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2 “Warren has a theory”: Gary Younge, “Rebel with a Cause,” ZA@PLAY, 6/10/99.
3 “Even when he is saying nothing”: Lynn Hirschberg, “Film Star, Womanizer, Charmer, Man of the People. Warren Beatty for President,” The Observer Review Page, 5/17/98.
3 “He’s one of the strangest”: Michael Sragow, “It’s About How Much Craziness You Have to Accept,” Salon, 8/19/99.
4 “When he and I are standing”: AI, 11/19/06.
7 “Women are like”: Confidential source.
7 “You know that book”: Phone conversation, c. 2000.
8 “is a game where the winner”: AI, 3/4/05.
9 “master manipulator”: AI, 12/7/94.
10 “How can you not hate a guy”: AI, n.d.
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13 Epigraph: Fiona Macdonald Hull, “Warren’s Women,” News of the World, 9/10/78.
14 “Hollywood was candy land”: AI, 4/14/06.
14 “No matter how hot”: Confidential source.
14 “My childhood was”: James Spada, Shirley and Warren, New York, 1984, p. 4.
15 “That boy who’s looking”: Joan Collins, Past Imperfect, Boston, 1978, p. 232.
15 “I really thought I was hot shit”: AI, 10/2/91.
15 “I thought he was gay”: AFI Life Achievement Award, 6/12/08.
15 “Look, are you afraid”: Jeff Cronin, “Beatty and the Two Beauties,” Photoplay, 12/61.
15 “Cut! Stop!”: Ibid.
15 “Oh my God”: AI, 10/2/91.
16 “nothing would stop him”: AI, 6/7/92.
16 “Hi, did you get”: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 236.
16 “I can hardly wait”: Ibid.
17 “I’m coming up”: Ibid., p. 238.
17 “I don’t think”: Ibid., p. 250.
17 “Maybe he did”: Graham Lord, “The Fastest Lady in Hollywood,” London Daily Mail, 8/20/07.
18 “Warren was 21”: Ginny Dougary, “Wicked Lady,” London Times Magazine, 10/27/01.
18 “When I got out here”: AI, n.d.
18 “He’d come home drunk”: Shirley MacLaine, My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir, New York, 1996, p. 7.
18 “Can Warren talk medicine?”: AI, 6/7/94.
19 “I saw you necking”: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 243.
19 “I remember the morning”: Shirley MacLaine, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain, New York, 1971, p. 16.
19 “Warren and I might have believed”: MacLaine, My Lucky Stars, p. 18.
20 “A friend of mine”: AI, 10/2/91.
20 “I needed money”: Howard Smith, “Beatty Raps,” Eye, c. 1968.
21 “A friend of mine”: AI, n.d.
21 ‘Where ya going?’: AI, 10/1/91.
22 “Here comes Mr. Broadway”: Beatty, AI, n.d.
22 “Criticized Warren”: Rita Gam, Actors, A Celebration, New York, 1988, p. 227.
22 “Warren always wanted”: AI, 4/6/05.
22 “weighty,” not “Wheaties”: John Parker, Warren Beatty: The Last Great Lover of Hollywood, New York, 1993, p. 70.
23 “Inge was in love” and following: Ellis Amburn, The Sexiest Man Alive, New York, 2002, pp. 5, 21.
23 “How smart of Warren”: AI, 3/1/05.
23 “I liked Warren”: Jeff Young, Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films, New York, 1999, p. 255.
23 “wanted it all”: Elia Kazan, A Life, New York, 1988, p. 603.
24 “There was this period”: AI, 6/11/94.
24 “They say that fighters”: Washington Post, 1980.
25 “he feels a wreath”: Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty: A Private Man, p. 190.
25 “I thought, I gotta”: AI, 10/2/91.
25 “You can’t do a play”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 32.
26 “Warren won’t listen”: Rex Reed, “Will the Real Warren Beatty Please Shut Up,” Esquire, 8/67.
26 “Warren kept me”: “The Return of a Sexual Pioneer,” Toronto Star, 8/26/06.
26 “Don’t go, Butterfly”: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 248.
26 “changed lines”: Reed, “Will the Real Warren Beatty Please Shut Up,” Esquire, 8/67.
26 “was written to”: AFI seminar, moderated by Jon Avnet, 5/14/09.
26 “In my forty-year career”: Parker, Warren Beatty, p. 47.
27 “sensual around the lips”: Kenneth Tynan, The New Yorker, 12/12/59.
27 “mercurial, sensitive, excellent”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 36.
27 “There’s no more”: AI, 10/18/91.
27 “The New York theater’s”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 36.
