by Marion Meade
"I’ll never forgive her": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 116.
"the smartest of all": Jack Victor interview.
"It was only when": Newsweek, 4/24/78.
"I never set out": New York Sunday News, 2/2/64.
"The simple fundamentals": New York Times Magazine, 11/3/63.
"an exaggerated version": Jack Victor interview.
"Gradually, the character": New York World-Telegram & Sun, 11/7/63.
"Not only did they": "Down South," Monologue (Capitol, 1968).
"I was hunting": "The Moose," Monologue (Colpix, 1965).
"It must have been 1963": Helen Gurley Brown interview with MM.
"a Chaplin-esque victim": New York Times, 11/5/62.
"by far my most satisfying": Rogers E. M. Whitaker and Tony Hiss, All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo, Kodansha, 1997.
"seem normal to me": New York Times Magazine, 11/3/63.
"Leaving when she did": Jack Victor interview.
"really a great experience": New York Daily News, 2/2/64.
"a weird woman": All Harlene one-liners cited in Harlene Allen (aka Konigsberg) v.
National Broadcasting Co., NY SupCt, Index No. 5376/67.
"the jokes were funny": Jack Victor interview.
"Why don't you": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 94.
CHAPTER 4: What's New, Pussycat?
"I go up on stage": University Review, 11/72.
"a wallflower": Newsday, 7/10/64.
"What the hell": Ibid.
"what my wife": Coliseum, 2/16/67.
"If her husband": "Private Life," Monologue (Colpix, 1964).
"Attitudes like yours": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 189.
"respond nastily": Dick Cavett Show, 10/4/77.
"for six, seven months": Crawdaddy, 12/73.
"Don't do that": Ibid.
"a Greek widow": Confidential source.
"That is soo funny": Stephen Silverman interview with MM.
"a wonderful side": Laurie Zaks interview with MM.
"To know Woody": Peter Tauber interview with MM.
"closest friend": Rolling Stone, 9/16/93.
"the person you want": New York Times, 6/1/98.
"He's very lucky": Stephen Silverman interview.
"Would you accept": "Question and Answer Session," Monologue (Capital, 1968).
"just the throw of the dice": Spin, 1/98.
"the struggles": Diane Jacobs, . . . But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen, St. Martin's Press, 1982, p. 3.
"do something": University Review, 11/72.
"I hate rock": Cosmopolitan, 9/74.
"Do you know": New York Post, 8/19/72.
On a wintry night: In Premiere magazine, 1/92, Warren Beatty recalled that he was Feldman's companion at the Blue Angel. According to Eric Lax, Feldman was with Beatty's sister, Shirley MacLaine.
"a ride I couldn't": Holiday, 5/69.
"Not very much": What's New, Pussycat?, unpublished screenplay.
"They just killed it": Cinema, Winter 1972-1973.
"fuck off": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 215.
"It would only bother": New York Morning Telegraph, 6/28/65.
"unless I had complete": Cinema, Winter 1972-1973.
"a shrieking, reeking": New York Herald Tribune, 6/23/65.
"It was a delightful": Judith Crist interview with MM.
“probably reads hilariously": The New Republic, 7/10/65.
“a more tasteful sex comedy": Village Voice, 7/8/65.
"a terrific stand-up": Andrew Sarris interview with MM.
"one of the funniest movies": Village Voice, 12/8/66.
"a handbook": Media and Methods, 12/77.
"He was very loyal": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 66.
"WOODY ALLEN at various": Harlene Allen (aka Konigsberg) v. National Broadcasting Co.
"If I were to close": The New Yorker, 12/9/96.
"Many things about him": Mia Farrow interview with Hello! magazine, quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/29/92.
"Every day I raced": New York magazine, 4/5/93.
"He's dependable": Newsweek, 4/24/78.
"Life is difficult": Ibid.
"We both decided": New York Post, 11/15/80.
"we went down": New York Daily News, 3/18/67.
"Whose party is this?": New York Post, 11/18/67.
"he keeps shooting": Ibid.
"I'm bringing 500 mice": Ibid.
