Fosse
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SIXTEEN YEARS
[>] “You were either a friend or”: Cy Feuer, interviewed by Michael Kantor, February 23, 1999, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] Fosse barred him from discussions: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “For six weeks”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “Bob was obsessed with blood”: Ibid.
[>] this time, with Fosse’s blessing: Bob Fosse/Mary Dorfman correspondence, December 11, 1971, LOC, box 16B.
Michael York: Michael York, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] “That two weeks”: Ibid.
[>] Trailed by her dog Ocho: Rex Reed, “Liza Minnelli Filming ‘Cabaret,’” Washington Post, July 25, 1971.
[>] Louise Glaum: Liza Minnelli interview, Liza with a Z (Showtime Entertainment, 2006), DVD.
[>] “needed to be special”: Liza Minnelli AFI Interview, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkqK60eGkq.
[>] “Well?” she asked, modeling: “Liza Minnelli,” Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo, February 5, 2006.
[>] “If you feel like crying,” he told her: Gwen Verdon interview, Dance in America, WNET archives, September 6, 1989.
[>] “What’s wrong?” Wolf asked: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
[>] He called Wolf: Ibid.
[>] “His concentration was so intense”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “When he was ready to go”: Ibid.
[>] “It was always very comfortable”: Michael York, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] “I tried to make the dances look like”: Glenn Loney, “The Many Facets of Bob Fosse,” After Dark, June 1972.
[>] opted out of storyboarding: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “I basically try to get an overall shot”: Betty Spence, “Bob Fosse—He’ll Take the Risks,” Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1981.
[>] “Every time I do that”: Ibid.
[>] “I keep my options open as long as possible”: Ibid.
[>] “You see, the wonderful thing about a camera”: Bob Fosse, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, NBC, January 31, 1980.
[>] “They have to keep pulling me out”: Spence, “Bob Fosse.”
[>] “Feuer wanted a kind of Barbra Streisand”: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “All through the shooting”: Michael York, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] “After a run-in with Feuer”: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “I’m sure it was a miscommunication”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “I asked for some real thirties clothes”: Reed, “Liza Minnelli Filming ‘Cabaret.’”
[>] “Gwen came and literally went”: Michael York, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] opposite sides of the screening room: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] Fosse turned around and asked Feuer: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “Watching dailies”: Michael York, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] Fosse was already referring to: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
[>] “By the end of the shooting day”: Louise Quick, In the Company of Friends: Dancers Talking to Dancers II, the Women of Fosse, videotaped at the New Dance Group, New York, on October 7, 2007.
[>] playing badminton on a patch: C. Robert Jennings, “Divine Decadence Provides the Theme for German ‘Cabaret,’” Los Angeles Times, June 27, 1971.
[>] reminiscing all the way back to: Joyce Haber, “Joel Grey Talks about the Good Old, Bad Old Days,” Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1973.
[>] “Friday nights after shooting”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “It would sometimes go on to five”: Ibid.
[>] “Ilse was a lovely lady”: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “It was as if he lived”: Cy Feuer and Ken Gross, I Got the Show Right Here (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003), 246.
[>] “Do you think Bobby’s gay?”: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “She was angry, no?” Ilse asked: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 213. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.
[>] Ilse, meanwhile, did Fosse’s spying: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] Feuer appeared: Ibid.
[>] “Bob,” Feuer said: Ibid.
[>] Furious, Fosse wrote a letter: Bob Fosse/Ernie Martin correspondence, LOC, box 16B.
[>] dark blue velour: Gwen Verdon interview, Dance in America, WNET archives, September 6, 1989.
[>] “He’s impossible,” she complained: Ibid.
[>] “She walked in on him”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] Fosse got her letter in Berlin: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 219.
[>] The evening before Cabaret wrapped: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “Now that I bought you all dinner”: Ibid.
[>] Michael York attempted very graciously: Michael York, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] “If you don’t know what I fucking think”: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “It was glorious”: Ibid.
[>] could not fill the vacuum: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 220.
[>] He called Gwen: Ibid.
[>] The villa turned out to be an estate: Neil Simon, Rewrites: A Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 346–47.
[>] She took him back: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 222.
[>] “Don’t think you’re going to get”: Peter MacDonald, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.
[>] “I’m in the camera department!”: Ibid.
[>] “Liza was in heaven”: Ibid.
[>] he was shocked: Betty Spence, “Film Editor as Creator: Artist with Bits, Pieces,” Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1981.
[>] “Well,” Fosse said: Vincent LoBrutto, Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Westport: CT: Praeger, 1991), 55.
