Pictures at a Revolution (73 page)

62.
Steiger, on
Larry King Live
, CNN, rebroadcast July 14, 2002.

63.
AI with James.

64.
Adler, Renata. “The Negro That Movies Overlook.”
New York Times
, March 3, 1968.

CHAPTER 26

1.
Penn, Arthur. “Bonnie and Clyde: Private Integrity and Public Violence—From questions at a Press Conference in Montreal 1967.” In
The Bonnie and Clyde Book
, op. cit.

2.
Author interview with Penn.

3.
Crowther, Bosley. “Shoot-Em-Up Film Opens World Fete; ‘Bonnie and Clyde' Cheered by Montreal First-Nighters,”
New York Times
, August 7, 1967.

4.
———. “Screen: 8th Montreal Event Projects Weak Image.”
New York Times
, August 11, 1967.

5.
———. “Screen: ‘Bonnie and Clyde' Arrives.”
New York Times
, August 14, 1967.

6.
Crowther, cited in
Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film
by Frank Eugene Beaver (New York: Arno Press, 1974), pp. 138–139.

7.
Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: Brutal Tale of 12 Angry Men.”
New York Times
, June 16, 1967.

8.
“Don't Watch This Part, Honey—I'll Tell You When It's Over.”
Esquire
, July 1967.

9.
Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘For Few Dollars More' Opens.”
New York Times
, July 4, 1967.

10.
———. “Movies to Kill People By.”
New York Times
, July 9, 1967.

11.
———. “Reenacted Slaughter.”
New York Times
, July 27, 1967.

12.
Steele, Robert. “The Good-Bad and Bad-Good in Movies:
Bonnie and Clyde
and
In Cold Blood.” Catholic World
, May 1968.

13.
AI with Morgenstern.

14.
“Low-Down Hoedown.”
Time
, August 25, 1967.

15.
Sarris, Andrew.
Bonnie and Clyde
review.
Village Voice
, August 24, 1967.

16.
AI with Benton.

17.
AI with Morgenstern.

18.
Morgenstern, Joseph. “Ugly.” In
Film 67/68
, op. cit., pp. 25–26.

19.
AI with Morgenstern.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Morgenstern, “A Thin Red Line,” in
Film 67/68
, op. cit., pp. 26–28.

22.
AI with Morgenstern.

23.
AI with Benton.

24.
Catholic Film Newsletter
, September 7, 1967.

25.
AI with Gelb.

26.
“Crowther, Please Stay Home.”
Variety
, December 21, 1966.

27.
Sarris, Andrew. “Humpty-Dumpty from Wisconsin.”
Village Voice
, reprinted in
Film 67/68
, op. cit., pp. 72–73.

28.
AI with Sarris.

29.
Gillatt, Penelope. “The Current Cinema: The Party.”
The New Yorker
, August 19, 1967.

30.
Sarris,
Bonnie and Clyde
review, op. cit.

31.
Gold, Ronald. “Crowther's ‘Bonnie'-Brook.”
Variety
, August 30, 1967.

32.
Beaver,
Bosley Crowther: Social Critic of the Film
, op. cit.

33.
“Movie Mailbag.”
New York Times
, August 27, 1967.

34.
Crowther, Bosley. “Run, Bonnie and Clyde.”
New York Times
, September 3, 1967.

35.
AI with Benton.

36.
Kael, Pauline. “Movies on Television.”
The New Yorker
, June 3, 1967.

37.
———. Introduction to
For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
(New York: Dutton, 1994).

38.
———. “Circles and Squares”,
Film Quarterly
, 1963. The piece was a direct response to Sarris's “Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962.”

39.
All quotations in this paragraph and the next are from Kael's
Bonnie and Clyde
review,
The New Yorker
, October 21, 1967.

40.
Menand, Louis. “Onward and Upward with the Arts: Paris, Texas.”
The New Yorker
, February 17 and 24, 2003.

41.
Information on
Bonnie and Clyde
's weekly box office performance and Kansas City/Omaha run comes from
Variety
, August 23, August 30, September 6, September 13, September 20, September 27, October 4, and October 11, 1967.

42.
“September as Sidney Poitier Month; His ‘Heat' and ‘Love' Rate One, Two, Longruns Otherwise Dominant.”
Variety
, October 4, 1967.

43.
United Artists Inter-Office Memorandum to Norman Jewison, May 22, 1968, with attachment “Daily Accumulated Gross Receipts,” Jewison Collection.

44.
Variety
, November 8, 1967.

45.
Canby, Vincent. “Poitier, as Matinee Idol, Is Handsomely Rewarded.”
New York Times
, November 18, 1967.

46.
Mason, Clifford. “Why Does White America Love Sidney Poitier So?”
New York Times
, September 10, 1967.

47.
Poitier,
This Life
, op cit., p. 336. In Poitier's two autobiographies, he misplaces the Mason article as appearing in 1969 (in
This Life
) or the early 1970s (
The Measure of a Man
) and mistakenly says it included an attack on
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
.

48.
Hoffman, William.
Sidney
(New York: Lyle Stuart, 1971), pp. 8–9.

49.
AI with Houghton.

50.
AI with Mason.

51.
Hoffman,
Sidney
, op. cit., pp. 8–9.

52.
Johnson, Pete. “Harry Belafonte—No Bargain with the Devil.”
Los Angeles Times
, August 23, 1967.

53.
Gold, Ronald S. “While He's Sole U.S. Negro Star Seen Regularly, Sidney Poitier Expects to Play Only Heroes.”
Variety
, October 4, 1967.

54.
“Brock Peters on Negro Skepticism; One Colored Star Hardly a Trend.”
Variety
, December 20, 1967.

55.
Canby, “Poitier, as Matinee Idol, Is Handsomely Rewarded,” op. cit.

56.
Poitier,
The Measure of a Man
, op. cit., p. 119.

CHAPTER 27

1.
Author interview with Zanuck.

2.
John Gregory Dunne,
The Studio
, op. cit.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Minneapolis preview results, Box 17, Jacobs Collection.

7.
AI with Zanuck.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Letter from Richard Fleischer to Rex Harrison, September 25, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

10.
Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, October 31, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

11.
Cable from Richard Zanuck to Rex Harrison, undated, Jacobs Collection.

12.
Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, undated, Jacobs Collection.

13.
San Jose and San Francisco preview results, October 27, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

14.
Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, November 10, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

15.
Cable from Darryl F. Zanuck to Richard Zanuck, November 9, 1967, Jacobs Collection.

16.
Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: ‘Camelot' Arrives at Warner.”
New York Times
, October 26, 1967.

17.
“The Castle That Never Was.”
Time
, November 3, 1967.

18.
AI with Zanuck.

19.
“Helen Winston in $4 1/2-Mil. Suit vs. 20th's ‘Dolittle.'”
The Film Daily
, October 3, 1967.

20.
Screenplay by Larry Watkin for Helen Winston Productions, Aug. 13, 1962, Jacobs Collection.

21.
AI with Lofting.

22.
Dunne,
The Studio
, op. cit.

23.
Publicity and promotion notes, undated, Jacobs Collection.

24.
AI with Nichols.

25.
Ibid.

26.
AI with Hirshan.

27.
AI with Nichols.