by Marion Meade
"I'm dying!": Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters, Vintage, 1987, p. 67.
"break out in a rash": New York Times, 5/8/79.
"lots of people": Andrew Sarris interview.
" 'Hey,' Hope drawled": Stephen M. Silverman, Public Spectacles, Dutton, 1981, p. 93.
"Hey, it's an honor": Bob Hope interview with MM, conducted by Sue Terry.
"a near genius": New York Times, 5/8/79.
"Have you ever heard": Silverman, Public Spectacles, p. 97.
"pure, unambiguous pleasure": Bach, Final Cut, p. 223.
"all the reasons": Ibid., p. 225.
“the only truly great": Village Voice, 4/30/79.
"not the only one": Andrew Sarris interview.
"it almost makes you forget": New York Times, 4/20/79.
"What kind of girls": New York Post, 8/19/72.
“a prisoner": Esquire, 5/77.
"no place to hide": Ibid.
"an inconvenience": University Review, 1/72.
"He was full of contradictions": Eric Pleskow interview.
"Love you": Vivian Gornick interview.
"a fear of being shot": Seventeen, 5/66.
"who went to art houses": Judith Crist interview with MM.
"It's about malaise": Los Angeles Times, 2/15/81.
"Directors can get": Modern Maturity, 3-4/98.
"a small forsaken animal": Life, 5/5/67.
"one of Americas major": New York Times Magazine, 4/22/79.
"a hard ticket": Helen Gurley Brown interview.
"Earl 'the Pearl' ": Roger Angell interview.
"everywhere in beautiful jars": Andrea Marcovicci interview.
"the best": Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Pat Hackett ed., Warner Books,
1989, p. 252.
"Mia gets what she wants": McCall’s, 5/67.
"would kill me": Village Voice, 12/3/79.
"it's no accomplishment": People, 10/4/76.
"I've never had a marriage": Chicago Tribune, 6/1/81.
CHAPTER 9: Beware of Young Girls
"an almighty temper": Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 27.
"I didn't know": Playbill, 5/80.
"The dog": Interview magazine, 4/94.
"There were four sisters": Life, 5/29/70.
"pretty girl": Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 86.
"You're not dating": "Mia Farrow: A Life of Drama," A&E, 3/12/98.
"a nice man": Gannett News Service, 9/27/87.
"The groom, his retreating hairline": Earl Wilson, Sinatra, Macmillan, 1976, p. 223.
"Well, you see": Kitty Kelley, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, Bantam, 1986, p. 364.
"with all the powers": Mirahella, 3-4/97.
"Frank soaks": Kelley, His Way, p. 364.
"could be so charming": New York Times, 5/8/94.
"You have to understand": Esquire, 3/96.
"Sending Rudin": Roman Polanski, Roman by Polanski, William Morrow,1984, p. 274.
"When you look": Cosmopolitan, 1/70.
"She was a real sad": New York Daily News Magazine, 10/15/89.
"gentle and flighty": John Phillips, Papa John, Doubleday, 1986, p. 204.
"I’ll get you down": Ibid., p. 204.
"No dogs or Jews": Helen Drees Ruttencutter, Previn, St. Martin's Press, 1985, p. 36.
"Esther Williams days": Ibid., p. 38.
"a pretty house": Andre Previn, No Minor Chords: My Days in Hollywood, Doubleday, 1991, p. 137.
"the British Leonard Bernstein": Martin Bookspan and Ross Yockey. Andre Previn: A Biography, Doubleday, 1981, p. 209.
"There was nothing appealing": Confidential source.
"she were still wrapped": Dory Previn, Bog-Trotter, An Autobiography with Lyrics, Doubleday, 1980, p. 52.
"Well, that's interesting": Bookspan and Yockey, Andre Previn, p. 221.
"Dory was not OK": Confidential source.
"I started to say": Photoplay, 11/71.
"as many as I could": Ruttencutter, Previn, p. 30.
"a lot of problems": Photoplay, 11/71.
"just 'one of the Farrows'": Kelley, His Way, p. 343.
