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Notes
Introduction: 1966 and 1967, Caution
“No American films”: Rex Reed, “After the ‘Blow-Up,’ a Close-Up,” New York Times, Jan. 1, 1967, D-7
“It was all right”: Bosley Crowther, “The Underground Overflows,” New York Times, Dec. 11, 1966.
Chelsea Hotel’s manager: Crimp, “Our Kind of Movie,” 102.
“it was in someone’s bedroom”: Brigid Berlin, “Brigid Berlin Talks to Factory Co-Worker Paul Morrissey,” Interview, February 1989, 57.
“I can’t believe”: Steven Watson, Factory Made, 308.
“golden age for creative”: “No Limits,” Newsweek, June 22, 1964.
Chapter One: Winter 1968, Guts
“I had this idea”: Yacowar, The Films of Paul Morrissey, 21.
Viva Paper Towels: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 1969, 17.
“They felt they were”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
The Glory of the Fuck: Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol, 146.
“The story is”/“Jackie Kennedy”/“Save it”: Sally Kempton, “Viva of the Visions,” Village Voice, Feb. 22, 1968, 51.
“There were planes”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
“All of the males”: Margia Kramer, “The Warhol File,” Village Voice, May 17, 1988.
“sick sex”: Robert Wilonsky, “Southern Comfort,” New Times Los Angeles, Feb. 11–17, 1999, 4.
“pornographer”: Southern, The Candy Men, 262.
“not a suitable vehicle”: Ibid., 263.
atoll of Tetiaroa: Manso, Brando, 634.
“I have nothing”: Southern, The Candy Men, 311.
“1960s movie”/“wonderful ass”: Manso, Brando, 636.
“Soon, rumors reached”: Southern, The Candy Men, 313.
“every one conceivable”/“We’re keeping it a secret”: Offen, Brando, 181.
“This movie makes”: Bosworth, Marlon Brando, 157.
one thousand British pounds: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“madly in love”: Gerald Clarke, “Petronius Americanus,” Atlantic, March 1972, 51.
“To cane a woman”: Johnson, Intellectuals, 326.
“I love prostitution”: “More of Gore,” Screw, Nov. 23, 1970, 6.
“a skit, a song”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan Plans a Stage Tribute to Eros,” New York Times, April 9, 1969, 54.
word “fuck” on TV: Lahr, The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, 15.
“So that’s my obit?”: Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, 311.
“It’s to be an erotic evening”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“co-devising and co-directing”: Ibid.
White recalled meeting: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“organization of an orgy”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“four fellows wanking”: Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, 351.
“non-queers”: Ibid., 362.
“There’s been enough”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan Plans a Stage Tribute to Eros,” New York Times, April 9, 1969, 54.
“gentle stimulation”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
“something far out”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“I seldom start”: Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, 142.
“Absolutely like Joan of Arc”: Russell Halley, “The Complete Works of Gore Vidal,” Atlantic, March 1975, 19.
“It got more interesting”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“yellow legal pads”: Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, 140.
“Myra had been a male”: Ibid., 142.
“fragile white race”: Ibid., 151.
“cold, clinical sex”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1979, 74.
“le maitre Tyler”: John Calendo, “Parker Tyler,” Andy Warhol’s Interview, March 1973, 44.
“hot stuff”: Vidal, Palimpsest, 106.
“Anaïs in all the flowing”: Ibid., 107.
“Oh God, to wake up”: Hollis Alpert, “Dialogue on Film,” American Film, April 1977, 38.
“just a big queen”: Mitzel and Abbott, Myra & Gore, 80.
“Bunny Breckinridge was”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 579.
“part castle, part dungeon”: Fonda, Jane Fonda, 176.
an owl dropped: Ibid.
“Can I have”: Bosworth, Jane Fonda, 254.
female lead in Bonnie and Clyde: Andersen, Citizen Jane, 136.
“Vadim promised”: Fonda, Jane Fonda, 177.
started popping Dexedrine, while her director/husband: Ibid, 180.
“Brigitte Bardot type”: Freedland, Jane Fonda, 99.
even if Vadim also wanted: Bosworth, Jane Fonda, 254.
“I don’t think I know”: “Gore’s Myra,” Time, Feb. 16, 1968, 69.
“very best satirical work”: Kaplan, Gore Vid
al, 584.
“right-wing circles”: Andrew Solomon, “Gore Vidal Receives a Visitor,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 15, 1995, 40.
“New York Times would not advertise”: Vidal, Palimpsest, 102.