27 “I said ‘Oh this is lovely’”: Jackie Collins, quoted by Scott Haller, reported by David Wallace, “Scenes from a Sisterhood; Joan and Jackie Collins Turn Sex and Passion into a Family Plot,” People, 11/12/84.
28 “part of the reason”: Victor Navasky, Naming Names, New York, 1980, p. 204.
28 “Kazan was a pariah”: AI, 6/29/05.
29 “We were taught”: MacLaine, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain, pp. 1–2.
29 “I went through”: Younge, “Rebel with a Cause.”
30 “Her mother was”: AI, 3/1/05.
30 “When they were sober”: AI, 4/6/05.
30 “When Natalie was first suggested”: Young, Kazan, pp. 258–59.
30 “When I saw her”: Kazan, A Life, p. 602.
30 “good girl”: Ibid., p. 603.
30 “I saw a screen test” and following: Beatty, AI, 10/2/91.
31 “Pregnant?” and following: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 251.
32 “I desperately wished”: Hull, “Warren’s Women.”
32 “Kazan said to me” and following: AI, 4/6/05.
32 “scared and worried”: Howard Thompson, “Inge’s Kansas Through a Kazan
Kaleidoscope,” New York Times, 5/22/60.
32 “I suppose I have a method”: Cosmopolitan, 1962.
33 “a spectacular disappointment”: MacLaine, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain, pp. 9–10, 11.
33 “didn’t like good looking guys”: Richard Schickel, Elia Kazan, New York, 2005,
p. 376.
33 “turkey neck”: Glenn Gordon Caron, AI, 5/31/07.
33 “Just shut up”: AI, 8/25/92.
33 “Lemme ask you something”: Beatty, Schickel, Elia Kazan, p. 376.
33 “In some patricidal attempt”: Holly Millea, “The Revolutionary,” Premiere,
11/06.
33 “What did you say?”: Schickel, Elia Kazan, p. 377.
33 “the terrible effect” and following: Millea, “The Revolutionary.”
34 “I like the title”: AI, 10/2/91.
34 “does not rebel” and following: Schickel, Elia Kazan, p. 378.
34 “It was never consummated” and following: AI, 4/16/93.
34 “Warren was a little”: Kazan, A Life, p. 603.
35 “The enemy”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 237.
35 “Warren was a pain”: Suzanne Finstad, Natasha, New York, 2001, p. 257.
35 “I’m the vainest” and following: Confidential source.
36 “I was not about”: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 260.
36 “Their marriage was crumbling”: AI, 4/20/05.
36 “It was clear to Natalie”: Kazan, A Life, pp. 602, 603.
36 “If they were kissing”: AI, 4/20/05.
36 “Beatty had nothing”: Robert J. Wagner, with Scott Eyman, Pieces of My Heart, New York, 2008, p. 136.
37 “I would have known”: AI, 12/5/08.
37 “There’s a lot”: Beatty, AI, 10/2/91.
37 “Here comes MA”: Finstad, Natasha, p. 258.
37 “She had great disdain”: AI, 4/20/05.
37 “Warren wasn’t coming through”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 239.
37 “Absolutely beautiful” and following: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 266.
38 “pimply, bespectacled”: Ibid., p. 272.
38 “I’m terribly sloppy”: Cronin, Photoplay, “Beatty and the Two Beauties,” 12/61.
38 “I think [Warren] hides”: George Christy, “Queen of the Tiny Screen: Joan Collins,” Interview, 9/1/84, pp. 84–90.
39 “During that time”: Nigel Parndale, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 10/17/04.
39 “My first Hollywood party” and following: AI, 10/1/91.
39 “Could I talk?”: Avnet, AFI Seminar.
39 “So I went over”: Ibid.
40 “I was so stupid”: Ibid.
40 “He chased way more”: AI, 4/27/05.
41 “They spoke”: AI, 11/9/00.
41 “Charlie’s patio was always”: AI, n.d.
41 “As nearly as I”: AI, 12/11/00.
41 “turned out to be”: AI, 12/11/00.
41 “Charlie taught Warren”: AI, 5/12/93, 5/2/00.
42 “Warren never answers”: AI, 2/27/94.
42 “I wanted to play”: AI, 10/2/91.
43 “What’s going to happen” and following: Gavin Lambert, AI, 3/4/05.
43 “I said to myself” and following: AI, 1/14/06.
44 “I put on a bathrobe”: AI, 10/2/91.
44 “Tennessee was very”: AI, 3/4/05.
44 “He is so beautiful”: Peter Evans, “So What Finally Tamed the Great Seducer?,” London Daily Mail, 4/4/07.
