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by Wasson, Sam


  [>] “Fosse knows his limitations”: Arlene Croce, “Broadway Downbeat,” New Yorker, April 24, 1978.

  [>] Fosse called Ann Reinking from Payne Whitney and following: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

  [>] “You can’t kill love”: Ibid.

  [>] Removing sex only nurtured the friendship: Ibid.

  [>] “You can’t live without trust”: Ibid.

  NINE YEARS

  [>] “I want you to do the Gwen” and following: Linda Posner (Leland Palmer), interview with the author, July 23, 2010.

  [>] Reinking he made audition for: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] Fosse ran hundreds of girls: Jennifer Dunning, “Serene Young Hoofer of ‘All That Jazz,’” New York Times, January 11, 1980.

  [>] “You’re not going to read a hundred”: Larry Mark, interview with the author, September 17, 2010.

  [>] Erzsebet Foldi, a twelve-year-old student: Erzsebet Foldi, interview with the author, January 26, 2011.

  [>] “Will you light my cigarette?”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

  [>]“You got the job”: Ibid.

  [>] He suspected Dreyfuss was talking to: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

  [>] “In my test, they were fighting”: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

  [>]“I can’t get up there with”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of All That Jazz.

  [>] “I don’t think I want to do”: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] Then Aurthur told Fosse and following: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 374. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

  [>] Alan Bates?: All That Jazz casting correspondence, LOC, box 48A.

  [>] “I told him all of the silly, wild” and following: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] Shutting down, the crew took: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] Often, Scheider would follow Fosse: Ibid.

  [>] “Roy was so committed”: Don Rebic, interview with the author, February 28, 2011.

  [>] Fosse worked on Scheider’s cough: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] “People were dropping like flies”: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

  [>] Wayne Cilento pulled his hamstring: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

  [>] Gail Benedict took a spill: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

  [>] Colby had consented to swing: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

  [>] “[Dancer] Jill Cook would stand”: Ibid.

  [>] “Any dancer that lasted more”: Allen Herman, interview with the author, March 3, 2011.

  [>] “It was a free-for-all”: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

  [>] “I had to drag myself up the railing”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

  [>] Those days, a masseur came: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

  [>] “once more, kids, do it once more”: Eileen Casey, interview with the author, January 31, 2011.

  [>] intended to soften Gideon, as per: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of All That Jazz.

  [>] “What do you think Joe would say” and following: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] “Bobby would talk to him throughout”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

  [>] He dispatched five cameras to scavenge: Betty Spence, “Bob Fosse—He’ll Take the Risks,” Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1981.

  [>] ended up taking seven: Ibid.

  [>] “I’m going to do in fifteen minutes”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

  [>] but was basically excluded: Ibid.

  [>] “Bob dropped him”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] The biting pain in Aurthur’s side persisted: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 381.

  [>] “He thought Fosse was killing him”: Murray Schisgal, interview with the author, September 24, 2012.

  [>] strategy meetings with Melnick and following: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 381.

  [>] “If I die before Fosse”: Paul Rosenfield, “Long, Winding Road of ‘Jazz,’” Los Angeles Times, January 6, 1980.

  [>] Fosse finally visited Aurthur: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 381.

  [>] he got the news: Ibid.

  [>] “[producer] Kenny Utt came in”: Jerry Jaffe, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

  [>] Per Aurthur’s will, a memorial party: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 382.

  [>] “Who’s going to do yours?”: Ibid.

  [>] “With each movie he got”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] “Fosse had nobody looking out for him”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] “Wolf and Kathryn were his caretakers”: Ibid.

  [>] “His favorite was the hip operation”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] “What is it like if you’ve been through”: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] “I was surprised” and following: Nancy Bird, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

  [>] “I’d say more than fifty percent of”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

  [>] Cast and crew buses left Columbus Circle: Jerry Jaffe, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

  [>] “At seven o’clock”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] “Dailies are for work, not for popcorn”: Ibid.

  [>] “Peppino, what would Fellini do here?”: Bob Fosse/Federico Fellini correspondence, May 15, 1981, LOC, box 49A.

  [>] “No one was even allowed to laugh”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] shooting ratios of twenty to one: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] “It made it difficult to move”: Ibid.

