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64 Account of fight: AIs, Hopper, Feinstein, and Karen Black.
64 “We’re finished”: Brooke Hayward, AI, 4/24/97.
65 “It was just”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
65 “It was just dreadful”: Brooke Hayward, AI, 4/24/97.
65 “He was now drinking”: Brooke Hayward, AI, 4/24/97.
65 “I want to tell you”: Hopper, 7/15/97.
65 “This is not”: Fonda, AI, 3/17/97.
66 “Don’t you get near” and following: Brooke Hayward, AI, 4/24/97.
66 “They stopped me”: Burke, “Dennis Hopper Saves,” p. 172.
66 “I called my lawyer”: Brooke Hayward, AI, 4/24/97.
67 “As long as I am”: Ayres, AI, 6/14/94.
67 “a creative bone”: Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters, Hit and Run, New York, 1996, p. 73.
67 “There was Dennis”: Ayres, AI, 6/14/94.
67 “How’s the script” and following: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
67 “Aw, take it easy” and following: Rip Torn, AI, 7/15/97.
68 “Bert was a little nervous”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
68 “You don’t have”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
68 “Terry never wrote”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
68 “There was a”: Neal Weaver, “I Have the Blood of Kings in My Veins.” After Dark, 10/69.
68 “Dennis Hopper didn’t”: Alix Sharkey, “Born to Be Wild,” Dazed and Confused, 11/95.
68 “In my mind”: Terry Southern, AI, 8/94.
69 “Neither of them”: Patrick McGilligan, ed., Backstory 3: Screenwriters of the 60’s, Berkeley, 1997.
69 “It was supposed” and following: Southern, AI, 8/94.
69 “You have a director”: Torn, AI, 12/16/97.
69 “We’re supposed” and following: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
69 “I was never”: Fonda, AI, 3/17/97.
69 “cinema verité”: Elizabeth Campbell, “Easy Rider,” Rolling Stone, 9/6/69, p. 19
69 “I can’t stand”: Goodman, “Rebel Without a Pause.”
70 “It was Bruce Conner’s”: Fonda, AI, 3/17/97.
70 “If we hate it”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
71 “Every day there was”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
71 “Dennis, there is”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
71 “What we have here”: Fonda, AI, 3/17/97.
71 “Where’s the picture?”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
71 “I wasn’t going to”: Fonda, AI, 4/24/97.
71 “The film’s too long”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
71 “Dennis could go dick”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
71 “Bert was the heroic”: Brooke Hayward, AI, 4/24/97.
71 “I was just horrified”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
72 “Do you see”: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
72 “You ruined my film.”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
72 “Hopper wants” and following: Fonda, AI, 3/17/97.
72 “I sabotaged that”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
72 “the little asshole” and following: Bill Hayward, AI, 11/15/92.
73 “He was sitting there” and following: Blauner, AI, 2/28/94.
73 “Wait’ll you see” and following: Bruce Dern, AI, 6/15/95.
73 “The management”: Blauner, AI, 2/28/94.
74 According to Bill Hayward: The figure usually quoted is $360,000, which was the budget going in. Hayward says the picture went way over in post-production.
74 “We made all”: CNN, Showbiz Today, 5:35 P.M., ET, 10/20/93, Transcript No. 399-2, by Sherri Sylvester.
74 “Hollywood’s hottest” and following: Brad Darrach, “Dennis Hopper in the Andes,” Life, 6/19/70.
74 “The cocaine problem”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97; Scheer, unpublished interview.
74 “When we were making”: L. M. “Kit” Carson, Evergreen Review.
75 “Nobody knew who wrote it”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.
75 “I want to make movies”: Darrach, “Dennis Hopper in the Andes”; Guy Flatley, “Henry Fonda Takes Aim at Dennis Hopper,” New York Times.
75 “The studio system”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 246.
75 “Everything seemed different”: Guber, AI, 11/10/92.
75 “BBS fired a cannon”: Paul Schrader, AI, 12/3/91.
76 “Normally, net means”: Blauner, 2/28/94.
76 “Bert brought Columbia”: Brackman, AI, 4/30/93.
77 “Orson [Welles] always said”: Jaglom, AI, 7/23/93.
77 “The truth is”: Jim McBride, AI, 6/3/94.
77 “I recall a time”: Joan Didion, “The White Album,” The White Album, New York, 1979, p. 42.
