Paulsen special: Ogden Standard-Examiner, 10/21/1968.
“a reasonably tall”: Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago (New York: Signet, 1970 [1969]), 122.
“There is a poverty”: Norman Mailer, St. George and the Godfather (New York: Signet, 1973 [1972]), 22.
“an absence of rich greeting”: ibid., 107.
read by JFK: Hoberman, 66–67.
“more muted”: Greil Marcus, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (New York: Holt, 1997), 207.
10. HE NOT BUSY BEING BORN
“I’ve made lots of westerns here”: Fort Walton Beach Playground Daily News, 9/19/1966.
“running in the streets”: Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Helter Skelter (New York: Norton, 1994 [1974]), 392 (italics in original).
a party is held: Syracuse Herald-Journal, 6/28/1966.
“Were he never”: Peter Bogdanovich, “Homage to Hank,” New York Times, 7/3/1966. See also Bogdanovich’s Who the Devil Was in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors (New York: Random House, 2005), 300–317.
Louis Jean Heydt: Fresno Bee, 1/30/1960.
“You’re going to fall behind”: Kiernan, 120–21.
The Country Girl: FML, 238–39.
she pretends that her father: Brough, 127.
Lee Strasberg: Ross and Ross, 99; The American Weekly, 2/19/1961.
“such a panic”: Kiernan, 89.
She has spent: MLSF, 99, 107–8.
“a bit of a romp”: Ross and Ross, 95.
“counter-need”: ibid., 99.
“somewhere inside yourself”: ibid.
“Difficult and very sensitive”: Al Aronowitz, “America’s Answer to Bardot: The Young Jane Fonda,” at http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column63index.html. This is a forty-thousand-word expansion of Aronowitz’s profile “Lady Jane,” The Saturday Evening Post, 3/23/1963.
“a no-good”: DTD, 93–94.
his certainty of adult conspiracy: Reed, 208.
“not part of this system”: DTD, 99.
“a rare combination”: “Life Guide,” Life, 12/1/1961, 27.
Susan Brewer: DTD, 120–21.
unknown Warren Beatty: David Thomson, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes: A Life and a Story (New York: Vintage, 1988 [1987]), 70.
“I don’t know what the Method is”: Aronowitz, “America’s Answer to Bardot.”
“will act out”: Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), 108.
“Analysis”: New York Times, 7/16/1967.
“a Kafkaesque nightmare”: MLSF, 128.
She persuades him: Kiernan, 138.
PT 109: DTD, 160–61; Hoberman, 57–58.
“a parasite”: FML, 287.
“the five worst plays”: Guiles, 112.
“neurotic drive”: Pasadena Independent, 2/13/1961.
“more neurotic and selfish”: ibid.
“are not likely to be”: ibid.
“It breaks his heart”: Aronowitz.
“Natalie Wood didn’t want”: Joseph Heller, “Playboy Interview,” Playboy, June 1975, 72.
Get Yourself a College Girl: Springer, 212.
“It’s like working”: Aniston Star, 12/14/1969.
“a camera-viewing of strange festivals”: Des Moines Register, 9/18/1966.
“perverse” and “hateful”: Thomas Thompson, “A Place in the Sun All Her Own,” Life, 3/29/1968, 72.
request for threesomes: MLSF, 154–55.
“I’m much more relaxed”: Kingston Daily Gleaner, 2/1/1965.
they marry: Burlington Daily Times-News, 8/16/1965.
Times Square billboard: Lowell Sun, 3/10/1965.
Playboy publishes nude photos: Albuquerque Journal, 8/27/1966.
“I’d so much wanted”: MLSF, 211.
Peter meets Eugene McDonald III: DTD, 130. In FML, Peter claims they met at Westminster, the boarding school Peter attended in Connecticut (256).
“a complicity”: San Mateo Times, 2/26/1965.
Brothers in romance and rebellion: Arizona Daily Star, 2/12/1965; Cedar Rapids Gazette, 3/5/1964; DTD, 188, 190.
Peter feels he knows the truth: DTD, 195.
“I know where I am”: Reed, 205.
“The sun was shining”: G. Barry Golson, ed., The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: Playboy, 1981), 152.
“morbid and bizarre”: Steve Turner, A Hard Day’s Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 111.
“the movie business”: FML, 283.
“They’ve gone too far”: Lowell Sun, 8/5/1967.
“all sorts of sleazy”: Renata Adler, A Year in the Dark: A Year in the Life of a Film Critic 1968–1969 (New York: Berkley, 1971 [1969]), 147.
Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary’s Baby: Kiernan, 208.
“My father is a fantastic”: San Antonio Express, 12/19/1969.
earns $6 million: Oakland Tribune, 10/1/1967.
“Well I have seen”: E. L. Doctorow, Welcome to Hard Times (New York: Random House, 1960), 22.
“didn’t come off”: Hayward Daily Review, 8/25/1966; Oakland Tribune, 10/27/1967.
In 1966, Peter is involved: DTD, 227–36. See also Albuquerque Tribune, 6/21/1966; Syracuse Post-Standard, 11/28/1966; Tucson Daily News, 11/28/1966.
takes the stand to testify: Long Beach Independent, 12/3/1966; Fresno Bee, 12/13/1966.
“Make the most”: Syracuse Post-Standard, 12/28/1966.
“without all the big-studio shit”: Reed, 216.
pornographic concepts: ibid., 217.
“Nobody told me”: ibid., 208.
“My father was never”: ibid., 219.
“Now I know”: ibid.
The interview is a cathartic: Independent Star-News, 4/7/1968.
“It’s called Easy Rider”: ibid.
“Recent headlines”: www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.111-tv-547.
“The experience was that strong”: Ogden Standard-Examiner, 10/23/1966.
“handshake tour” of the war zone: FML, 292–93; Van Nuys News, 4/16/1967; Anderson Daily Bulletin, 5/5/1967; Panama City News, 7/31/1967.
“I’m still a liberal”: New York Times, 7/16/1967.
His diagnosis of the real problem: Troy Record, 4/17/1967.
Jonathan Schell’s nonfiction account: MLSF, 195–96.
her first arrest: Mansfield News Journal, 4/20/1971; Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 3/17/1970.
Jane is detained: MLSF, 261–63. See also Coshocton Tribune, 11/3/1970; Alton Evening Telegraph, 11/4/1970; Danville Times, 11/5/1970; Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, 11/10/1970.
vitamins: MLSF, 261; FML, 310.
“my alleged daughter”: New York Times, 10/18/1970.
he will report her: FML, 302.
“My daughter makes statements”: Bucks County Courier-Times, 1/29/1971.
The figures speak to him: DTD, 241; Lee Hill, Easy Rider (London: British Film Institute, 1996), 10–11.
He and Peter develop: Details on the creation, financing, and filming of Easy Rider are from: Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ’n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (New York: Touchstone, 1999 [1998]), 61–72; DTD, 252–81; Hoberman, 190–97; Hill, 15–29.
The picture grosses: Biskind, 74.
rainy New Orleans graveyard: DTD, 256–58.
he has been after Fonda: Frayling, 134.
United Artists secured: Richard T. Jameson, “Something to Do with Death: A Fistful of Sergio Leone,” Film Comment, March 1973, 8.
Leone submitted the script: Frayling, 134, 183.
goes to Eli Wallach: FML, 306.
“from sunup to sundown”: Frayling, 225.
“some kind of magical touch”: ibid., 224.
“I thought they were funny”: Dialogue on Film 3, no. 2 (November 1973): 14.
wearing a bushy mustache: ibid.
“This Leone fellow”: Big Spring Herald, 11/16/1969.
The song is re
trieved: MLSF, 90.
Winter Soldier hearings: ibid., 259–60.
FTA: Madison Capital Times, 2/18/1971.
Jane introduces her father: FML, 302.
“There’s a great deal to say”: MLSF, 279.
planes are bombing dikes: ibid., 287–88. See also William M. Hammond, Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968–1973 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), 577–78.
Jane’s goal is to gather evidence: MLSF, 290.
encouragement of antiwar activist Tom Hayden: ibid., 290–91.
Jane flies to Hanoi, photos: ibid., 290–321. See also U.S. Government document H.R. 16742: Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas (available at www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=FondaHanoi); Carol Burke, Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture (Boston: Beacon, 2004).
“liars, hypocrites and pawns”: MLSF, 327.
“to convey the impression”: Morgantown Post, 4/26/1973.
“I felt betrayed”: Guiles, 243.
change of heart on Vietnam: Eureka Times-Standard, 11/1/1972.
he attends her wedding: Long Beach Independent, 1/22/1973.
he supports Hayden’s bid: Oakland Tribune, 12/29/1975.
Henry hosts: Billings Gazette, 4/5/1974.
“She’s been vindicated”: FML, 301.
John Kerry, a Vietnam vet and passing acquaintance: CNN.com, 2/12/2004 (available at www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/ elec04.prez.kerry.fonda/); SFGate.com, 2/20/2004 (available at http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-02-20/news/17414203_1_anti-war-rally-photo-agency-separate-photo).
spit on by a veteran: People.com, 4/21/2005 (available at www.people.com/people/article/0,,1052328,00.html).
