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The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

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by William Friedkin


  Mingalone, Dick, 159–60, 161

  Mitchell, John, 62

  Mitchum, Robert, 326

  M’Naghten, Daniel, 397

  Modell, Art, 68

  Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, 432

  Monash, Paul, 229

  Monroe, Marilyn, 113

  Montand, Yves, 157, 163

  Monterastelli, Art, 435–36

  Monteux, Pierre, 29

  Moore, Demi, 407

  Moore, Donald Page, 39, 46–47, 50, 51, 52

  Moore, Robert, 133

  Moore, Robin, 142–43, 144, 146, 148, 149, 156, 196

  Morey, Ed, 246–49

  Morricone, Ennio, 400

  Mouakad, Germano, 221

  Mueller-Stahl, Armin, 415

  Muller, Robbie, 384, 390–91, 393

  Mulligan, Gerry, 53

  Mulligan, Robert, 92, 206

  Nagano, Kent, 441

  Navarro, Darrin, 456, 457, 466

  Nelson, Kenneth, 135

  Nemenz, Otto, 393

  Newberry, Teddy, 79

  Newell, Pete, 410

  Newman, Chris, 189, 214

  Newman, Paul, 151

  Nichola, Father John, 236, 237

  Nichols, Dandy, 127

  Nichols, Mike, 117, 210, 229, 244

  Nicholson, Jack, 206

  Nijinsky, Vaslav, 472

  Nitti, Frank “The Enforcer,” 79

  Nitzsche, Jack, 295

  Nixon, Richard, 61, 62

  Noble, Nigel, 76, 83–84

  Nolte, Nick, 409, 410, 411

  Nordblad, Dorothy, 11, 12, 13

  Nordine, Ken, 286

  Nover, Matt, 410

  Oates, Warren, 351, 352

  O’Brien, Bob, 149

  O’Byrne, Brian F., 454

  O’Donnell, Chris, 405

  Offenbach, Jacques, 424

  Oldfield, Mike, 295

  Olmos, Edward James, 415

  O’Malley, Father Bill, 245, 246, 264–65

  O’Neal, Ryan, 316

  O’Neal, Shaquille, 410

  O’Neal, Tatum, 316

  O’Neill, Ed, 410

  O’Neill, Eugene, 216

  O’Neill, Oona, 216

  Ornitz, Arthur, 136, 159

  Osteen, Tom, 309–10

  Pacino, Al, 204, 348–49, 366–71, 372–73, 374–75, 473

  Pack, Rod, 68–71

  Page, Ellen, 459

  Paine, Raymond, 117

  Palminteri, Chazz, 413

  Pankow, John, 387, 391

  Pape, Frank “Killer Pape,” 35, 42, 47

  Parsons, Lindsley, 99, 100,103

  Paulin, Scott, 380

  Paul VI, Pope, 263

  Pearce, Guy, 431

  Peckinpah, Sam, 206, 322

  Penderecki, Krzystof, 291, 294

  Penn, Arthur, 92, 210, 229

  Penn, Sean, 405

  Perle, George, 419

  Perry, Orlando (Orlando Perry), 141–42

  Peters, Anne, 440

  Peters, Jean, 184

  Peterson, Billy, 386–87, 390–91, 394, 415

  Petievich, Gerry, 383, 384, 387, 392

  Petievich, John, 385

  Petraeus, David, 309–10

  Petrie, Daniel, 350

  Picker, David, 115–16, 119, 120

  Pino, Tony, 351–52, 353

  Pinter, Harold, 54, 120–32, 165, 395, 438–39, 440, 450, 452, 471, 473

  Polier, Dan, 148

  Pollock, Jackson, 186

  Preminger, Otto, 112

  Prentice, Keith, 137

  Presley, Elvis, 360

  Price, Ned, 425, 426

  Prince, 1

