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“But endless psychological”: Ibid., 15.
“volatile nature”: Ibid., 17
“If you messed up”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991), 21.
“Open this door”: La Toya Jackson with Romanowski, La Toya, 85.
“He built a shell”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 16–17.
“I rehearsed them about”: Worrell, “He Hasn’t Gone Crazy Over Success,” Time, 62.
“Between 1966 and 1968”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 61.
“Sometimes really late at night”: Paul Theroux, “My Trip to Neverland, and the Call from Michael Jackson I’ll Never Forget,” Telegraph (London), June 27, 2009.
“gentleness, warmth, and attention”: Ibid., 14.
Chapter 3
“We all grew up”: “Elizabeth Taylor: A Legend Remembered,” The Hollywood Reporter, April 8, 2011, 49.
“When I was a child”: Mrs. Michael Todd as told to Joe Hyams, “I’m Saying Good-by to the Movies,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1958.
“I stink and so do you”: George Eelis, Hedda and Louella (New York: Putnam, 1972), 260.
“Now sing for Miss Hopper”: Hopper and Brough, The Whole Truth, 11.
“Deanna Durbin’s teacher”: Hedda Hopper, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1940.
“Nothing her mother”: Hedda Hopper, “Liz Taylor’s Romances Draw to Happy Ending,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1950.
“This kid has nothing”: Alexander Walker, Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor (New York: Grove Press, 1997), 32.
“Elizabeth was there for”: Hopper and Brough, The Whole Truth, 11.
“Her contract was dropped”: Hopper, “Liz Taylor’s Romances.”
“Her mother tried everything”: Hopper and Brough, The Whole Truth, 11.
“about his beautiful daughter”: Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait.
“Don’t be scared”: Ruth Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor (New York: Appleton-Century, 1964), 32.
“Oh, thank you”: Ibid., 33.
“We knew we had”: John B. Allan, Elizabeth Taylor (Derby, CT: Monarch Books, Inc. 1961), 23.
“We never even tested”: Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait.
“The studio wanted to”: Brad Darrach, “ ‘If the Knife Slips Tomorrow, I’ll Die Knowing I’ve Had an Extraordinary Life,’ ” Life, April 1997, 85.
“That’s me”: Walker, Elizabeth, 38.
“Elizabeth Taylor, a pretty moppet”: “Lassie Come Home,” Variety, August 18, 1943.
“Elizabeth Taylor was nine years old”: Sydney Guilaroff, as told to Cathy Griffin, Crowning Glory: Reflections of Hollywood’s Favorite Confidant (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing Group, 1996), 187.
Chapter 4
“That was the toughest”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, 18.
“Loyalty, honesty, and obedience”: Ibid., 77.
“Berry was a perceptive judge”: Ibid., 78.
“Berry did not want”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, 35.
“one of the seediest motels”: Ibid., 43.
“spent many afternoons”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 102.
“Those were truly wild days”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 69.
Chapter 5
“Well, it was my favorite book”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 8.
“Well, I’ll grow up”: Ibid., 9
“Mr. Brown has also drawn”: Bosley Crowther, review of National Velvet, MGM, New York Times, December 15, 1944.
“Frankly, I doubt”: James Agee, review of National Velvet, MGM, The Nation, December 23, 1944.
“the 12-year-old”: Pauline Kael, “National Velvet,” 5001 Nights at the Movies (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), 517.
“This meant that under”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 38.
“As she grew older”: Walker, Elizabeth, 49.
“When I’d come home”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 18.
“Not being like other children”: Ibid.
“Riding a horse gave me”: Taylor, My Love Affair, 15.
“I did a lot”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 21.
“Liz is the most”: Walter Wanger and Joe Hyams, My Life with Cleopatra: The Making of a Hollywood Classic (New York: Vintage Books, 2013), 166.
“I worshiped Howard”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 10-11.
“MGM was a very”: Ibid., 18.
