by James Gavin
“like Lena . . . her way”: William Luce to JG, Nov. 8, 2011.
“You are upsetting”: Ibid.
“I look like . . . GORILLA”: Andrew Sarewitz to JG, July 2, 2011.
“came out like . . . respect”: William Luce to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“We were all”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“and boldly . . . my life!”: William Luce to JG, May 10, 2013.
“How dare you”: Letter, PL to Paul Horner, May 26, 1983.
“The music for”: Liz Smith, “Musical ‘Peg’: Background Disharmony?,” New York Daily News, 1983.
“Already they”: Ibid.
“somewhere an”: Letter, Abraham Marcus to Ralph Roseman, Nov. 17, 1983.
“revised the libretto”: Letter, William Luce to Zev Bufman and Irving Cowan, Nov. 11, 1983.
“sabotage . . . do that?”: Andrew Sarewitz to JG, July 2, 2011.
“It was just . . . of him!”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“What is this”: William Luce to JG, May 10, 2013.
“I kept looking”: Jane Harvey to JG, Oct. 31, 2010.
“Everybody was saying”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“sweet”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
“But in my”: Andrew Sarewitz to JG, July 2, 2011.
“Bobby . . . eight-year-old girl”: Ibid.
“The world knows”: PL to Ken Bloom and Bill Rudman, recorded interview, June 1993.
“What we see”: Martin Burden, “Peggy Lee Gives It All That There Is,” New York Post, Dec. 7, 1983.
“beyond salvation . . . postponement”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“ridiculous”: Irving Cowan to JG, May 30, 2013.
“I had no”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“David leaked it”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
“was so guarded”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“through typesetters”: Frank Rich to JG, May 22, 2013.
“During previews”: Irving Cowan to JG, May 30, 2013.
“They said”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“He never said . . . wasn’t me”: Sharon Churcher, New York Confidential: The Lowdown on the Big Town, New York: Random House, 1986.
“They wanted”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“I’d say”: Sharon Churcher, New York Confidential.
“laughing”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“I was done”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“Soul . . . strange child”: All Peg quotes from audio recordings of the show.
“This was supposed”: Mike Renzi to JG, Nov. 3, 2010.
“feeling mildly”: Jacques le Sourd, “Peggy Lee Tells Her Story,” Gannett Westchester Newspapers, Dec. 15, 1983.
“I was really”: Vince Mauro to JG, Jan. 14, 2013.
“I was so”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 17, 2010.
“My heart sank”: Artie Butler to JG, Mar. 20, 1999.
“Somehow, Peggy”: Mary Young to JG, Nov. 3, 2010.
“revenge”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“Peggy Lee swept”: Arthur Bell, “Bell Tells,” Village Voice, Dec. 20, 1983.
“Oh, aren’t . . . fabulous”: Paul Horner to JG, Apr. 28, 2013.
“Yes, indeed . . . concert”: Arthur Bell, “Bell Tells.”
“takes to the stage”: Frank Rich, “Stage: Peggy Lee Self-Portrait,” New York Times, Dec. 15, 1983.
“If this had”: Transcript, Joel E. Siegel, review, Eyewitness News, ABC-TV, Dec. 14, 1983.
“They didn’t like it!”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“What went on”: Irving Cowan to JG, May 30, 2013.
“The heaviest”: Arthur Bell, “Bell Tells.”
“Have you paid”: John Simon, New York, Dec. 26–Jan. 2, 1984.
“somewhere between”: Linda Winer, “Peg Strikes a Maudlin Note,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 16, 1983.
“virtually flawless”: Richard Humm, “Show on Broadway: Peg,” Variety, Dec. 1983.
“The unanimous opinion”: Irving Cowan to JG, May 30, 2013.
“She kept saying”: D. Michael Heath to JG, Nov. 7, 2011.
“People feel”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
“You get to”: Mary Campbell, “That’s Not All There Is,” Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 8, 1992.
“this particular . . . PEGGY!”: Recording, Peg, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, Dec. 17, 1983.
“I began to feel”: On Stage America, Sept. 9, 1984.
“People were”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“If my life”: Mary Campbell, “Peggy Lee: No Hard Feelings,” The Associated Press, July 12, 1985.
“She stamped”: Paul Horner to JG, Nov. 16, 2010.
“She was a nice”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
“minor league”: Zev Bufman to JG, May 21, 2013.
“The orchestra”: D. Michael Heath to JG, Nov. 7, 2011.