44 “He didn’t say”: AI, 3/4/05.
44 “devastatingly handsome”: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 282.
45 “Like most women”: Reed, op. cit.
45 “They were at it”: Evans, “So What Finally Tamed the Great Seducer?”
45 “I knew Lenya”: AI, 3/4/05.
45 “I don’t think”: Ibid.
45 “It was a mess”: Michael Wilmington and Gerald Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty,” Velvet Light Trap, #7, Winter, 1972/73.
45 “It was the high tide”: AI, n.d.
45 “charming and intelligent” and following: Susan Strasberg, Bittersweet, New York, 1980, pp. 120–21.
46 “who could get to the mirror”: Parndale, Sunday Telegraph Magazine.
46 “It’s crap”: Collins, Past Imperfect, p. 289.
46 “It was obvious”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 262.
47 “silent, studious”: Lana Wood, Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister, New York, 1984, p. 64.
47 “The way Natalie Wood”: Wagner, Pieces of My Heart, p. 141.
47 “I wanted to kill”: Ibid., p. 142.
47 “Even as a kid”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 4.
48 “an astonishing campaign”: John Houseman, Unfinished Business, New York, 1972, p. 401.
48 “almost against [his] will”: Ibid.
48 “Our most serious problem”: Ibid., p. 401.
48 “I said, ‘Oh?’”: AI, 4/6/05.
49 “Our veteran cameraman” and following: Houseman, Unfinished Business, p. 401.
49 “The press has”: AI, n.d.
49 “a frank and ferocious”: Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, 10/11/61.
50 “should make the big”: Time, 10/13/61.
50 “Andy Hardy story” and following: Ralph F. Voss, A Life of William Inge, Lawrence, Kansas, 1989, p. 196.
50 “Oh my God, you’re”: Mark Harris, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, New York, 2008, p. 21.
50 “I hate to bother you” and following: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 277.
51 “What I liked”: Michel Ciment, New York, 1974, p. 139.
51 “‘I’d like to tell”: Ciment, Kazan on Kazan, p. 139.
51 “Number One would like”: Gavin Lambert, Natalie Wood, New York, 2004,
p. 188.
51 “Mr. Beatty… is”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 66.
52 “It was much”: Jack Nicholson, AI, 1990.
52 “When I was 16”: Eugenie Ross-Leming, “Playboy Interview,” Playboy, 12/1/88.
52 “Everyone in this story”: Reed, op. cit.
52 “Bosley Crowther has never”: Spada, Shirley and Warren, p. 66.
52 “Warren Beatty, whose”: Stanley Kaufman, The New Republic, 4/23/62.
52 “preferred to play golf”: AI, 1989.
53 “The White House had asked” and following: AI, 6/11/94.
53 “crap”: AI, 1989.
53 “I was not prepared for it”: Ibid.
54 “blended into a series”: Reed, op. cit., p. 83.
54 “I realized that she”: AI, 10/31/97.
55 “Society considers the person”: “Lessons Learned in Combat: Interview with Robert Rossen,” Cahiers du Cinéma in English, #7, 1/67.
55 “the plight”: AI, 10/2/91.
56 “When he said,” and following: AI, 9/8/05.
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58 Epigraph: Roger Ebert, “Warren Beatty and Julie Christie and the Map to Presbyterian Church,” Chicago Sun Times, 8/1/71.
58 “Natalie would lie”: Lana Wood, Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister, p. 64.
58 “After a few hours”: Ibid., p. 63.
59 “Natalie was a lightweight”: AI, 5/26/93.
59 “My impression was”: AI, 3/4/05.
59 “The morning of the day”: AI, 4/6/05.
60 “Natalie told me”: AI, 3/4/05.
60 “Warren goes through”: Peter Evans, “So What Finally Tamed the Great Seducer?”
60 “At the outset”: Cahiers du Cinéma in English, #7, 1/67.
61 “If the director was indecisive”: Time, 7/3/78.
61 “I hired you because”: Finstad, Warren Beatty, p. 301.
61 “Beatty was extremely difficult” and following: AI, 5/15/05.
61 “I was intimidated”: Stanley Paley, “The Shooting of Lilith” Art Films International, 4/1/64.
61 “Warren Beatty’s behavior”: David Richards, Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story, New York, 1981, p. 137.
61 “because we all”: AI, 7/25/09.
61 “I’ve read Crime and Punishment”: Paul Gardner, The New York Times,
7/21/63.
61 “Warren was a man”: AI, 8/25/92.
62 “I don’t think that anybody” and following: AI, 5/15/05.
62 “She got him”: AI, 7/25/09.
