27 “Marvin is really”: AI, David Kennedy, July 17, 2007.
27 “People forget that”: AI, Marvin Hamlisch, July 26, 2007.
Chapter 4
28 David Geffen, Cher: Jody Jacobs, “Show Goes on for the No-Show,” Los Angeles Times, p. E3.
29 “We don’t pretend”: Robert Opel, “Cycle Sluts,” Drummer, p. 8, Oct. 1976.
29 “Montezuma’s Revenge”: “Cycle Sluts,” Los Angeles Times.
29 leopard print bathrobe: Jacobs, “Show Goes On,” p. E3.
29 “a bunch of hustlers”/“front lawn”: “Cycle Sluts.”
29 “chemically altered”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
30 “servants change”: Jacobs, “Show Goes On,” p. E3.
30 “guys in leather chaps”: AI, Lorna Luft, July 26, 2007.
30 “future of show”: Jacobs, “Show Goes On,” p. E3.
30 “his childhood”: AI, Lorna Luft, July 26, 2007.
30 “nameless Hollywood”: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,” Daily Variety, p. 2.
30 “something you know”: AI, Dyan Cannon, Aug. 10, 2007.
31 “survival story”: AI, Joel Schumacher, Apr. 6, 2009.
31 “Before Allan”: AI, David Geffen, Apr. 21, 2009.
31 “virgin until”/“This guy”: AI, Gary Pudney, Feb. 27, 2007.
Chapter 5
32 “quite a shock”: AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
33 “our getaway car”: Jody Jacobs, “Capote and His Pen Pals,” Los Angeles Times, p. G1.
33 “no ashtrays”/“red tape”: Ibid.
34 “bathrooms were fit:” AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
34 “anyone peeking”: “West Coast Maxwell,” Playbill.
35 “party’ parties”: Jody Jacobs, “Capote,” p. G1.
35 “I always”/“I bet”: Ibid.
35 “old friend”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
35 “La Cote Basque 1965”: Liz Smith, “Truman Capote in Hot Water,” New York Magazine, pp. 47-51.
35 “Carole Matthau and”: Archerd, “Just for Variety,” p. 3.
36 “Why, if”: Ibid, p. 49.
36 “the no place”: Gerald Clarke, Conversations with Capote, p. 152.
36 “onion soup”: AI, George Christy, Mar. 6, 2007.
36 “rice and beans”: Jody Jacobs, “Capote,” p. G1.
36 “such sadness”: AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
36 “fun if Truman”: AI, Joseph Wambaugh, Mar. 5, 2009.
36 “kinds of friends”: AI, David Steinberg, Aug. 22, 2007.
37 “those occasions”: AI, Don Bachardy, Mar. 6, 2009.
37 “The joke”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
37 “spectacular”/“inventive”: Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Capote, p. 152.
Chapter 6
38 a dinner invitation: Liz Smith, “The Duchess & the Lord,” Daily News, Aug. 30, 1976.
38 visit Mexico City: AI, Maury Yeston, May 5, 2008, and Gregg Kilday, “Allan Carr—Greasing the Wheels,” Los Angeles Times, p. 46.
39 “Freddie, you’re”/“It will work”/“If we can”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
40 “first thing I”/“Just give me”: AI, John Breglio, Nov. 15, 2007.
41 “Let me fiddle”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
41 “brilliant job”/Won Ton Ton: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
41 “hired thirty dogs”/Marisa Berenson: AI, Laurence Mark, Aug. 21, 2006.
41 Merv Griffin/“want your chair”: James Bacon, “Hollywood, a Town Going to the Dogs,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, p. C12.
42 More problematic/erection: Richard Levine, “The Selling of a Used Car,” Esquire, p. 186, Nov. 1983.
42 “amazing event”: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
42 cornflakes: “Survive! Tale of Cannibalism,” Los Angeles Times.