[>] “He paced like a panther”: Spence, “Film Editor as Creator.”
[>] “Every cut you make changes another”: LoBrutto, Selected Takes, 58.
[>] He asked Ilse never to answer: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 222.
[>] Nicole, he told Ilse: Ibid.
[>] Janice Lynde soothed him and following: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] “I remember him saying it was”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “He took me to these strip clubs” and following: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] David Begelman told Fosse he was: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 224.
[>] one hundred identical (numbered): Richard Shepherd, interview with the author, March 13, 2009.
[>] “The shibboleth”: Sam Cohn interviewed by William Wolf for NYU’s School of Continuing Education Class, the Filmmakers, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, William Wolf Film and Theater Interview Collection.
[>] At his peak, Sam Cohn saw: Mark Singer, “Dealmaker,” New Yorker, January 11, 1982.
[>] “Sam,” his client Herb Gardner: Ibid.
[>] “I have a neurotic response”: Sam Cohn interviewed by William Wolf.
[>] “Unless it was extremely urgent”: Arlene Donovan, interview with the author, January 10, 2011.
[>] “He was supposed to meet me [once]”: Ibid.
[>] “He seemed totally oblivious”: Teresa Carpenter, interview with the author, July 23, 2010.
[>] “You re
member that deal we made?”: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.
[>] “It’s a very small group of people”: Sam Cohn, interviewed by William Wolf.
[>] “The different disciplines exist within”: Jon Bradshaw, “May I Kiss You on the Forehead, Sam?,” New York, December 29, 1975.
[>] “Sam loved talent so much”: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.
[>] “His clients”: Marya Cohn, interview with the author, December 11, 2012.
[>] “Sam was just overwhelmed by”: Arlene Donovan, interview with the author, January 10, 2011.
[>] “Those guys had a true guy-code”: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.
[>] “But Bobby is an extremely intelligent man”: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,” American Film, November 1979.
[>] There were no pictures of his children: Peter Cohn, interview with the author, December 6, 2012.
[>] “Family dinners?” Cohn once asked: Leslee Dart, interview with the author, July 25, 2012.
[>] “At any time of day”: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.
[>] Susan Anderson peeked through the lens: Ibid.
[>] Fosse told Sam about an idea: “Foreward [sic],” original concept for Liza with a Z, May 1971, LOC, box 45A.
[>] Fosse sent Ilse back home: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 222.
[>] “Fellas, this is much too long”: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
[>] “There’s a certain amount of self-delusion”: “Bob Fosse,” The Dick Cavett Show, PBS, July 8, 1980.
[>] “Bob would do a movie”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “Now, serious theater must”: Otis Guernsey, “Edward Albee Confronts Broadway,” Diplomat, October 1966.
[>] he momentarily considered Promises, Promises: “Merrick Will Do 2 New Musicals: First Will Be a Goldman and Sondheim Show in Fall,” New York Times, May 31, 1967.
[>] Hair was a landmark musical, Fosse thought: Bob Fosse interview with Pete Hamill, The Barry Gray Show, December 1, 1979.
[>] “I took somebody to an experimental”: Tom Burke, “Steve Has Stopped Collaborating,” New York Times, May 10, 1970.
[>] “the challenge of maintaining relationships”: Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat (New York: Knopf, 2010), 165–66.
[>] “a metaphoric explosion!”: Mel Gussow, “Prince Recalls the Evolution of ‘Follies,’” New York Times, April 9, 1971.
[>] “I was looking at the past with affection”: Ibid.
[>] Fosse liked it and asked Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim, interview with the author, February 15, 2012.
[>] “Out of politeness I said I would”: Ibid.
[>] “He called me up out of the blue”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.
[>] “Fosse told me of his enthusiasm”: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.
[>] Fosse and producer Stuart Ostrow met and following: Stuart Ostrow, Present at the Creation, Leaping in the Dark, and Going Against the Grain (New York: Applause, 2006), 66.
[>] “Stu Ostrow trusted Bob and that made”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] Strolling through the woods around: Ostrow, Present at the Creation, 66.
[>] “I don’t want to,” she said and following: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
FIFTEEN YEARS
[>] For three consecutive days before: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
[>] Emanuel Wolf tried to calm him: Ibid.
[>] he called Cabaret the perfect movie: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 228. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.
[>] “Bob and I were standing in the back”: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
[>] “Until now there has never been”: Pauline Kael, “Grinning,” New Yorker, February 19, 1972.
[>] cameras each held a twelve-hundred-foot: Barbara Goldsmith, “Barbara Goldsmith on Film,” Harper’s Bazaar, September 1972.