“Francis and Elizabeth’s brother”: Heymann, Liz, 51–52.
“Most difficult of all”: Guilaroff and Griffin. Crowning Glory, 188.
“I soon began to serve”: Ibid., 188–89.
“highly competitive, rather spoiled”: Heymann, Liz, 55.
“I was a child”: Theroux, “My Trip to Neverland.”
“The request for Elizabeth”: Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1945.
“He used the most”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 16.
“I was frightened”: Ibid., 17.
“All day long”: Dick Sheppard, Elizabeth: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Taylor (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 44.
“In the beginning, when”: Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait.
“There was something about”: Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait.
“L. B. Mayer wanted”: Helen Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful: The Many Worlds of a Designing Woman (Santa Monica, CA: Dennis-Landman, 1976), 82.
“Elizabeth was the only star”: Ibid., 82.
“Metro may lose Elizabeth”: Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1948.
“When Elizabeth Taylor last”: Hedda Hopper, “Girl Star Shines On in Teens,” Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1948.
“Peter to me”: James Spada, Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets (New York: Bantam Books, 1991), 123.
“She was incredible”: Ibid., 124.
“Their romance was largely”: Hopper, “Liz Taylor’s Romances Draw to Happy Ending,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1950.
“And glory be, she’ll”: Hedda Hopper, “ ‘Tender Hours’ Awaits Elizabeth Taylor Here,” Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1948.
“I saw that everyone”: Waterbury, Elizabeth, 59.
“They sat us at”: Ibid., 59–60
“They would walk right”: Ibid., 60.
“In person her beauty”: Dominick Dunne, The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper (New York: Crown, 1999), 157.
“I can’t remember when”: Dominick Dunne, “The Red Queen,” Vanity Fair, December 1985, Page 65.
“Elizabeth was a bit”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 63.
“Bill Pawley Jr. had better return”: Hedda Hopper, “Deborah Kerr Will Do ‘Androcles and Lion,’ ” Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1949.
“I love her very”: Hedda Hopper, “Engagement Cancelled for Elizabeth Taylor,” Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1949.
Chapter 6
“Diana loved art”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 68–69.
“She was my mother”: Ibid., 69.
“She was the perfect”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 104.
“appropriated Diana Ross’ early”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross (New York: Birch Lane Press Book, 1989), 407.
“Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 133.
“Go back to Africa”: Shmuley Boteach, The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation (New York: Vanguard Press, 2009), 122.
“I would run to”: Ibid., 95.
“who instilled in me”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 90.
“great artist, businessman, and inventor”: La Toya Jackson with Romanowski, La Toya, 88.
“a bland one-story”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 141.
“Back then, Hayvenhurst sat”: I
bid., 142.
“An understandable change occurred”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 94.
“I got very shy”: Ibid., 97.
“It widened noticeably”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 163.
“I went over to”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 115.
“You have no idea”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 178.
“I depended on being”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 117.
“Get my son off”: La Toya Jackson with Romanowski, La Toya, 78.
Chapter 7
“lack of professional training”: Mel Gussow, “Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour,” New York Times, March 24, 2011.
“I noticed on the”: Irene Sharaff, Broadway & Hollywood: Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976), 118.
“that secret, where they”: Mark Harris, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), 275.
“with that beautiful black”: Shelley Winters. Shelley: Also Known as Shirley (New York: Morrow, 1980), 282.
“kept running around, complaining”: Ibid., 281.
“One day I was”: Ibid., 282.
“She had an artificial patriarchy”: Sheppard, Elizabeth, 44.
“Both Elizabeth Taylor and I”: Winters, Shelley, 280.
“Monty was developing”: Ibid., 283–84.
“If Monty liked you”: Patricia Bosworth, Montgomery Clift: A Biography (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 282.
“Not a carpenter, electrician”: Hedda Hopper, “Elizabeth Taylor, Clift Do Hot Scene,” Los Angeles Times, November 23, 1949.