42 ninety minutes: Lee Grant, “Two Pictures on the Same Subject,” Los Angeles Times.
42 “It’s terrible”/“Whoa!”/Sam Arkoff: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
43 Sam Arkoff/“This movie can”: Ibid.
43 “Paramount had nothing”: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
43 “Let’s go for”/60-40: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
44 “strange deals”/“400 prints”: Wanda McDaniel, “Sometimes I Feel like Staying Home to Watch ‘Dynasty’,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
44 $1 million: “So Much for Star Wars,” People, Sept. 5, 1977.
44 “Elizabeth Taylor”: Gael Love, “Allan Carr,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
44 “snuff film”: Frank Rich, “Hitting Rock Bottom—Maybe,” New York Post.
44 “delicatessen movie”: Rana Arons, “A Genius at Promotion,” Us.
44 “The only thing”: “4.6 mil Dom. Rentals for Par From ‘Survive!,” Variety, Oct. 8 1976.
44 “Hey, I didn’t”: Michael Blowen, “Flamboyant Producer Allan Carr,” Boston Globe, p. A1.
45 “terribly happy”/“no other project”: Lee Grant, “Two Pictures.”
46 “After $10 million”: Bob Weiner, “Big Man on Broadway,” Sunday News Magazine, p. 7, Aug. 21, 1983.
46 “Vaseline”: New York Times, p. C6, July 2, 1976.
Chapter 7
47 “If ever”: AI, Marvin Hamlisch, July 26, 2007.
48 “I have to”: Didi Conn, Frenchy’s “Grease” Scrapbook, p. 1.
48 “all wrong”/Lunching at: AI, Kenneth Waissman, Jan. 10, 2008.
48 “I really am”/“installment plan”: Ibid.
48 “the bastard child”: Conn, Frenchy’s, p. 2.
49 $100,000/“Who are you?”/Eisner/Diller: AI, Kenneth Waissman, Jan. 10, 2008.
50 “legitimate theater”: Conn, Frenchy’s, p. 2.
50 “It can’t lose”: AI, anonymous source.
50 “‘Hey, let’s have fun’”/“Broadway thing”: AI, Bill Butler, Oct. 14, 2007.
51 “gone glitzier here”: AI, Patricia Birch, May 4, 2006.
52 JAMANI: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
Chapter 8
53 “high school memories”: Didi Conn, Frenchy’s “Grease” Scrapbook, p. 2.
53 “Money was not”: AI, Joanne Cimbalo, Dec. 18, 2007.
53 “whole nitty-gritty”: Nigel Andrews, Travolta: The Life, p. 102.
54 “Allan’s house”: AI, Robert Le Clercq, Nov. 1, 2008.
54 “Don’t worry”/Ziegfeld’s Follies: David Galligan, “New Projects for Allan Carr,” Drama-Logue, p. 28.
55 “That’s when”: Michael Blowen, “Flamboyant Producer Allan Carr,” Boston Globe, p. A1.
55 “an embarrassment”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
55 “very hot”: original letter, Freddie Gershon collection.
55 “At home I”: Lydia Lane, “Weight Loss Shapes Personality,” Los Angeles Times, p. 12.
56 “Lake Forest is”: AI, anonymous source.
56 “The other fraternities”: AI, David Umbach, Oct. 30, 2008.
56 “Our national chapter”: AI, James Kenney, Oct. 29, 2008.
56 “Roman Catholic”/nun: AI, Ann-Margret, Apr. 17, 2008.
56 “or bar mitzvah”: AI, Joanne Cimbalo, Dec. 18, 2007.
56 “Alan loved”: AI, Margaret Neely Wilhelm, Dec. 1, 2007.
57 “Isn’t he interesting?”: AI, Joanne Cimbalo, Dec. 18, 2007.
57 “Gay or straight”: AI, David Umbach, Oct. 30, 2008.
57 “The other boys”: AI, Joanne Cimbalo, Dec. 18, 2007.