  Proust, Marcel, 19–20

  Puccini, Giacomo, 418, 424, 445–47, 457–58

  Quinlan, Red, 37–38, 39, 50, 51–53, 54–55, 56, 58, 60

  Rabal, Francisco “Paco,” 159, 327, 337

  Radvanovsky, Sondra, 448

  Radziwill, Lee, 418

  Rand, Thomas “Fat Thomas,” 154, 162, 173, 189, 330

  Rappaport, Michelle, 409

  Rauschenberg, Robert, 186

  Reagan, Ronald, 429

  Redford, Robert, 407

  Redstone, Sumner, 407

  Remar, James, 370

  Resnais, Alain, 219

  Rey, Fernando, 157–59, 169

  Richardson, Sandy, 351, 352

  Ritter, Cardinal Joseph E., 224, 226

  Roark, Howard, 187

  Robards, Jason, 117, 118

  Roizman, Owen, 161, 163, 179, 214, 237, 256, 262, 264, 268, 269

  Román, Carlos, 71

  Rooney, Mickey, 18, 133

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 79

  Rose, Charlie, 320

  Rose, Reginald, 414, 415

  Rosenberg, Max, 127–28

  Rosenfeld, Jonas, 194–96, 201

  Ross, Herbert, 418–19

  Ross, Stan, 96, 107, 108

  Rossellini, Roberto, 398

  Rovetti, Larry, 393–94

  Rowland, Cricket, 384

  Rowlands, Gena, 351

  Rozelle, Pete, 68, 81–82

  Rudin, Scott, 429, 430

  Rugh, William, 433

  Russell, Ken, 328

  Russell, Kurt, 459

  Russell, Vinny, 255

  Rydell, Mark, 229–30

  Sabol, Ed, 82

  Sain, Frank, 43

  Saint, Eva Marie, 86

  Sainte-Marie, Buffy, 295

  Saint-Saëns, Camille, 424, 449

  Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 434

  Salven, David, 104–5, 106, 233, 237, 246–49, 251, 257, 264, 269, 287, 304, 328, 331, 335–36, 464

  Salven, Michael, 464

  Sanders, George, 104

  Sarkisian, John, 94

  Scaggs, Boz, 295

  Scaglia, François, 146, 147, 157, 183–84

  Scardino, Don, 370

  Schaffner, Franklin, 92

  Schaffner, Franklin, 214

  Scheider, Roy, 153, 154, 159, 165, 168–69, 214, 239, 326, 328, 330, 345, 385

  Scherick, Edgar, 122, 127

  Schifrin, Lalo, 290–93, 294

  Schiller, Larry, 69, 70

  Schine, G. David, 156–57

  Schlesinger, John, 135

  Schnitzer, Peggy, 464

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 418

  Schulberg, Budd, 85

  Schulman, Arnold, 116

  Schultze, Luther, 223

  Scofield, Paul, 124

  Scott, George C., 206, 415

  Scott, Lizabeth, 286–87

  Sellers, Peter, 117

  Serfling, Father Robert, 31–32, 33, 34, 36, 48, 51

  Shah, P. K., 440

  Shannon, Michael, 452–56, 457

  Shapiro, Mel, 103

  Shaw, Robert, 127, 130–31

  Sheinberg, Sid, 321, 322, 326, 327, 342, 347, 350

  Shelton, Ron, 409, 410, 411

  Shemin, Richard, 442

  Shepherd, Cybill, 318

  Sheridan, Ann, 413

  Shulman, Sam, 148

  Siegel, Don, 206

  Silverberg, Charlie, 230

  Simenon, Georges, 446

  Simpson, O. J., 414

  Sinatra, Frank, 215, 360, 361

  Slater, Mary Jo, 415

  Smith, Bud, 76, 77, 84, 285, 300, 323, 337, 341, 342–43, 345, 353, 374, 375, 391, 427