"crazy as a loon": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 170.
"finicky and touchy": New York Times, 9/22/68.
"Hiya, Louise": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 126.
"the story and staging": Variety, 10/5/66.
"a terrible play": Media and Methods, 12/77.
"every 20 minutes": New York Times, 10/19/80.
"She was once a nobody": Norma Lee Clark, Lady Jane, Fawcett, 1984, jacket copy.
"This is a good piece": Chicago Tribune, 9/24/78.
"hallowed ground": Paris Review, Fall 1995.
"obvious he could write": Roger Angell interview with MM.
"The insults and exaggeration": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 9/29/65.
"This is very funny": Roger Angell interview.
"In many ways": Roger Angell interview.
"Mr. Shawn is delighted": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 4/26/66.
"regarded Woody as a gift": Roger Angell interview.
Publication in The New Yorker: Woody's sixty comic literary pieces from The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines are collected in three volumes: Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975), and Side Effects (1980).
"Shall we begin?": "The Whore of Mensa," The New Yorker, 12/16/74, reprinted in Without Feathers.
"When he turned somber": Roger Angell interview.
"little souffles": The New Yorker, 12/9/96.
"guys like S. J. Perelman": Saturday Review, 6/86.
"Sorry to let you down": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 7/10/79.
"almost every sentence": Roger Angell to Woody Allen, 12/16/76.
"I kid my ex-wife": "What's New, Pussycat?" Monologue (Colpix, 1965).
"while holding me": Harlene Allen (aka Konigsberg) v. National Broadcasting Co.
"So you thought": New York World Journal Tribune, 3/21/67.
"statements attributing to me": Harlene Allen v. National Broadcasting Co.
"settle for half": New York Post, 5/19/71.
"But I'm not a comedian": William F. Buckley, Jr., interview with MM.
"For God's sake": Groucho Marx to Woody Allen, 3/22/67.
CHAPTER 5: The "Coatcheck Girl"
"hadn't seen a woman": Dick Cavett Show, 9/69.
"The way I look at it": Press release, Palomar Pictures, 1969.
"Can you come": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 20.
"That's the worst problem": Cosmopolitan, 9/74.
"a great honor": Jerry Lewis quotation relayed to MM by Joe Stabile.
"Woody, I spend": Shawn Levy, King of Comedy. The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis. St. Martins Press, 1997, p. 340.
"Please put $50,000": Take the Money and Run, unpublished screenplay.
"I'm sorry": The Realist, 4/65.
"In prison the psychiatrist": Take the Money and Run.
"I don't like": New York Times, 1/2/98.
"little personal, honest films": Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Simon & Schuster, 1998, p. 75.
"the master of coitus interruptus": Take One, 12/73.
"a bad case": The New Republic, 1/19/98.
"a frantic amateur": The New Republic, 10/4/93.
"very unusual": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, pp. 242-244.
"He asked to see": Davida Rosenblum interview with MM.
"one of the most": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 246.
"didn't matter too much": Ibid., p. 248.
"a silly symphony": Newsweek, 8/25/69.
"the cinematic equivalent": New York Times, 8/19/69.
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"more of a personal kick": Jacobs,... But We Need the Eggs, p. 51.
"the results ought to be": Newsweek, 8/25/69.
"It was like being": Rolling Stone, 6/30/77.
“She was a Broadway star": Time, 9/26/77.
"Oh, God": Vanity Fair, 11/95.
"I'd seen him on television": Rolling Stone, 6/3/77.
"very charming": Ibid.
"the Sandy Dennis Prize": National Review, 10/13/78.
"She was the type": Rolling Stone, 6/3/77.
"When I first met her": Time, 9/26/77.
"a coatcheck girl": New York Times, 8/15/93.
"It was the easiest job": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 48.
"What's happening": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 132.
"good time": Ibid., p. 134.
"protest against": Family Circle, 8/74.
"That's Diane's drawer": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 147.
"ten blocks": Holiday, 5/69.
"grave reservations": Confidential source.
"Are you Woody Allen?": Confidential source.