"I believed": Mirabella, 3-4/97.
CHAPTER 10: Woody in Love
"Your future husband": Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 197.
"zero interest": Ibid., p. 195.
"I would like to have": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"She never met a baby": Lorrie Pierce interview with MM.
"the perfect vegetable terrine": New York Review of Books, 8/16/79.
"it leaves my mind": Joan Didion to MM, 3/22/97.
"or else it piles up": The New Yorker, 2/4/74.
"accused me of things": Chicago Tribune, 5/31/81.
"marvelous": New York Times, 9/28/80.
"the neurotic's version": The New Yorker, 10/27/80.
"What a shame": Roy Blount, Jr., "Books: Lustily Vigilant," The Atlantic, 12/94.
"the way in which he put down": Andrew Sarris interview.
"the most mean-spirited": Village Voice, 10/1-7/80.
"existential sniveler": National Review, 12/28/80.
"I didn't see myself": Judith Crist interview.
"what we have here": Saturday Review, 12/80.
"the best I ever did": Esquire, 4/87.
"a lot of flack": Paris Review, Fall 1995.
"So many people": Jacobs,... But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen, p. 147.
"I'm a spartan": Dick Cavett Show, 10/4/77.
"What Mr. Allen says": New York Times Magazine, 10/19/80.
"She'd make us watch": Quoted in Frank Sanello, Eddie Murphy: The Life and Times of a Comic on the Edge, Birch Lane, 1997, p. 29.
"Studio 8H": Laurie Zaks interview.
"Where are you from?": Peter Tauber interview.
"She pissed off": Laurie Zaks interview.
"Anyone who replaced": Karen Roston interview.
"The first time I ever saw": Radio Days, unpublished screenplay.
"The Couple of the Year": New York Daily News, 9/16/80.
"May I be your Daisy?": Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Hyperion, 1994, p. 251.
"It was an impossible": Steven Bach interview.
"Arthur is like a father": Bach, Final Cut, p. 113.
"It was perfectly clear": Steven Bach interview.
"the price he paid": New York Times, 7/18/83.
"a bon-bon": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 132.
"the way I want it to be": Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/82.
"is almost a ventriloquist": Andrew Sarris interview.
"a rank amateur": New York Times, 1/22/84.
"It's hard work": Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 202.
"easily his best-directed": The New Republic, 8/16-23/82.
"a sense of control": Stanley Kauffmann interview.
"Watching Woody": Chicago Tribune, 7/16/82.
"Little sex and less comedy": National Review, 9/17/82.
"tableaux that suggest": The New Yorker, 7/26/82.
"Therefore his sickness": Allen, Three Films of Woody Allen, p. 126.
"foolish": Saul Bellow to MM, 8/20/96.
"Next question": Carl Rollyson e-mail to MM, 5/27/98.
"we New York critics": Andrew Sarris interview.
"a brilliant cinematic collage": Newsweek, 7/18/83.
"utterly alone and lost": The New Yorker, 8/8/83.
"Say he's incredible": Patrice Chaplin, Hidden Star, Oona O'Neill Chaplin: A Memoir, Trafalgar Square, 1996, p. 186.
CHAPTER 11: Pushing the Baby Cart
“You've got to realize": Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/82.
"I expected to walk": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"The pets, the cat": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"cooing, cuddling": New York Daily News, 3/2/83.
"The drain is in the middle": Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 206.
"a gun under the bed": Chicago Sun-Times, 2/2/86.
"I hated it": Movieline, 1/8/87.<
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"I walked around": Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/82.
"So we started tracking": New York Daily News, 4/17/84.
"they just went bananas": Nick Apollo Forte phone conversation with MM.
"a perfectionist": Los Angeles Times, 2/1/84.
"just couldn't get it": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 147.
"she would be sued": Thierry de Navacelle, Woody Allen on Location, William Morrow, 1987, p. 188.
"in no remote way": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 148.
"there was just no part": New York Times, 2/24/85.
"one of the best movies": Time, 3/4/85.