“I spent my free”: Hedda Hopper, “Liz Taylor Will Be Graduated Tonight,” Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1950.
“I don’t have to”: Ibid.
“I married to get”: Liz Smith, “Hollywood’s Sexiest, Savviest Lawyer—The legendary Greg Bautzer,” Huffpost Entertainment, July 28, 2013.
“there was no happier person”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 85.
“to have Elizabeth Taylor”: Hedda Hopper, “Son of Conrad Hilton to Wed Elizabeth Taylor,” Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1950.
“Not many girls”: Hopper, “Liz Taylor’s Romances,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1950.
“Francis was tall and handsome”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 86.
“They’ve got everything”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 113.
“I am sure Sara”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 86.
“they picked up in Chicago”: “No Romantic Meeting, Elizabeth Taylor Says,” Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1950.
“Mr. Hilton spent most”: “Elizabeth Taylor Wins Divorce on Abuse Story,” Los Angeles Times, January 30, 1951.
“Hedda, believe me”: Hedda Hopper, “Elizabeth Taylor Makes Denial of Marital Rift,” Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1950.
“What the hell”: “Elizabeth Taylor Wins Divorce on Abuse Story,” Los Angeles Times, January 30, 1951.
“They have everything—money”: Hedda Hopper, “Fernando Lamas Cast as Garson’s Romance,” Los Angeles Times, December 9, 1950.
“A month after the”: “The Mating Game,” National Enquirer, April 22, 2013.
“He was drunk”: Ibid., 45.
“difficulties between Miss Taylor”: Louis Berg, “Happy Birthday, Liz Taylor,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1957.
“My mother was my best”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 20.
“I have the emotions”: Berg, “Happy Birthday, Liz Taylor.”
“I’ve got to work”: Hedda Hopper, “Liz Taylor Tells Public Her Story,” Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1951.
“He knew she needed”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 137.
“Then she said she’d”: Ibid.
“The real surprise of”: Mason Wiley and Damien Bona, Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards (New York: Ballantine, 1987), 212.
“What has given the”: Edwin Schallert, “ ‘Place in the Sun’ Sets Pace for 1951 Film Conquests,” Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1951.
“a work of beauty”: A review of A Place in the Sun, New York Times August 29, 1951.
“I told him to get”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 113.
“Elizabeth Taylor is worshiped”: Hedda Hopper, “Britain’s Film Bad Girl Reforms in Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1955.
“a mere child at heart”: “Miss Taylor Flies Ocean to Wilding,” Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1952.
“The sight of the week”: Hedda Hopper, “Peck, Bergman Named for ‘End of Affair,’ ” Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1952.
“dainty and dewy-eyed”: “Elizabeth Taylor Wedding Turns Into Minor Riot,” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1952.
“Elizabeth Taylor Wedding Turns”: Ibid.
“Michael is a sweet”: Hedda Hopper, “Brackett to Produce Story About Titanic,” Los Angeles Times, February 23, 1952.
“I may just turn”: Hedda Hopper, “Stars Huddle Over ‘The Devil’s Disciple,’ ” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1952.
“I hit them with”: Edwin Schallert, “Studio Races Stork to Keep Liz in Film,” Los Angeles Times, July 20, 1952.
“The only thing is”: Ibid.
“I hope it will”: Ibid.
“rich in dramatic happenings”: Edwin Schallert, “Ivanhoe Cinema Spectacle of Medieval Combat, Romance,” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1952.
“a remarkable forcefulness”: Bosley Crowther, review of Ivanhoe, New York Times, August 8, 1952.
“It was about this time”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 45.
“We want little Michael”: “Taylor-Wilding Couple on Trip,” Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1953.
“worsened her condition”: “Elizabeth Taylor, in Denmark, Has Collapse,” Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1953.
“She has a nervous”: “Elizabeth Taylor Back in London After Vacation,” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1953.
