L’ENVOI

Billy Friedkin told me he’d improvised the car chase in The French Connection. Peter Yates told me he’d improvised the car chase in Bullitt. John Frankenheimer told me he’d improvised the car chase in Ronin, and the fantasy/brainwashing scenes in The Manchurian Candidate. Mike Nichols told me that Ingrid Bergman was a Jew and Gloria Steinem a CIA spy. Dorothy Gish told me that Mr. Griffith didn’t lay a finger on her or her sister, Lillian, during Orphans of the Storm. James Jones’s widow, Gloria, told me she was the leg stand-in for Marilyn Monroe. Mary Steenburgen told me she never slept with Jack Nicholson on Goin’ South. I believed them all.