57 “theater nuts”/“I was green”: AI, David Umbach, Oct. 30, 2008.
57 “Mae West at”/Carol Channing: Ibid.
58 “Alan, could”/“Margaret, you’re”: AI, Margaret Neely Wilhelm, Dec. 1, 2007.
59 “Like many kids”: Conn, Frenchy’s, p. 3.
59 “He advertised”: AI, Franz Schulze, Oct. 27, 2008.
59 “Alan wasn’t”: AI, David Umbach, Oct. 30, 2008.
59 “Alan knew Bob”/“This shouldn’t
be”: AI, Margie Tegtmeyer Cohen, Nov. 3, 2008.
59 “Alan didn’t feel”: AI, Joanne Cimbalo, Dec. 18, 2007.
60 “We reopened”/“We’ll become”: AI, Jack Tourville, Mar. 9, 2008.
60 “divorcing”/“thinking of billing”: Wanda McDaniel, “Sometimes I Feel like Staying Home to Watch ‘Dynasty,’” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
61 “I don’t want”/“Good question”: Gael Love, “Allan Carr,” Interview, Oct. 1984.
61 Cassidy also cooperated: AI, Jack Tourville, Mar. 9, 2008.
61 “It was too”/Tallulah Bankhead/A Raisin in the Sun: Ibid.
62 “I was starting”: AI, Hugh Hefner, Dec. 2, 2006.
62 Playboy clubs: Nancy Collins, “The Uphill Racer, Allan Carr,” Women’s Wear Daily, p. 17.
Chapter 9
63 “high school kids”: AI, Patricia Birch, May 4, 2006.
63 “The 1950s”: Wensley Clarkson, John Travolta: Back in Character, p. 135.
63 “I based”: Didi Conn, Frenchy’s “Grease” Scrapbook, p. 2.
64 “That kid’s”: AI, John Travolta, Sept. 15, 2007.
64 “blue black hair”: Ibid.
64 “Carrie Fisher”: AI, Joel Thurm, July 5, 2007.
64 “One day, Allan”: AI, Olivia Newton-John, Oct. 5, 2007.
65 “No one else”: AI, Joel Thurm, July 5, 2007.
65 “Allan was adamant”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
65 “goody-goody two-shoes”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
65 “screen test”/“I worry”: AI, Olivia Newton-John, Oct. 5, 2007.
66 “didn’t pop”: AI, Joel Thurm, July 5, 2007.
66 “screenplay effectively”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
66 “That was Allan’s!”: Grease DVD, special features.
67 “I’m making”/“When do”/$5,000: AI, Harry Reems, Sept. 10, 2007.
67 “You’re in it”/Eisner sat chin/“Wow! The entire”: AI, Lucie Arnaz, Sept. 25, 2007.
68 “We’ll know”/Bye Bye Birdie: Ibid.
68 “play Rizzo”/“twenty-four hours”: AI, Stockard Channing, Mar. 6, 2009.
68 “I had picked”/“my daughter”: Conn, Frenchy’s, p. 2.
68 “ridiculous. My mother”: AI, Lucie Arnaz, Sept. 25, 2007.
68 Cedars-Sinai/“Ford knew”: AI, Joel Thurm, July 5, 2007.
69 “everybody getting smashed”: AI, Stockard Channing, Mar. 6, 2009.
69 Kenneth Waissman introduced: AI, Kenneth Waissman, Jan. 10, 2008.
69 “Good news for”: Clarkson, John Travolta, p. 137.
69 Kate Edwards: Hank Grant, “Rambling Reporter,” Hollywood Reporter.
69 Marilu Henner, Priscilla: Douglas Thompson, Fever! The Biography of John Travolta, p. 110.
69 “But I was”/“That’s Hollywood”/“Don’t worry”: Sam Thielman interview of Jim Jacobs, Aug. 9, 2007.
