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* As of this writing, no such LP has been released.
* Although Henry himself had fanned the “heritage of bad blood,” in Kenneth Tynan’s phrase, he was also pained by the conflict between him and Brooks, saying that Tynan had exaggerated it. “In a terrific drunken moment,” Henry told American Film magazine, “[Tynan] told me he was inventing a feud between Mel and me . . . . It was unconscionable. At the New Yorker, apparently, they told him his article was too friendly, too nice. So he got us into a wrangle, which shouldn’t have been. It’s always ‘yesterday’s news.’”