angeles Times, 5/24/87.

  378 “The word went out”: Ibid.

  379 “Warren started to”: AI, 10/13/08.

  379 “I can’t use you” and following: Yule, Fast Fade, p. 244.

  379 “Warren’s friend”: AI, 6/12/05.

  379 “five-part ‘GMA’”: Tom Shales, “Beatty, on His Terms,” Washington Post,

  5/21/87.

  379 “Mr. Beatty edited”: Aljean Harmetz, “Figuring Out the Fates of ‘Cop’ and ‘Ishtar,’” New York Times, 6/4/87.

  379 “I’d rather ride down”: D. Dedubovay, “A Couple of Flirts,” Queensland Courier-Mail, 7/4/87.

  380 “I have never had”: AI, n.d.

  380 “The movie’s not important” and following: Quoted by MaryLouise Oates, AI, 8/15/07.

  380 “It’s a likable”: Janet Maslin, New York Times, 2/15/87.