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Authors: Mark Harris
Inside Dr. No
, written and directed by John Cork, produced by David Naylor and Bruce Scivally,
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
, written by Scivally, directed by Cork, and produced by Cork, Naylor, and Scivally; and commentary track (MGM Home Entertainment Inc., copyright 2000, available on the special edition of
Dr. No
).
Inside From Russia with Love
, written and directed by John Cork, produced by Cork, David Naylor, and Bruce Scivally;
Harry Saltzman: Showman
, written by Scivally, directed by Cork, produced by Cork, Naylor and Scivally; and commentary track (MGM Home Entertainment Inc., copyright 2000, available on the special edition of
From Russia with Love
).
Inside You Only Live Twice
, written and directed by John Cork, produced by David Naylor and Bruce Scivally; and commentary track (MGM Home Entertainment Inc., copyright 2000, available on the special edition of
You Only Live Twice
).
Jewison, Norman, with Lee Grant, Rod Steiger, and Haskell Wexler, commentary track on
In the Heat of the Night
(MGM Home Entertainment, Inc., copyright 2001).
King, Larry,
CNN Larry King Weekend: Interview with Rod Steiger
, CNN. Rebroadcast July 14, 2002.
âââ. CNN Larry King Live: Interview with Katharine Houghton.
Broadcast June 19, 2003.
Leone's West, the Leone Style, Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
, and
Reconstructing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
, all directed and produced by Michael M. Arick (MGM Home Entertainment LLC, copyright 2004, available on the two-disc special edition of
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
).
The Making of Thunderball
and
The Thunderball Phenomenon
, written and directed by John Cork, produced by Lee Pfeiffer and Mark Cerulli; and two commentary tracks (MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., copyright 1995, available on the special edition of
Thunderball
).
An Opera of Violence, The Wages of Sin
, and
Something to Do with Death
, produced by Enfys Dickinson and Philip Moores, directed by Lancelot Narayan (Paramount Pictures, copyright 2003, available on the two-disc special collector's edition of
Once Upon a Time in the West
).
A Poem in Images
, and on-camera interviews with Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann, produced and directed by Greg Carson; commentary track by Marc Gervais; on the special DVD edition of
Persona
(MGM Home Entertainment LLC, copyright 2005).
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
(1992), directed by Oliver Curtis; and
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
; on the three-disc Criterion Collection edition of
The Battle of Algiers
(the Criterion Collection, copyright 2004).
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
, produced and directed by Valerie A. Robins (Otto Preminger Films, Ltd.; copyright 1991, available on the two-disc special edition of
The Cardinal
).
Psychedelic Cinema
, produced and directed by Greg Carson, (MGM Home Entertainment Inc., copyright 2002, available on the DVD edition of
Casino Royale
).
Schickel, Richard, commentary track on the two-disc special edition of
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(MGM Home Entertainment LLC, copyright 2004).
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
, directed by Heeley; produced by David Heeley and Joan Kramer; written by John Miller (1986).
Sterritt, David, commentary track on
Le Petit Soldat
(Koch Lorber Films/Winstar Home Video, copyright 2001).
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
, written, produced, and directed by Mimi Freedman (Turner Classic Movies, copyright 2005, available on the two-disc special edition of
Bullitt
).
Webb, Charles, interviewed by Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio, November 8, 1976.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Daring Work of Raw Excellence
,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Too Shocking for Its Time
, and a July 29, 1966,
Today
show interview with Mike Nichols, on the two-disc special edition of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Warner Bros. Entertainment and Turner Entertainment Co., copyright 2006).
CHAPTER 1
1.
Author interview (AI) with Robert Benton; Finstad, Suzanne.
Warren Beatty: A Private Man
(New York: Harmony, 2005).
2.
François Truffaut: Correspondence 1945â1984
, translated by Gilbert Adair (New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), p. 172.
3.
AI with Arthur Penn.
4.
Schumach, Murray. “Movie Creativity in Europe Hailed.”
New York Times
, April 13, 1961.
5.
“French Say, âIt Ain't So, Bos,' as Many Dispute Critic's âQuality Gap.'”
Variety
, December 26, 1962.
6.
AI with Leslie Newman.
7.
AI with Benton.
8.
The Gang That Couldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten (New York: Crown, 2006) provided useful background on the history of
Esquire
in the early 1960s.
9.
AI with Benton.
10.
Benton, Robert, and David Newman. “Lightning in a Bottle.” In
The Bonnie and Clyde Book
, compiled and edited by Sandra Wake and Nicola Hayden (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972).
11.
AI with Benton.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Goldstein, Patrick. “Blasts from the Past.”
Los Angeles Times
, August 24, 1997.
14.
Benton and Newman, “Lightning in a Bottle,” op. cit.
15.
AI with Benton.
16.
Master Detective
, February 1945.
17.
AI with Benton.
18.
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI
by Bryan Burrough (New York: Penguin Press, 2004) was a valuable resource for background information on Parker, Barrow, and their confederates.
19.
Text of the Production Code and subsequent revisions, reprinted in
Reel Facts
, updated ed., edited by Cobbett Steinberg (New York: Vintage, 1982).
20.
AIs with Benton and Elinor Jones.
21.
AI with Norton Wright.
22.
Ibid.
23.
