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[>] “It was all too big for him”: Ibid.
[>] “I somehow identified with him”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,” Rolling Stone, January 19, 1984.
[>] underlining gruesome specifics in red pen: Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten autopsy report, case number 658824, filed August 25, 1980, Los Angeles Superior Court.
[>] Teresa Carpenter led Fosse to public documents: Teresa Carpenter/Bob Fosse correspondence, LOC, box 31C.
[>] It came easier than expected: Mann, “Bob Fosse—Writing ‘Star 80’ Was Easy.”
[>] “You don’t need another writer”: Ibid.
[>] “What are you going to do about anything?” and following: Ronald Davis Oral History October 17, 1979, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library.
[>] Paddy was back in the hospital with pleurisy: Shaun Considine, Mad as Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefsky (New York: Random House, 1995), 392.
[>] Herb’s Christmas dinner party, an epic and following: Pamela Larsson-Toscher, interview with the author, February 14, 2011.
[>] I don’t have the answers, he would say: Miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 47A.
[>] Fosse took over a corner of the River Café and following: Considine, Mad as Hell, 393.
[>] “It was a very funny situation”: Ibid.
[>] “So people can come in and”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.
[>] “the first time a work of such scope”: Lee Margulies, “‘Pippin’ to Bypass Normal Channels, Due on Pay TV,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1981.
[>] Fosse rushed to the phone a day before: David Sheehan, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.
[>] Sheehan sent a jet to Quogue: Ibid.
[>] The weekend Roy and Cynthia Scheider came and following: Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.
[>] Paddy would fake bad death scenes and following: Considine, Mad as Hell, 395.
[>] “He wasn’t conscious”: Ibid., 396.
[>] “Are you okay?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] An estimated five hundred people came: Herbert Mitgang, “Chayefsky Praised for Passion in Exposing Life’s Injustices,” New York Times, August 5, 1981.
[>] “I kept looking for Bob before”: Lionel Larner, interview with the author, January 25, 2012.
[>] when Mr. Weaver died: Charles Grass, interview with the author, September 4, 2012.
[>] “Then I saw him”: Lionel Larner, interview with the author, January 25, 2012.
[>] “the corrupt and lunatic energies”: Mitgang, “Chayefsky Praised for Passion.”
[>] “When his turn came”: James Lipton, Inside Inside (New York: Dutton, 2007), 150.
[>] “As most of you know, Paddy and I”: Ibid., 150–51. See also “Soft-Shoe Tribute at a Playwright’s Funeral: Chayefsky Mourned with Laughter and Dance,” Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1981.
[>] “It was a very quiet dance for about”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] Fosse had drifted from the circle to: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 406.
SIX YEARS
[>] he didn’t want to see: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 409. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.
[>] “Whatever he wanted to do”: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.
[>] “On those occasions”: Ibid.
[>] back-and-forths of rights and releases hobbled: Rosenfeld, Meyer and Susman/Jay Kanter correspondence, August 31, 1981, LOC, box 31B.
[>] Fosse was also required to provide documentation: Ibid.
[>] He reluctantly agreed to use close-ups: Bob Fosse/Jay Kanter correspondence, October 27, 1981, LOC, box 31B.
[>] sending him tapes, which Fosse flatly hated: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “You’re cutting off the feet!” and following: David Sheehan, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.
[>] “foolishly butchered version of the show”: Bob Fosse/Pippin cast correspondence, November 23, 1981, collection of Kathryn Doby.
[>] Mariel Hemingway, a Cohn client, was desperate to: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] Cohn encouraged Fosse to give her a shot: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.
[>] He liked Melanie Griffith: Ibid.
[>] “You must read me”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] Hemingway turned up in New York: Ibid.
[>] But breast size was a problem: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.
[>] Instinct told Hemingway this exchange was and following: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] The studio answered with Richard Gere: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.
[>] “That fucked him up”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] Sam Shepard came to his audition and following: Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.
[>] Eric Roberts fielded Fosse’s interview questions and following: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.
[>] “He gave me everything”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] “I’m going to die in one of these places”: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 412.
[>] “On Star 80 he was just impossible” and following: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “He had this incredible ability”: Lynne Carrow, interview with the author, December 10, 2010.
[>] Fosse scouted Vancouver in a fifteen-passenger: David Rose, interview with the author, December 10, 2010.
