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Chapter 11
“He wanted her badly”: Bosworth, Montgomery Clift, 295.
“Elizabeth invited me to”: Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway, Unsinkable: A Memoir (New York: William Morrow, 2013), 119.
“I can’t afford servants”: Baker, Baby Doll, 136.
“Each time I see”: Hedda Hopper, “Filmland Mom Takes Bow,” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1956.
“By Hollywood standards”: Baker, Baby Doll, 136.
“The motor was still”: Bosworth, Montgomery Clift, 298.
“He was barely conscious”: Heymann, Liz, 141.
“He was the kindest”: Bosworth, Montgomery Clift, 291.
“I made more money”: “Showman Mike Todd Killed in Fiery Air Crash,” Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1958.
“I love you”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 188.
“What nonsense”: Hedda Hopper, “Dorothy Malone Will Costar with Cagney,” Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1956.
“Giant is at once”: Philip K. Scheuer, “ ‘Giant’ Looms as Towering Saga of Texas Boom Years,” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1956.
“We haven’t got that”: Hedda Hopper, “Elizabeth Taylor Plans to Seek Divorce Soon,” Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1956.
“What’s this bilge about”: Hedda Hopper, “Taylor, Wilding May Get Mexican Divorce,” Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1956.
“I’m sorry about this”: Hopper, “Elizabeth Taylor Plans to Seek Divorce Soon.”
“I will marry Michael Todd”: Eliza Schallert, “Elizabeth Taylor Plans Early Marriage to Todd,” Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1956.
“amateur psychiatrists”: Berg, “Happy Birthday, Liz.”
“Well, that’s it”: “Mexican Divorce Legally Confirmed, Miss Taylor, Todd May Wed Today,” Los Angeles Times, February 1, 1957.
“We started with twenty-five”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 108.
“was his fault and”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 73.
“We had rented”: Taylor, My Love Affair, 29.
“Elizabeth said something to”: Reynolds and Hannaway, Unsinkable, 120.
“Next day”: Gay Pauley, “How Now Brown Chow? Want a Mink Coat?,” Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1957.
“Don’t you want it”: Hedda Hopper, “Acapulco Wind Will Fan Charlton Heston,” Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1957.
“When will she grow”: Berg, “Happy Birthday, Liz.”
“She’s in terrible pain”: “Elizabeth Taylor Fights Pain to Save Her Baby,” Los Angeles Times, July 28, 1957.
“Whereas most of the characters”: Edwin Schallert, “ ‘Raintree’ Draws Notable Audience,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1957.
“Living with Mike Todd”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 69.
“You know I’ve chased”: Eddy Gilmore, “Mike Felt Luck Might Desert Him,” Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1958.
“He would see the ‘dailies’ ”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 118.
“We’ll fly in”: George Stevens Jr., ed., Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), 552.
“The minute we walked”: James Bacon, “I Begged Him Not to Go,” Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1958.
“I have never seen”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 117.
“When we arrived”: Ibid., 118.
“the greatest human being”: “Hysterical Outbursts Mark Rites for Todd,” Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1958.
“Reporters later wrote that”: Eddie Fisher, Eddie: My Life, My Loves (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 143.
“Please, for God’s sake”: “Hysterical Outbursts Mark Rites for Todd.”
“The studio asked us”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 118.
“I think you ought”: Stevens Jr., Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, 552.
“Yes, I do”: Guilaroff and Griffin, Crowning Glory, 198.
“Never missed a day”: Stevens, Jr., Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, 553.
“Fortunately, she was able”: Guilaroff and Griffin, Crowning Glory, 198.
“the highest price”: Hedda Hopper, “Elizabeth Taylor Gets Huge Film Bid,” Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1958.
“I’ve known and loved”: Hedda Hopper, “Mineo and Parker in Disney Film,” Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1958.
“It was a powerful”: Philip K. Scheuer, “ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Has Artistic Merit, Shock Value,” Los Angeles Times, August 2, 1958.
“she is terrific”: Bosley Crowther, review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, New York Times, September 9, 1958.
“Elizabeth has a major credit”: review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Variety, August 13, 1958.
“Because I’ve got three children”: Ted Sell, “Debbie and Eddie Feud: Triangle Hints Fly,” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1958.
