380 “vanity production”: David Denby, New York, 5/25/87.
381 “When you make”: AI, 3/22/06.
381 “Elaine was blaming him”: AI, 10/13/08.
381 “Who can control Elaine?”: Confidential source.
381 “Whenever I see”: AI, 8/8/06.
381 “The great producer”: AI, 3/20/06.
382 “We probably shouldn’t have gone”: AI, 3/7/09.
382 “Ishtar was a B minus”: AI, 6/12/05.
382 “We were wildly high”: AI, 8/7/08.
382 “The man didn’t see”: AI, 1990.
383 “In some respects”: Yule, Fast Fade, p. 287.
383 “Could David have qotten involved”: Ibid.
383 “It hurt me”: Eyman, “The Commish Steps Up to the Plate.”
383 “You must remember”: Craig Modderno, “‘Ishtar’: It’s Unmusic to the Ear,” Los Angeles Times, 5/10/87.
383 “With the negative publicity”: Ronald Grover, “How Ishtar Put Columbia on the Road to Merger,” BusinessWeek, 11/30/87.
383 “A big problem”: Gene Siskel, “‘Ishtar’ the $40 Million Desert Dance,” Chicago Tribune, 5/10/87.
384 “I think I’m becoming”: Marie Helvin, The Autobiography, London, 2007, excerpted in Daily Mail, n.d.
384 “I know because”: Shirley MacLaine, quoted by Joyce Hyser, AI, 10/13/08.
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385 Epigraph: Fax, 6/28/06.
386 “You think you’ve” and following: AI, 1990.
386 Bo Goldman: AI, 7/1/06.
386 “Dick Tracy has” and following: Dick Sylbert, AI, 1989.
387 “I don’t like that”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
387 “You ask Warren”: AI, 6/7/94.
388 “[Gene] is giving me” and following: Avnet, AFI seminar.
389 “jihad of terror”: Entertainment Weekly, 9/21/07.
390 “Warren Beatty is up there” and following: Bo Goldman, AI, 5/6/06.
392 “I don’t want to see” and following: Goldman, AI, n.d., and fax.
392 “Thank God you” and following: Joyce Hyser, AI, 10/13/08.
393 “Warren is Scottish” and following: AI, 1989.
394 “There’s nothing more important”: Hyser, AI, 10/13/08.
395 “Once, a girl’s name”: AI, 1989.
395 “What do you do?”: Confidential source.
395 “If you think”: George Hackett et al., “The Hart-Beatty Connection,” Newsweek, 1/25/88.
396 “I’m back”: unsourced.
396 “self-indulgent folly”: Walter Shapiro, “The Ghost of Gary Past,” Time, 12/28/87.
396 “Warren is the kind”: AI, 6/19/04.
396 “winning one”: George Hackett, “Hart: The Invisible Man,” Newsweek, 2/22/88.
397 “I saw the A list”: David Ansen, “Tracymania,” Newsweek, 6/25/90.
397 “Everybody said”: Madonna, AI, 1990.
397 “I know you’ve heard” and following: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Madonna: An Intimate Biography, London, 2001, p. 157.
398 “Warren was very proud” and following: AI, 6/24/06.
398 “Jeffrey loved him”: AI, 6/14/06.
398 “Warren is not”: AI, 6/24/06.
398 “Katzenberg would call”: AI, 5/6/06; 7/1/06.
399 “I wanted to try” and following: Gene Siskel, “Beatty’s Dick Tracy,” Chicago Tribune, 6/10/90.
399 “This is not some”: Siskel, “Beatty’s Dick Tracy.”
399 “It’s about the” and following: AI, 1989.
399 “I gave him” and following: AI, 6/24/06.
399 “The movie, for me”: Avnet, AFI Seminar.
400 “At first he’d say” and following: AI, 5/6/06.
402 “Where’s my car?” and following: AI, 10/13/08.
402 “We made all”: AI, 7/18/06.
402 “I can’t tell you”: AI, 10/13/08.
406 “I was the world’s” and following: AI, 6/24/06.
406 “I was under”: AI, 5/5/04.
406 “Warren Beatty is”: AI, 5/6/06.
406 “He was terrified”: AI, 10/7/08.
407 “Hughes would never” and following: AI, 7/14/06.
407 “It was a completely”: AI, 6/24/06.
407 “while Bo wrote up”: AI, 10/7/08.
407 “Fire him” and following: Bo Goldman, AI, 7/1/06.
409 “Madonna and I”: AI, 5/5/08.
409 “old enough to be”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, “In Bed,” London Daily Mail, 3/27/99.
409 “would follow her”: Taraborrelli, Madonna, p. 160.