"fantasies and inner life": Architectural Digest, 11-12/72.
"I don't understand": McKnight, Woody Allen, p. 125.
"The inequality of my relationship": New York Daily News, 12/26/97.
"a trace of intellectualism": Time, 4/30/79.
"a real hayseed": McCall's, 11/79.
CHAPTER 6: The Medici
"Who's she looking for": Bananas, unpublished screenplay, 1971.
"Arthur was very much": Eric Pleskow interview with MM.
"when he is good": New York Times, 4/29/71.
"the rocks of his acting": The New Republic, 5/22/71.
"on-the-job training": Stanley Kauffmann interview with MM.
"That wasn't the point": Confidential source.
"Arthur was not a self-made man": Judy Feiffer interview with MM.
"Woody was the emotional son": Confidential source.
"a nice, simple": Chicago Tribune Magazine, 5/15/77.
"I have absolute control": Cinema, Winter 1972-1973.
"Had there been no Arthur": Steven Bach interview with MM.
"sui generis": Stanley Kauffmann interview.
"Sometimes I felt like": Eric Pleskow interview.
"He knew how": Steven Bach interview.
"carte blanche": Confidential source.
"an intelligent young man": Eric Pleskow interview.
"humor, charm": Dr. David Reuben, e-mail, 10/8/96.
"It's hard to believe": Sleeper, unpublished manuscript.
"I'm taller": New York Times, 7/3/77.
"tension pervaded": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 260.
"informally between shows": Vincent Canby interview with MM.
"a limply, good-natured": The New Yorker, 10/4/69.
"a beautiful little piece": The New Yorker, 12/31/73.
"beyond belief": Andrew Sarris interview.
"like a setter's ears": The New Yorker, 2/2/74.
"a touch of the surreal": Ved Mehta, Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Overlook Press, 1998, p. 283.
"two dreadful little boys": Vincent Canby interview.
"He's made his lunacy work": Walter Bernstein interview.
"one emotionally charged moment": Cosmopolitan, 9/74.
"Underneath": Confidential source.
"I'm disciplined": Esquire, 5/77.
"If he took three": Vincent Canby interview.
"What happened": Eric Pleskow interview. Elements of the discarded mystery wound up in the first cut of Annie Hall and later as the plot of Manhattan Murder Mystery.
"Krim was one": Steven Bach interview.
"an exceptional animal": Eric Pleskow interview.
"going for the character": New York magazine, 7/16/75.
"most shapely": The New Yorker, 6/16/75.
"Woody's War and Peace": New York Times, 6/11/75.
"in the right place": The New Republic, 7/12/75.
"What about the kid?": Walter Bernstein interview.
"expresses me politically": Rolling Stone, 7/1 /76.
"never disrespectful": Andrea Marcovicci interview with MM.
"Woody is never deliberately": Walter Bernstein interview.
"Shut up, out there": Andrea Marcovicci interview.
"Woody shrinks": Walter Bernstein interview.
"because they are trying": The New Republic, 10/2/76.
"for fun": New York Times, 6/4/84.
"Come on, Woody": Chicago Sun-Times, 10/22/78.
“ Put it this way": New York Times, 10/19/80.
"a very stylish person": Karen Roston interview with MM.
"as if she had just read": Confidential source.
"the kind of person": Confidential source.
"boys": Willie Morris, New York Days, Little Brown, 1993, p. 259.
CHAPTER 7: "A Picture About Me"
"I'm becoming more attractive": New York Times, 12/1/75.
"I don't even have my teeth filled": Ibid.
"the worst thing that could happen": The New Yorker, 2/4/74.
"It was a picture": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 283.
"The first draft": Ibid., p. 274.
"White is very cleansing": Rolling Stone, 6/30/77.
"She was abysmal": Stanley Kauffmann interview.
"Oh, well, la-de-dah": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 31.
"the largest appetite": Newsweek, 2/15/82,
"an untitled and chaotic": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 273.
"running off": Ibid., p. 281.
“The thing was supposedly": Ibid., p. 275.
"kept cutting": Ibid., p. 281.