“engaged in a heated argument”: Walter Ames, “Marriage Breaks Up Amid Rumors Singer Courted Miss Taylor,” Los Angeles Times, September 11, 1958.
“What do you expect”: Hedda Hopper and James Brough, “She Takes What She Wants: Miss Taylor’s Story,” Chicago Tribune, February 25, 1963.
“What happened was this”: Joe Hyams, “Liz Taylor’s Year of Disaster,” Los Angeles Times, January 25, 1959.
“Eddie Fisher Talks”: Walter Ames, “Eddie Fisher Talks; Says He’s Sick Man,” Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1958.
“Debbie Will Seek Divorce”: Walter Ames, “Debbie Will Seek Divorce from Eddie,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1958.
“Debbie Divorces Fisher”: “Debbie Divorces Fisher; Wins Million Settlement,” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1959.
“Debbie Not Bitter”: Bob Thomas, “Debbie Not Bitter, Just Wants Her Happiness,” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1959.
“Three Cheers for Love”: “Three Cheers for Love!,” Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1958.
“she defied an NBC”: Walter Ames, “Even Kitchen Sink Gets in Eddie-Jerry-Dean Row,” Los Angeles Times, December 25, 1958.
“I loved buying things”: Eddie Fisher, Eddie, 154.
“Until Debbie filed for”: Joe Hyams, “Liz Taylor’s Year of Disaster.”.
“What’s all this I”: Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess, Ingrid Bergman: My Story (New York: Delacorte Press, 1980), 258, 282.
“Under our law no”: Ibid, 274.
“Elizabeth said she didn’t”: Fisher, Eddie, 149.
“Miss Taylor has been: “Liz Taylor Accepts Bid for Talk at UCLA,” Los Angeles Times, February 14, 1959.
“refused to let her”: Fisher, Eddie, 156.
“What the hell”: Heymann, Liz, 195.
“Elizabeth’s mother and father”: Fisher, Eddie, 156.
“In Las Vegas, I”: Ibid., 158.
“Living with her”: Ibid.
“The Fisher opus”: Cecil Smith, “Science ‘Special’ Brewing in Vegas,” Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1959.
“The only word”: Fisher, Eddie, 158.
“My personal life”: “Liz Taylor to Leave Movies for Home Life,” Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1959.
Chapter 12
“I don’t want to”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, 344.
“with a cordon of managers”: Gerri Hirshey, “Michael Jackson: Life as a Man in the Magical Kingdom,” Rolling Stone, February 17, 1983. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/michael-jackson-life-as-a-man-in-the-magical-kingdom-19830217
“Michael has three parrots”: Worrell, “He Hasn’t Gone Crazy Over Success,” 61.
“I guess I want”: Hirshey, “Michael Jackson”
“one of the loneliest”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 162.
“There have been”: Worrell, “He Hasn’t Gone Crazy Over Success,” 63.
“I know. The other”: Cocks, “Why He’s a Thriller,” 59.
“He asked us”: Robert Wilonsky, “Michael Jackson, That Little Rascal,” Star-Telegram, June 26, 2009.
“I used to think
”: Michael Jackson, speech, University of Oxford, March 21, 2001.
“Norah, you must calm down”: A. Scott Berg, Kate Remembered (New York: G. P. Putnam, 2003), 245.
“He was wearing sunglasses”: Ibid., 246.
“He fascinated me”: Ibid., 244.
“Do you know Greta Garbo”: Ibid., 251.
“loved her grace”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 203.
Chapter 13
“She demanded everything”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 263.
“she was making every”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 119.
“Elizabeth was so heavily”: Fisher, Eddie, 167.
“The wardrobe for the”: Rose, Just Make Them Beautiful, 119.
“She didn’t like the”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 263.
“The John O’Hara novel”: Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies, 110.
“one of the greatest”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 97.
“They got me to”: Ibid., 98.
“Out of every hundred”: Waterbury, Elizabeth Taylor, 275–76.
“She lived. She lived”: Ibid., 275.
“What made her become ill”: Ibid., 274.
“Everybody wondered whether”: Wiley and Bona, Inside Oscar, 326.
“Hell, even I voted”: Ibid., 330.