70 “Oh yeah, that’s”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
70 John Farrar: AI, Olivia Newton-John, Oct. 5, 2007.
70 “girls’ names songs”/“There’s the guy”/Scott Simon: AI, Louis St. Louis, Oct. 30, 2007.
70 “most-favored-nations”: AI, Joel Thurm, July 5, 2007.
71 Rudolf Nureyev, George: Ibid., AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
71 “stomach staples”: AI, Joel Thurm, July 5, 2007.
71 “poodle skirts”: Alan Cartnal, “The Dream Merchant,” New West, p. 34.
71 “very Ava Gardner”: AI, Stockard Channing, Mar. 6, 2009.
71 When John Travolta: Cartnal, “Dream Merchant,” p. 34, .
71 “They’ll go back”/“I’ve got thirty”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
72 “‘Win a Spot’”: AI, Laurence Mark, Aug. 21, 2006.
72 Pepsi-Cola/“Who did this?”/“it’s blurry”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
Chapter 10
73 “Producing Grease”: Didi Conn, Frenchy’s “Grease” Scrapbook, p. 5.
73 “cool greasers”: AI, Didi Conn, Aug. 9, 2007.
73 that photo/Bermuda shorts: Conn, Frenchy’s, p. 4.
73 “He just beamed”: AI, Stockard Channing, Mar. 6, 2009.
74 “last names A-L”: George Christy, “The Great Life,” Hollywood Reporter .
74 “that Survive! bought”: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,” Daily Variety, p. 3.
74 “Everyone in Hollywood”: AI, Zvi Howard Rosenman, July 10, 2007.
74 “It felt like”: “Carr’s ABC’s of Beach Chic,” Los Angeles Times, p. 3.
74 red carpet/klieg lights: AI, Neil Machlis, Apr. 13, 2007.
74 “them molted”: Ivor Davis, “From Mayer to Cohn,” Los Angeles magazine, p. 280.
74 “expensive”/$35: AI, Ronni Chasen, Aug. 20, 2007.
74 Valentino fabric: Christy, “Great Life.”
74 “Get rid of”: “Carr’s ABC’s,” p. 3.
74 Dani and David: Ibid.
74 Britt Ekland, having: AI, Alana Stewart, July 14, 2008.
75 “George and Alana”: Christy, “Great Life.”
75 Keith Carradine came: “So Much for Star Wars,” People.
75 “It’s all wrong”: AI, Stockard Channing, Mar. 6, 2009.
75 La Vetta, followed: Sue Reilly, “Producer Allan Carr Waxes Fat and Fortyish on the Gross of ‘Grease,’” People, p. 49.
75 “I am confident”: Lydia Lane, “Weight Loss Shapes Personality,” Los Angeles Times, p. 12.
75 chef, Tom Rolla: “Carr’s ABC’s,” p. 3.
75 Partygoers John Travolta: Ibid.; and “So Much for Star Wars.”
76 Allan motioned for: Ibid.
76 “The DA’s case”: Roman Polanski, Roman by Polanski, p. 401.
76 Polanski a “freak”: Barbara Leaming, Polanski: The Filmmaker as Voyeur, p. 170.
76 $2,500 bail: Ibid., p. 171.
77 “Only in Hollywood”: AI, Alana Stewart, July 14, 2008.
77 “rhymes with star”/“Cash or career”: AI, Gary Pudney, Feb. 27, 2007.
Chapter 11
78 “He saw me”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
78 “Your salary”: AI, Bill Butler, Oct. 14, 2007.
78 Stigwood/“The beat”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
79 “So why don’t”: Ibid.
79 full 1 percent: Stigwood Group, Ltd., letter, dated Jan. 1, 1978.
79 “Robert was quiet”: AI, Laurence Mark, Aug. 21, 2006.
79 “Stigwood nutty”: AI, Kevin McCormick, Aug. 7, 2007.
79 “I really like”: AI, Stockard Channing, Mar. 6, 2009.
