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• About Last Night, 222n
• Actor Prepares, An (Stanislavski), 114
• Addams Family, The, 42
• Adler, Luther, 44
• Adler, Stella, 44, 46
• Affleck, Ben, 160
• Aimée, Anouk, 41–42
• Algren, Nelson, 201–2
• Allen, Jay, 74n
• Allen, Tim, 79, 80
• Allen, Woody, 50, 145
• Alper, Murray, 99
• Ameche, Don, 87–88, 116
• American Tragedy, An, 46n
• Anderson, Judith, 29–30
• Anderson, Paul Thomas, 51
• Andre, Carl, 54n
• Andress, Ursula, 211
• Anglim, Philip, 30–31
• Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 12–13
• Ann-Margret, 81
• Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 125, 198
• Aren’t We All, 209
• Aristotle, 31, 52–53, 149
• Arletty, 79n
• Arnaz, Desi, 166
• Arthur, Bea, 213
• Arzner, Dorothy, 50
• Ascent, The, 50
• Astaire, Fred, 93
• Atlantic Monthly, 110
• Atlas, Charles, 31
• Auntie Mame (Dennis), 107

• Bacall, Lauren, 219
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 80
• Bad Day at Black Rock, 129
• Bad News Bears, The, 130
• Baldwin, Alec, 153n, 184
• Ball, Lucille, 166
• Balzac, Honoré de, 142
• Barnes, Demore, 86
• Barrymore, John, 118
• Baum, Vicki, 97
• Baxter, Anne, 75n, 148–49
• Beau Geste, 17n
• Beery, Wallace, 29
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 162
• Begelman, David, 118n
• Being There, 130
• Bel-Air hotel, 219
• Bennett, Alan, 212
• Bennett, Tony, 187
• Bergen, Candice, 94
• Berghof, Herbert, 46
• Bergman, Ingmar, 166
• Bergman, Ingrid, 225
• Berle, Milton, 212–13
• Berman, Bruce, 167n
• Bester, Alfred, 155
• Bettelheim, Bruno, 132
• Bianchi, Kenneth, 217
• Biberman, Abner, 99
• Big Sleep, The, 121
• Bill, Tony, 92
• Bitter Wheat (Mamet), 180
• Blackbird, 103
• Black Panthers, 198
• Black Widow, 139
• Blake, Robert, 125
• Blanchett, Cate, 103, 104
• Blériot, Louis, 147
• Bloom, Harold Jack, 123n
• Blue Dahlia, The, 46
• Bogarde, Dirk, 200
• Bogart, Humphrey, 18, 34, 71, 93–94, 217
• Bolitho, William, 41
• Booth, Connie, 212
• Booth, Edwin, 206
• Booth, John Wilkes, 206
• Boston Strangler, The, 199–200
• Boys from Brazil, The (Levin), 183
• Bracken, Eddie, 118
• Bramah, Ernest, 41
• Brando, Marlon, 29, 34, 105, 114, 118–19
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 29
• Brick Foxhole, The (Brooks), 30n
• Bronson, Charles, 119
• Brooks, Louise, 43
• Brooks, Mel, 50
• Brown, David, 74n, 166
• Brown, Helen Gurley, 166
• Bruce, Lenny, 67, 68
• Brummell, Beau, 165
• Brute Force, 50
• Brynner, Yul, 25
• Building a Character (Stanislavski), 114
• Bullitt, 225
• Buono, Angelo, 217
• Burghers of Calais, The (Rodin), 142
• Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 61

• CAA, 7–9
• Caine, Michael, 26, 27
• Capone, Al, 153
• Carter, Jimmy, 18
• Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 117
• Casablanca, 71, 217
• Chandler, Jeff, 45n
• Chandler, Raymond, 90
• Chaplin, Charlie, 50, 119, 189
• Chateau Marmont, 44, 52
• Cher, 94
• Chevalier, Maurice, 79
• Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 85–86
• Chicago Reader, 173
• Chicago Tribune, 173, 174
• Chinatown, 170
• CinemaScope, 121–23
• Citizen Kane, 46
• Civil Service, 60
• Clark, Kenneth, 142
• Cleese, John, 212, 213
• Clurman, Harold, 44
• Coburn, James, 25
• Cocoon, 87
• Cody, Iron Eyes, 105n
• Colbert, Claudette, 209
• Cole, Nat King, 187
• Collins, Joan, 94
• Colman, Ronald, 155
• Columbia Pictures, 118n
• Come and Get It, 53
• Conflict, 217
• Conlin, Jimmy, 44
• Connery, Sean, 26–27
• Cook, Peter, 212
• Cooper, Gary, 93–94
• Copley, Noma, 117
• Coppola, Francis Ford, 170–71
• Cortez, Ricardo, 99
• Costa-Gavras, 150–51
• Coward, Noël, 158n, 179
• Cox, Patricia, 114, 173
• Crawford, Joan, 157
• Crossfire, 30n
• Cruz, Maria Louise, 105n
• Crying Game, The, 71
• Cukor, George, 166
• Curie, Ève, 197
• Curtis, Tony, 43
• Curtiz, Michael, 71