"This is the first": The New Yorker, 3/25/85
"I say a purple rose": National Review, 5/3/85.
"lit up the room": Bjorkman, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, p. 151.
"If you ask her": New York Times, 2/24/85.
"more interesting in other things": Andrew Sarris interview.
"love letters": Vincent Canby interview.
"And that was my life": Interview magazine, 4/94.
“Would you like to have children?": Playboy, 5/67.
"Mia has a talent": New York Daily News Magazine, 10/15/89.
"simply used passive-aggressive": Confidential source.
"I had no pronounced feeling": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"I got a great thrill": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
But there was a problem: New York State has since modified its adoption laws. In 1995, the State Court of Appeals ruled on two cases: one in which a man was denied permission to adopt the biological child of his live-in partner and the other involving a lesbian couple. One of the women had been inseminated and had given birth, but the lower courts prohibited the adoption of the child by her partner. In both of these cases, the appeals court decided the second partner had the right to adopt the child of a person to whom he or she was not married. In the intervening years, however, there have been few second-parent adoptions, mostly by gay couples.
"a workable compromise": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"She's a wonderful woman": Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters, p. 106.
"a boozy old flirt": New York Times, 2/2/86.
"the apartment was chaotic": Jean Reynolds interview with MM.
"never had five minutes": New York Times, 3/26/86.
"a very wonderful person": Louisville Courier Post, 9/29/87.
"the great American film": Village Voice, 2/11 /86.
"only authentic auteur" and "the urban poet": New York Times, 2/7/86 and 2/9/86.
"Woody Allen has found": The New Yorker, 3/9/87.
"What's left for Woody": National Review, 3/27/87.
“I think this may be": Chicago Tribune, 1/26/86.
"the Chicago morons": Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 222.
"If I had my way": Chicago Tribune, 1/26/86.
"a happy man": Ibid.
CHAPTER 12: Dead Sharks
"By you?": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 182.
"a second-rate actress": Vanity Fair, 11 /92.
"a grand plan": Time, 8/31/92.
"just hated him":Kristi Groteke and Marjorie Rosen, Mia and Woody: Love and Betrayal, Carroll & Graf, 1994, p. 161.
"so of course Woody": Newsweek, 5/11/87.
"I don't think this relationship": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"I hope it's a she": New York Times, 11/14/87.
"I love Dylan": Movieline, 1/8/88.
"not my idea of a fun Saturday": 60 Minutes, 11 /22/92.
“It's a healthy thing": New York Times, 7/18/83.
"He's a magpie": Walter Bernstein interview.
"I was numb": Eric Pleskow interview.
"This would make a great setting": New York Times, 12/6/87.
"that doesn't suggest anything": Ibid.
"We couldn't get copacetic": Ibid.
"Montana?": The New Yorker, 12/9/96.
"We were well into it": Elaine Stritch interview with MM.
"What is this": National Review, 3/4/88.
"as acute an author": Chicago Sun-Times, 12/18/87.
"that many people in America": Roger Ebert interview with MM.
"profoundly derivative": The New Yorker, 1/25/88.
"Allen's little Max von Sydow": Washington Post, 3/11/88.
"a pathetic, desperately imitative": The New Republic, 11/21/88.
"An homage is a plagiarism": The New Yorker, 10/31/88.
"Each person": Paris Review, Fall 1995.
"It was like a father": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"She was cute": Confidential source.
"played on the camera": George Schindler interview with MM.
"Look at that": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"She's a child": Newsday, 11/18/92.
"You look at her": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"If there was a roomful": New York magazine, 9/21 /92.
"wired": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"There is no justice": National Review, 12/8/89.
"he seems to have dedicated": Washington Post, 1/25/91.
"He gets wonderful performances": Sydney Pollack interview with MM.
"They [Woody and Robert Altman]": Esquire, 11/88.
"His silences": Elaine Stritch interview.
"He spoke to me": Marilyn Michaels interview with MM.
"I always admired": Max von Sydow to MM, 9/11 /96.
