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by Peter Biskind


  467 “Warren really wanted” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  468 “But Warren’s star” and following: AI, 5/1/07.

  468 “Warren will make”: AI, n.d.

  468 “I felt he was” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  469 “I’m not sure Connie” and following: Caron, AI, 5/31/07.

  470 “Oh my God!” and following: AI, 5/1/07.

  471 “Warren had this”: AI, 5/31/07.

  471 “nasty word”: William J. Mann, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, New York, 2006, pp. 520–21.

  471 “Warren was fascinated” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  472 “Every day, it was”: AI, 1/30/08.

  472 “He called her”: AI, 5/1/07.

  472 “I’ve always been in love”: Berg, Kate Remembered, p. 321.

  473 “The first day” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  473 “I wouldn’t be stupid”: AI, 11/8/07.

  473 “I never saw Warren”: AI, 5/1/07.

  473 “Glenn did speak” and following: AI, 1/30/08.

  474 “It’s got to”: AI, 10/13/08.

  474 “Warren seemed to like” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  475 “About a week” and following: Beatty, AI, 11/8/07.

  475 “Very early on” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  475 “Connie didn’t want”: AI, 11/9/07.

  475 “Connie didn’t respect him”: AI, 1/30/08.

  475 “Warren is very”: AI, 5/1/07.

  475 “It was very dark”: AI, 1/30/08.

  475 “From the moment” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  476 “There’s the scene”: AI, 5/1/07.

  476 “A hundred forty takes” and following: AI, 1/30/08.

  477 “I have a friend”: AI, 8/8/06.

  477 “I was sitting”: AI, 1/31/08.

  477 “Most directors come into”: AI, 5/31/07.

  478 “Narcissism!”: AI, 5/1/07.

  478 “yell at Glenn”: AI, 5/1/07.

  478 “This was the first film”: AI, 5/31/07.

  478 “It sometimes seemed”: Norman Mailer, “The Warren Report,” Vanity Fair, 11/91.

  478 “Whenever there was”: AI, 5/31/07.

  478 “He was flirting”: AI, 1/30/08.

  478 “two people totally”: AI, 5/1/07.

  479 “My God, Jimmy” and following: Glenn Gordon Caron, AI, 5/31/07.

  479 “Why would you” and following: AI, 5/1/07.

  479 “My God, her face”: Berg, Kate Remembered, p. 336.

  479 “Is this okay?” and following: Clegg, AI, 1/30/08.

  480 “opportunity” and following: Berg, Kate Remembered, pp. 342–43.

  480 “Fuck a duck” and following: Ibid., pp. 341–42.

  480 “I told Warren” and following: Mann, Kate, pp. 520–21.

  481 “Warren was too respectful”: AI, 5/1/07.

  481 “She definitely got cranky”: AI, 1/30/08.

  481 “not allowed on”: Berg, Kate Remembered, p. 345.

  481 “We certainly weren’t” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  481 “If I had only”: Berg, Kate Remembered, p. 345.

  481 “What you must”: Ibid., p. 346.

  481 “All the glass”: Davis, AI, 5/1/07.

  481 “I just kept looking”: AI, 5/31/07.

  482 “We were four days” and following: AI, 5/1/07.

  482 “I shot Love Affair” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  482 “How’s his skin look?” and following: AI, 11/9/07.

  483 “It was admittedly”: AI, 5/31/07.

  483 “We can save”: AI, 5/31/07.

  483 “He had his time”: AI, 11/9/07.

  483 “Glenn just abdicated”: AI, 5/1/07.

  483 “I certainly didn’t”: AI, 5/31/07.

  484 “The editing on that film”: AI, 11/9/07.

  484 “I know Warren”: AI, 5/31/07.

  484 “the progenitor” and following: James Toback, Projections 4, p. 80.

  485 “I saw this”: AI, 1/15/08.

  485 “Children-izing replaced”: Phillips, AI, 3/4/08.

  485 “He won’t let”: AI, 9/8/93.

  485 “I only call him”: Michael Childers, AI, 3/1/05.

  485 “In the Sixties”: Tim Adams, “The Divine Miss Julie,” The Observer (London), 4/1/07.

  485 “Love Affair fell off”: unsourced.

  485 “This is one”: Roger Ebert, “Love and Warren,” Chicago Sun-Times, 10/21/94.

  485 “tongue-tied”: Janet Maslin, New York Times, 10/21/94.

  486 “will refuse to acknowledge”: Toback, “Divisions and Dislocations,” Projectionist 4, p. 94.

  486 “The campaign was not” and following: AI, 5/1/07.

  486 “The Crying Game”: AI, 4/1/93.

  486 “I ran into Connie Hall”: Confidential source.

  487 “I was in movie jail” and following: AI, 5/31/07.

