by William Kuhn
3 She had seen the programs: John F. Baker, “Editors at Work: Star Behind the Scenes,” Publishers Weekly, April 19, 1993, p. 21.
4 Annie Leibovitz was one of the last: “Assassination of John Lennon,” en.wikipedia.org (accessed April 24, 2010).
5 Doubleday bid $200,000: Author interview with Sarah Lazin, February 19, 2009.
6 a collaborative venture: The Ballad of John and Yoko, ed. The Editors of Rolling Stone, Jonathan Cott, and Christine Doudna (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Rolling Stone, 1982).
7 “We thought John and Yoko”: Author interview with Jann Wenner, April 8, 2009.
8 Foundation on Violence in America: Ballad of John and Yoko, p. 306.
9 “knew each other very well”: Author interview with Scott Moyers, November 18, 2008.
10 “It helps people who mourn”: JKO to Jann Wenner, October 29, 1981, courtesy of Jann Wenner; quoted in Ballad of John and Yoko, pp. xiii, 305.
11 acknowledged the importance of Jackie’s faith: Ballad of John and Yoko, p. ix.
12 “But that’s the same”: Ibid., p. 188.
13 “when he gets down”: Ibid., p. 191.
14 “They both actually talked the same”: Author interview with Jann Wenner, April 8, 2009.
15 “took one for the home team”: Author interview with Bill Barry, February 20, 2009.
16 “classic celebrity project”: Hillel Italie, “Making of a Memoir: Jackson, Jackie and ‘Moonwalk,’ ” news.yahoo.com, July 28, 2009 (accessed July 28, 2009).
17 Areheart tells one version: Shaye Areheart, “New Afterword to the 2009 Reissued Edition,” Moonwalk (New York: Harmony, 2009), p. 291ff.
18 “a huge nightmare”: Author interview with literary agent.
19 “How the hell”: “The Michael Jackson–Jackie Kennedy Onassis Collaboration,” Inside Edition, original airdate July 8, 2009, CBS Studios Inc., at insideedition.com (accessed May 4, 2010).
20 superior star power: Author interview with Jim Fitzgerald, November 18, 2008.
21 “Do you think he likes girls?”: Jean-Claude Suarès and J. Spencer Beck, Uncommon Grace: Reminiscences and Photographs of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomasson-Grant, 1994), p. 8.
22 “Michael Jackson is driving me mad”: Author interview with Edward Kasinec, May 13, 2009.
23 lengthy calls to her house: Author interview with Bill Barry, February 20, 2009.
24 old college-student trick: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
25 “all puff and no substance”: Suarès and Beck, Uncommon Grace, p. 8.
26 “The book she thought she was getting”: Author interview with Jann Wenner, April 8, 2009.
27 “But she didn’t want to upset Michael”: Suarès and Beck, Uncommon Grace, pp. 8–9.
28 “He was like a moving target”: Author interview with Alberto Vitale, April 20, 2009.
29 “shun personal publicity”: Michael Jackson, Moonwalk (New York: Doubleday, 1988), pp. 270–72.
30 “eccentric, contradictory and helplessly revealing”: Quoted in Italie, “Making of a Memoir.”
31 “Follow your bliss”: Jacket copy for Stephen Larsen and Robin Larsen, A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
32 a collaborative article: Ibid., pp. 3, 502.
33 repeatedly cited Jackie’s performance: Ibid., pp. 454, 494.
34 The color insert included: Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers, ed. Betty Sue Flowers (New York: Doubleday, 1988), pp. 3, 4, 6, 7.
35 “There will be some people”: Author interviews with Judith Moyers, May 26 and June 11 and 12, 2009.
36 “We’re so engaged”: Campbell, Power of Myth, p. 6.
37 “I imagine some kings”: Ibid., p. 12.
38 “What happens when people”: Ibid., p. 15.
39 “One of the great challenges”: Ibid., p. 66.
40 “She drew a distinction”: Author interviews with David Stenn, May 8, 2008, March 26, 2009.
41 “She would get on the elevator”: Author interview with Tom Cahill, February 19, 2009.
42 “I don’t know how anyone can withstand”: Author interview with Peter Kruzan, May 13, 2009.
43 like Pete Hamill: Pete Hamill, “A Private Life Defined by Wit, Compassion,” Newsday, May 22, 1994.
44 “breezy, mock-autocratic”: J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies, with Mary Lynn Kotz (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973), p. 282.
EPILOGUE
1 “being pushed out of an airplane”: Sandy Rovner, “ ‘Healing’ vs. ‘Curing’: A Look at New Age Treatments,” Washington Post, February 16, 1993; see also Eric Cassell, “Healing and the Mind,” New York Times, May 23, 1993.
2 Judith Moyers and Bill Barry both recalled: Author interviews with Judith Moyers, May 26 and June 11 and 12, 2009; author interview with Bill Barry, February 20, 2009.
3 One of the artists they employed: Lavina Melwani, “Art and Ayurveda Showcased in Book on Healing Plants of India,” Hinduism Today, June 1994, online at hinduismtoday.com.
4 “My, will you look”: Author interview with Sarah Giles, January 30, 2009.
5 “Every once in a while you have to do something for the soul”: Author interview with Doubleday colleague, November 17, 2008.
6 women of Montparnasse: JKO to Ray Roberts, March 1, 1978, Ray Roberts Papers, Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
7 “I am drowning in it”: JKO to John Russell, “Sunday” [1983?], Ray Roberts Papers, Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
8 “Her time in France”: Author interview with Antony Beevor, January 29, 2008; see also, David Coward, “France at War with Herself,” New York Times, September 11, 1994.
9 “re-membering Osiris”: Jonathan Cott, Isis and Osiris: Exploring the Goddess Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1994), p. 16.
10 She wanted to keep to the original plan: Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), p. 60.
11 “curious hybrid”: Jonathan Spence, “Then Came the Fall of Rome (Splat!),” New York Times, December 18, 1994.
12 he condemned bad souls: Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe 1: Volumes 1–7, From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (New York: Broadway Books, 2001), p. 142.
13 “You two bad Catholic boys!”: Author interview with Tom Cahill, February 19, 2009.
14 plucked a book from the Paris bestseller list: Author interview with Marian Schwartz, May 5, 2009.
15 “Did you pay, Jackie?”: Author interviews with Nancy Tuckerman.
16 “All right, Jackie! Whaddya want?”: Author interview with Martha Levin, May 12, 2009.
17 “Jacqueline Onassis in stocking feet”: Author interview with Paul Golob, April 1, 2009.
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