409 “I’m half a mile”: Taraborrelli, “In Bed.”
410 “You seem to like”: Taraborrelli, Madonna, pp. 178–79; Taraborrelli, “In Bed.”
410 “He knows a woman’s body”: Taraborrelli, Madonna, pp. 179–80.
410 “a perfectly wonderful size”: Don Shewey, “Madonna: The Saint, the Slut, the Sensation,” The Advocate, 5/7, 21/91.
410 “You older guys”: Taraborrelli, Madonna, pp. 180–81.
410 “I sense that”: Christopher Ciccone, Life with My Sister Madonna, New York, 2008, p. 170.
411 “Their relationship was very odd” and following: AI, 5/5/08.
411 “I was there”: AI, 11/19/06.
411 “When we walked”: AI, 7/27/05.
412 “Don’t you think”: Bo Goldman, AI, 6/24/06.
412 “this guy standing”: AI, 6/12/05.
412 “Oh, this kid” and following: Bo Goldman, AI, 7/1/06.
413 “Warren was a genius”: AI, 8/16/09.
413 “Warren had to limit”: AI, 1989.
413 “Warren pisses me off”: AI, 1990.
413 “is a guy”: AI, 1989.
413 “I was pissed”: AI, 1990.
414 “Shit, I turned”: Madonna, on set, 1989.
414 “War-ren, I’m losing”: Kim Masters, The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip, New York, 2000, p. 239.
414 “I’m here Warren.” “I know”: Madonna and Beatty, on set.
414 “Warren wanted to”: AI, 1990.
414 “Ya know, you”: Mike Medavoy, AI, 1/25/08.
415 “Get over here” and following: Michel, 7/27/09.
415 “Warren was just” and following: AI, 6/4/07.
416 “I don’t want”: Michel, AI, 7/27/09.
416 “Hey, Pussy Man”: Taraborrelli Madonna, pp. 183–84.
416 “I’d never seen Warren”: AI, 4/4/09.
416 “We would taunt him”: AI, 7/2/09.
417 “Women with one name” and following: Mike Nichols, AI, 12/3/99.
417 “Never, ever fuck”: Glenn Gordon Caron, AI, 5/31/07.
417 “One morning”: Ciccone, Life with My Sister Madonna, p. 169.
418 “It was the most peculiar”: AI, 7/1/06.
419 “The ax had fallen”: AI, n.d.
420 “I beg of you” and following: Beatty, AI, 10/7/08.
420 “Well, should we”: AI, 7/1/06.
420 “had been”: AI, 6/24/06.
420 “Spielberg and Bo”: AI, 11/8/07.
420 “Warren was pissed off”: AI, 6/24/06.
420 “I want you” and following: Bo Goldman, AI, 5/6/06.
421 “The question for me” and following: AI, 6/14/06.
421 “He could not”: AI, 1989.
421 “I finally realized”: Ibid.
422 “There was this”: Masters, The Keys to the Kingdom, p. 240.
422 “I have a much bigger”: Ansen, “Tracymania,” Newsweek, 6/25/90.
422 “Don’t hide back there”: Christopher Andersen, Madonna: Unauthorized, New York, 1991, p. 289.
423 “And not only” and following: AI, 5/6/06.
423 “I just learned”: Mab Goldman, AI, 7/1/06.
423 “Somebody of Warren’s stature”: AI, 7/18/06.
424 “Why did he insist”: AI, 6/24/06.
424 “I tried very hard” and following: AI, 11/8/07.
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425 Epigraph: AFI Life Achievement Award, 6/12/08.
425 “You can’t escape” and following: Jeffrey Katzenberg, AI, 1990.
426 “The numbers are great”: Bob Thomas, “Warren Beatty,” The Canadian Press, 6/22/90.
426 “has been gloriously reinvented”: Vincent Canby, New York Times, 6/15/90.
426 “a class act”: David Ansen, Newsweek, 6/25/90.
427 “The other actors”: Anthony Lane, “A Blush from Beatty, for the lady is a Vamp,” Independent (London), 7/8/90.
428 “somewhat shorter” and following: Kim Masters, The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip, New York, 2000, p. 252.
428 “You talk to yourself”: AI, 7/31/09.
429 “Take his time?”: AI, 1989.
429 “Warren hated”: Confidential source.
429 “Jeffrey treated me very well”: AI, 10/1/91.
429 “I’m told he tried”: AI, 1989; 10/1/91.
430 “Go to hell”: Christopher Andersen, Madonna: Unauthorized, New York, 1991, p. 303.
430 “There’s a lot”: Don Shewey, “Madonna: The Saint, the Slut, the Sensation,” The Advocate, 5/7, 21/91.