  487 “Warren and I” and following: AI, 5/1/07.

  488 “He just can’t”: Confidential source.

  488 “a comedy about”: AI, 10/23/06.

  488 “This sounds like”: Jeremy Pikser, AI, 6/27/05.

  488 “What attracted him”: AI, 1/31/08.

  489 “I know what”: Alter, “Beatty Goes Bonkers,” Newsweek, 5/18/98.

  489 “Where’s the party”: Gary Younge, “Rebel with a Cause,” ZA@PLAY, 6/10/99.

  489 “doing what’s politically expedient”: AI, 11/28/99.

  489 “I have witnessed”: Barry Koltnow, “Bitter Laughter,” Orange County Register, 5/12/98.

  489 “The underbelly” and following: Beatty, interview, The Nation, n.d.

  489 “He gets off on” and following: AI, 4/8/08.

  490 “Warren was in”: AI, 11/19/06.

  490 “We’re having”: Pikser, AI, 4/8/08.

  491 “was trying to”: AI, 7/8/09.

  492 “Depression is the”: AI, 7/8/08.

  492 “I do remember” and following: Younge, “Rebel with a Cause.”

  493 “ashen and crying”: Shirley MacLaine, My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir, New York, 1996, p. 196.

  493 “curse at the communists”: Ibid., p. 7.

  493 “Warren is from”: Confidential source.

  493 “I don’t think” and following: AI, 5/3/05.

  493 “Jimmy took the”: AI, 5/3/05.

  494 “Warren takes”: AI, 6/27/05.

  494 “My ability to get”: AI, 4/8/08.

  494 “He doesn’t whine” and following: AI, 6/27/05.

  495 “He was always coming in,” and following: AI, 6/27/05.

  495 “The film’s hero”: Philip French, “Return to senator: A Jaded Democrat finds himself. Again. And So Does Warren Beatty,” The Observer (London), 1/24/99.

  496 “Pussy, pussy, pussy”: Pikser, AI, 6/27/05.

  496 “In America that’s”: Younge, “Rebel with a Cause.”

  496 “I was amazed” and following: AI, 4/8/08.

  497 “I don’t want to do that” and following: Pikser, AI, 4/8/08.

  498 “Warren Beatty is”: Lynn Hirschberg, “Film Star, Womanizer, Charmer, Man of the People, Warren Beatty for President,” The Observer Review Page, 5/17/98.

  499 “We need to rewrite” and following: AI, 4/8/08.

  500 “I’m not an actor”: Michael Lerner, conversation with the author.

  500 “You’re one of”: Confidential source.

  500 “God, can you imagine?” and following: Pikser, AI, 4/8/08.

  501 “Rumor had it”: AI, 5/5/08.

  501 “I could tell that” and following: Jeremy Pikser, AI, 7/27/05.

  502 “Warren always likes”: AI, 7/27/05.

  502 “Annette once said”: AI, 5/3/05.

  13. IN HIS OWN WAY

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  503 Epigraph: AI, 6/24/06.

  503 “Reds was doing” and following: AI, 5/3/05.

  504 “Don thought that”: Pecorini, AI, 4/3/09.

  504 “He knows how”: Pecorini, AI, 4/3/09

  504 “I think
he feels” and following: AI, 11/9/07.

  505 “For the two years” and following: AI, n.d.

  506 “If you ask”: Gary Younge, “Rebel with a Cause,” ZA@PLAY, 6/10/99.

  506 “I think that”: Beatty interview, The Nation, n.d.

  507 “the kind of”: Janet Maslin, New York Times, 5/15/98.

  507 “For Warren Beatty”: Joel Siegel, Good Morning America, 5/21/98.

  507 “What should we say”: Jeremy Pikser, AI, 6/27/05.

  507 “Spike Lee could make”: Today, 5/13/98.

  508 “This makes”: Wills, “Slumming,” New York Review of Books, 7/16/98.

  508 “We were aware”: AI, 6/27/05.

  510 “Don’t do as I did”: AI, n.d.

  510 “Was there something”: AI, n.d.

  511 “It had to do”: AI, 10/23/06.

  511 “When Warren told me”: AI, 7/19/06.

  512 “I felt that”: AI, 11/15/06.

  512 “After Bulworth”: AI, 11/13/06.

  513 “It was clear”: AI, 7/19/06.

  513 “It’s a tough thing”: AI, 11/29/99.

  513 “One of his stipulations” and following: AI, 7/19/06.

  513 “approval over”: AI, 11/13/06.

  513 “I feel kind of responsible” and following: AI, 10/23/06.

  513 “We’d all seen”: AI, 7/19/06.

  513 “Leslie spoke highly”: AI, 10/23/06.

  513 “I don’t think”: Paul Mazursky, AI, n.d.