78 “On August 9”: Ibid.
78 “I went up to look”: Beatty, AI, 3/16/95.
78 “Roman was sitting”: Richard Sylbert, AI, 8/25/92.
78 “He suspected a lot”: Richard Sylbert, AI, 6/7/94.
78 “Roman was a brilliant”: Bart, AI, 4/17/92.
79 “If half the people” and following: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.
79 “I walked up”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
79 “It was the end”: Richard Sylbert, AI, 8/25/92.
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81 Epigraph: Robert Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
81 “Let’s find a picture” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
82 “Ted is ruthless”: Karl Fleming, New York, 6/28/74.
82 “the pussy freak”: Don Simpson, AI, 12/24/92.
82 “I just got”: Calley, AI, 5/15/93.
84 “He knew where”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.
84 “You went to Universal”: Nessa Hyams, AI, 4/1/94.
84 “It was sort of”: Jeff Sanford, AI, 3/13/92.
84 “If McQueen” and following: Calley, AI, 3/4/93.
85 “Calley is a genius”: Confidential source.
85 “Nobody supported me”: Fred Weintraub, AI, 12/19/97.
85 “Wait a minute”: Calley, AI, 3/4/93.
86 “It was so traumatic” and following: Boorman, AI, 2/22/95.
86 “Altman had this idea”: Patrick McGilligan, Robert Altman: Jumping off the Cliff, New York, 1989, p. 93.
87 “He was like”: Tommy Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.
87 “How are your morals?”: Kathryn Reed, AI, 7/12/97.
88 “All right, put me”: McGilligan, Robert Altman, p. 175.
88 “I couldn’t fathom” and following: George Litto, AI, 10/17/94.
89 “Bob had a black side”: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.
89 “I’ll give you one of these”: Confidential source.
90 “Shape up”: Francis Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.
90 “To have had the guts to have plunked”: Murch, AI, 11/18/93.
90 “Francis could sell”: Audie Bock, “Zoetrope and Apocalypse Now”, American Film 9/79; Pollock, Skywalking, p. 79.
91 “Francis saw Zoetrope”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 77; Rolling Stone, 11/5–12/10/87.
91 “Francis was going”: Sragow, “Godfatherhood,” p. 44.
91 “I think Francis”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.
92 “I betcha”: Murch, AI, 11/18/93.
92 “George was not”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.
92 “My life is”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 78.
92 “seventy-year-old kid,” Pollock, Skywalking, p. 78.
92 “All directors have”: Ibid.
92 “George was like”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.
93 “Francis had this”: Barry Beckerman, AI, 6/22/92.
93 “Frankly, it was puerile”: Confidential source.
93 “The feeling from”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 100.
93 “This is written” and following: Litto, AI, 10/17/94.
95 “It was more exciting”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
95 “I love his work” and following: Gottlieb, AI, 6/13/97.
95 “Another week”: Litto, AI, 10/17/94.
96 “Get away from”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
96 “It was the first time” and following: Litto, AI, 10/17/94.
96 “Darryl Zanuck had these”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
97 “The best American war comedy”: Kael, New Yorker, 1/24/70.
97 “they were very thick”: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.
97 “Bob would cultivate”: Joan Tewkesbury, AI, 10/13/95.
97 “the first American movie”: Mason Wiley and Damien Bona, Inside Oscar, New York, 1993.
97 “Bob was never one” and following: Litto, AI, 10/17/94.
98 “work hard”: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 90.
98 “You’ve got to understand” and following: Confidential source.
98 “this is either” and following: Murch, AI, 11/18/93.
99 “You guys, wait”: Matthew Robbins, AI, 5/2/97.
99 “We weren’t in”: Ted Ashley, AI, 12/11/97.
99 “Wells could never”: Confidential source.
99 “Listen, if you hook” and following: Murch, AI, 11/18/93.
100 “I like to become”: Marcia Lucas, AI, 3/3/97.
100 “Coppola was developing”: Sanford, AI, 3/13/92.
100 “Okay, we have a deal”: Confidential source.
100 “I’m not the oldest”: Steve Kesten, AI, 4/6/97.
101 “Calley and Ashley”: Sanford, AI, 3/13/92.
101 “They saw THX”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.
101 “Wells was calling”: Confidential source.
101 “They had turned down”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.
101 “Francis was a gonif”: Wexler, AI, 8/18/95.