AI with Jones.
24.
AI with Penn.
25.
De Baecque, Antoine, and Serge Toubiana, translated by Catherine Temerson.
Truffaut
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), pp. 198â1999.
26.
Reed, Rex. “Penn: And Where Did All the Chase-Ing Lead?”
New York Times
, February 13, 1966.
27.
AI with Penn.
28.
François Truffaut: Correspondence 1945â1984
, pp. 220â223.
29.
Crowdus, Gary. “The Importance of a Singular, Guiding Vision: An interview with Arthur Penn.”
Cineaste
, March 22, 1993.
30.
AI with Penn.
31.
AI with Jones.
32.
Menand, Louis. “Onward and Upward with the Arts: Paris, Texas.”
The New Yorker
, February 17 and 24, 2003.
33.
Letter from Helen Scott to François Truffaut, December 4, 1963, courtesy of Elinor Jones.
34.
Menand, op. cit.
35.
Letter from François Truffaut to Helen Scott, December 17, 1963,
Truffaut Correspondence
, p. 229.
36.
Letter from Truffaut to Scott, January 1964 undated,
Truffaut Correspondence
, p. 234.
CHAPTER 2
1.
Author interview with Warren Beatty.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Fonda, Jane.
My Life So Far
(New York: Random House, 2005), p. 198.
5.
AI with Beatty.
6.
Thompson, Howard. “Inge's Kansas Through a Kazan Kaleidoscope.”
New York Times
, May 22, 1960.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Finstad, op. cit.
9.
AI with Beatty.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Navasky, Victor.
Naming Names
(New York: Viking, 1980), pp. 302â304.
12.
Finstad, op. cit., pp. 301â303.
13.
AI with Robert Solo.
14.
Thomas, Bob.
Clown Prince of Hollywood
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990), p. 239.
15.
Finstad, op. cit., pp. 274â275.
16.
Variety's Film Reviews 1964â1967
(New York: R. R. Bowker, 1983). Review originally published in
Weekly Variety
, September 23, 1964.
17.
Crowther, Bosley. “âNothing but a Man' and âLilith' Presented.”
New York Times
, September 21, 1964.
18.
AI with Beatty.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Finstad, op. cit., p. 314.
22.
AI with Beatty.
23.
Webb, Charles.
The Graduate
(New York: New American Library, 1963; reprinted by Washington Square Press, 2002).
24.
Finstad, op. cit.
25.
AI with Lawrence Turman.
26.
Prescott, Orville. “Books of the Times: âTalent Busting Out All Over.'”
New York Times
, October 30, 1963.
27.
Nichols, Lewis. “In and Out of Books.”
New York Times
, June 30, 1963.
28.
Allis, Tim. “Post-
Graduate
Life Proves Unkind to Author Charles WebbâFootloose, Fundless and Looking for Help.”
People
, October 24, 1988.
29.
AI (by e-mail) with Charles Webb.
30.
AI with Webb.
31.
Webb, op. cit., p. 63.
32.
AI with Webb.
33.
Turman, Lawrence.
So You Want to Be a Producer
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005).
34.
Bart, Peter. “An Ambition: To Make a Movie No One Else Would.”
New York Times
, January 30, 1966.
35.
AI with Turman.
36.
Webb, Charles, interviewed by Susan Stamberg on National Public Radio, November 8, 1976.
37.
Turman,
So You Want to Be a Producer
, op. cit.
38.
AI with William Hanley.
39.
The website http://members.triod.com/[tilde]Puddleby/index.html is a useful resource for information on the life of Hugh Lofting.
40.
AI with Christopher Lofting, as are all comments attributed to him that follow.
41.
Unfilmed screenplay for
Doctor Dolittle
by Larry Watkin, Arthur P. Jacobs Collection, Special Collections Department, Charles Von Der Ahe Library, Loyola Marymount University.
42.
Bricusse, Leslie.
The Music Man: The Key Changes in My Life
(London: Metro Publishing Ltd., 2006), pp. 141â142 and 180.
43.
Memo headed “âDoctor Dolittle' Lawsuit,” from Arthur P. Jacobs to Jack Schwartzman, September 7, 1966, Jacobs Collection.
44.
AI with Lofting.
45.
Dunne, John Gregory.
The Studio
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 1969.
46.
Archer, Eugene. “5 Million Film Offer Made for âFair Lady.'”
New York Times
, September 27, 1961.
47.
Memo from Jacobs to Schwartzman, September 7, 1966, op. cit.
48.
“Lerner to Write a Movie Musical; Will Do Script and Lyrics for âDr. Dolittle' Stories.”
New York Times
, January 6, 1964.
49.
Memo from Jacobs to Schwartzman, op. cit.
50.
Harrison, Rex.
Rex: An Autobiography
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1975), p. 193.
51.
Walker, Alexander.
Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992), pp. 299â306.
52.
Memo from Jacobs to Schwartzman, op. cit.
CHAPTER 3
1.
Truffaut Correspondence
, op. cit., letter from François Truffaut to Helen Scott, January 1964, undated.
2.
Author interview with Benton.
3.
AI with Jones.
4.
AI with Jones.
5.
Letter from François Truffaut to Helen Scott, February 22, 1964,
Truffaut Correspondence
, op. cit.