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by Marion Meade


  "I’ll never forgive her": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 116.

  "the smartest of all": Jack Victor interview.

  "It was only when": Newsweek, 4/24/78.

  "I never set out": New York Sunday News, 2/2/64.

  "The simple fundamentals": New York Times Magazine, 11/3/63.

  "an exaggerated version": Jack Victor interview.

  "Gradually, the character": New York World-Telegram & Sun, 11/7/63.

  "Not only did they": "Down South," Monologue (Capitol, 1968).

  "I was hunting": "The Moose," Monologue (Colpix, 1965).

  "It must have been 1963": Helen Gurley Brown interview with MM.

  "a Chaplin-esque victim": New York Times, 11/5/62.

  "by far my most satisfying": Rogers E. M. Whitaker and Tony Hiss, All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo, Kodansha, 1997.

  "seem normal to me": New York Times Magazine, 11/3/63.

  "Leaving when she did": Jack Victor interview.

  "really a great experience": New York Daily News, 2/2/64.

  "a weird woman": All Harlene one-liners cited in Harlene Allen (aka Konigsberg) v.

  National Broadcasting Co., NY SupCt, Index No. 5376/67.

  "the jokes were funny": Jack Victor interview.

  "Why don't you": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 94.

  CHAPTER 4: What's New, Pussycat?

  "I go up on stage": University Review, 11/72.

  "a wallflower": Newsday, 7/10/64.

  "What the hell": Ibid.

  "what my wife": Coliseum, 2/16/67.

  "If her husband": "Private Life," Monologue (Colpix, 1964).

  "Attitudes like yours": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 189.

  "respond nastily": Dick Cavett Show, 10/4/77.

  "for six, seven months": Crawdaddy, 12/73.

  "Don't do that": Ibid.

  "a Greek widow": Confidential source.

  "That is soo funny": Stephen Silverman interview with MM.

  "a wonderful side": Laurie Zaks interview with MM.

  "To know Woody": Peter Tauber interview with MM.

  "closest friend": Rolling Stone, 9/16/93.

  "the person you want": New York Times, 6/1/98.

  "He's very lucky": Stephen Silverman interview.

  "Would you accept": "Question and Answer Session," Monologue (Capital, 1968).

  "just the throw of the dice": Spin, 1/98.

  "the struggles": Diane Jacobs, . . . But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen, St. Martin's Press, 1982, p. 3.

  "do something": University Review, 11/72.

  "I hate rock": Cosmopolitan, 9/74.

  "Do you know": New York Post, 8/19/72.

  On a wintry night: In Premiere magazine, 1/92, Warren Beatty recalled that he was Feldman's companion at the Blue Angel. According to Eric Lax, Feldman was with Beatty's sister, Shirley MacLaine.

  "a ride I couldn't": Holiday, 5/69.

  "Not very much": What's New, Pussycat?, unpublished screenplay.

  "They just killed it": Cinema, Winter 1972-1973.

  "fuck off": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 215.

  "It would only bother": New York Morning Telegraph, 6/28/65.

  "unless I had complete": Cinema, Winter 1972-1973.

  "a shrieking, reeking": New York Herald Tribune, 6/23/65.

  "It was a delightful": Judith Crist interview with MM.

  “probably reads hilariously": The New Republic, 7/10/65.

  “a more tasteful sex comedy": Village Voice, 7/8/65.

  "a terrific stand-up": Andrew Sarris interview with MM.

  "one of the funniest movies": Village Voice, 12/8/66.

  "a handbook": Media and Methods, 12/77.

  "He was very loyal": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 66.

  "WOODY ALLEN at various": Harlene Allen (aka Konigsberg) v. National Broadcasting Co.

  "If I were to close": The New Yorker, 12/9/96.

  "Many things about him": Mia Farrow interview with Hello! magazine, quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/29/92.

  "Every day I raced": New York magazine, 4/5/93.

  "He's dependable": Newsweek, 4/24/78.

  "Life is difficult": Ibid.

  "We both decided": New York Post, 11/15/80.

  "we went down": New York Daily News, 3/18/67.

  "Whose party is this?": New York Post, 11/18/67.

  "he keeps shooting": Ibid.

