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125“Those two plays at the Phoenix Theatre”: Joan Juliet Buck, “More of a Woman,” Vogue, June, 1980.
125“profoundly uncomfortable”: MG.
126“What I thought was great about him”: Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life, 334.
127“When I was at Yale”: Fox, “Meryl Streep: Her ‘I Can’t Wait’ Jumps Right Out at You.”
128“What infinite heart’s-ease”: William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene i.
128“They had a whole group”: Author interview with Tony Simotes, May 2, 2014.
129“O, for a muse of fire”: William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Prologue.
129“the first time I realized”: Eric Grode, “The City’s Stage, in Rain, Heat and Ribald Lines,” New York Times, May 27, 2012.
129“Michael Moriarty couldn’t give two shits”: Author interview with Gabriel Gribetz, Apr. 23, 2014.
129“I envy the wealth”: Thomas Lask, “Rudd, Meryl Streep, Actors to Hilt,” New York Times, June 19, 1976.
130Snaking counterclockwise: This description of the line comes from George Vecsey, “Waiting for Shakespeare,” New York Times, July 16, 1976.
131“Then, Isabel, live chaste”: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene iv.
131“The role is so beautiful”: Judy Klemesrud, “From Yale Drama to ‘Fanatic Nun,’” New York Times, Aug. 13, 1976.
131“Men have always rejected Isabella . . . quite a scholar”: Fox, “Meryl Streep: Her ‘I Can’t Wait’ Jumps Right Out at You.”
132“I’ll tell him yet”: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene iv.
132“It’s ludicrous”: Klemesrud, “From Yale Drama to ‘Fanatic Nun.’”
133“Plainly conceive, I love you”: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene iv.
133“It was their dynamic”: Author interview with Judith Light, June 18, 2014.
133“The physical attraction between them”: Author interview with Michael Feingold, Feb. 11, 2014.
133“We sense the sexual give-and-take”: Mel Gussow, “Stage: A ‘Measure’ to Test the Mettle of Actors,” New York Times, Aug. 13, 1976.
134“I’ve been shot through with luck”: Klemesrud, “From Yale Drama to ‘Fanatic Nun.’”
FREDO
135“We had a house up in the country”: Marvin Starkman’s quotations are from an author interview, Apr. 24, 2014.
135“We got a color television”: Robyn Goodman’s quotations are from an author interview, June 5, 2014.
135“We had to give him a key”: Israel Horovitz’s quotations are from an author interview, Apr. 17, 2014.
136“You eat a meal with him”: Richard Shepard, dir., I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale, Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2010.
137“There was an undercurrent of sadness”: Stephen Casale’s quotations are from an author interview, Apr. 2, 2014.
137“I’ve always taken care of you, Fredo”: Francis Ford Coppola, dir., The Godfather: Part II, Paramount Pictures, 1974.
138“He was mad as hell”: The details of Cazale’s ancestry and childhood come from an author interview with Stephen Casale, Apr. 2, 2014, and from Clemente Manenti, “The Making of Americans,” Una Città, Sept., 2011.
138“Giovanni Cazale”: John’s brother, Stephen, changed his own name back to “Casale” in 1967.
140“I’m going to Marvin’s house”: Recalled by Starkman, Apr. 24, 2014.
141“You again”: Recalled by Pacino in I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
142“Everybody wants to be first, right?”: Israel Horovitz, Plays: 1 (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 64.
142“That’s Fredo”: I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
142“The second son, Frederico”: Mario Puzo, The Godfather (New York: Putnam, 1969), 17.
142“In an Italian family”: Francis Ford Coppola, director’s commentary, The Godfather: DVD Collection, Paramount Pictures, 2001.
143“the best bugger on the West Coast”: Francis Ford Coppola, dir., The Conversation, Paramount Pictures, 1974.
143“I know it was you, Fredo”: The Godfather: Part II (Coppola, dir.).
144“There is a kind of moral decay”: Tim Lewis, “Icon: John Cazale,” British GQ, Jan., 2010.
145“You know what a No. 10 can is?”: Recalled by Starkman, Apr. 24, 2014.
146“It’s yours”: Sidney Lumet, director’s commentary, Dog Day Afternoon, Warner Home Video, 2006.
146“Wyoming”: Dog Day Afternoon, Sidney Lumet (dir.), Warner Bros., 1975.
147Papp had given Sam Waterston the choice: Author interview with Sam Waterston, June 26, 2015.
