by Wasson, Sam
[>] Dustin Hoffman behind a baby grand: Tom Lofaro, interview with the author, February 10, 2011.
[>] It was an atmosphere and following: Kitty Bruce, interview with the author, February 15, 2013.
[>] “His cough would wake me up”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.
[>] “He just wanted to be there”: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.
[>] Swiss cheese sandwich with mustard on white and following: Larry Mark, interview with the author, September 17, 2010.
[>] “Can you make it smaller?” he would ask: Bruce Surtees, interview with the author, March 28, 2011.
[>] “What are you doing?”: Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.
[>] would lean into Trudy Ship: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.
[>] Hoffman wanted to join, but Fosse: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “He was never totally specific”: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.
[>] “I’m so depressed”: Ibid.
[>] he’d seen a big, bearded man: Ibid.
[>] “He fought everything so hard”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.
[>] about 360,000 feet of printed film to: Cahill, “Dirty Lenny on the Silver Screen.”
[>] “He taught me how to be hard on material”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] Sometimes lunch would be personally delivered: Ibid.
[>] “There were times in the cutting room”: Jonathan Pontell, interview with the author, February 7, 2011.
[>] He made no effort to hide the attaché: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “I’m positive that Bob did this intentionally”: Ibid.
[>] “Bob would talk to me about”: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.
[>] He would laugh at himself for dating: Ibid.
[>] “Who was it last night?”: Ibid.
[>] One night Fosse invited Kim and Ann: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 301.
[>] At home, Fosse found Kim had: Ibid.
[>] “If you can’t go by the rules”: Ibid., 305.
[>] The performance, Fosse decreed: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “It was the racial monologue”: Ibid.
[>] “[Fosse] was frequently demeaning him”: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.
[>] “Throw it out,” Fosse said: Ibid.
[>] “We discovered that by fragmenting”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] Ralph Burns called “Fosse time”: Ibid.
[>] “Film is just like music”: Michael Blowen, “Will Gritty ‘Star 80’ Glitter at the Box Office?,” Boston Globe, November 6, 1983.
[>] Fosse wrote him asking for co-credit: Bob Fosse/Julian Barry correspondence, June 6, 1974, LOC, box 47B.
[>] “I wrote back and told him no”: Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.
[>] Fosse said he’d never bring it up: Ibid.
[>] “He was coughing and coughing”: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.
[>] “The nerve-racking thing”: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.
[>] singeing one side of his mouth: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “Although we had worked on each other’s” and following: Herb Gardner, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] “We used to turn on the radio”: Paddy Chayefsky on Dinah!, CBS, March 2, 1977.
[>] Around ten every morning, John Kander: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.
[>] “We were pregnant a lot in those days”: “Dialogue with Liza Minnelli, Fred Ebb, and John Kander,” January 14, 1974, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] “I would never write a completed lyric”: John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Chicago, Martin Gottfried on Bob Fosse, “Theater Talk,” videotaped at Top Line Studios, September 27, 1996.
[>] “Put in two finger snaps”: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.
[>] “Our copy was so messy”: Ibid.
[>] Verdon’s Chicago contract was a valentine: Gwen Verdon’s Chicago contract, September 27, 1974, LOC, box 18C.
[>] “Gwen knew a child needed both parents”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “And she continued to love him”: Ibid.
[>] “If you want to make something good”: Paul Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes,” New York, December 16, 1974.
[>] “I’d wake up in the morning”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,” Rolling Stone, January 19, 1984.
[>] “In American writing now”: Anatole Broyard, “Love on the Critical List: Books of the Times to Control the Uncontrollable Greatest of All Obstacles,” New York Times, July 30, 1974.
[>] “Above all, Ending made me feel”: Ibid.
[>] likening it to a string-quartet: Stuart Ostrow, Present at the Creation, Leaping in the Dark, and Going Against the Grain (New York: Applause, 2006), 81.
[>] “My characters were as far from”: Hilma Wolitzer, interview with the author, July 5, 2010.
[>] they should turn the script away: Robert Alan Aurthur’s sixteen-page step outline, December 23, 1974, LOC, box 13D.
[>] Fosse talked Aurthur into inventing: Ann Guarino, “The Fall of a Curtain, the Rise of an Idea,” New York Daily News, March 17, 1976.
[>] “What’ll happen is I’ll probably die”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies.”
[>] “Don’t let me do anything I’ve done before”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] Stevens soon realized exactly what: Ibid.