"I would but I need the eggs": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 105.
"basically stupid": Chicago Tribune, quoted in Jonathan Moor, Diane Keaton, the Story of the Real Annie Hall, St. Martin’s Press, 1989, p. 58.
"walked over to the window": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 289.
"Listen, I have Woody": Eric Pleskow interview.
"a catchy title": Ibid.
"he actually did have": Confidential source.
"No, it was a boring": Toronto Star, 4/9/77.
"He figured people": Confidential source.
"There was accuracy": Stanley Kauffmann interview.
"technically pushes": The New Yorker, 4/25/77.
"everything we never wanted": New York magazine, 5/2/77.
"I'm obsessed with looks": John Simon interview with MM.
"just junk their lives": Take One, 11/78.
"a subtle first course": Redbook, 10/76.
"I expected to find him": Vivian Gornick interview with MM.
"Tell me": Village Voice, 1/5/76.
"When you do comedy": Newsweek, 4/24/78.
"I'm sure they were all set": Eric Pleskow interview.
"Woody needed to get": Steven Bach interview.
"The Interiors script": Confidential source.
"I think they sent me": Davida Rosenblum interview.
"the real meat": Esquire, 5/77.
"a series of great films": New York Daily News, 6/12/81.
"You want to do mankind": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 367.
"That's my mother": Carroll, Woody and His Women, p. 188.
"a New York woman": Chicago Sun- Times, 9/10/78.
"I was very intimidated": Take One, 11/78.
" 'What's the big deal?' Maureen Stapleton interview with MM.
" 'Albeck,' reported Steven Bach": Steven Bach, Final Cut, Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate, William Morrow, 1985, p. 110.
"It's not going to make": Take One, 11/78.
"What man in his forties": The New Yorker, 10/27/80.
"Woody Allen's beautiful new": New York Post, 1/19/77.
"extremely sophisticated": New York Post, 1/7/93.
"Hard to believe": New York magazine, 4/5/93.
"if you
're really the age": New York Times Magazine, 4/22/79.
"not completely a disaster": Walter Bernstein interview.
"It was the first time": Delta Willis interview with MM.
"My dear Mr. Allen": Dorothy Herrmann, S J. Perelman, A Life, Putnam's, 1986, p. 289.
"I thought it was a joke": Delta Willis interview.
"The whole concept": Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 4/3/78.
"If it were a special occasion": Newsweek, 4/17/78.
"I turned my phone": Chicago Tribune, 9/24/78.
CHAPTER 8: Vanity Fair
"You've got to be kidding": Ladies' Home Journal, 7/78.
"a million messages": Chicago Tribune, 9/24/78.
"No joy?": Newsweek, 4/24/78.
"United Artists had said": 50th Annual Academy Awards, ABC-TV, 4/4/78.
"no idea": Ladies' Home Journal, 7/78.
"What do you want to do": Esquire, 4/87.
"He hit his high point": Elliott Mills interview.
"Everybody is entitled": Neil Rosen interview with MM.
"America’s Ingmar Bergman": New York Times, 4/24/77.
"helped ruin Allen": National Review, 3/27/87.
"John has no sense of humor": Vincent Canby interview.
"I didn't like the picture": Ibid.
"a giant step forward": The New Yorker, 8/7/78.
"a handbook of art-film mannerisms": The New Yorker, 9/25/78.
"a tour of the Ingmar Bergman Room": The New Republic, 5 /19/79.
the "disaster": National Review, 9/29/78 and 10/13/78.
"tough on everyone": John Simon interview.
"charitable": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 95.
"that sad, miserable movie": Roger Angell interview.
"a bore": Steven Bach interview.
"Why don't you give her": Rosenblum and Karen, When the Shooting Stops, p. 269.
"By the time": Ibid., p. 265.
"we've never shared": Ibid., 264.
"What do you do": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 193.
"the thing that always seemed": New York Post, 1/7/93.
"So I'm off": In Style, 1/98.
"if this is it": Chicago Sun-Times, 2/2/86.
"terrifying to me": Rolling Stone, 9/6/93.