“Gore has slipped”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1969, 74.
“You know, Hemingway’s problem”: Mitzel and Abbott, Myra & Gore, 76.
took time to have lunch: Hellman to author; Oct. 16, 2011.
“I hoped that Ned”: Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, 151.
masturbation session: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 583.
Vidal sign a release/Heinemann/Anthony Blond: Ibid., 588.
“coquettishly”/“sexual problems”: “Myra the Messiah,” Time, Feb. 16, 1968.
“Myra favors anything”: “Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal,” Playboy, June 1969, 94.
“high camp”: Sandra Shevey, “Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.
“Most of us worry”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1969, 74.
“Everyone below Rosenthal”: Larry Gross, “Abe Rosenthal’s Reign of Homophobia,” Truthdig, May 16, 2006.
Lenny Bruce/“schmuck”: Scherman, Pop, 218.
Dr. Donald Kaplan/Tulane Drama Review: Bram, Eminent Outlaws, 81.
“Short people can’t”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“Why not me?”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Well, life is”: Rex Reed, “Breakthough by ‘The Boys in the Band’,” New York Times, May 12, 1968.
“I had to sublet”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Too many dykeisms”: Andy Humm, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Hits 40,” Gay City News, June 26, 2008, 64.
“I’m worried about you”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“a changed woman”: Wendell Rickeets, “Talking Truth,” Bay Area Reporter, Feb. 8, 1990, 35.
“I don’t know anyone”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010; also, Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“Not a weekend”: Richard Kramer, “A Play of Words About a Play,” New York Times, Oct. 31, 1993, 8.
“Anyone who had”: Peter Filichia, “Stagestruck,” TheaterWeek, June 17, 1996, 10.
“Edward didn’t”/Barr exchange: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“I’m only directing”: Rondo to author; Dec. 10, 2010.
“Don’t get involved”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“I read the play”: Ibid.
“There’s nothing in The Knack”: Alfred Zelcer, “Cliff Gorman—Coitus Interrupted,” After Dark, Dec. 1971, 22.
“You’re so Hollywood”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
Although he studied: Andy Humm, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Hits 40,” Gay City News, June 26, 2008, 64.
“Make up whatever”: Ibid., 82.
“Do you think”/“Aristophanes”: Mary Talbot, “How One Man’s ‘Band’ Changed Theater,” Daily News, June 19, 1996, 37.
“word somehow got out”/“Our Town”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“I found it highly skillful”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“It was 1968”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Clinton Wilder”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Here it is”: Gussow, Edward Albee, 164.
“I’ll take one”: Ibid., 165.
“So there was”: Alfred Zelcer, “Cliff Gorman—Coitus Interrupted,” After Dark, Dec. 1971, 22.
word “shit”/“infinitely more vulgar”: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 373, 377.
“I’m sure everyone”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
Chapter Two: Spring 1968, Partners
“Even in college”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“We thought people”: Rado to author; June 16, 2010.
“ ‘Sodomy’ was not”: MacDermot to author; June 15, 2010.
“Who’s Rado and Ragni”: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
director of choice, Gerald Freedman: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
obvious one for Michael Butler: Butler to author; Dec. 4, 2010.
“I wanted Jim”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
“We were looking”: Wollman, The Theater Will Rock, 48.
“environmental theater piece”: Cohen to author; Aug. 17, 2011.
“These two guys”: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
“Galt MacDermot didn’t fit”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
“I didn’t find them”/narc: MacDermot to author, June 15, 2010.
“pansexuality”/“omnisexual”: Sheela Lambert, “The Man Behind the Hair,” The Advocate, March 12, 2009.
“idea of close friendship”: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
“very guy situation”/“like any couple”: Arenal to author; Dec. 12, 2010.
“Tom was very secretive”: Cohen to author, Aug. 17, 2011.
“They were lovers”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
“Why aren’t the girls”/choreography credit: Arenal to author, Dec. 12, 2010.
“It was crazy backstage”/“spaced out”: Arenal to author, Dec. 12, 2010.
“You tasted the Vitamin”: Grode, Hair, 125.
“The stagehands hated”: Arenal to author, Dec. 12, 2010.
body stockings: Davis, Letting Down My Hair, 59.
“Only a few”: MacDermot to author, June 15, 2010.
“totally artistic decision”: Grode, Hair, 70.
“[e]veryone was momentarily”: Davis, Letting Down My Hair, 76.
“The shots ‘shrivelled’”: Ibid.