  Smith, Dick, 215–52, 253, 262, 267, 268, 274, 282

  Smith, Henry Justin, 40

  Smith, Ian, 335

  Smith, John Justin, 40–41, 48, 49, 51

  Snyder, Arthur, 252–53

  Soderberg, Ted, 190, 198–99, 201

  Sokurov, Andre, 467

  Solomon, Leonard, 30

  Solomon, Lois, 30–31, 41, 46, 50

  Sorvino, Paul, 268, 351, 352, 371

  Spector, Phil, 94, 95

  Spielberg, Steven, 246, 319

  Springer, Axel, 307

  Stanfill, Dennis, 200

  Stein, Jules, 318, 3346–47

  Steiner, Max, 291

 
Stephens, John, 335

  Stern, Aaron, 299, 371, 373

  Stevens, Craig, 110

  Stevens, George, 190

  Stewart, Potter, 292

  St. John, Jill, 62

  Stockwell, Dean, 385

  Stone, Oliver, 349, 350

  Strouse, Charles, 118

  Strauss, Richard, 417, 424, 457

  Stravinsky, Igor, 29–30, 108

  Streisand, Barbra, 348

  Strub, Phil, 431

  Stuart, Mel, 65, 76–77, 78, 217

  Stulberg, Gordon, 133, 200–201, 202–3

  Subotsky, Milton, 127–28

  Sullivan, Neil, 221–22

  Sutherland, Donald, 115

  Swan, Jeremy, 378

  Tafler, Sydney, 127

  Talese, Gay, 375

  Tanen, Ned, 322, 342–43, 350

  Taradash, Daniel, 216

  Tarkenton, Fran, 81

  Taylor, Eugene, 42

  Taylor, Jim, 81

  Taylor, Juliet, 240

  Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 227, 262

  Temple, Juno, 463, 465

  Thiessen, Don, 84

  Thompson, J. Lee, 228

  Tidyman, Ernest, 149–50, 205, 214

  Tillman, Hudson, 35, 42

  Timmermann, Bonnie, 454

  Trintignant, Jean-Louis, 163

  Truffaut, François, 28, 306

  Tucker, Forrest, 118

  Tuminaro, Angelo “Angie,” 145, 146, 169

  Turner, Ted, 394

  Turturro, John, 385

  Tyson, Mike, 1

  “Uncle Mort,” 361–62, 364

  Unitas, Johnny, 81

  Utt, Kenny, 160, 166, 173–75, 179, 181

  Valenti, Jack, 233, 273, 299, 431

  Vance, Courtney B., 415

  Ventura, Lino, 306, 324, 325, 326

  Vercoutere, Marcel, 251–52, 259, 264, 267, 332, 333–34

  Verdi, Guiseppe, 424

  Verrill, Addison, 358, 359–60

  Visconti, Luchino, 398 von Sydow, Max, 243, 262, 269–72, 274, 281–82, 302

  Vorkapich, Slavko, 218–19

  Wagner, Ray, 404

  Walker, Gerald, 319, 361

  Walker, Herbert, 252–53

  Walker, Roy, 327, 337

  Wallace, Wally, 363, 364

  Walsh, J. T., 410

  Warren, Ed, 36

  Warren, Jack, 89–91

  Washington, Ned, 191–92

  Wasserman, Lew, 321, 322, 325, 327, 329, 342, 345, 347, 350

  Waters, Chuck, 264

  Waters, Frank, 145, 146, 169–70

  Waters, Muddy, 20

  Wayne, John, 229

  Webb, Jack, 286

  Webb, Jim, 429–30, 432, 434

  Webern, Anton, 291, 294, 418

  Weeks, Alan, 152, 154, 164, 165

  Weiner, Bob, 152, 157, 158–59, 160, 166, 385–86

  Weinstein, Harvey, 401

  Weintraub, Jane, 371, 372

  Weintraub, Jerry, 268, 360–61, 365–66, 367, 370, 371–73, 375

  Welles, Orson, 2, 3, 28, 88, 90, 92, 286, 287, 475

  Wells, Frank, 211, 229, 230, 249–50, 274, 300, 304–5, 308

  Wenders, Wim, 384

  West, Louis Jolyon, 13

  White, Peter, 136, 138

  White, Theodore H., 61

  Wiersma, Holly, 455

  Wilder, Billy, 307

  Wilder, Gene, 115

  Williams, Billy, 274, 281

  Williams, Elmo, 182, 187, 191–94, 196–97, 198, 199, 201–3

  Williams, Tennessee, 134

  Williamson, Mykelti, 415

  Wisdom, Norman, 117–18

  Wiseman, Joseph, 118, 200

  Wiser, Marty, 303

  Wizan, Joe, 86, 88, 97, 197

  Wohl, Burton, 225

  Wolper, David, 59, 60, 62, 65, 66–68, 70, 76–77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 92–93, 115, 199