[>] Ann Reinking called it “the Know”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “You have to have the magnificent stare”: Ibid.
[>] had fascinated Fosse since he saw Tony Richardson’s: Marilyn Stasio, “A Tough ‘Chicago’ Is Where Bob Fosse Lives,” Cue, July 7, 1975.
[>] “The performer portrays incidents”: Bertolt Brecht and John Willett (ed. and trans.), “Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting,” Brecht on Theater: The Development of an Aesthetic (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992), 93.
[>] “‘Gest’ is not supposed to mean gesticulation”: Ibid., 104.
[>] “The reason I haven’t called you” and following: Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.
[>] “People would walk into the editing room”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “You were a better cutter before”: Ibid.
[>] “I just don’t feel good”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] The first week of dance: “Fosse Fatigue Causes Delay in Start of ‘Chicago’ Rehearsals,” Variety, November 6, 1974.
[>] “The number started with me”: Chita Rivera, interview with the author, February 3, 2011.
[>] Fosse showed the company images of: Graciela Daniele, interviewed by Michael Kantor, March 30, 1999, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] “Go over there”: Ibid.
[>] “In ‘All That Jazz’”: Gene Foote, In the Company of Friends: Dancers Talking to Dancers III, the Men of Fosse, videotaped at the New Dance Group, New York, on December 9, 2007.
[>] “It was the crown”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] “It got so that he wouldn’t put on”: Ibid.
[>] Heim said Fosse didn’t look so good: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] Reinking was worried about the purplish color: Ann Reinking
, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “Are you okay?”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] placed a big bouquet of red roses: Gary Gendell, interview with the author, June 12, 2012.
[>] Tony Walton showed off a model: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 316.
[>] “I was shocked”: Moira Hodgson, “When Bob Fosse’s Art Imitates Life, It’s Just ‘All That Jazz,’” New York Times, December 30, 1979.
[>] He asked stage manager: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 316.
[>] Like a truck was driving: All That Jazz, Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] Friedman called Leder, as directed: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 316.
[>] Joe Harris and Ira Bernstein ran into Neil Simon: Ira Bernstein, interview with the author, May 17, 2011.
[>] Fosse—trying to keep calm—told Harris: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 317.
[>] “The show is over”: Ibid.
[>] “What do you mean?”: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”
[>] 1 to 2 percent on the value: Kenneth Turan, “Insuring the Stars: You Think Your Policy’s High-Risk?,” Washington Post, September 19, 1977.
[>] At 3:30, Fosse’s doctors called Broadway Arts: All That Jazz, Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] “[Gwen] really went through this”: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 318.
[>] She believed this was, in a way: All That Jazz, Gwen Verdon interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] “Please don’t let them keep me”: Suzanne Daley, “Stepping into Her New Shoes,” New York Times, June 21, 1981.
[>] “Alan,” Verdon said to Heim: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] At 5:30 that evening, producers Fryer and Harris: All That Jazz, Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] “It’s exhaustion,” they said: “Fosse Exhausted, ‘Chicago’ Tryout Opening Delayed,” Daily Variety, October 31, 1974.
[>] Dr. Ettinger moved Fosse: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] He asked if he could have a smoke: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 320.
[>] They would take a vein: Ibid.
[>] The following day, the Chicago company: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] Pam Sousa booked a couple commercials: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.
[>] She threw parties: Jan Hodenfield, “Gwen Verdon & Chita Rivera: 2 from the Chorus,” New York Post, May 31, 1975.
[>] he called the theater to check up: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.
[>] Heim came to the hospital with a report: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] Cinema One’s best opening day: Variety, full-page advertisement, November 14, 1974.
[>] “Fosse has learned”: Pauline Kael, “When the Saints Come Marching In,” New Yorker, November 18, 1974.
[>] Drugged out, he called Annie: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “I’m going to a real opening”: Ibid.
[>] Fosse made a pass at almost every nurse: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”
[>] Outside his door, the ICU nurses held: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “Bob, are you smoking?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] “We sure picked the right subject”: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 324.
THIRTEEN YEARS
[>] America had become a showbiz nation: Ambitious scholars take note: bridging 1970s disenchantment culture with the rise of our current (perhaps ancient) showbiz reality is a subject that deserves its own book. In the meantime, I took them piecemeal. For a fine survey of the 1970s, see Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (New York: Free Press, 2001). For fine surveys of showbiz culture, see Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin, 1985), and Neil Gabler, Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (New York: Knopf, 1998). Or just watch Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (1983) and Weir’s The Truman Show (1998). Their prescience is delightful and terrifying.