  514 “Why doesn’t Warren”: Michael Laughlin, AI, 10/23/06.

  514 “Their relationship was”: AI, 12/7/94.

  514 “Not that there”: AI, 7/19/06.

  514 “It’s a chancy”: AI, 11/29/99.

  514 “The reason we”: AI, 11/15/06.

  515 “We felt”: AI, 11/13/06.

  515 “I was talking”: AI, 7/19/06.

  515 “Peter would read it” and following: AI, 10/23/06.

  515 “We had stop dates”: AI, 7/19/06.

  515 “Had the original”: AI, 11/13/06.

  515 “It wasn’t that”: AI, 7/19/06.

  516 “It seemed as though”: Confidential source.

  516 “I didn’t want” and following: AI, 10/23/06.

  516 “I don’t think”: AI, 8/8/06.

  516 “corny and objectionable” and following: AI, 11/15/06.

  516 “Warren didn’t want”: AI, 7/19/06.

  516 “I don’t think that”: Confidential source.

  517 “One of the biggest changes”: AI, 11/15/06.

  517 “I was in a meeting”: AI, 10/23/06.

  517 “I’m only trying”: Confidential source.

  517 “Warren never brought up”: AI, 11/15/06.

  517 “I was ready to go” and following: AI, n.d.

  518 “This was not”: AI, 11/13/06.

  518 “I was going through”: AI, 7/19/06.

  518 “The keynote of”: AI, 8/8/06.

  518 “Warren thought it”: AI, 10/23/06.

  518 “Warren said it was”: AI, 7/19/06.

  519 “raped”: Benjamin Svetkey, “X Marks The Spot,” Entertainment Weekly, 10/23/98.

  519 “New Line was reluctant”: AI, 7/19/06.

  519 “I was aware”: AI, 11/15/06.

  519 “You don’t know” and following: Lynn Harris, AI, 11/13/06.

  520 “I worked and worked”: AI, 7/19/06.

  520 “I’ve always hated”: AI, 8/8/06.

  520 “‘Buck, I promise’”: Andy Karsch, AI, 7/19/06.

  520 “Okay, I’ll come out” and following: Buck Henry, AI, 8/8/06.

  521 “As the budget”: AI, 7/19/06.

  521 “I had no power”: AI, 11/13/06.

  521 “Do you know”: Kim Masters, “New Line Says Town & Country Is Just Fine, and Don’t Blame Beatty for the Awful Mess,” Inside.com, 10/25/00.

  521 “Make no mistake” and following: Lynn Harris, AI, 11/13/06.

  523 “Garry and Warren were” and following: AI, 8/8/06.

  523 “The movie should”: AI, 10/23/06.

  523 “His role was tiny”: Confidential source.

  523 “When you’re an actor”: AI, 11/13/06.

  524 “Diane said to me”: AI, 8/8/06.

  524 “I don’t know why” and following: AI, 11/13/06.

  524 “It was Chelsom’s” and following: AI, 8/8/06.

  525 “You cunt”: Harris, AI, 11/13/06.

  525 “I knew every time” and following: AI, 8/8/06.

  525 “Warren’s guys” and following: AI, 7/19/06.

  526 “Peter didn’t say”: AI, 11/13/06.

  526 “I don’t think”: Confidential source.

  526 “If you knew MacLeod”: AI, 7/8/08.

  526 “The struggle over” and following: AI, 8/8/06.

  527 “That was the day”: AI, 11/15/06.

  528 “Warren would have liked”: AI, 10/13/08.

  528 “Easter eggs”: Bill Bradley, AI, 5/5/04.

  528 “There was definitely”: AI, 5/23/05.

  528 “Going into 2000”: AI, 4/22/04.

  529 “Warren knew I”: AI, 5/23/05.

  529 “The question was”: AI, 5/5/04.

  529 “It’s hard to imagine”: AI, 12/3/99.

  529 “for about forty-five minutes” and following: Bradley, AI, 9/9/04.

  530 “We’re living in”: The Nation, n.d.

  530 “That group of four” and following: AI, 4/22/04.

  531 “Warren would talk” and following: AI, 5/5/04.

  531 “So I wrote”: AI, 4/22/04.

  531 “We could never”: AI, 5/5/04.

  531 “In the mini-world” and following: AI, 4/22/04.

  532 “drum majorette” and following: text of speech, 9/29/99.

  532 “Oh my God!”: Cooper, AI, 4/22/04.

  533 “It was covered” and following: AI, 5/23/05.

  533 “McCain hates George Bush”: Confidential source.

  533 “I think he was”: AI, 5/23/05.

  533 “The Teamsters are” and following: AI, 4/22/04.

  534 “‘Well, I just’”: Bradley, AI, 6/19/04.