“The Peggy Lee flop”: Liz Smith, “I’M Pei’s Artistic Plans for the Louvre,” New York Daily News, Dec. 1983.
“Zev never”: Jon Wilner to JG, July 1, 2012.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
“This has”: Michael Kearns, “Miss Peggy Lee,” Drama-Logue, June 21–27, 1984.
“reminiscences”: Leonard Feather, “From Peggy Lee, a Message of Less Is More,” Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1984.
“The audience”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“Look at those”: Recording, Peggy Lee, The Ballroom, New York, June 13, 1986.
“Boudoir . . . benefit”: CBS This Morning, July 20, 1990.
“Being associated”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“extraordinary”: Stephen Holden, “Jazz Duets, Onstage and in Spirit,” New York Times, Aug. 10, 2010.
“It’s gonna blow”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“I just stood . . . bugged me again”: Mike Renzi to JG, Nov. 3, 2010.
“There were three . . . the fact”: John Chiodini to JG, Mar. 20, 1999.
“Most of our”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“Let us consider”: Mary Strong, Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood, Louisville, KY: House of Light, p. 59.
“For years”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Apr. 15, 2011.
“She had that”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“more of an”: Neal Karlen, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Peggy Lee,” 7 Days, Feb. 22, 1989.
“I thought . . . We’ll see”: Greg Dawson to JG, Feb. 1999.
“Ladies and . . . hel-LO!”: Recording, Peggy Lee, The Ballroom, New York, July 18, 1985.
“It all came”: Greg Dawson to JG, Feb. 1999.
“upbeat show”: Mary Campbell, “Peggy Lee: No Hard Feelings,” Asbury Park (NJ) Press, July 12, 1985.
“She was tired”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“Can you imagine”: Recording, PL, The Ballroom, New York, July 30, 1985.
“Don’t get any”: Recording, PL, The Ballroom, New York, July 18, 1985.
“I’ve come to love”: Ibid.
“It got to”: Greg Dawson to JG, Feb. 1999.
“hip cool”: Charlotte Curtis, “Peggy Lee, Regal as Ever,” New York Times, July 23, 1985.
“She was a”: Greg Dawson to JG, Feb. 1999.
“She was having . . . almost died”: Holly Foster-Welles to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“called all”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“Miss Lee’s spirits”: “Peggy Lee ‘Gracious,’ ” Santa Monica (CA) Sumter Daily Item, Dec. 10, 1985.
“I came”: Don Heckman, “Is That All There Is? No Way, Says Peggy Lee,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 8, 1986.
“I’m in tune”: John Chiodini to JG, Mar. 20, 1999.
“For any”: Recording, Peggy Lee, The Ballroom, New York, June 13, 1986.
“Maxine just”: Ted Ono to JG, July 13, 2012.
“too fille
d”: Vince Mauro to JG, Jan. 2, 2013.
“She was”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“What was”: Greg Dawson to JG, Feb. 1999.
“Please don’t”: Michael Musto, Village Voice, Feb. 9, 1983.
“a little like”: Patrick Pacheco, “Like a Statue Rising Above the Ruins,” New York Daily News, Feb. 7, 1989.
“I can see”: Sheryl Connolly, “Miss Peggy Lee,” New York Daily News, Jun, 15, 1986.
“I used to call”: Phoebe Jacobs to JG, Feb. 11, 1999.
“Frankly”: Mary Campbell, “Peggy Lee Records Again,” The Associated Press, Feb. 10, 1988.
“Some people . . . do this”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“and overdid it”: Mary Campbell, “Peggy Lee Records Again.”
“She never really”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“Your part”: Joseph McLellan, “On with the Show,” Washington Post, Apr. 6, 1987.
“Everywhere”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“through that door”: Recording, Peg, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, Dec. 4, 1983.
“She was into”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“She was completely”: Robert W. Richards to JG, Feb. 15, 1999.
“five times”: Today, NBC-TV, Oct. 15, 1986.
“a little joke”: Stephen Silverman, “She’s Got the Fever,” New York Post, Feb. 2, 1988.
“insulting”: Matthew Flamm, “Peggy Sues,” New York Post, Nov. 17, 1988.
“Pull my contract”: John Saulle to JG, Oct. 24, 2011.
“Nothing in”: Contract, PL and Walt Disney Productions, Oct. 20, 1952.
“within a week”: Letter, Alvin Deutsch to Michael Eisner, June 17, 1988.
“granted Disney”: Letter, John J. Reagan to Alvin Deutsch, July 11, 1988.