101 “This invitation cost” and following: Pollock, Skywalking, p. 100.
102 “You’ve run up”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.
102 “I needed to go”: George Lucas, AI, 5/2/97.
102 “I had always”: Coppola, AI, 7/31/97.
102 “If the director”: Towne, Time, 7/3/78.
103 “We had a director” and following: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
103 “It was one of”: Altman, Walker Art Center Lecture, 4/25/92.
103 “shared a sort”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
103 “Bob didn’t want” and following: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.
103 “Bob had a talent”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
104 “One of the big problems”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
104 “It was considered”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
104 “nit-picking, the way”: David Johnson, “Robert Altman,” Show, 10/72, p. 49, quoted in Gerard Plecki, Robert Altman, Boston, 1985, p. 39.
104 “Warren wouldn’t start”: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
105 “We shot it once”: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.
105 “It was like”: Jim Margellos, AI, 6/28/97.
105 “The path to success”: Tewkesbury, AI, 10/13/95.
105 “A lot of times”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
105 “Warren was buried”: Margellos, AI, 6/28/97.
106 “Towne’s script didn’t have”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
106 “Hira was so big”: Ayres, AI, 6/14/94.
106 “I’m gonna make” and following: Beatty, AI, 3/6/95.
106 “Don’t tell anybody”: Confidential source.
106 “Bob claims to have”: Evans, AI, 6/11/94.
107 “Towne was tremendously”: Larner, AI, 3/9/95.
107 “Towne treated Jack”: Evans, AI, 2/27/94.
107 “Towne was like this shadow”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.
107 “I always felt”: Towne, AI, 11/6/97.
107 “I couldn’t hear”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
108 “The principals thought”: Thompson, AI, 10/18/95.
108 “Warren was infuriated”: Bruce Williamson, Playboy interview, 8/76.
108 “Sam Peckinpah is a prick”: Margellos, AI, 6/28/97.
108 “He stormed off”: McGilligan, Robert Altman, p. 344.
108 “You think we”: Ashley, AI, 12/11/97.
108 “Things had progressed”: Beatty, AI, 6/28/94.
108 “I can hear it” and following: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
109 “a beautiful pipe dream”: Kael, New Yorker, 7/3/71.
109 “It still hasn’t grossed” and following: Altman, AI, 5/3/96.
109 “It prevented it”: AI, Beatty, 6/28/94.
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110 Epigraph: Ellen Burstyn, AI, 4/10/96.
110 “I just saw” and following: Confidential source.
110 “We really loved” and following: Bogdanovich, AI, 11/16/93.
112 “I’ve seen every American film”: Benton, AI, 4/26/92.
112 “One of the firs” and following: Bogdanovich, AI, 11/16/93.
113 “You’re a woman”: Maureen McAndrew, “Polly Platt Sets the Style,” Cinema, No. 35, 1976, p. 34.
113 “Peter’s father” and following: Polly Platt, AI, 7/23/93.
114 “Polly could be very”: Bogdanovich, AI, 8/1/97.
114 “I watched Hawks” and following: Bogdanovich, AI, 11/16/93.
115 “If you really want”: Platt, AI, 7/23/93.
115 “I went from”: Bogdanovich, “Dialogue on Film,” American Film, 1978.
115 “Do you want”: Bogdanovich, AI, 11/16/93.
115 “You know how Hitchcock shoots”: Roger Corman (with Jim Jerome), How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, New York, 1990, p. 142.
116 “The ending of Targets”: Bogdanovich, AI, 11/16/93.
116 “He’s the locomotive”: Platt, AI, 7/23/93.
116 “Polly was a very strong”: Paul Lewis, AI, 11/14/95.
116 “If I was in charge” and following: Platt, AI, 7/23/93.
116 “I thought I was”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
117 “They were close”: Jim Nelson, AI, 11/11/94.
117 “All we had was” and following: Harry Gittes, AI, 12/12/94.
118 “What was secretly”: Larner, AI, 3/9/95.
118 “Get out from under”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
118 “She wouldn’t step”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.
119 “No film”: John Russell Taylor, “Staying Vulnerable,” Sight and Sound, fall 1976.
119 “If he wrote ten words”: Walon Green, AI, 12/3/96.
119 “She felt she”: Richard Wechsler, AI, 4/18/93.
119 “If he could rewrite”: Henry, AI, 12/7/94.