  "I'm bringing 500 mice": Ibid.

  "crazy as a loon": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 170.

  "finicky and touchy": New York Times, 9/22/68.

  "Hiya, Louise": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 126.

  "the story and staging": Variety, 10/5/66.

  "a terrible play": Media and Methods, 12/77.

  "every 20 minutes": New York Times, 10/19/80.

  "She was once a nobody": Norma Lee Clark, Lady Jane, Fawcett, 1984, jacket copy.

  "This is a good piece": Chicago Tribune, 9/24/78.

  "hallowed ground": Paris Review, Fall 1995.

  "obvious he could write": Roger Angell interview with MM.

  "The insults and exaggeration": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 9/29/65.

  "This is very funny": Roger Angell interview.

  "In many ways": Roger Angell interview.

  "Mr. Shawn is delighted": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 4/26/66.

  "regarded Woody as a gift": Roger Angell interview.

  Publication in The New Yorker: Woody's sixty comic literary pieces from The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines are collected in three volumes: Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975), and Side Effects (1980).

  "Shall we begin?": "The Whore of Mensa," The New Yorker, 12/16/74, reprinted in Without Feathers.

  "When he turned somber": Roger Angell interview.

  "little souffles": The New Yorker, 12/9/96.

  "guys like S. J. Perelman": Saturday Review, 6/86.

  "Sorry to let you down": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 7/10/79.

  "almost every sentence": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 12/16/76.

  "I kid my ex-wife": "What's New, Pussycat?" Monologue (Colpix, 1965).

  "while holding me": Harlene Allen (aka Konigsberg) v. National Broadcasting Co.

  "So you thought": New York World Journal Tribune, 3/21/67.

  "statements attributing to me": Harlene Allen v. National Broadcasting Co.

  "settle for half": New York Post, 5/19/71.

  "But I'm not a comedian": William F. Buckley, Jr., interview with MM.

  "For God's sake": Groucho Marx to Woody Allen, 3/22/67.

  CHAPTER 5: The "Coatcheck Girl"

  "hadn't seen a woman": Dick Cavett Show, 9/69.

  "The way I look at it": Press release, Palomar Pictures, 1969.

  "Can you come": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 20.

  "That's the worst problem": Cosmopolitan, 9/74.

  "a great honor": Jerry Lewis quotation relayed to MM by Joe Stabile.

  "Woody, I spend": Shawn Levy, King of Comedy. The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis. St. Martins Press, 1997, p. 340.

  "Please put $50,000": Take the Money and Run, unpublished screenplay.

  "I'm sorry": The Realist, 4/65.

  "In prison the psychiatrist": Take the Money and Run.

  "I don't like": New York Times, 1/2/98.

  "little personal, honest films": Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Simon & Schuster, 1998, p. 75.

  "the master of coitus interruptus": Take One, 12/73.

  "a bad case": The New Republic, 1/19/98.

  "a frantic amateur": The New Republic, 10/4/93.

  "very unusual": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, pp. 242-244.

  "He asked to see": Davida Rosenblum interview with MM.

  "one of the most": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 246.

  "didn't matter too much": Ibid., p. 248.

  "a silly symphony": Newsweek, 8/25/69.

  "the cinematic equivalent": New York Times, 8/19/69.
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  "more of a personal kick": Jacobs,... But We Need the Eggs, p. 51.

  "the results ought to be": Newsweek, 8/25/69.

  "It was like being": Rolling Stone, 6/30/77.

  “She was a Broadway star": Time, 9/26/77.

  "Oh, God": Vanity Fair, 11/95.

  "I'd seen him on television": Rolling Stone, 6/3/77.

  "very charming": Ibid.

  "the Sandy Dennis Prize": National Review, 10/13/78.

  "She was the type": Rolling Stone, 6/3/77.

  "When I first met her": Time, 9/26/77.

  "a coatcheck girl": New York Times, 8/15/93.

  "It was the easiest job": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 48.

  "What's happening": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 132.

  "good time": Ibid., p. 134.

  "protest against": Family Circle, 8/74.

  "That's Diane's drawer": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 147.

  "ten blocks": Holiday, 5/69.

  "grave reservations": Confidential source.

  "Are you Woody Allen?": Confidential source.