“just acted”: James Ulmer, “Lee Lawsuit Over Disney ‘Lady’ Vid May Set Precedent,” Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 17, 1988.
“All I received”: “Video Battle,” New York Daily News, Nov. 17, 1988.
“Mouse-schwitz . . . ironclad”: Lee Ringuette to JG, June 28, 2011.
“no respect”: Nancy Olson Livingston to JG, May 26, 2011.
“When it comes”: Barron’s, quoted in Video Age International, Oct. 1, 1991.
“Such a large . . . Oscar telecast”: Video Age International, Oct. 1, 1991.
“Sure, I thought”: James Ulmer, “Lee Lawsuit Over Disney ‘Lady’ Vid May Set Precedent.”
“Numerous licenses . . . stretch”: Tom Bierbaum, “Lee Sues Disney for $25 Million Over ‘Lady’ Vid,” Variety, Nov. 17, 1988.
“He explained”: Cheech Marin to JG, June 6, 2013.
“seated on”: Matthew Flamm, “Peggy Sues,” New York Post, Nov. 17, 1988.
“I’m not being”: Glenn Collins, “Peggy Lee is Suing Disney,” New York Times, Nov. 17, 1988.
“Do you think . . . gonna win”: John Saulle to JG, Oct. 24, 2011.
“unfair competition”: “TV Creator Sues Over ‘Addams Family,’ ” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 17, 1992.
“This is the”: David Blasband to JG, Apr. 6, 2014.
“She did”: David Blasband to JG, Apr. 13, 2014.
“I saw her get”: John Chiodini to JG, Mar. 20, 1999.
“I can’t stop”: Bob Harrington, “Profile in Courage,” New York Post, Jan. 31, 1989.
“She didn’t get . . . person ever”: John Saulle to JG, Oct. 24, 2011.
“I didn’t come”: Betty Jungheim to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“thoughtful . . . talking with you”: Rebecca Freligh, “A Peggy Lee Valentine,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Feb. 14, 1989.
“When I sing”: Neal Karlen, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Peggy Lee,” 7 Days, Feb. 22, 1989.
“Jennifer Holliday”: Chris Albertson, Stereo Review, Dec. 1988.
“a center core”: Rebecca Freligh, “A Peggy Lee Valentine.”
“You know dear”: Bill Rudman to JG, Apr. 2, 2013.
“Miss Peggy Lee”: Neal Karlen, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Peggy Lee,” 7 Days, Feb. 22, 1989.
“Are you”: Recording, PL, The Ballroom, New York, Feb. 2, 1988.
“the story of . . . the soul”: Recording, PL, The Ballroom, New York, Feb. 16, 1989.
“left more”: Stuart Troup, “Peggy Lee in White and Blues,” New York Newsday, Jan. 1989.
“To us”: Rob Hoerburger, “The Lives They Lived: Is That All There Is?” New York Times, Dec. 29, 2002.
“I believe”: Letter to the editor, PL to Los Angeles magazine, 1983.
“Sometimes life”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 264.
“morass”: “On the Town with Rex Reed,” New York Observer, Feb. 13, 1989.
“I sang”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 202.
“has always been”: Miss Peggy Lee, p. 221.
“gloppy”: Michael Musto, “Miss Manners,” Village Voice, Apr. 25, 1989.
“I told her”: Phoebe Jacobs to JG, Feb. 11, 1999.
“No one”: Jane David to JG, Nov. 12, 2010.
“She was tired”: Emilio Palame to JG, May 19, 2013.
“No! I think”: CBS This Morning, July 20, 1990.
“I really hate”: Patricia Morrisroe, “Cabaret: Miss Peggy,” New York, Apr. 30, 1990.
“This power held”: Mary Strong, Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood, Louisville, KY: House of Light, p. 91.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
“evil empire”: Peter Burke to JG, May 7, 2013.
“I thought”: David Blasband to JG, Apr. 6, 2014.
“what could be”: “Singer Lee Gets Judge’s Nod in ‘Tramp’ Dispute,” Hollywood Reporter, Apr. 3, 1990.
“Stars are”: Entertainment Weekly, Apr. 12, 1991.
“a dear, sweet man”: PL to Mike Rapchak, WGN-AM (Chicago), c. 1988.
“Maybe that’s”: Nicki Lee Foster to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“as long as”: Wogan, BBC, Jan. 18, 1990.
“more than . . . blanket”: Robert Strom to JG, Jan. 8, 2012.
“That story is”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Nov. 13, 2010.
“Someone was”: Dona Harsh Hutchinson to JG, Feb. 9, 2011.