147“These are Cubans”: Author interview with Tony Simotes, May 2, 2014.
148“He brought menacing”: Author interview with Rosemarie Tichler, June 25, 2014.
148“Never could the strumpet”: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii.
149“Oh, man, I have met the greatest actress”: I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
149“He wasn’t like anybody I’d ever met”: Ibid.
149“We would talk about the process”: Ibid.
150“He knows Italian”: Recalled by Casale, Apr. 2, 2014.
150“The jerk made everything mean something”: Brock Brower, “Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ with No Apologies,” New York Times, Aug. 6, 1978.
151“He took his time with stuff”: I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
152“She had an almost feral alertness”: From Streep’s tribute speech at “The 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jane Fonda,” held in Los Angeles on June 5, 2014.
152“I admire Jane Fonda”: Susan Dworkin, “Meryl Streep to the Rescue!,” Ms., Feb., 1979.
152politics and Leon Trotsky: From Streep’s tribute speech at “An Academy Salute to Vanessa Redgrave,” held in London on Nov. 13, 2011.
152On days off, she would hang out with John Glover: Author interview with John Glover, Apr. 7, 2015.
153“Beautifully!”: Joan Juliet Buck, “More of a Woman,” Vogue, June, 1980.
153“What do you mean, you couldn’t find me?”: Recalled by Starkman, Apr. 24, 2014.
153I’ve made a terrible mistake: “Streep’s Debut Turned Her Against Hollywood,” WENN, Nov. 1, 2004.
153“You can’t do the classics”: Helen Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), 343.
154“That’s when you can really work”: Terry Curtis Fox, “Meryl Streep: Her ‘I Can’t Wait’ Jumps Right Out at You,” Village Voice, May 31, 1976.
154“something much lighter and closer”: Andrei Serban’s quotations, except where noted, are from an e-mail from Serban to the author on June 2, 2014.
155“you could have taken away”: Fox, “Meryl Streep: Her ‘I Can’t Wait’ Jumps Right Out at You.”
155“Think about The Cherry Orchard”: Diana Maychick, Meryl Streep: The Reluctant Superstar (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), 53.
156“You’re not fat!”: Recalled by Michael Feingold, whose quotations are from an author interview, Feb. 11, 2014.
156“I’ve never seen an angrier improvisation”: Author interview with Mary Beth Hurt, July 16, 2014.
156“Falling down verrry verrry funny”: Mel Gussow, “The Rising Star of Meryl Streep,” New York Times Magazine, Feb. 4, 1979.
157“We are not interested in the truth”: John Simon, “Deadly Revivals,” The New Leader, March 14, 1977.
157“It is a celebration of genius”: Clive Barnes, “Stage: A ‘Cherry Orchard’ That Celebrates Genius,” New York Times, Feb. 18, 1977.
157“I think that if this horrifying production”: The outraged letters are lovingly collected in NYSF, Box 2-56.
158“She was like a centrifugal force”: Robert Markowitz’s quotations are from an author interview, Oct. 6, 2014.
158“When I watched you in a game”: The Deadliest Season (Robert Markowitz, dir.), CBS, March 16, 1977.
159“I felt this production was a disaster”: Author
interview with Christopher Lloyd, June 28, 2014. More on this disaster-prone production can be found in Davi Napoleon, Chelsea on the Edge (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991), 212–16.
LINDA
164“John Cazale was out most of the day”: NYSF, Box 5-114.
164“disturbing symptoms”: Helen Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), 4.
164An Austrian-born septuagenarian: Ronald Sullivan, “Dr. William M. Hitzig, 78, Aided War Victims,” New York Times, Aug. 30, 1983.
164“some outrageous color like citron”: Gail Papp’s quotations are from an author interview, June 19, 2014.
165“He checked us in”: Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life, 4.
166“After tonight, Jamil Zakkai”: NYSF, Box 5-114.
166Manganaro’s: Author interview with cast member Prudence Wright Holmes, June 17, 2014.
166“She had a kind of a tough love”: Author interview with Christopher Lloyd, June 28, 2014.
166“Did you ever think of quitting smoking?”: Author interview with Stephen Casale, Apr. 2, 2014.
166“We’re gonna get this thing!”: Richard Shepard, dir., I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale, Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2010.