[>] “Bob,” he asked: Ibid.
[>] He had met her at a Westhampton Beach bar: Gottfried, All His Jazz, 414.
[>] Fosse gave her a job working for Alan Heim: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] In the meantime, back in New York, they: Ken Laub, interview with the author, February 13, 2012.
[>] “I’m going to go out there”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
FIVE YEARS
[>] gave only a few notes, and left before and following: Brett Raphael, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.
[>] “This piece is dressed and lit”: Mindy Aloff, untitled copy, September 27, 1982.
[>] Glattes took charge of screen tests in LA: Bob Fosse/Wolfgang Glattes correspondence, April 2, 1982, LOC, box 35A.
[>] “We have to use the same carpet”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “It was like none of his successes”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] Fosse insisted every bookcase on their: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.
[>] “It was just a movie”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] Fosse had the crew dress Snider’s former and following: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.
[>] Each “room” marked off on the floor: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.
[>] “Start the movie”: Tony Gittelson, interview with the author, November 19, 2010.
[>] “It was all choreographed”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] “It was so painful to work on”: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.
[>] “Cis,” he said and following: Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.
[>] “It was like sounds were too loud”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] One day he angrily cleared the set, only: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.
[>] “I’d say, ‘Hey, Bob’”: Lynne Carrow, interview with the author, December 10, 2010.
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nbsp; [>] “Everyone was all over him about”: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.
[>] Dorothy’s sister Louise sent Fosse: Louise Hoogstraten/Bob Fosse correspondence, LOC, box 35A.
[>] Fosse professed to be overcome with guilt: Bob Fosse/Louise Hoogstraten correspondence, LOC, box 35A.
[>] “I’m living in a world where nobody”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
[>] He regularly placed a rose bouquet: Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.
[>] “He’s going to do it”: Cliff Robertson, interview with the author, September 28, 2010.
[>] “He lied about everything”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] He appeared in the production office in: Grace Blake, interview with the author, May 10, 2011.
[>] “Eric was so volatile”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.
[>] Without warning, Fosse would show up: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.
[>] Fosse asked him to remove the protective: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] “[Roberts] got so into it”: Tom Hinckley and Kevin Gault, “Bob Fosse,” Cable Guide, November 1984.
[>] “What the fuck is wrong with you?” and following: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.
[>] “We were all afraid of it”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] To the music of Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration: Michael Blowen, “Will Gritty ‘Star 80’ Glitter at the Box Office?,” Boston Globe, November 6, 1983.
[>] “It was ballet”: Tony Gittelson, interview with the author, November 19, 2010.
[>] Fosse talked them through every movement: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.
[>] factions of the crew actually placed bets: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.
[>] Roberts broke into Cis Rundle’s house and following: Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.
[>] “We didn’t butt heads”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “I tried to make it like a musical”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,” Rolling Stone, January 19, 1984.
[>] “It’s just possible that the Broadway musical”: Frank Rich, “Where Are the New Musicals?,” New York Times, July 12, 1981.
[>] “There is not the same kind of intelligence”: Margaret Croyden, “The Box-Office Boom,” New York Times, May 10, 1981.
[>] The summer of 1980 was Broadway’s biggest ever: Ibid.
[>] “I see shows having more special effects”: Linda Winer, “Shade of Bob Fosse Raised by ‘Chicago,’” Newsday, November 22, 1996.
[>] “I think he felt like that victory”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.
[>] Some nights, after leaving and following: Martin Gottfried, All His Jazz (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 421. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.
[>] “tell me about Paddy”: Ibid.
[>] Fosse asked Reinking to marry him and following: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
FOUR YEARS
[>] “It was about fumblers trying”: Leslie Bennetts, “Bob Fosse—Dancing with Danger,” New York Times, April 6, 1986.
[>] maybe Peter Allen would do the songs and: Miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 8B.
[>] The afternoon Michael Jackson and following: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] He stayed up nights calling his advisers: Nancy Griffin, “The ‘Thriller Diaries,’” Vanity Fair, July 2010.
[>] they decided to try “Thriller”: Ibid.
[>] “You’ve changed the face of dance”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] “because he’s so fast”: Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.
[>] he had amassed a complete collection: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.
[>] Jackson asked to speak with Fosse alone: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.
[>] “I’ll see you at the apartment”: Ibid.