“Many of the girls”: Ibid., 234.
bogus “raid”: Grode, Hair, 70.
“There was a time”: Davis, Letting Down My Hair, 118.
The League denied/“I have to thank”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
John Schlesinger: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
Groucho Marx/peephole: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“I saw straights”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“a funny, frank”: “New Plays,” Time, April 26, 1968, 97.
“calls a fag”: Wilfred Sheed, “Gay Life Gets a Sharp Going Over,” Life, May 10, 1968.
“party of bitchy fags”/“Probably most homosexuals”: Frances Herridge, “ ‘The Boys in the Band’ Alters Author’s Life,” New York Post, April 22, 1968.
“A couple of years”: Clive Barnes, “ ‘Boys in the Band,’ ” New York Times, April 15, 1968, 48.
“People like Tynan”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
Philip Roth declined: Feiffer to author; Dec. 7, 2010.
Playboy/Drs. William Masters: Maier, Masters of Sex, 203.
“studs and cartoonists”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
When he’d polished the play: Feiffer to author; also, Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 398.
“The Jewish women”: Roth, Reading Myself and Others, 34.
slide show/“L.B.J.’s testicles”: Ibid., 31-32.
“The issue seems”: Sam Tanenhaus, “John Updike’s Archive,” New York Times, June 20, 2010, C1.
“sort of a crusader”: Dick Cavett, “John Updike Interview,” Conversations with John Updike, 230.
Wolper Company: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 66.
“kind of a mess”: John Updike, “Bech Meets Me,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 14, 1971, 3.
“My observation about American”: Elinor Stout, Converations with John Updike, 79.
late-blooming sexual awareness: Updike, Self-Consciousness, 135.
17th Century Day pageants: Charles Thomas Samuels, “The Art of Fiction XLIII: John Updike,” Paris Review, Winter 1968.
“surge of belonging”: Updike, Self-Consciousness, 51.
“Updikes are the ringleaders”: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 76.
“about not just couples”: James Schiff, Updike in Cincinnati, 58.
“all the religious ones”: Sally Reston, “John U
pdike Works Three Hours and Poses as a Vacationer,” Vineyard Gazette, May 3, 1968.
“I plotted Couples”: Charles Thomas Samuels, “The Art of Fiction XLIII: John Updike,” Paris Review, Winter 1968.
“only the marsh geography”: Ibid.
she felt smothered: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 76.
“It is very tempting”: “Musical Beds,” Newsweek, April 8, 1968, 125.
“lot of dry talk”: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 76.
“This book deals”: Sally Reston, “John Updike Works Three Hours and Poses as a Vacationer,” Vineyard Gazette, May 3, 1968.
Menemsha Beach: Ibid.
“I seem to remember”: Updike, Self-Consciousness, 123.
“almost universally anti-war”: Ibid. 114.
“too reflexive, too Pop”: Ibid.
“The solution to”: Ibid., 115.
“lugubrious bojunk”: Ibid., 120.
“mood of black despair”: Robin Brantley, “Knock Knock,” New York Times Magazine, June 25, 1976, 50.
“that Village Voice ad”: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 361.
Martinson/“accomplice”: Roth, The Facts, 148.
“emancipator”: Ibid. 149.
“bus from Port Authority”: Ibid., 156.
Chapter Three: Summer 1968, Politics
advanced him $250,000: Ibid., 157.
“different from any other book”: Sandra Shevey, “I Think It’s Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.
“With this book”: Mitzel and Abbott, Myra & Gore, 63.
a near fistfight: Gerald Clarke, “Petronius Americanus,” Atlantic, March 1972, 49.
screen be erected: Bram, Eminent Outlaws, 12.
“I’m all for the breaking”: Paul Jabara, “A Visit with Gore Vidal,” After Dark, July 1972, 52.
“I saw your sign”: “More of Gore,” Screw, Nov. 23, 1970, 8.
Andy Warhol spent: Paul Carroll, “What’s a Warhol?,” Playboy, Sept. 1969, 133.
“Could I please be”: Diaries, unpublished articles by Lance Loud; also Lance Loud to author.
Baker agreed but balked: Watson, Factory Made, 339.
Solanas two thousand dollars /“thief and vulture”: Southern, The Candy Men, 320.
Kenneth’s Hair Salon: Bockris, Warhol, 297.
“Andy, Andy”: Mark Shivas, “ ‘Cowboy’ Director Had a Blind Spot,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1970.
“John and I”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“that bunch of perverts”: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov, 9, 1969, 17.
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