“It would be a”: Lydia Lane, “Top Hollywood Stars Make Resolutions For New Year,” Los Angeles Times, December 27, 1953.
Chapter 8
“a casaba, cowbell”: Jim Fusilli, “How Jackson Did It,” Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2009.
“I wanted him to sing”: Ibid.
“Jackson’s vocal syncopation”: Stephen Holden, review of Off the Wall by Michael Jackson, Rolling Stone, November 1, 1979, URL.
“Then the crew said”: Hollywood Reporter, “Jane Fonda and Michael Jackson Went Skinny Dipping on the Set of ‘On Golden Pond,’ ” Yahoo! Movies, October 14, 2015, https://www.yahoo.com/movies/jane-fonda-and-michael-jackson-went-skinny-dipping-180022844.html.
“about acting, life, everything”: Jay Cocks, “Why He’s a Thriller,” Time, March 19, 1984, 60.
“There was never a real ‘Billie Jean’ ”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 191.
“as a gestation”: Nancy Griffin, “The ‘Thriller’ Diaries,” Vanity Fair, July 2010, 76.
“The lyrics, the strings”: Lucy Jones, NME, “The Incredible Way Michael Jackson Wrote Music,” April 2, 2012. http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-incredible-way-michael-jackson-wrote-music
“And this whole fallacy”: Lars Brandie, “Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson’s ‘Xscape’: It’s About Money,” Billboard, May 21, 2014.
“Thriller is a wonderful”: John Rockwell, “Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’: Superb Job,” New York Times, December 19, 1982.
“Michael is very special”: Griffin, “The ‘Thriller’ Diaries,” 68.
“Make it sexy this time”: Ibid., 61.
“evil and satanic”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 226.
“He just stole the”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, 291.
Chapter 9
“What is it like”: Philip K. Scheuer, “Mike Wilding Trying Ballet; Won’t Sing,” Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1954.
“she had a genius”: Sam Kashner, “Elizabeth Taylor’s Closing Act,” Vanity Fair, Jun
e 2011, 148.
“MGM signed me, brought”: Scheuer, “Mike Wilding Trying Ballet; Won’t Sing.”
“When we were shooting”: Stephen Harvey, “38 Films Focus Attention on Elizabeth Taylor the Actress,” New York Times, June 16, 1985.
“I did enjoy doing”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 47.
“The fact that they”: Richard Griffith, “Elizabeth Taylor Wins Praise for ‘Rhapsody,’ ” Los Angeles Times, March 20, 1954.
“When I had someone”: Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait.
“only a way of making money”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 47.
“I did A Place in the Sun”: Ibid., 49.
“I had to go almost”: Ibid., 50
“He devoted much attention”: Phyllis Gates and Bob Thomas, My Husband Rock Hudson: The Real Story of Rock Hudson’s Marriage to Phyllis Gates (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987), 51.
“You better know right away”: Walker, Elizabeth, 163.
“I never got tired”: Carroll Baker, Baby Doll: An Autobiography (New York: Arbor, 1983), 130.
“My feelings about Liz”: Ibid., 134.
“It was like watching”: Ibid., 135.
“The driver was so”: Ibid., 134.
“Shooting the film turned”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 51.
“George couldn’t have treated”: Ibid., 50–51.
“Just who the hell”: Ibid., 53.
“Just how much do”: Ibid., 53–54.
“That wasn’t what I meant”: Ibid., 54.
“I’ve just been given”: Ibid., 56.
“George would smile”: Ibid., 51.
Chapter 10
“Michael has had very”: Peter Carlson, “Tour De Force,” People, May 7, 1984, 45.
“All I wanted was control”: Jackson, Moonwalk, 152.
“pleaded with Mother”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 171.
“whose boisterous obsession”: Carlson, “Tour De Force,” 45.
“I tore out, hugged”: Carl Arrington, “Thriller Chiller,” People, February 13, 1984, 24.
“laser the scar tissue”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 246.