  [>] “At times, Alan felt like he was”: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

  [>] “a process of slowly waking up” and following: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

  [>] “There’s no dress rehearsal for life” and following: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

  [>] mostly unchanged since the forties: “Billion Dollar Backlot,” All That Jazz press release, Twentieth Century Fox.

  [>] Danny Ruvolo, originally cast in the part: “Danny Ruvolo, 22, in Car Crash; Danced in ‘Chorus Line,’ ‘Rex,’” New York Times, November 22, 1978.

  [>] he was incredibly nervous the day of the shoot and following: Keith Gordon interview, http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/feature-articles/keith_gordon/.

  [>] “That’s exactly what it was like”: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

  [>] “What’s going on here?”: Christopher Newman, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

  [>] “Hey, could you do this role” and following: John Lithgow, interview with the author, August 9, 2010.

  [>] There was no time to skip shooting: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] “This was Friday night” and following: Cheryl Clark, interview with the author, April 19, 2011.

  [>] Fosse called Sandahl Bergman and following: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

  [>] vowing to an incredulous Albert Wolsky that each would: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

  [>] “I’d like to call up Danny Melnick” and following: Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

  [>] “Columbia was kind of”: Frank Price, interview with the author, February 26,
2013.

  [>] “By the time the [All That Jazz] budget reached”: Rosenfield, “Long, Winding Road of ‘Jazz.’”

  [>] “We can’t have this thing going up”: Frank Price, interview with the author, February 26, 2013.

  [>] This was seven days: Rosenfield, “Long, Winding Road of ‘Jazz.’”

  [>] “I thought Bobby was going to”: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] Assemble the picture: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,” American Film, November 1979.

  [>] “Are we supposed to stop production”: Ibid.

  [>] “Excuse me for a second” and following: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of All That Jazz.

  [>] “Dan Melnick called” and following: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] drove directly to Alan Ladd Jr. and following: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

  [>] “You’re out of the picture”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of All That Jazz.

  [>] Who got which was decided by: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

  [>] had to work as the final number: Vincent LoBrutto, By Design: Interviews with Production Designers (New York: Praeger, 1992), 126–27.

  [>] sent Walton and Phil Rosenberg back to: Ibid.

  [>] “It was getting quite frightening”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of All That Jazz.

  [>] In came yards and yards of: LoBrutto, By Design, 126.

  [>] Crouched behind the bleachers: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] Peppino, taking Fosse’s quiet to mean: Ibid.

  [>] “Where’s Peppino?”: Ibid.

  [>] “Peppino was a gentleman”: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

  [>] Peppino and Lovett admired an entombed: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] “That’s the same shot”: Ibid.

  [>] The incarcerated dubbed themselves Prisoners and following: John Lithgow, interview with the author, August 9, 2010.

  [>] Doby advocated for replacements and following: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] Albert Wolsky put a rush on their costumes: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

  [>] “Bob started changing things”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] “Fifteen days”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] “It was the hardest physical thing” and following: Roy Scheider, All That Jazz DVD commentary.

  [>] “Maybe somebody will say”: Leslie Bennetts, “Bob Fosse—Dancing with Danger,” New York Times, April 6, 1986.

  [>] “You know, that must be kind of exhilarating” and following: Roy Scheider, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

  EIGHT YEARS

  [>] Aside from the pirouettes and following: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

  [>] “It was a life”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] “It wasn’t the movie’s fault”: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

  [>] “The set dresser [Phil Rosenberg] had”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] “All those years and all that work”: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,” American Film, November 1979.

  [>] “I just want to run through”: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

  [>] “He would make small talk”: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

  [>] “I still have one artery partially clogged”: Martin Burden, “Fosse Lights Up,” New York Post, November 14, 1979.

  [>] “If you stay on the beat”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] “Gwen was trying to make it”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

  [>] “That’s not how we used to do”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

  [>] “Gwen was obviously territorial”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

  [>] Fosse attributed partially to discomania: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

  [>] “I’d want to see your quick changes”: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 6, 2011.

  [>] “When I film the section when Charles”: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

  [>] “I’d never do that to a dancer again”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

  [>] “That put the fear of God in us” and following: Bill Hastings, interview with the author, January 8, 2011.

  [>] “He got introverted when he was”: John Sowinski, interview with the author, February 1, 2011.