“Jihad Jane”: washingtonpost.com, 3/10/2010 (available at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902670.html).
latrines will be decorated: Bruce Cumings, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 408.
“goes out with a liberal”: Lima News, 9/11/1961.
“He doesn’t want to talk”: Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, 9/9/1978.
“in back of your mind”: Pasadena Star-News, 5/26/1968.
“He comes from the depths”: Frayling, 298.
Parisian students: ibid., 300.
cut by nearly an hour: Jameson, “Something to Do with Death,” 10.
“both the greatest”: Frayling, 299.
11. THE OLD MAN HIMSELF
Fonda makes a last visit: Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, 8/13/1982.
For the location shoot: San Antonio Express-News, 1/10/1971.
“Henry has always had”: Burlington Times-News, 8/5/1970.
Shirlee Mae Adams: FML, 281–82.
Henry meets her in late 1962: Syracuse Post-Standard, 1/15/1966. In FML (279), HF claims Shirlee was his date at the premiere.
“It took me six months”: Syracuse Post-Standard, 1/15/1966.
In the summer of 1963: FML, 284.
“midnightly trysts”: San Antonio Light, 10/7/1963.
The next summer, between shooting: Casa Grande Dispatch, 5/20/1964; Kokomo Morning Times, 8/24/1964.
10050 Cielo Drive: FML, 285.
they are seen together at Broadway shows: Galveston News, 11/17/1964.
cusp of mandatory retirement: San Antonio Express, 12/9/1964.
they are wed: FML, 289–91; Newport Daily News, 12/4/1965.
works extensively for charities: Long Beach Independent, 3/12/1973; Salina Journal, 5/31/1974.
“I have tried”: Salina Journal, 5/31/1974.
“He’s complex”: Chicago Daily Herald, 3/30/1981.
estate at 10744 Chalon Road: Des Moines Register, 2/2/1967; http://www.realtor.com/property-detail/10744-Chalon-Rd_Los-Angeles_CA_90077_3b8ae001?source=web); Aniston Star, 2/22/1970.
“a fancy new Mexican restaurant”: Don Bachardy, Stars in My Eyes (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), 185.
“a delightful acreage”: John Bainbridge, “Mr. Belvedere and Mr. Webb,” Life, 5/30/1949, 50.
crewel embroidery: Jeff Stafford, “Starring Henry Fonda,” cgi.tcm.turner.com/MONTH_SPOTS/00/09/fonda2.html.
fruit trees on the back nine: Winnipeg Free Press, 3/21/1979.
discovers bees: Winnipeg Free Press, 3/1/1978; Indiana Evening Gazette, 6/28/1980.
Bel Air Hive: Indiana Evening Gazette, 6/28/1980.
Jay Sebring: Tri-City Herald, 5/23/1965.
Sebring’s funeral: Bridgeport Post, 8/14/1969.
John V. Tunney: Long Beach Independent, 10/18/1970; Fresno Bee, 10/19/1970.
supporting his son-in-law: Oakland Tribune, 12/29/1975; Winnipeg Free Press, 1/29/1976.
his black Mercedes: Aniston Star, 2/22/1970.
He rides a stationary bicycle: San Antonio Express-News, 1/10/1971; Victoria Advocate, 10/30/1969.
cosmetic surgery: Pasadena Star-News, 3/29/1973.
“I had a little eye work”: Oakland Tribune, 3/8/1975.
pitchman for General Aniline and Film Corporation: Salina Journal, 10/23/1974.
legitimized a new market: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 2/22/1974.
“belongs wherever he chooses to amble”: Oakland Tribune, 1/21/1971. The floor-wax spot is on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBQuT0s1tNk), as is Fonda’s commercial for the View-Master, costarring a nine-year-old Jodie Foster (www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QGd-0X3bg&feature=related).
“A good commercial”: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 2/22/1974.
The Smith Family: Fresno Bee, 5/24/1970.
“will touch on today’s gap”: ibid.
claims to be intrigued: Portsmouth Times, 12/21/1970.
“The Fedderson System”: Gettysburgh Times, 4/25/1970.
films fifteen episodes: Fresno Bee, 10/25/1970; Cedar Rapids Gazette, 2/21/1971.
“The scripts were all completed”: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 1/10/1971.
“There is nothing”: Lowell Sun, 1/21/1971.
“He does it”: Tucson Daily Citizen, 6/15/1971.