167Surabaya Johnny, why’m I feeling so blue?: Bertolt Brecht, lyrics; Kurt Weill, music; original German play by Dorothy Lane; book and lyrics adapted by Michael Feingold, Happy End: A Melodrama with Songs (New York: Samuel French, 1982), 59.
167“No, I don’t have enough confidence”: Recalled by Holmes, June 17, 2014.
167“When I’m kidding, I’m serious”: Steve Garbarino, “Michael Cimino’s Final Cut,” Vanity Fair, March, 2002.
168“like Michelangelo”: Ibid.
168Redeker had based it on a photo spread: This account of the origins of The Deer Hunter derives from an author interview with Quinn Redeker on Nov. 11, 2014, an author interview with Michael Deeley on Sept. 27, 2014, and Deeley’s book Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off (New York: Pegasus Books, 2009), 130–31.
169“All I can possibly say”: Author interview with Michael Deeley, Sept. 27, 2014.
169“very guarded”: Deric Washburn’s quotations are from an author interview, Sept. 29, 2014.
169“Well, Deric, it’s fuck-off time”: Peter Biskind, “The Vietnam Oscars,” Vanity Fair, March, 2008.
170“You know what that Russian roulette thing is?”: Barry Spikings’s recollections, except where noted, are from an author interview, Sept. 26, 2014.
170“a fragile slip of a thing”: Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter, second draft written with Deric Washburn (Feb. 20, 1977), 12. Robert De Niro Papers, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Series I, Box 44.
171EMI paid the asking price: Deeley, Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off, 168–69.
171“the forgotten person in the screenplay”: Mel Gussow, “The Rising Star of Meryl Streep,” New York Times Magazine, Feb. 4, 1979.
171“hitting it big as some starlet”: MG.
171“They needed a girl”: Susan Dworkin, “Meryl Streep to the Rescue!,” Ms., Feb., 1979.
172“failed alpha male”: Michael Cimino, director’s commentary, The Deer Hunter, StudioCanal, 2006.
172Finally, he came to Cimino: Jean Vallely, “Michael Cimino’s Battle to Make a Great Movie,” Esquire, Jan. 2–16, 1979.
172“the morons at EMI”: David Gregory, dir., Realising “The Deer Hunter”: An Interview with Michael Cimino, Blue Underground, 2003.
172“I told him he was crazy”: Vallely, “Michael Cimino’s Battle to Make a Great Movie.”
172The medical advice they received: Deeley, Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off, 170.
173I’m getting out: Vallely, “Michael Cimino’s Battle to Make a Great Movie.”
173“absolute dreadful piece of shit”: Realising “The Deer Hunter” (Gregory, dir.).
173“He was sicker than we thought”: I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
173repeated the story decades later: As she does in I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
173asked to sign an agreement: Recalled by John Savage, whose quotations, except where noted, are from an author interview, Sept. 19, 2014.
174“Mingo Citizens Elated by Film”: Herald-Star (Steubenville), July 6, 1977.
174“Movie Makers Leave Cash”: Sunday Plain Dealer (Cleveland), July 31, 1977.
174“They say the nature of the scenes”: Steve Weiss, “Mingo Gets Robbed—No Name in Lights,” Herald-Star, July 1, 1977.
175Weisberger’s clothing store: Dolly Zimber, “Mingo Citizens Elated by Film,” Herald-Star, July 6, 1977.
175“Linda is essentially a man’s view”: Roger Copeland, “A Vietnam Movie That Does Not Knock America,” New York Times, Aug. 7, 1977.
177Olga Gaydos: Interview with Olga Gaydos, The Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Libraries, www.clevelandmemory.org.
177“That’s enough”: Recalled by Mary Ann Haenel, whose quotations are from an author interview, Sept. 21, 2014.
177“Being in a movie was like the smallest part”: I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
177Outside Lemko Hall: Chris Colombi, “Where’s the Glamour?,” Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Dec. 9, 1977.
178They were paid twenty-five dollars: Donna Chernin, “Clevelander Finds Extras for Film-Shooting Here,” Plain Dealer, July 22, 1977.
178“Michael, everybody brought a gift!”: Cimino, director’s commentary, The Deer Hunter.
178Cimino said that his uncle: Ibid.
179“I thought of all the girls”: Dworkin, “Meryl Streep to the Rescue!”
179“stockpiled”: Commencement address delivered by Meryl Streep at Barnard College, May 17, 2010.
179how to kill a fly: Recalled by Haenel, Sept. 21, 2014.