  Wood, Natalie, 134, 214

  Wood, William, 397–98

  Woyzeck, Johann Christian, 419

  Wunderlich, Jerry, 256

  Wyckoff, Bob, 103–5

  Wynn, Steve, 454

  Xenakis, Yannis, 291

  Yablans, Frank, 315–16, 318, 327

  Yeoman, Bob, 390

  Yorkin, Bud, 115–16, 120

  Zangara, Gus, 79

  Zanuck, Darryl, 150, 182, 191, 194, 203–4

  Zanuck, Dick, 150–51, 155, 156, 175, 182, 186, 194, 430–31, 433

  Zinnemann, Fred, 191

  Zubaidy, Tarik, 276–77, 279–80, 282, 283

  PHOTO SECTION

  The author

  My mother, Rae

  With Francis Coughlin—1960

  The People vs. Paul Crump: 1962

  Paul Crump

  Warden Jack Johnson

  Paul Crump; Donald Page Moore, his lawyer; Friedkin

  The Bold Men: 1965

  Art Arfons and the Green Monster

  (L to R) Kenneth Nelson, Reuben Greene, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Keith Prentice

  The boys in the band

  Boys in the Band: 1970

  (L to R) Robert La Tourneaux, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Keith Prentice

  The French Connection: 1971

  Gene Hackman: “Popeye”

  (L to R) Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Alan Weeks: “Poughkeepsie”

  Fernando Rey: “Frog One”

  Phil D’Antoni, Gene Hackman, Jane Fonda, Friedkin—Academy Awards, 1971

  The Exorcist: 1973

  With William Peter Blatty

  With Jason Miller and Ellen Burstyn

  With Linda Blair

  Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn

  Max von Sydow in Mosul, Iraq

  Vasiliki Maliaros

  Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller

  The Demon Pazuzu

  Cruising: 1980

  Al Pacino

  Paul Sorvino, Barton Heyman

  To Live and Die in L.A.: 1985

  Willem Dafoe

  William Petersen, Darlanne Fluegel

  William Petersen

  Los Angeles Opera: 2002-2008

  Suor Angelica

  Rolando Villazón, Gianni Schicchi

  Denyse Graves and Samuel Ramey, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

  Anje Kampe, Mark Delavan, Salvatore Licitra, Il Tabarro

  Michael Shannon

  Ashley Judd

  Bug: 2007

  Lynn Collins, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon

  Michael Shannon, Ashley Judd

  Killer Joe: 2012

  Emile Hirsch and Thomas Haden Church

  Juno Temple

  Matthew McConaughey and Gina Gershon

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sherry

  Cedric and Jack

  *SPOILER*

  There’s nothing salacious in this book, unless you count the descriptions of certain scenes in some of my films. I’ve left out most of the intimate details of my private life, lest the book be slapped with an NC17 rating.

  The conversations all come from my recollection of them, though they are not written to represent word-for-word transcripts, nor can they claim to be objective truths. Rather, I have retold them in a way that evokes the feeling and meaning of what was said. In all instances, the essence of the dialogue is accurate.

  —WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, LOS ANGELES, 2013

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  WILLIAM FRIEDKIN is the Academy Award–winning director of such iconic films as The Exorcist and The French Connection. He lives in Los Angeles.

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  Translation of Carl Orff, Carmina Burana © 1984, The Decca Record Co., Ltd., London.

  Permission for extract from Bug 2006 by Tracy Letts.

  Extract from Kazan on Directing by Elia Kazan, edited by Robert Cornfield, copyright © 2009 by Frances Kazan. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc. for permission.

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