[>] “the real me”: Cecil Smith, “Liza Minnelli Hopes ‘Real Me’ Shows Up in Special,” Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1972.
[>] “Fosse wanted to bring reality” and following: Phil Ramone, interview with the author, October 10, 2010.
[>] “When the sponsors would come around”: Liesl Schillinger, “Suddenly Liza,” New York, February 26, 2006.
[>] “He could not be stopped”: Owen Roizman, interview with the author, September 2, 2010.
[>] “Now, you’ve gotta imagine”: Liza Minnelli interview, Liza with a Z (Showtime Entertainment, 2006), DVD.
[>] “I always watched [Fosse’s] face”: Ibid.
[>] “Liza really, really wanted to learn”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] “One night”: Owen Roizman, interview with the author, September 2, 2010.
[>] “When you get out there”: Ibid.
[>] What Minnelli needed now: Liza Minnelli interview, Liza with a Z DVD.
[>] “It was a hooker hotel!”: Ibid.
[>] “Liza was very nervous”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] “I think she’s great because”: Fred Ebb, interviewed by Michael Kantor, March 29, 2009, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] Candy Brown took the long way out: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] It always began the same: Bob Fosse describes his audition process in pages 54 to 57 of his May 13, 1976, deposition for Grove Entertainment v. Pippin/Ostrow, LOC, box 24C.
[>] “What do you see in ‘Tea for Two’?”: Chet Walker, interview with the author, December 22, 2010.
[>] “It has jumps, turns, rhythm”: Ibid.
[>] “Sometimes, he’d put in this”: Jane Lanier, interview with the author, February 10, 2011.
[>] “A lot of people wouldn’t see”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “He was always there to”: Gordon Harrell, interview with the author, February 23, 2011.
[>] “He would tell people in”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] “I’ve seen Bob audition people”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.
[>] “Our eyes met during”: John Sowinski, interview with the author, February 1, 2011.
[>] “It was like he was cutting himself”: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.
[>] “He would literally walk over”: Valarie Pettiford, interview with the author, February 2, 2011.
[>] “I think I’ve turned down”: “Bob Fosse,” The Dick Cavett Show, PBS, July 8, 1980.
[>] On the day Sacco was cut: McCandlish Phillips, “For Stage Tryouts, 4 Seconds of Hope,” New York Times, February 9, 1972.
[>] “I remember once”: Ken Urmston, interview with the author, May 12, 2011.
[>] “He would cast dancers”: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.
[>] “You couldn’t have gotten a more”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] Ann Reinking arrived at and following: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “Ann extended Bob’s talent”: “Bob Fosse: Dancing on the Edge,” Biography, A&E, August 24, 1999.
[>] That night he called her: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] Reinking was cool: Ibid.
[>] “Separate is not the right word”: “Bob Fosse: Steam Heat,” Great Performances: Dance in America, PBS; first aired February 23, 1990.
[>] “I want to be a good father”: Chris Chase, “Fosse, from Tony to Oscar to Emmy,” New York Times, April 29, 1973.
[>]
“Bob was the most notorious”: Cyrus M. Copeland, Farewell, Godspeed: The Greatest Eulogies of Our Time (New York: Harmony Books, 2003), 9.
[>] “I always look up to you, Bob”: Ibid., 10.
[>] Fosse asked John Rubinstein to: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.
[>] “When I really read the script”: Ibid.
[>] “The place had a fun and temporary feel”: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.
[>] “We were sort of looking at each other”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.
[>] The morning after the fire, a sentimental stranger: Warren Allen Smith, interview with the author, August 19, 2012.
[>] “Bob would always be pushing people”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “I arranged a very elaborate system” and following: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.
[>] “the Fosse diet” and following: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “Don’t worry about it”: Ben Vereen, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.
[>] “On the page”: Ibid.
[>] Schwartz and Hirson liked the idea: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.
[>] “The show was being discovered”: Ibid.
[>] “I realized [Fosse] was having me”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.
[>] “I didn’t feel Bob’s dominance was”: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.
[>] Angrily annotated scripts: Pippin scripts, LOC, boxes 24A and 24B.
[>] “There’s a theory”: Harvey Evans, interview with the author, January 28, 2011.
[>] “Pippin is classic vaudeville with”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] It was an interesting idea, Schwartz thought: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.
[>] “There was a cloud over his head”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] “I sort of aired some of the dirty”: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.
[>] “I think he’s very talented”: Laurie Johnston, “Fosse Discusses Creation of ‘Pippin,’” New York Times, November 7, 1972.