  [>] “Normally, we’d be relaxed”: Bill Hastings, interview with the author, January 8, 2011.

  [>] “There’s a section” and following: Michael Tronick, interview with the author, March 22, 2011.

  [>] “He wanted to be the victim”: Greg Lawrence, Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz (New York: Faber and Faber, 2003), 122.

  [>] “It was all about Bobby pretending”: Ibid., 120.

  [>] “When I saw it, I was devastated”: Gordon Harrell, interview with the author, February 23, 2011.

  [>] “What do you think?”: Ben Vereen, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

  [>] “He felt guilty about some of” and following: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

  [>] A private screening for Gwen, Nicole and following: Chris Chase, “Fosse’s Ego Trip,” Life, November 1979.

  [>] “I can’t walk into one of those”: Ibid.

  [>] “Bobby had this boyish charm and enthusiasm”: Sherry Lansing, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] a math teacher before she became: Aljean Harmetz, “Sherry Lansing, Former Model, Named Head of Fox Productions,” New York Times, January 2, 1980.

  [>] “Bob’s in the bathroom” and following: Sherry Lansing, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  [>] “I really think Bob Fosse thought”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] turned on the TV and disappeared again and following: Chase, “Fosse’s Ego Trip.”

  [>] “Julie seemed depressed”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

  [>] While Janice Lynde was in town and following: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

  [>] “Tragic,” he replied: NewsCenter 4, NBC, February 28, 1980.

  [>] “Of all the shows you’ve done”: David Sheehan, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.

  [>] got a standing ovation and following: Sherry Lansing, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

  SEVEN YEARS

  [>] “Gwen was careful with her” and following: Chris Chase, “Fosse’s Ego Trip,” Life, November 1979.

  [>] “That’s the future”: All That Jazz, Clifford Sager interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

  [>] On weekends, they drove out to Quogue and following: Nicole Fosse interview, Dance in America, WNET archives, September 6, 1989.

  [>] He considered, again, doing a full ballet: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,” Daily Variety, December 21, 1979.

  [>] Atlantic City, Cy Coleman’s idea: Carol Lawson, “Broadway,” New York Times, January 11, 1980.

  [>] interest from Liza Minnelli and Goldie Hawn: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 351.

  [>] “Besides”: Kenneth L. Geist, “Fosse Reflects on Fosse,” After Dark, February 1980.

  [>] “the need for attention”: Bob Fosse/Clifford Sager correspondence June 2, 1980, LOC, box 48B.

  [>] Fosse met with writer Jack Hei
fner and following: Jack Heifner, interview with the author, June 25, 2012.

  [>] Fosse and Sam Cohn invested in the Laundry and following: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.

  [>] “Bob always needed to be around writers” and following: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

  [>] Lunches consisted of big bowls: Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

  [>] “I didn’t buy Bobby’s dark-guy thing”: Ibid.

  [>] Fosse was in the Winter Garden opening night: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

  [>] Merrick, they had been told, would have: Marie Brenner, “Like No Business I Know,” New York, September 8, 1980.

  [>] “I’m sorry to have to report”: Cliff Jahr, “‘42nd Street’ Log—the Making of a Hit,” New York Times, September 7, 1980.

  [>] No one but the family: John Anthony Gilvey, Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005), 297.

  [>] Jammed that night with the likes of Fosse: Brenner, “Like No Business I Know.”

  [>] “There were so many rumors that”: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

  [>] “That night my sons told me”: Marge Champion, interview with the author, August 24, 2011.

  [>] “That son of a bitch”: Lee Roy Reams, Theater Production Workshop Dialogue Series Features Sweet Charity, Marymount Manhattan College, March 15, 2011.

  [>] “Why would I do that?”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

  [>] That summer, Fosse wrote to him and following: Bob Fosse/Jerome Robbins correspondence, July 25, 1980, Jerome Robbins Papers, box 507, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the New York Library for the Performing Arts.

  [>] Reading, at Paddy’s suggestion: Roderick Mann, “Bob Fosse—Writing ‘Star 80’ Was Easy, Filming It Wasn’t,” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1983.

  [>] Stratten reminded him of his younger self: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

  [>] “That girl could make me a lot of money”: Teresa Carpenter, “Death of a Playmate,” Village Voice, November 5, 1980.

 

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