[>] “We all have to put on”: Bob Fosse, May 18, 1986, interview with Kevin Boyd Grubb, LOC, audiocassette.
[>] “The 70s was the decade in which”: Norman Mailer, “Mailer on the ’70s—Decade of ‘Image, Skin Flicks, and Porn,’” U.S. News and World Report, December 10, 1979.
[>] “Bob took me to Patsy’s for dinner”: Deborah Geffner, interview with the author, October 1, 2010.
[>] “Young choreographers”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “It was spy versus spy”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] “I remember when I walked into”: Donna McKechnie, interview with the author, October 14, 2010.
[>] They had him on an ice mattress and following: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “There is this profound period”: Nancy Bird, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.
[>] “It is a little difficult to, you know”: Bob Fosse, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, NBC, January 31, 1980.
[>] He got sentimental one night: Paul Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes,” New York, December 16, 1974.
[>] Chayefsky promised Bob that if Bob died first: Roderick Mann, “Bob Fosse—Writing ‘Star 80’ Was Easy, Filming It Wasn’t,” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1983.
[>] Actor John McMartin called in the middle: John McMartin, interview with the author, November 8, 2010.
[>] The Pippin cast took up a collection: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.
[>] Garson Kanin sent a book: Book referenced in miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 47B.
[>] Valerie Perrine sent a life-size: Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.
[>] Dustin sent zinnias: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”
[>] “How long has it been since you’ve”: Joyce Haber, “A Possible Dream for Rod McKuen,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1974.
[>] “Tony”: All That Jazz, Tony Walton interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] Wolfgang Glattes saw someone: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] Nurses unplugged it: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”
[>] Student nurse Kathy Zappola and following: All That Jazz, Kathy Zappola interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] There were fights: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 327. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.
[>] “The hospital staff didn’t know who”: Ibid., 329.
[>] Gwen had to disguise Nicole: All That Jazz, Gwen Verdon interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] he looked to her more like a machine: All That Jazz, Nicole Fosse interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] bust pads: Ibid.
[>] As Gwen looked on, Nicole put his heart: All That Jazz, Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.
[>] Long after she left, his mind was still: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] Being in the hospital was starting to do weird things: Ibid.
[>] regrets lined up: Scott Hornstein, “The Making of Lenny: An Interview with Bob Fosse,” Filmmakers Newsletter, February 1975.
[>] making quiet, shaky love to Ann Reinking and following: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] nuns danced: “Bob Fosse,” The Dick Cavett Show, PBS, July 8, 1980.
[>] “I had a strange dream”: Shirley MacLaine, My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir (New York: Bantam, 1995), 186.
[>] He was discharged on December 10, 1974: Tom Buckley, “Ann Reinking Plays Herself in ‘All That Jazz,’” New York Times, January 4, 1980.
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sp; [>] she in her back brace and he: Ibid.
[>] Fosse quit smoking: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] Gwen threw a Christmas party: Jan Hodenfield, “Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera: 2 from the Chorus,” New York Post, May 31, 1975.
[>] at Herb Gardner’s party, he got drunk: Bob Fosse and Robert Alan Aurthur, interview with Dr. Joe Wilder, August 26, 1975, LOC, box 14B.
[>] “Can you get me some Dexies?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] He took off for Palm Desert, and then: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,” Daily Variety, January 14, 1975.
[>] “Bob looked terrible” and following: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
[>] He explained to Welch that: Raquel Welch, interview with the author, May 9, 2012.
406 At three o’clock that morning, Emanuel and following: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.
TWELVE YEARS
[>] “After the heart attack, he was getting”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] “Hal offered in the spirit of”: Ira Bernstein, interview with the author, May 17, 2011.
[>] he wondered if they wondered if he: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] “He got winded”: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.
[>] “That will hold,” he would say: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.
[>] “It got creepy”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] “You want me to tell Bob Fosse”: Ibid.
[>] “I’m not sure he even wanted to be there”: Cheryl Clark, interview with the author, April 19, 2011.
[>] “treat this section like an E. E. Cummings poem”: Ibid.
[>] “Bobby doesn’t know how he wants” and following: Richard Korthaze, interview with the author, March 24, 2011.
[>] “Their love was reinitiated in the”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] “They were having a difficult time”: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.
[>] If everyone runs out on Roxie, Verdon argued: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.