180“It was such a beautiful wedding”: Cimino, director’s commentary, The Deer Hunter.
180“This is this”: Michael Cimino (dir.), The Deer Hunter, Columbia-EMI-Warner/Universal Pictures, 1978.
180“some strange prefiguration”: Cimino’s account of shooting in the mountains is from his director’s commentary for The Deer Hunter.
182“unrelentingly Austrian”: Dworkin, “Meryl Streep to the Rescue!”
182“I’ve had to do things”: Marvin J. Chomsky, dir., Holocaust, NBC, 1978.
182“extraordinarily beautiful and oppressive”: NYSF, Box 1-160. The front of the postcard is a photo of the Johann Strauss Monument.
183“too much for me”: Dworkin, “Meryl Streep to the Rescue!”
183she was in prison: Paul Gray, “A Mother Finds Herself,” Time, Dec. 3, 1979.
183“She may have made associations”: Marvin Chomsky’s quotations are from an author interview, Nov. 6, 2014.
183“The reason was that we felt so awful”: Jane Hall, “From Homecoming Queen to ‘Holocaust,’” TV Guide, June 24, 1978.
183Blanche Baker, the twenty-year-old: Author interview with Blanche Baker, Oct. 9, 2014.
184“that damn eiderdown”: Brock Brower, “Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ with No Apologies,” New York Times, Aug. 6, 1978.
184“It was not a side of her”: Author interview with Albert Innaurato, Jan. 10, 2014.
185“One that I hope to keep seeing”: William G. Cahan, M.D., No Stranger to Tears: A Surgeon’s Story (New York: Random House, 1992), 264.
185“My beau is terribly ill”: Undated letter, Robert Lewis Papers, Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Sub-Series 3B, Box 33.
185“I was so close”: Diane de Dubovay, “Meryl Streep,” Ladies’ Home Journal, March, 1980.
185“snow emergency”: Andy Newman, “A Couple of Weeks Without Parking Rules? Try a Couple Months,” www.nytimes.com, Jan. 7, 2011.
186“smelled to high heaven”: Cimino, director’s commentary, The Deer Hunter.
186Mid-shoot, he summoned Spikings: Unpublished recollections by Barry Spiking
s, provided to author.
187“We’ll do it”: Ibid.
187“We’re not in the fucking movie!”: Biskind, “The Vietnam Oscars.”
188“pretty fucking amazing”: Wendy Wasserstein, Uncommon Women and Others (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1978), 33.
189Her air of confidence: Recalled by Steven Robman, whose quotations are from an author interview, Dec. 21, 2014.
189“Steve, do we have a camera”: Author interview with Ellen Parker, Dec. 3, 2014.
189“He’s not doing so good”: Gussow, “The Rising Star of Meryl Streep.”
190Warner “Let’s go to the videotape!” Wolf: Brower, “Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ with No Apologies.”
190“She took care of him”: MG.
190“When I saw that girl”: I Knew It Was You (Shepard, dir.).
190“It’s all right, Meryl”: This story was told by Israel Horovitz in Tim Lewis, “Icon: John Cazale,” British GQ, Jan., 2010, as well as to the author by another of Cazale’s friends.
190–91“negotiate the stairs”: Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life, 4.
191“John Cazale happens once in a lifetime”: Israel Horovitz, “A Eulogy: John Cazale (1936–1978),” Village Voice, March 27, 1978. Used by permission of Israel Horovitz.
191“emotionally blitzed”: Gray, “A Mother Finds Herself.”
191she drew sketches: Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life, 4.
192“deceitful” and “selfish”: Deeley, Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off, 178.
192“That’s it! We lost the audience!”: Realising “The Deer Hunter” (Gregory, dir.).
192“The Deer Hunter and the Hunter and the Hunter”: Biskind, “The Vietnam Oscars.”
192“I told them I would do everything I could”: Vallely, “Michael Cimino’s Battle to Make a Great Movie.”
193he bribed the projectionist: Realising “The Deer Hunter” (Gregory, dir.). Barry Spikings said of this story, “I would describe that as artistic liberty.”
193She always shielded her eyes: MG.
193One Sunday morning: Recalled by Casale, Apr. 2, 2014.
193“I don’t want to stop replaying the past”: Hall, “From Homecoming Queen to ‘Holocaust.’”
194“When I want something, I go git it”: Jerry Schatzberg, dir., The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Universal Pictures, 1979.