119 “You know Bob”: Confidential source.
119 “a lot of the ideas” and following: Toby Rafelson, AI, 6/22/94.
119 “He’d say, ‘Do you think’ “: Wechsler, AI, 4/18/93.
120 “I think it’s the best”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
120 “There were all these” and following: Platt, AI, 8/3/93.
121 “Don’t forget”: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.
121 “I’ve never had to say”: Bogdanovich, AI, 11/16/93.
121 “She had funny”: Platt, AI, 8/10/93.
122 “There was something”: “Cybill and Peter—Who Needs Marriage?,” People, 5/13/74.
122 “You’ve got” and following: Dougherty, AI, 4/11/94.
122 “I knew”: Platt, AI, 8/10/93.
122 “Polly accused me”: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.
123 “We’re going to bury”: Platt, AI, 6/29/94.
123 “Where’s that pinko”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
123 “Huey was beautiful”: Brackman, AI, 4/30/93.
124 “How can I put it?”: Confidential source.
124 “He just had”: Wechsler, AI, 4/18/93.
124 “a stunt man”: Darrach, “Dennis Hopper in the Andes.”
124 “I can’t find anybody” and following: Blauner, AI, 2/28/94.
124 “When we got involved”: Confidential source.
124 “If Hopper hadn’t”: Guber, AI, 11/10/92.
125 “It was a miserable”: Tony Bill, AI, 6/20/94.
125 “It was frightening”: Ned Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.
125 “Wasserman said ‘We’ve’ “: Danny Selznick, AI, 7/12/93.
125 “He was clinically”: Simpson, AI, 7/21/93.
125 “Like Sid, he was”: Spielberg, AI, 12/9/96.
125 “For $5 million”: Selznick, AI, 7/12/93.
125 “When the companies”: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.
126 “Are you sure”: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.
126 “I just was laughing”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
126 He sent a package: Burke, “Dennis Hopper Saves,” p. 170.
127 “We felt we had”: Blauner, AI, 3/1/94.
127 “I cant understand”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
127 “Peter was the only”: Nelson, AI, 11/11/94.
127 “I’m not sure” and following: Bogdanovich, AI, 8/1/97.
128 “I don’t know” and following: Platt, AI, 8/10/93.
128 “Go home to what?”: Rachel Abramowitz, “She’s Done Everything,” Premiere, 11/93, p. 94.
128 “I’m going to kill”: Platt, AI, 8/10/93.
128 “They were like”: Benton, AI, 4/26/92.
128 “I felt terribly guilty.”: Bogdanovich, AI, 8/1/97.
129 “My wife really likes”: Confidential source.
129 “Anyone who can have me”: Jaglom, AI, 10/5/93.
131 “You could go very” and following: Brackman, AI, 4/30/93.
132 “Don’t worry, honey,” and following: Paul Rosenfield, “The Club Rules,” New York, 1992, p. 129.
132 “I’m so driven”: Ibid.
132 “You want to direct?” Michael Black, AI, 1/31/92.
133 “I sort of would”: Bogdanovich, AI, 3/2/94.
133 “she just won’t”: Tom Nolan, “You Can Bring Dennis Hopper to Hollywood but You Can’t Take the Dodge City Out of Kansas,” Show, 7/23/70, p. 23.
133 “Dennis falls in love”: Ibid.
133 “Six Days’ War”: John Phillips, with Jim Jerome, Papa John, New York, 1986, p. 248.
133 “one shot”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
133 “I love you”: Goodman, “Rebel Without a Pause,” p. 58.
133 “Dennis would run it”: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.
133 “Dennis never showed up”: Bob Rafelson, AI, 11/10/93.
134 “Nobody influenced me.”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
134 “The editors would” and following: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.
134 “They sure named”: Lewis, AI, 11/14/95.
134 “We had a thing” and following: Tanen, AI, 1/22/93.
135 “I won the Venice”: Chris Hodenfield, “Citizen Hopper,” Film Comment, 12/86, p. 70.
136 “All the American audience’s”: John Russell Taylor, “Profession: Actor,” Sight and Sound, Summer 1974, p. 150.
136 “I was there before”: Hopper, AI, 7/15/97.
136 “There was no way”: Rudy Wurlitzer, AI, 5/7/93.
137 “The freedom that we”: Lewis, AI, 11/14/95.