430 “no scenes”: AI, 8/10/09.
430 “He tried to stay” and following: AI, 4/8/08.
430 “the sparring chamber” and following: AI, 11/19/06.
431 “He’s 50 from”: Sally Ogle Davis, “How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Lothario,” Mail on Sunday, 5/24/92.
431 “I was in” and following: AI, 6/27/05.
432 “That’s when I knew” and following: DeLauné Michel, AI, 6/4/07.
433 “would hire a hit man”: AI, n.d.
434 “There’s a Didion-Dunne script”: Beatty, AI, n.d.
434 “master creator” and following: James Toback, “Divisions and Dislocations: A Journal for 1994,” Projections 4, p. 75.
434 “I wouldn’t come up with” and following: AI, 7/27/05.
435 “There was some caution”: Mike Medavoy, with Josh Young, You’re Only as Good as Your Next One, New York, 2002, p. 237.
435 “to lose weight”: Mike Medavoy, AI, 1/25/08.
435 “He was in love”: AI, 2/20/08.
435 “I’m in just”: AI, 10/1/91.
435 “What do you think” and following: James Toback, AI, 7/27/05.
437 “came back the next day”: Bugsy, DVD, Making of—Documentary, Road to Damascus.
437 “It was a mess” and following: AI, 6/1/07.
437 “I got this long”: Bugsy, DVD, Making of—Documentary, Road to Damascus.
437 “When I first met Barry”: AI, 7/27/05.
438 “Warren is very secretive”: AI, 2/1/08.
438 “Everything was so secretive”: AI, 2/15/08.
438 “It got back”: AI, 2/1/08.
438 “In a way” and following: AI, 11/29/99.
439 “By the end” and following: AI, 11/19/06.
439 “I didn’t have any”: Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty: A Private Man, New York, p. 478.
439 “I knew all about”: Garth Pearce, “Mrs. Beatty’s Recipe for Success,” London Sunday Times, 11/14/04.
439 “I was elated” and following: AI, 11/29/99.
440 “He let out”: AI, 7/27/05.
440 “I had to stop”: “Love Story,” Vanity Fair, 9/94.
440 “I didn’t fall”: Mal Vincent, “Still Faithful After All Three Years,” Virginian-Pilot, 10/22/94.
440 “How did it go?”: Bugsy, DVD, making of—Documentary, Road to Damascus.
440 “Bugsy, with Warren” and following: AI, 2/1/08.
441 “he came up” and following: AI, 1/30/07.
441 “Half of him”: AI, 7/27/05.
441 “There isn’t an ounce” and following: AI, 6/1/07.
442 “Bugsy was a”: AI, 10/6/91.
442 “Barry’s not a very gregarious”: AI, 1/30/07.
442 “a shopping list”: AI, 2/1/08.
442 “The men followed”: AI, 1/30/07.
442 “It’s just more fun”: Beatty, 11/29/99.
443 “‘That’s a fucking” and following: James Toback, AI, 7/27/05.
443 “Bugsy was a guy”: Bugsy, DVD, Making of—Documentary, Road to Damascus.
443 “Would you stop”: Toback, AI, 7/27/05.
444 “So I dropped”: Bugsy, DVD, Making of—Documentary, Road to Damascus.
444 “I don’t have”: AI, 6/1/07.
444 “Warren loves to mess”: Confidential source.
444 “We thought”: AI, 6/6/07.
444 “Warren was insecure”: AI, 1/30/07.
444 “I’m sure it was”: AI, 2/15/08.
445 “There’s a kind”: Unsourced.
445 “We have a deal” and following: James Toback, AI, 7/27/05.
446 “I don’t enjoy”: Avnet, AFI seminar.
447 “a closet psychopath” and following: AI, 7/8/08.
447 “I admit to an”: Shirley MacLaine, My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir, New York, 1996, pp. 81, 110.
447 “I believe he’s”: AI, 7/8/08.
447 “What other actor” and following: Bugsy, DVD, Making of—Documentary, Road to Damascus.
448 “His performance”: Ibid.
448 “How did you get”: James Toback, AI, 9/28/04.
448 “Barry gained his trust”: AI, 1/30/07.
448 “Dick Tracy, with its”: AI, 10/18/91.
448 “I’ve worked with” and following: AI, 2/15/08.
449 “I hope I get”: Unsourced.
449 “I don’t think Warren”: AI, 2/1/08.
449 “That was way down”: AI, 11/29/99.
450 “Barry, Warren, and I”: AI, 7/27/05.
450 “I used to stay”: AI, 7/27/05.
450 “They were falling in love”: AI, 2/1/08.
450 “You ask my dad”: Hilary De Vries, “Regarding Annette,” Los Angeles Times, 7/7/91.