80 “total panic”/“premiere party”: AI, Randal Kleiser, Aug. 3, 2007.
80 “Paramount hated”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
80 126 markets: George Christy, “The Great Life,” Hollywood Reporter, p. 8.
80 “We sweated”: Ibid.
80 Elaine’s restaurant/“mink caftan”: Ibid.
81 “1950 Chevy”: Anthony Haden-Guest, The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night, pp. 54-55.
81 “the authors”: AI, Kenneth Waissman, Jan. 10, 2008.
82 valet, John/“Mary Tyler Moore”: Allan Carr home video/Brett Ratner collection.
82 “I Feel Love”/“mummified”/“Holocaust”: Ibid.
83 “Listen, I am”: Vito Russo, “A Visit with Allan Carr,” The Advocate, p. 35.
83 “The unprecedented”: A. D. Murphy, “‘Jaws 2,’ ‘Grease’ Set New B.O. Records,” Daily Variety, p. 1.
83 “I really wracked”/“Grease grosses”: AI, Ron Bernstein, Apr. 8, 2009.
84 “Something happens”: Bob Weiner, “Big Man on Broadway,” Sunday News Magazine, p. 7.
84 “Look, she’s”/“civil tongue”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
85 Nile Party: Christy, “Great Life.”
85 movie Cleopatra: Los Angeles magazine, p. 256.
85 “private parties”/“4 a.m.”: AI, Don Blanton, Mar. 27, 2009.
85 Merv Griffin, Roy/The Odyssey: Ibid.<
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86 “Barry is very”: AI, Zvi Howard Rosenman, July 10, 2007.
86 “Barry can’t believe”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
Chapter 12
87 Studio chiefs Lew/“worst preview”: AI, Thom Mount, Oct. 2, 2007.
87 postmortem/“We realized”/“I’ve come”: AI, Barry Spikings, Aug. 9, 2007.
88 “That’s fine”/“important movie”/“going to market”: Ibid.
88 Wasserman viewed cable/“Z Channel”: AI, Thom Mount, Oct. 2, 2007.
89 “right audience”/Little Carnegie: Ibid.
89 “I saved The”: “Allan Carr,” Life, p. 42.
89 “I want you”: David Galligan, “New Projects for Allan Carr,” Drama-Logue, p. 28.
89 black Bentley/“Allan doesn’t”: AI, Barry Spikings, Aug. 9, 2007.
89 make Allan head: AI, Thom Mount, Oct. 2, 2007.
90 “new film Ishtar”/“spelled backwards”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
90 “Allan always dreamed”: AI, Thom Mount, Oct. 2, 2007.
90 “The Baby Moguls”: Maureen Orth, “The Baby Moguls,” New West.
90 “I’m a baby”: AI, George Christy, Mar. 6, 2007.
91 “I hit California”: Nancy Collins, “The Uphill Racer, Allan Carr,” Women’s Wear Daily, p. 17.
91 “Allan obviously had”/“did you sleep”/“a long list”: AI, Thom Mount, Oct. 2, 2007.
91 “Do you mind”: AI, James Randall, April 1, 2008.
Chapter 13
92 “heavily soused”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
92 “two fried eggs”: Jack Kroll, Newsweek.
92 “1000 percent no”: AI, Peter Guber, Jan. 10, 2008.
93 “who did Grease”: AI, Henri Belolo, Aug. 24, 2007.
93 “represent the Village”/“Instantly, I see”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
93 “No Cooling”: “No Cooling of Disco Fever as Operators Eye $5 Billion Year,” Hollywood Reporter, p. 1.
93 “Village People movie”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
94 “very openly gay”/“macho American men”: AI, Henri Belolo, Aug. 24, 2007.
94 hired Victor/100,000 copies: Ibid.
94 “Morali was openly”/“fantastic movie”: AI, Henri Belolo, Aug. 24, 2007.
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