“I think it was”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 97.
“comic rather than imposing”: Wanger and Hyams, My Life with Cleopatra, 113.
I had “nailed” her: Heymann, Liz, 244.
“Every time I run”: Wanger and Hyams, My Life with Cleopatra, 123–24.
“had lowered the prestige”: Sheppard, Elizabeth, 317.
“I have been told”: Ibid., 1.
“26,000 gallons of paint”: Ibid., 220.
“She takes her responsibility”: Ibid., 133.
“It wasn’t a suicide”: David Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,” Vanity Fair, April, 1998, 385, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1998/03/elizabeth-taylor-199803
“No company can afford”: Wanger and Hyams, My Life with Cleopatra, 200.
“For Elizabeth, it was”: Sharaff, Broadway & Hollywood, 117.
“The look on Richard’s”: Vicky Tiel, It’s All About the Dress: What I Learned in Forty Years About Men, Women, Sex, and Fashion (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011), 105.
“The dress also accentuated”: Christie’s Catalog, Unforgettable: Fashions of the Oscars, Christie’s Fine Art Limited, March 18, 1999, 10.
“all-out, let-it-bleed”: Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies, 852.
“she’s absolutely ravishing”: Ibid., 37.
“A star since childhood”: Sharaff, Broadway & Hollywood, 118.
“Unlike his wary, media-bruised”: Liz Smith, “Liz: Larry’s the Last,” New York Post, September 1, 1995.
“wild-eyed and red”: Michael Thornton, “Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: The Deadly Love That Never Died,” Telegraph (London), July 19, 1983.
“Drank enormously and cheated”: Richard Burton, edited by Chris Williams, The Richard Burton Diaries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 609.
“I started drinking with”: Robert Cubbage, “L.A. Confidential,” Notre Dame Magazine, Spring 2003. http://magazine.nd.edu/news/11302-l-a-confidential/
“The star was frosty”: Liz Smith, “Liz: Larry’s the Last,” New York Post, September 1, 1995.
“She was ‘my partner’ ”: John Warner to Andrea Mitchell, Andrea Mitchell Reports, MSNBC, March 23, 2011.
“She has everything: magic”: Heymann, Liz, 325.
“I was in such”: John Duka, “Journal of a Recovery,” New York Times, February 4, 1985.
“She was beautiful again”: “Liz Taylor,” People, December 26 / January 2, 1989, 63.
Chapter 14
“The doorbell would ring”: Frank Cascio with Hilary Liftin, My Friend Michael: An Extraordinary Friendship with an Extraordinary Man (New York: William Morrow, 2011), 19.
“My father was actually”: Ibid., 66.
“Did you give the”: Ibid, 66–67.
“I went to a”: Elizabeth Taylor to Larry King, Larry King Live, CNN, May 1, 2006.
“After that, we talked”: Taraborrelli, Elizabeth, 423.
“Then we met and”: Taylor to King, Larry King Live.
“She’ll tell me about”: Boteach, The Michael Jackson Tapes, 230.
“One night Michael, Elizabeth”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, 408.
“The opening of Hollywood”: Marylouise Oates, “Opening at the Races with Liz and Michael,” Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1986.
“I remember he leaned”: David Gest, “As Crowds flocked around Elizabeth, Jacko wasn’t the centre [sic] of attention. He whispered to me, ‘Now that’s what you call royalty,’ ” The Sun Online, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3490173/David-Gests-tribute-to-Elizabeth-Taylor.html
“Put it on, put”: Taylor, My Love Affair, 141.
“I think he was”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 270.
“instantly rendered invisible”: Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic, 70.
“But I didn’t ask”: Boteach, The Michael Jackson Tapes, 210.
“thought he was losing”: Jermaine Jackson, You Are Not Alone, 166.
“This is not the way”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, 427.
Chapter 15
“It was beyond”: Kashner, “Elizabeth Taylor’s Closing Act,” 201.
“Within two weeks”: Elizabeth Sporkin, “As Fans Rally with Cards and Sympathy, Elizabeth Taylor Once Again Battles for Her Life,” People, May 14, 1990, 101.