  "fantasies and inner life": Architectural Digest, 11-12/72.

  "I don't understand": McKnight, Woody Allen, p. 125.

  "The inequality of my relationship": New York Daily News, 12/26/97.

  "a trace of intellectualism": Time, 4/30/79.

  "a real hayseed": McCall's, 11/79.

  CHAPTER 6: The Medici

  "Who's she looking for": Bananas, unpublished screenplay, 1971.

  "Arthur was very much": Eric Pleskow interview with MM.

  "when he is good": New York Times, 4/29/71.

  "the rocks of his acting": The New Republic, 5/22/71.

  "on-the-job training": Stanley Kauffmann interview with MM.

  "That wasn't the point": Confidential source.

  "Arthur was not a self-made man": Judy Feiffer interview with MM.

  "Woody was the emotional son": Confidential source.

  "a nice, simple": Chicago Tribune Magazine, 5/15/77.

  "I have absolute control": Cinema, Winter 1972-1973.

  "Had there been no Arthur": Steven Bach interview with MM.

  "sui generis": Stanley Kauffmann interview.

  "Sometimes I felt like": Eric Pleskow interview.

  "He knew how": Steven Bach interview.

  "carte blanche": Confidential source.

  "an intelligent young man": Eric Pleskow interview.

  "humor, charm": Dr. David Reuben, e-mail, 10/8/96.

  "It's hard to believe": Sleeper, unpublished manuscript.

  "I'm taller": New York Times, 7/3/77.

  "tension pervaded": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 260.

  "informally between shows": Vincent Canby interview with MM.

  "a limply, good-natured": The New Yorker, 10/4/69.

  "a beautiful little piece": The New Yorker, 12/31/73.

  "beyond belief": Andrew Sarris interview.

  "like a setter's ears": The New Yorker, 2/2/74.

  "a touch of the surreal": Ved Mehta, Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Overlook Press, 1998, p. 283.

  "two dreadful little boys": Vincent Canby interview.

  "He's made his lunacy work": Walter Bernstein interview.

  "one emotionally charged moment": Cosmopolitan, 9/74.

  "Underneath": Confidential source.

  "I'm disciplined": Esquire, 5/77.

  "If he took three": Vincent Canby interview.

  "What happened": Eric Pleskow interview. Elements of the discarded mystery wound up in the first cut of Annie Hall and later as the plot of Manhattan Murder Mystery.

  "Krim was one": Steven Bach interview.

  "an exceptional animal": Eric Pleskow interview.

  "going for the character": New York magazine, 7/16/75.

  "most shapely": The New Yorker, 6/16/75.

  "Woody's War and Peace": New York Times, 6/11/75.

  "in the right place": The New Republic, 7/12/75.

  "What about the kid?": Walter Bernstein interview.

  "expresses me politically": Rolling Stone, 7/1 /76.

  "never disrespectful": Andrea Marcovicci interview with MM.

  "Woody is never deliberately": Walter Bernstein interview.

  "Shut up, out there": Andrea Marcovicci interview.

  "Woody shrinks": Walter Bernstein interview.

  "because they are trying": The New Republic, 10/2/76.

  "for fun": New York Times, 6/4/84.

  "Come on, Woody": Chicago Sun-Times, 10/22/78.

  “ Put it this way": New York Times, 10/19/80.

  "a very stylish person": Karen Roston interview with MM.

  "as if she had just read": Confidential source.

  "the kind of person": Confidential source.

  "boys": Willie Morris, New York Days, Little Brown, 1993, p. 259.

  CHAPTER 7: "A Picture About Me"

  "I'm becoming more attractive": New York Times, 12/1/75.

  "I don't even have my teeth filled": Ibid.

  "the worst thing that could happen": The New Yorker, 2/4/74.

  "It was a picture": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 283.

  "The first draft": Ibid., p. 274.

  "White is very cleansing": Rolling Stone, 6/30/77.

  "She was abysmal": Stanley Kauffmann interview.

  "Oh, well, la-de-dah": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 31.

  "the largest appetite": Newsweek, 2/15/82,

  "an untitled and chaotic": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 273.

  "running off": Ibid., p. 281.

  “The thing was supposedly": Ibid., p. 275.