"He would shoot": Confidential source.
"He kept telling me": Newsweek, 4/24/78.
"Big names": Confidential source.
"Do you believe it": Douglas Brode, The Films of Woody Allen, Carol Publishing, 1992, p. 279.
"a womanizer": Ladies' Home Journal, 3/80.
"No theatricality": Confidential source.
"After the first day": Karen Ludwig interview with MM.
"suddenly he didn't speak": Kitty Carlisle Hart interview with MM.
"A relationship I think": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 93.
"The last time": Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader, Linda Sunshine, ed., Knopf, 1993, p. 116.
"he was smitten": Confidential source.
"the floozy brigade": Confidential source.
"a friend to the older children": New York Daily News Magazine, 10/15/89.
"It was like a fairy tale": Confidential source.
"pleasant and convenient": 60 Minutes, 11/22/92.
"Jack and I": Husbands and Wives, unpublished screenplay.
"but in the fearsome": Variety, 2/18/91.
"In intelligence": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"I want to be a girl": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"The school had a fast rule": Confidential source.
"Mr. Allen, you're upsetting": Newsday, 8/15/92.
"spoilsport": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony, 3/26/93.
"he would creep up": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"she carried on": Confidential source.
"I did not see it as sexual": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony. Also Wilk Decision.
"You can make an exception": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 374.
"I didn't want some clerk": Vanity Fair, 11/92.
CHAPTER 13: Sidney Kugelmass Meets His Biographers
" 'After all,' he grunts": Allen, "The Kugelmass Episode," The New Yorker, 5/2/77,
reprinted in Side Effects, Ballantine, 1980, p. 62.
"Cloquet hated reality": Allen, "The Condemned," The New Yorker, 11 /21/77, reprinted in Side Effects, p. 13.
"a large and hairy": Ibid., p. 78.
"joyless, sexless": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"You won't get anywhere": McKnight, Woody Allen: Joking Aside, p. 11.
"I was with him": Chicago Tribune, 5/24/87.
"I could fade": Dennis Kear interview with MM.
"I let him hang around": Los Angeles Times, 3/15/92.
"I can't imagine": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 182.
"churlish to nit-pick": New York
Times Book Review, 5/12/91.
"a wealth of biographical detail": Film Quarterly, Fall 92.
"I, of course, felt": Los Angeles Times, 3/15/92.
"both Vietnamese orphan girls": Lax, Woody Allen, p. 180.
"Kids are probably": Photoplay, 11/71.
"I was in a lot": Interview magazine, 4/94.
"a double-digit IQ": Newsweek, 8/31/92.
"She was a little slow": Confidential source.
"she worked damned hard": Groteke and Rosen, Mia and Woody, p. 161.
"I'm the one": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"[The children] are very close": McCall's, 5/85.
"I had no relationship": Groteke and Rosen, Mia and Woody, p. 161.
"He was never": Newsweek, 8/31/92.
"He was a 12-year boyfriend": Ibid.
"He is a stable influence": New York magazine, 9/21/92.
"She was someone": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"She went gaga": Groteke and Rosen, Mia and Woody, p.161.
"growing up": Confidential source.
curl your teeth": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"When I came back": Dominick Conde interview with MM.
"Oh I know": New York Post, 2/8/90.
"she has a crush": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"I'm dating a girl": Allen, Four Films of Woody Allen, p. 185.
"Well what do you do": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"I told her she needed": Frances Grill interview with MM.
"Soon-Yi had always been rather plain": Lorrie Pierce interview.
"A mom couldn't dream": Newsweek, 8/31/92.
"We were both": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"a not terribly uncommon problem": "Retribution," The Kenyon Review, Summer 1980, reprinted in Side Effects, 1980.
"We started talking": Allen v. Farrow, court testimony.
"She was sallow": Confidential source.
"She took off her braces": New York Daily News, 8/24/92.
"charming and intelligent": People, 9/7/92.
CHAPTER 14: The Coiled Cobra
"a very, very chilling": 60Minutes, 11/22/92.