  534 “In the end”: Cooper, AI, 4/22/04.

  534 “purgatory”: Confidential source.

  534 “For me, when he” and following: AI, 4/22/04.

  534 “Warren is an actor”: AI, 5/5/05.

  535 “You can’t really”: AI, 11/29/99.

  535 “This [campaign] was” and following: AI, 4/22/04.

  537 “Hello, John?”: Paul Mazursky, AI, 1/31/08.

  537 “We were into” and following: AI, 4/22/04.

  537 “I was at one”: AI, 11/15/06.

  538 “to tell me”: Lynn Harris, AI, 11/13/06.

  538 “He was quite loaded”: AI, 8/8/06.

  538 “Postproduction was endless”: AI, 11/13/06.

  538 “It reminds me”: Rick Lyman, “Stumbling Toward a Theater Near You,” New York Times, 4/15/01.

  538 “It was just us”: AI, 11/15/06.

  539 “Warren was really bitter” and following: AI, 8/8/06.

  539 “He will live”: AI, 7/19/06.

  540 “All these movies”: Michael Laughlin, AI, 10/23/06.

  540 “Part of it was”: AI, 11/15/06.

  540 “When you move”: Confidential source.

  540 “After Town & Country”: Confidential source.

  541 “Now, almost three years later”: Lyman, “Stumbling Toward a Theater Near You.”

  541 “The hermetically wealthy”: Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 4/26/01.

  541 “patched-together”: Stephen Holden, New York Times, 4/27/01.

  541 “In this commencement season”: Dade Hayes, “Inside Move: Really Down ‘Town’/New Line Pic Makes Dubious Grade, Variety, 6/5/01.

  542 “It was fun”: Beatty, AI, n.d.

  542 “New Line Says”: Kim Masters, “New Line Says Town & Country Is Just Fine, and Don’t Blame Beatty for the Awful Mess,” Inside.com, 10/25/00.

  542 “As things started” and following: AI
, 11/15/06.

  542 delivered a rant and following: Patrick Goldstern, “Pater Familias,” Los Angeles Times, 11/7/99.

  542 “Categorically untrue”: AI, 7/19/06.

  542 “cease and desist”: Goldstein, “Beatty’s Troops,” Los Angeles Times, 1/30/00.

  542 “Bob felt crazy”: AI, 11/15/06.

  543 “They would swear”: Confidential source.

  543 “I found him” and following: AI, 7/19/06.

  543 “It is a mess”: Masters, “New Line Says Town & Country Is Just Fine.”

  543 “I’m sure Peter”: AI, 8/8/06.

  543 “It’s an incredibly” and following: AI, 11/13/06.

  14. HE’S BEEN UP SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE DOWN TO ME

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  545 Epigraph: AI, 10/18/91.

  545 “Warren is in trouble”: AI, 3/15/95.

  546 “[My bosses] wouldn’t”: AI, 4/27/07.

  546 “Warren at the point”: AI, 7/31/09.

  547 “When you take”: AI, 4/20/96.

  547 “Warren used to say”: AI, 9/28/04.

  547 “Stella Adler said”: Beatty, AI, 10/1/91.

  548 “crackpot”: Carla Maranucci, “Actor-activist Warren Beatty digs his rhetorical talons into Arnold Schwarzenegger,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10/9/05.

  549 “Warren is an underachiever”: AI, 6/24/06.

  549 “that life is short”: Beatty, AI, 12/11/00.

  549 “stand naked”: AI, 7/1/06.

  550 “Warren just act” and following: AI, 4/8/08.

  551 “Why don’t you do”: Andy Karsch, 7/19/06.

  551 “He may still”: AI, 3/15/95.

  552 “He’s preparing”: John Hiscock, “The Real Housewife Superstar,” The Telegraph, (London), 9/11/04.

  INDEX

  Abzug, Bella, 384

  Academy Theater (Los Angeles), 164

  Achille Lauro (ship), 346

  Act One, 53

  Actors Studio, 77, 88

  Adjani, Isabelle, 1, 340–42, 352, 360, 361, 384, 389, 406, 420

  Adler, Stella, 21–22, 39, 60, 160, 547

  Adventures in Paradise, 16

  Advocate, The, 410

  Affair to Remember, An, 331, 464, 472

  AFL/CIO, 172, 533

  Agatha, 360

  AIDS, 162, 163, 343

  Airplane, 122

  Albarino, Richard, 209, 245, 272

  Aldrich, Robert, 117

  Ali, Muhammad, 141, 187, 235, 547

  Allen, Dede, 103, 107, 114–15, 267, 277, 482

  Bonnie and Clyde edited by, 96, 111–14, 123, 265

  Reds edited by, 289–90, 292, 294–97, 305, 307, 309, 318

 

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