  "kept cutting": Ibid., p. 281.

  "I would but I need the eggs": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 105.

  "basically stupid": Chicago Tribune, quoted in Jonathan Moor, Diane Keaton, the Story of the Real Annie Hall, St. Martin’s Press, 1989, p. 58.

  "walked over to the window": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 289.

  "Listen, I have Woody": Eric Pleskow interview.

  "a catchy title": Ibid.

  "he actually did have": Confidential source.

  "No, it was a boring": Toronto Star, 4/9/77.

  "He figured people": Confidential source.

  "There was accuracy": Stanley Kauffmann interview.

  "technically pushes": The New Yorker, 4/25/77.

  "everything we never wanted": New York magazine, 5/2/77.

  "I'm obsessed with looks": John Simon interview with MM.

  "just junk their lives": Take One, 11/78.

  "a subtle first course": Redbook, 10/76.

  "I expected to find him": Vivian Gornick interview with MM.

  "Tell me": Village Voice, 1/5/76.

  "When you do comedy": Newsweek, 4/24/78.

  "I'm sure they were all set": Eric Pleskow interview.

  "Woody needed to get": Steven Bach interview.

  "The Interiors script": Confidential source.

  "I think they sent me": Davida Rosenblum interview.

  "the real meat": Esquire, 5/77.

  "a series of great films": New York Daily News, 6/12/81.

  "You want to do mankind": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 367.

  "That's my mother": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 188.

  "a New York woman": Chicago Sun- Times, 9/10/78.

  "I was very intimidated": Take One, 11/78.

  " 'What's the big deal?' Maureen Stapleton interview with MM.

  " 'Albeck,' reported Steven Bach": Steven Bach, Final Cut, Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate, William Morrow, 1985, p. 110.

  "It's not going to make": Take One, 11/78.

  "What man in his forties": The New Yorker, 10/27/80.

  "Woody Allen's beautiful new": New York Post, 1/19/77.

  "extremely sophisticated": New York Post, 1/7/93.

  "Hard to believe": New York magazine, 4/5/93.

  "if you
're really the age": New York Times Magazine, 4/22/79.

  "not completely a disaster": Walter Bernstein interview.

  "It was the first time": Delta Willis interview with MM.

  "My dear Mr. Allen": Dorothy Herrmann, S J. Perelman, A Life, Putnam's, 1986, p. 289.

  "I thought it was a joke": Delta Willis interview.

  "The whole concept": Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 4/3/78.

  "If it were a special occasion": Newsweek, 4/17/78.

  "I turned my phone": Chicago Tribune, 9/24/78.

  CHAPTER 8: Vanity Fair

  "You've got to be kidding": Ladies' Home Journal, 7/78.

  "a million messages": Chicago Tribune, 9/24/78.

  "No joy?": Newsweek, 4/24/78.

  "United Artists had said": 50th Annual Academy Awards, ABC-TV, 4/4/78.

  "no idea": Ladies' Home Journal, 7/78.

  "What do you want to do": Esquire, 4/87.

  "He hit his high point": Elliott Mills interview.

  "Everybody is entitled": Neil Rosen interview with MM.

  "America’s Ingmar Bergman": New York Times, 4/24/77.

  "helped ruin Allen": National Review, 3/27/87.

  "John has no sense of humor": Vincent Canby interview.

  "I didn't like the picture": Ibid.

  "a giant step forward": The New Yorker, 8/7/78.

  "a handbook of art-film mannerisms": The New Yorker, 9/25/78.

  "a tour of the Ingmar Bergman Room": The New Republic, 5 /19/79.

  the "disaster": National Review, 9/29/78 and 10/13/78.

  "tough on everyone": John Simon interview.

  "charitable": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 95.

  "that sad, miserable movie": Roger Angell interview.

  "a bore": Steven Bach interview.

  "Why don't you give her": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 269.

  "By the time": Ibid., p. 265.

  "we've never shared": Ibid., 264.

  "What do you do": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 193.

  "the thing that always seemed": New York Post, 1/7/93.

  "So I'm off": In Style, 1/98.

  "if this is it": Chicago Sun-Times, 2/2/86.

  "terrifying to me": Rolling Stone, 9/6/93.

 

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