450 “My parents are”: AI, 11/29/99.
450 “It got to be late” and following: AI, 11/29/99.
451 “When I met Warren”: Vincent, “Still Faithful.”
451 “I want to have”: Allegra Clegg, AI, 1/30/07.
451 “very quickly”: AI, 11/29/99.
451 “It was a wonderful thing”: AI, 11/29/99.
451 “I think back sometimes”: Michel, AI, 6/4/07.
451 “The Teamsters told us”: AI, 6/1/07.
451 “I didn’t know”: AI, 2/15/08.
452 “She was really”: AI, 11/29/99.
452 “He had no intention”: AI, n.d.
453 “told stories” and following: AI, 7/8/08.
453 “I know Warren felt”: AI, 6/6/07.
454 “Despite protestations”: AI, 7/27/05.
454 “That movie was everything”: AI, 6/1/07.
454 “We were dealing”: Confidential source.
454 “He called me” and following: Medavoy with Young, You’re Only as Good as Your Next One, p. 240.
454 “He cussed me”: AI, 1/25/08.
455 “Would he pick up”: AI, 6/6/07.
455 “Warren obsessed over”: Medavoy with Young, You’re Only as Good as Your Next One, p. 240.
455 “The studio spent”: AI, 6/6/07.
455 “There were lots”: AI, 6/1/07.
455 “Even if you fell in love”: AI, 6/6/07.
456 “We had total control”: AI, n.d.
456 “He can be a bully” and following: AI, 7/24/09.
456 “Warren wouldn’t talk”: AI, 1/25/08.
456 “It bothered me” and following: AI, 6/1/07.
457 “Warren Beatty… has found”: Janet Maslin, New York Times, 12/13/91.
457 “I liked the idea” and following: AI, 10/1/91.
458 “Can we do two o’clock”: AI, 6/6/07.
458 “I know that Warren”: AI, 1/25/08.
458 “That was one place”: AI, 2/20/08.
> 458 “Frankly I’d had enough”: AI, 1/25/08.
458 “It wasn’t that Mike”: AI, 6/6/07.
458 “What studio head”: AI, 7/27/05.
458 “I don’t know whether”: AI, n.d.
458 “Warren flipped out”: AI, 1/25/08.
459 “I don’t think he” and following: AI, 7/27/05.
459 “Peter got upset”: AI, 1/25/08.
459 “It isn’t as if”: AI, 7/27/05.
459 “Nobody wanted to be”: Kathy Jones, 6/6/07.
459 “Too much was made”: AI, 6/1/07.
460 “Mike’s response was”: AI, 7/27/07.
460 “All you wanted” and following: AI, 6/6/07.
461 “Up to then”: AI, 6/1/07.
461 “I had to go through”: Medavoy with Young, You’re Only as Good as Your Next One, p. 245.
461 “You go to dailies”: AI, 6/1/07.
462 “Is he focused on”: AI, 7/24/09.
462 “He was as close”: AI, 7/8/08.
462 “knowledgeable”: Confidential source.
462 “I’d like to dedicate”: Axl Rose, Paris, 1992 concert, YouTube.
463 “Warren wanted”: Doug Camilli, “Warren Beatty,” The Gazette (Montreal), 4/4/07.
463 “He’s very frightened”: unsourced.
463 “Everything he’s done”: Sally Ogle Davis, “How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Lothario?”
463 “In a weird way”: AI, 6/14/06.
463 “The only thing”: Sally Ogle Davis, “How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Lothario?”
463 “Warren has always”: AI, 6/7/94.
463 “I don’t think”: AI, 4/8/08.
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464 Epigraph: Conversation with author, n.d.
464 “He’s never going”: Sally Ogle Davis, “How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Lothario?,” London Mail on Sunday, 5/24/98.
465 “See that guy?”: A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered, New York, 2003, p. 324.
465 “This was a”: AI, 2/95.
465 “Are you still”: Corie Brown “No Love Affair,” Premiere, 2/95.
465 “I opened it up”: Michael Sragow, “Return of the Native,” New Times, 3–9, 9/98.
466 “Gosh” and following: Glenn Gordon Caron, AI, 5/31/07.
466 “Basically, success breeds”: Curtis Lee Hanson, “Warren Beatty as Producer,” in Sandra Wake and Nicola Hayden, eds., Bonnie and Clyde, London, 1978, pp. 179, 180.
467 “Frankly I became”: Susan King, “Seeking Perfection; Glenn Gordon Caron, Whose Moonlighting Turned Heads on TV, Hopes His Current Picture Will Do the Same on the Big Screen,” Los Angeles Times, 8/7/97.
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