62 “Peter was running around”: AI, 5/15/05.
62 “psychotic”: Wilmington and Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty.”
62 “When he came”: Jean Seberg, “Lilith and I,” Cahiers du Cinéma in English, #7, 1/67.
63 “From day one”: AI, 5/15/05.
63 “At the end of the filming”: Seberg, “Lilith and I.”
63 “If I die”: Muriel Davidson, “Public Image vs. Private Man,” 1970.
63 “Beatty probably contributed”: AI, 5/15/05.
63 “Warren’s vision”: AI, 4/9/93.
63 “Hollywood was a closed club” and following: AI, 1/12/93.
64 “I found him”: AI, 6/29/05.
64 “to push American movies”: Time, 10/8/65.
64 “I don’t understand” and following: Penn, AI, 1990.
64 “That didn’t particularly fly”: Penn, AI, 6/29/05.
64 “It’s too fucking obscure”: Richard Porton, “An Interview with Arthur Penn,” Cineaste, 12/93.
65 “All the time, everywhere” and following: AI, 4/26/94.
66 “Warren used to”: AI, 4/9/92.
66 “Stanley was the”: AI, 4/9/92.
67 “It was like lightning” and following: Dick Sylbert, AI, 6/7/94.
67 “I was struck”: George Gordon, “You Can’t Beat Beatty,” London Daily Mail, 3/14/94.
67 “We practically did not leave”: Aaron Latham, “Warren Beatty Seriously,” Rolling Stone, 4/1/82.
68 “My tiredness, her anxieties”: Peter Hall, Shaun Usher, “Passion Plays,” London Daily Mail, 9/6/93, from Making an Exhibition of Myself, London, 1993.
68 “Mickey One 1/2”: AI, 8/25/92.
68 “Movies didn’t have”: AI, 6/29/05.
69 “We had a lot of trouble”: Wilmington and Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty.”
69 “Nobody’s going”: Beatty and Penn, Projections 4, 1994, p. 125.
69 “I felt they were pretentious”: Wilmington and Peary, “Interview with Warren Beatty.”
69 “At that stage”: AI, 6/29/05.
69 “He doesn’t like”: “Penn on Penn,” Projections 4, p. 125.
69 “a certain flamboyance” and following: AI, 6/29/05.
70 “Oh, she’s wonderful”: AI, 6/29/05.
70 “‘Yes, I was having’”: Rebecca Hardy, “My Passion for Beatty Killed My Marriage,” London Daily Mail, 1/27/93.
70 “I didn’t blame”: Hall and Usher, “Passion Plays.”
70 “Wonder why we hate ourselves”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 51.
71 “In the original script”: AI, 6/11/94.
71 “a lovable guy”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, p. 40.
71 “You seem to forget”: Charles Feldman, Feldman Collection, AFI Library.
72 “for the past two weeks”: Roderick Mann, “I want so much out of life, says Leslie Caron”, Los Angeles Times, 6/14/64.
72 “When you’re falling in love”: Quoted by Robert Younger, AI, 10/22/07.
73 “Warren said, ‘Charlie’”: AI, 5/12/93.
73 “I finally walked out”: AI, 10/2/91.
73 “I diva’ed my way”: Harris, Pictures at a Revolution, pp. 86–87.
73 “Woody was very unhappy”: AI, 10/2/91.
74 “a muddy performance”: Crowther, The New York Times, 9/21/64.
74 “I needed some confirmation”: Gary Arnold, “So Much in Common; Beatty Shows ‘Love Affair’ Includes Kids and Friends as Well as Movie,” Washington Times, 10/23/94.
75 “he told me I was”: Lana Wood, Natalie, p. 66.
75 “Warren’s coming over”: Mart Crowley, AI, 4/6/05.
75 “raised voices” and following: Lana Wood, Natalie, p. 110.
76 “It was just a miracle” and following: AI, 4/6/05.
76 “Nothing happened”: Gavin Lambert, Natalie Wood, New York, 2004, p. 217.
76 “I saw him about two months” and following: AI, 4/6/05.
77 “Maybe seeing Warren”: AI, 3/4/05.
77 “In ten seconds”: Henry Jaglom, AI, 2/1/08.
78 “It was a very upsetting period”: Curtis Lee Hanson, “An Interview with Warren Beatty,” Cinema, v. 3, no. 5, Summer, 1967.
78 “He had this ability”: AI, 6/14/94.
78 “Bob was an extraordinarily”: AI, 11/5/96.
78 “He set up a meeting”: AI, 3/3/94.
79 “They were so intimate”: AI, 6/14/94.
79 “Towne was like this shadow”: AI, 12/7/94.