“Elizabeth Taylor was going”: Margaret Maldonado Jackson with Richard Hack, Jackson Family Values: Memories of Madness (Beverly Hills, CA: Dove Books, 1995), 83.
“She was like a”: “He Does, She Does—They Do!,” People, October 21, 1991, 38.
“You’ve been so generous”: Ibid., 43.
“I couldn’t think of”: Ibid., 144.
“We stayed at the”: Taylor, My Love Affair, 143.
“I guess you could”: Ibid., 144.
“Over the years Michael”: Ibid., 142.
“No, I’m getting you out”: Theroux, “My Trip to Neverland.”
“She’s a warm cuddly”: Ibid.
Chapter 16
“You know, I was”: Owens, “Elizabeth Taylor, Close Up,” 64.
“Dangerous might seem to”: Alan Light, “Dangerous,” Rolling Stone, January 1, 1991, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/dangerous-19920101.
“offered them very substantial”: Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis, The Soundtrack of My Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 388.
“I know people are”: Chuck Philips, “Jermaine Jackson: ‘Word to the Badd!!’ A Call to Michael,” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 1991.
“He came off as”: Davis and DeCurtis, The Soundtrack of My Life, 388.
“How could you let”: Ibid., 389.
“Jermaine waxes lyrical on”: Leela de Kretseri, “Bro Dished Dirt on Jacko,” New York Post, March 5, 2006.
“To Michael, Elizabeth was”: Kashner, “Elizabeth Taylor’s Closing Act,” 152.
“in honor of my friend”: “Heal the World Foundation” Speech, February 3, 1992.
“Your adrenaline is at”: Theroux, “My Trip to Neverland.”
“Since that 1993 show”: Molly Driscoll, “Super Bowl 2014: The 7 Best Halftime Shows of All Time,” Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 2013, http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/TV/2013/0122/Super-Bowl-2014-The-7-best-halftime-shows-of-all-time/Michael-Jackson-1993.
“Michael dismissed the demands”: Maldonado Jackson and Hack, Jackson Family Values, 191.
“we were allowed to”: J. Chandler Declaration, Executed December 28, 1993, 2. http://vindicatemjj.blogspot.com/2012/09/declaration-of-jordan-chandler.html.
“These sexually offensive contacts”: Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles: J. Cha
ndler, a minor, by and through his Guardians Ad Litem E. Chandler and J. Chandler, Plaintiff, v. Michael Jackson and Docs 1 through 100, Defendants, Filed September 14, 1993, 2.
“And the most disturbing”: Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic, 62.
“I know for a”: Ibid., 64.
“pathologically kind, absolutely”: Ibid., 65.
“Katherine tried in vain”: Maldonado Jackson with Hack, Jackson Family Values, 191.
“I totally believe 100%”: Charles P. Wallace and Jim Newton, “Taylor Joins Jackson in Singapore During Ordeal: Tour: Actress says she does not believe allegations of sexual abuse. Singer’s investigator describes details of alleged extortion attempt,” Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1993.
“And we hung out”: Boteach, The Michael Jackson Tapes, 23.
“When the Jacksons arrived”: Jones with Brown, Michael Jackson, 75.
“Just what I need”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958–2009 (New York: Grand Central, 2010), 513.
“was angry, too”: Jones with Brown, Michael Jackson, 75.
“Why does Elizabeth Taylor”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 513.
“I’m his mother”: Jones with Brown, Michael Jackson, 75.
“would decide where she’d”: Stacy Brown, “My Life with the Broke, Jealous Jacksons,” New York Post, October 13, 2013.
“Michael’s handlers don’t want”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 513.
“She took the spoon”: Boteach, The Michael Jackson Tapes, 231.
“Take it away”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 514.
“The Dangerous tour was”: Jones with Brown, Michael Jackson, 75.
“showering him with notes”: Karen Schneider, “A Message to Michael,” People, February 5, 1996, 55.
“I’m never coming back”: Maureen Orth, “Nightmare in Neverland,“ Vanity Fair, January 1994, 133.
“Michael heard about the search”: Maldonado Jackson with Hack, Jackson Family Values, 191.
“I thought Michael was”: Cascio with Liftin, My Friend Michael, 66.
“You need to get”: Taraborrelli, Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 523.