ABC pulls The Smith Family: Sheboygan Press, 11/17/1971 and 1/6/1972.
Plumstead Playhouse: Julie Baumgold, “Starting Small with Big Names,” New York, 9/30/1968, 58–59.
such worthies: San Antonio Light, 8/11/1968; Springer, 40.
“We might fall”: Baumgold, 58.
“Stifling boredom”: San Antonio Express-Times, 11/17/1968.
Our Town: Springer, 40–41.
Assembled to Henry’s design: ibid., 41.
premieres in April 1970: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 4/2/1970.
a cheap, portable annuity: Springer, 41.
production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial: Sweeney, 190.
readies its staging: Bucks County Courier-Times, 11/17/1971; Pocono Record, 11/22/1971; Oakland Tribune, 1/13/1972.
Opening at the Kennedy Center: Des Moines Register, 1/17/1972; Long Beach Independent, 2/2/1972.
“Seen now”: Long Beach Independent, 3/23/1972.
premiere in Hartford: Waterloo Sunday Courier, 5/3/1970.
the piece combines: ibid.; Tucson Daily Citizen, 4/7/1971; Van Nuys Valley News, 4/11/1971.
will have its unlikely reopening: Hutchinson News, 2/20/1971.
Already in the cast: Tucson Daily Citizen, 4/7/1971.
Fonda signs on: Tucson Arizona Republic, 3/27/1971.
The part is a stern: ibid.
“very provocative”: ibid.
preview in Tucson: Tucson Arizona Republic, 3/29/1971.
“a hurried poll”: ibid.
handful of walkouts: Tucson Daily Citizen, 4/7/1971.
“one of the most explosive”: ibid.
“the most thoroughly entertaining”: Van Nuys Valley News, 4/11/1971.
“possesses wit”: ibid.
“plays Lincoln a bit stiffly”: Long Beach Independent, 4/9/1971.
he is troubled: Tucson Arizona Republic, 6/11/1971.
Meanwhile, as the pro
ducers scramble: ibid.
David Rintels: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725766/.
Reading it in the fall of 1973: Albuquerque Tribune, 10/4/1973.
Fonda has doubts: Salina Journal, 3/26/1974.
Seascape: FML, 313; Long Beach Independent, 4/28/1974.
But in reading: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 4/4/1974.
“I didn’t know”: Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, 9/1/1974.
“begun to look like”: Leslie Fielder, The Collected Essays of Leslie Fielder, vol. 1 (New York: Stein & Day, 1971), 436.
“as great as his cause”: Stone, 133.
doesn’t trust the judgment: FML, 313; Columbus Telegram, 4/13/1974; Houseman, Final Dress, 578.
place a call to producer John Houseman: FML, 314; Columbus Telegram, 4/13/1974.
That Girl from Memphis: Houseman, Front and Center, 181.
Ford’s Theatre: Houseman, Final Dress, 334.
he agrees to step in: ibid., 518.
“My main use to him”: ibid., 578.
Henry sleeps in his stage clothes: Long Beach Independent, 2/24/1974.
previewed in Louisville: Houseman, Final Dress, 519.
From there it goes to Chicago: ibid.
“Fonda is doing something incredible”: Columbus Telegram, 4/13/1974.
“the accumulation”: Frederick News-Post, 3/1/1974.
“Olympian feat”: Oakland Tribune, 2/19/1974.
the play moves to Broadway: Lebanon Daily News, 3/28/1974.
“It would be difficult”: New York Times, 5/27/1974.
The five-week run sells out: Long Beach Independent, 4/28/1974.
“People seem to have a compulsion”: Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, 9/4/1974.
tour dates: Long Beach Independent, 4/28/1974.
A television special: ibid.
Henry’s Darrow will still be sought: Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, 10/22/1978.
“the great interpreter of the second-rate”: John Simon, “Failures of Nerve,” New York, 4/8/1974, 84.
“curious current phenomenon”: Coshocton Tribune, 5/31/1975.
“evil men”: Rintels, 22.
“Don’t you know”: ibid., 20.
“I know my life”: ibid., 48–49.
a ranch near Santa Fe: Albuquerque Tribune, 7/24/1969.
“with flying colors”: Victoria Advocate, 10/30/1969.
Bataan Memorial: Albuquerque Tribune, 7/11/1969.
reported as influenza: Annapolis Evening Capital, 7/10/1969.
“a respiratory condition”: Albuquerque Tribune, 7/11/1969.
“I’m just a tired old man”: Annapolis Evening Capital, 7/10/1969.
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