“She had”: Robert Strom to JG, Sept. 6, 2011.
“Hi, little”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“Now here”: PL to Ken Bloom and Bill Rudman, June 1993.
“That bell”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“prize-winning”: Joseph McLellan, “On with the Show,” Washington Post, Apr. 6, 1987.
“a distant”: Glenn Plaskin, “Lee’s Triumph of Spirit,” New York Daily News, Aug. 17, 1992.
“I almost drowned . . . coincidence”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“very much . . . wanted to”: George Christy, “Peggy Lee: Still at Fever’s Pitch,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
“my melodies”: Mary Campbell, “That’s Not All There Is,” Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 8, 1992.
“After she’d”: Bruce Vanderhoff to JG, Oct. 24, 2012.
“knew that”: Robert Strom to JG, Jan. 8, 2012.
“don’t realize”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“He was proud”: Mary Campbell, “Despite Her Ailments, Peggy Lee Is Still Going Strong,” Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Sept. 27, 1992.
“There were . . . abandonment thing”: Robert Strom to JG, Sept. 6, 2011.
“It’s a drain”: PL to Alan Dell, BBC Radio 2 interview, rec. 1992.
“and to a program”: Sharon Bernstein, “The Lady and the Lawsuit,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 19, 1991.
“She suffers”: “Jury Tramps on Disney, Awards Millions to Lady,” Ocala Star-Banner, May 21, 1991.
“Sitting up . . . still here”: Sharon Bernstein, “The Lady and the Lawsuit,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 19, 1991.
“control freaks”: Barron’s, quoted in Video Age International, Oct. 1, 1991.
“confident . . . sympathetic”: Stephen M. Lachs to JG, June
7, 2013.
“dear Walt”: PL, notes to William Luce for musical Peg, 1982.
“They were rapt”: David Blasband to JG, Apr. 6, 2014.
“What a lovely”: David Blasband to JG, Apr. 13, 2014.
“expert witness”: Marc Berman, “Lee’s Claim Scaled to $9 Mil,” Variety, Mar. 18, 1991.
“I honestly”: Court transcript, Peggy Lee vs. Walt Disney Productions, Mar. 11, 1991, p. 776.
“Where do”: Marc Berman, “Lee’s Claim Scaled to $9 Mil,” Variety, Mar. 18, 1991.
“Did Mr. Reardon . . . bizarre conduct”: “Disney Lawyer Demands Mistrial in Lawsuit,” Bowling Green (KY) Daily News Mar. 13, 1991.
“big mistake . . . Peggy herself”: David Blasband to JG, Apr. 6, 2014.
“big Peggy Lee fan”: Cheech Marin to JG, June 6, 2013.
“a character reference . . . That’s cool!”: Ibid.
“Any inference”: Marc Berman, “Lee’s Claim Scaled to $9 Mil.”
“in a way”: Holly Foster-Welles to JG, Jan. 30, 1999.
“wanted to”: Dan Boyle, “Peggy Lee Asks of Disney Royalties to Tune of $9M,” Los Angeles Daily News, Mar. 16, 1991.
“She retained”: Marc Berman, “Lee’s Claim Scaled to $9 Mil.”
“victory”: “Disney Must Pay Peggy Lee,” San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 21, 1991.
“To take . . . understand them”: “Lee Gets $2.3 Mil in Dis Video Ruling,” Hollywood Reporter, Apr. 17, 1993.
“The message of”: “Disney Must Pay Peggy Lee,” San Francisco Chronicle.
“I think she”: Dan Boyle, “Peggy Lee Wins Big Against Disney,” Los Angeles Daily News, Mar. 22, 1991.
“Lawyers are”: Stephen M. Lachs to JG, Apr. 15, 2014.
“I accept”: Dan Boyle, “Peggy Lee Wins Big Against Disney.”
“a compromise”: “Lee Gets $2.3 Mil in Dis Video Ruling,” Hollywood Reporter, Apr. 17, 1991.
“People are”: Sharon Bernstein, “The Lady and the Lawsuit,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 19, 1991.
“If they didn’t”: Ed Shaughnessy to JG, Dec. 8, 2010.
“worst quarter”: Alan Citron and Nina J. Easton, “Disney Adjusts to Fallibility,” Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1991.
“As the company”: Video Age International, Oct. 1, 1991.
“When it comes”: Alan Citron and Nina J. Easton, “Disney Adjusts to Fallibility.”
“that can possibly”: Cheech Marin to JG, June 6, 2013.
