Read Pictures at a Revolution Online
Authors: Mark Harris
8.
Newman, David, and Robert Benton. “The New Sentimentality.”
Esquire
, July 1964.
9.
Newman, David. “What's It Really All About?: Pictures at an Execution.” In
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde
, ed. by Lester D. Friedman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 39.
10.
AI with Wright.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Letter from François Truffaut to Elinor Jones, September 7, 1964,
Truffaut Correspondence
, op. cit.
13.
Letters from François Truffaut to Helen Scott, May 28, 1964, and August 19, 1964,
Truffaut Correspondence
, op. cit.
14.
De Baecque and Toubiana,
Truffaut
, op. cit.
15.
Steinberg, Cobbett.
Reel Facts: The Movie Book of Records, Updated Edition
(New York: Vintage, 1982).
16.
AI with Jones.
17.
AI with Wright.
18.
AI with Starr.
19.
AI with Wright.
20.
AI with Jones.
21.
AI with Newman.
22.
AI with Jones.
23.
This account of the meeting is based on interviews with Benton, Jones, and Wright.
24.
AI with Starr.
25.
AI with Henry.
26.
Undated notes by Elinor Jones about her conversation with Helen Scott, probably on or about September 21, 1964, courtesy of Elinor Jones.
27.
Ibid.
28.
AI with Wright.
29.
Undated notes by Jones about her conversation with Scott, op. cit.
30.
AI with Newman.
31.
AI with Benton.
32.
AI with Turman.
33.
So You Want to Be a Producer
, op. cit., pp. 195â196.
34.
Archer, Eugene. “Hunter of Love, Ladies, Success.”
New York Times
, October 16, 1960.
35.
AI with Nichols.
36.
Weiler, A. H. “Miss Ross' âBus' Moves Toward Screen”.
New York Times
, December 13, 1964.
37.
AI with Nichols.
38.
So You Want to Be a Producer
, op. cit., p. 196.
39.
AI with Henry.
40.
AI with Nichols.
41.
AI with Lumet.
42.
AI with Turman.
43.
So You Want to Be a Producer
, op. cit., p. 196.
44.
“Most Fans Think Antonioni Is a CheeseâLevine.”
Variety
, May 24, 1967.
45.
“Embassy to Film âGraduate.'”
New York Times
, October 7, 1964.
46.
Lefferts, “Now the Mike Nichols Touch,” op. cit.
47.
“The Nichols Touch,”
Time
, November 27, 1964.
48.
“Movie Rights to âVirginia Woolf' Sold to Warners for $500,000.”
New York Times
, March 5, 1964.
49.
“Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Daring Work of Raw Excellence.” Documentary featurette on two-disc DVD reissue of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Warner Home Video).
50.
Fonda, Henry, as told to Howard Teichmann.
Fonda: My Life
(New York: New American Library, 1981), p. 283.
51.
Leff, Leonard J. “A Test of American Film Censorship: âWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'”
Cinema Journal
19, no. 2 (Spring 1980): 43.
52.
“Movie Rights to âVirginia Woolf' Sold to Warners for $500,000,” op. cit.
53.
“Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Daring Work of Raw Excellence,” op. cit.
54.
Mike Nichols, commentary track on two-disc DVD reissue of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
55.
AI with Nichols.
56.
AI with Turman.
57.
Leff, “A Test of American Film Censorship,” op. cit., p. 44.
58.
“Miss Ross' âBus' Moves Toward Screen,” op. cit.
59.
AI with Nichols.
CHAPTER 6
1.
Variety
, January 4, 1967.
2.
Grobel, Lawrence.
The Hustons: The Life & Times of a Hollywood Dynasty
, updated ed. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), pp. 532â533.
3.
Picker, David. “How UA Bonded with Bond.”
Variety
, May 3, 2005.
4.
“Inside Dr. No.” Written and directed by John Cork, produced by David Naylor and Bruce Scivally. DVD documentary on special edition of
Dr. No
(copyright 2000, MGM Home Entertainment Inc.).
5.
Rubin, Steven Jay.
The Complete James Bond Encyclopedia
, 2nd ref. ed. (Contemporary Books, 2003).
6.
Ibid.
7.
“The Goldfinger Phenomenon,” Directed by John Cork, produced and written by Mark Cerulli and Lee Pfeiffer. DVD documentary on the special edition of
Goldfinger
(copyright 1995, MGM/ UA Home Entertainment Inc.).
8.
“New York Sound Track,”
Variety
, January 11, 1967.
9.
Jablonski,
Alan Jay Lerner: A Biography
, op. cit.
10.
“Lerner to Write a Movie Musical.”
New York Times
, January 6, 1964.
11.
Memo from Jack Schwartzman to Arthur Jacobs, February 25, 1965, Jacobs Collection.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Cable from Arthur Jacobs to Alan Jay Lerner, December 15, 1964, Jacobs Collection.
14.
Memo from Schwartzman to Jacobs, February 25, 1965, op. cit.
15.
Cable from Arthur Jacobs to Irving Cohen, January 15, 1965, Jacobs Collection.
16.
Dunne,
The Studio
, op. cit., pp. 32â33.
17.
Telegram from Arthur Jacobs to Alan Jay Lerner, January 25, 1965, Jacobs Collection.
18.
Memo from Schwartzman to Jacobs, February 25, 1965, op. cit.
19.
Cable from Richard Zanuck to Alan Jay Lerner, March 4, 1965, Jacobs Collection.
20.
Cable from Owen McLean to Irving Paul Lazar, March 11, 1965, Jacobs Collection.
21.
Cable from Arthur Jacobs to Alan Jay Lerner, April 8, 1965, Jacobs Collection.
22.
Harrison,
Rex
, op. cit., pp. 208â209.
23.
Letter to Arthur Jacobs from Frank R. Ferguson, resident counsel, 20th Century-Fox, Jacobs Collection.
24.
Telegrams from Arthur Jacobs to Alan Jay Lerner, May 3 1967, and May 7, 1967. Jacobs Collection.
25.
Goudsouzian, op. cit., p. 221.
26.
“N.A.A.C.P. Weighs Movie Job Suits.”
New York Times
, July 9, 1965.
27.
Poitier,
This Life
, op. cit, pp. 279â283.
28.
Ibid, pp. 268â269.
29.
Thompson, Howard. “Why Is Sidney Poitier the Only One?”
New York Times
, June 13, 1965.
30.
Barthel, Joan. “He Doesn't Want to Be Sexless Sidney.”
New York Times
, August 6, 1967.
31.
Goudsouzian, op. cit., p. 235.
32.
Barthel, “He Doesn't Want to Be Sexless Sidney.” op. cit.
33.
Author interview with Kramer.
34.
AI with Jewison.
35.
Balio, op. cit., p. 180.
36.
Ball, John.
In the Heat of the Night
(originally published by Harper & Row, 1965; reprint by Carroll & Graf, 2001).
37.
Lacy, Ed (aka Len Zinberg).
Room to Swing
(originally published 1957; reprint by Blackmask.com, 2005).
38.
“Poitier to Play Film Detective.”
New York Times
, June 19, 1965.
39.
AI with Walter Mirisch.
40.
Canby, Vincent. “Poitier, as Matinee Idol, Is Handsomely Rewarded.”
New York Times
, November 18, 1967.
41.
“Poitier to Play Film Detective,” op. cit.
CHAPTER 7
1.
“Peter Hall Seeks Divorce from Miss Caron in London.”
Associated Press
, June 17, 1964.