[>] “the whole front row walked out”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] But Fosse didn’t make any significant changes: Ibid.
[>] “I was not thinking”: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.
[>] refusing to part with or even trim and following: Rick Shaine, interview with the author, July 11, 2012.
[>] “If you’ve turned to writing”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] They settled on three rules: Ibid.
[>] “All I wanted to master was that dance”: Pete Hamill, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] Doctorow found a package at his front door: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] Real writers, Fosse told Peter Maas: Peter Maas, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
[>] “Living his entire life in show business”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] Fosse gave Star 80’s benefit premiere as: Fred Ferretti, “The Evening Hours,” New York Times, March 1, 1985.
[>] “Constant rejection can be devastating”: Ibid.
[>] Schickel, Siskel: Richard Schickel, “A Centerfold Tragedy of Manners,” Time, November 14, 1983; “The Best of 1983,” At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, Tribune Entertainment, 1983.
[>] “Fosse has served up a smorgasbord”: Andrew Sarris, “The Pimp and the Simp,” Village Voice, November 15, 1983.
[>] “Fosse must believe that he can make”: Pauline Kael, “The Perfectionist,” New Yorker, November 28, 1983.
[>] “He took to the woods”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.
[>] “He really thought he was going to win”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.
[>] “I didn’t work for years after that”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.
[>] “I found it very strange”: Teresa Carpenter, interview with the author, July 23, 2010.
[>] “You really understood this”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.
THREE YEARS
[>] he exchanged for a plain brown home: Jay Sears, interview with the author, February 16, 2012.
[>] He paneled the garage with mirrors: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.
[>] “It’s painful for me to go”: R. E. Krieger, “People in the News,” Hartford Courant, January 4, 1984.
[>] Contentious and expansive, Budd was: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.
[>] “For some reason when you get older”: Tom Hinckley and Kevin Gault, “Bob Fosse,” Cable Guide, November 1984.
[>] He found a mangled stray cat: Pete Hamill, “Fosse,” Piecework (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996).
[>] He called Doctorow in the middle of the night: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] “It’s generally tough”: Hinckley and Gault, “Bob Fosse.”
[>] “I saw it”: Bruce Jay Friedman, interview with the author, August 20, 2012.
[>] Cohn never made his clients sign and following: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.
[>] “Sam would lecture”: Sigourney Weaver, interview with the author, August 19, 2012.
[>] “He couldn’t believe”: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.
[>] Chayefsky was among: Tom Bierbaum, “ATAS Inducts Seven into Hall of Fame,” Daily Variety, January 23, 1984.
[>] “This is a
very fickle business”: Shaun Considine, Mad as Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefsky (New York: Random House, 1995), 399.
[>] he threw the Doctorows a dinner party and following: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] “He actually interrogated my parents”: Deborah Geffner, interview with the author, October 1, 2010.
[>] “He was the ultimate host”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.
[>] He put out cigarettes, and when: Ibid.
[>] “Come on, we’re going to do”: Ibid.
[>] Bob and Phoebe met at one of Doctorow’s garden parties and following: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.
TWO YEARS
[>] establish a theatrical scholarship: “Fosse Leaves Money for Scholarship, Friends Dinner,” Associated Press, October 3, 1987.
[>] Budgeted at five million and paid for: Carol Ilson, Harold Prince: A Director’s Journey (New York: Limelight, 2000), 328.
[>] One of the Shuberts, Bernie Jacobs, eased Prince: Ibid., 332.
[>] “It became for me the most painful”: Ibid.
[>] “Bob didn’t throw out the choreography”: Valarie Pettiford, interview with the author, February 2, 2011.
[>] “Mike, do you think we have”: Mike Berkowitz, interview with the author, March 1, 2011.
[>] “The interlude gives rueful life”: Frank Rich, “Stage: ‘Grind,’ from Harold Prince,” New York Times, April 17, 1985.
[>] Big Deal, he said to Vereen: Ben Vereen, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.
[>] in three minutes, and over the phone: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.
[>] “the worst migraine you’ve had” and following: Samuel G. Freedman, “How an Uneasy Alliance Helps Shape Broadway,” New York Times, April 1, 1984.
[>] “He knew there was never going”: Gordon Harrell, interview with the author, February 23, 2011.
[>] Fosse’s bank statements had lost a certain something: Ibid.
[>] “Gwen had a photographic memory”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.