• Dalio, Marcel, 218
• Damon, Matt, 160
• Dassin, Jules, 50, 90
• Davis, Bette, 53, 161
• Dean, James, 114
• De Laurentiis, Dino, 51, 52
• DeLuise, Dom, 211
• Demolished Man, The (Bester), 155
• De Niro, Robert, 71, 84, 91, 153
• Dennis, Patrick, 107
• De Palma, Brian, 153–54
• Descartes, René, 12
• De Sica, Vittorio, 50, 51, 146
• Dettmer, Roger, 173–75
• DeVito, Danny, 113n, 193, 194
• Diana, Princess, 68
• Dietrich, Marlene, 34, 94
• Dillinger, John, 222n
• Dishonored, 34
• Disney, Walt, 75n, 117
• Donat, Robert, 29
• Donovan, Cas, 100
• Douglas, Kirk, 80
• Dowd, Ned, 194
• Dr. Strangelove, 80, 162
• Dunaway, Faye, 94

• Eagels, Jeanne, 53
• Ebert, Roger, 141
• Edge, The, 153n, 184
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., 117
• Eisenstein, Sergei, 111
• Elephant Man, The (Pomerance), 30–31
• Ellington, Duke, 6
• Elstree Studios, 117
• Emmys, 176
• Enforcer, The, 18
• Esquire, 110
• Evans, Dale, 201
• Evans, Robert, 170–71
• Evreinov, Nikolai, 111
• L’Exil au Maghreb (Fenton and Littman), 104
• Exodus (Uris), 161

• Factor, Max, 158–59, 162
• Fail Safe, 91, 161–62
• Fairbanks, Douglas, 69
• Fame, 130
• Farewell My Lovely, 90
• Farmer, Frances, 52–53
• Farrell, Joe, 175n
• Faulkner, William, 123
• Fawlty Towers, 212
• FBI, 43, 198
• Feingold, Michael, 173
• Ferber, Edna, 97
• Ferrell, Will, 86
• Fields, W. C., 212
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 130n
• Fitzgerald, Neil, 118–19
• Fleischer, Richard, 199
• Flynn, Errol, 117
• Foley, Scott, 86
• Fonda, Henry, 89–91, 199–200
• Fonda, Jane, 91
• Fontaine, Joan, 190
• Ford, Harrison, 92
• Ford, John, 118
• Foreign Correspondent, 93
• Francis, Kay, 33
• Francis the Talking Mule, 197, 224
• Frank, Leo, 30n
• Frankenheimer, John, 113n, 170, 225
• Franks, Bobby, 67
• French Connection, The, 225
• Freud, Sigmund, 206
• Friars Club, 213
• Friedkin, William, 225

• Gable, Clark, 89, 161
• Gandhi, Mahatma, 81
• Gandolfini, Jim, 99
• Garland, Judy, 1
• Garson, Greer, 155, 211
• Gazzara, Ben, 165
• Geffen, David, 88, 94
• George IV, 165
• Giallanza, Cara, 100–102
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian, 160
• Gilded Age, The (Twain), 62
• Girls, 96n
• Gish, Dorothy, 225
• Gish, Lillian, 69, 225
• Gleason, Jackie, 79
• Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet), 173, 213
• Godfather, The, 105, 170–71
• Goin’ South, 225
• Goldberg, Whoopi, 95n
• Golden Globes, 81–83
• Gold of Naples, 51
• Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr., 166
• Golitzen, Alexander, 92
• Good Will Hunting, 160
• Gould, Glenn, 80
• Goulding, Edmund, 148–49
• GQ, 173
• Grahame, Gloria, 211
• Grant, Cary, 43, 87, 190
• Grapes of Wrath, The, 43
• Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 130n
• Green, Nigel, 27
• Greenstreet, Sydney, 217
• Griffith, D. W., 225
• Guastaferro, Vinny, 88

• Hackman, Gene, 94n, 101, 102, 185, 194
• Hagen, Uta, 46
• Hagman, Larry, 91
• Hail the Conquering Hero, 118
• Hall, Donald, 46
• Hamilton, Margaret, 118
• Hannibal, 51–52
• Harlow, Jean, 43, 158
• Harris, Joi “SJ,” 199
• Harrison, Rex, 97, 209
• Hatfield, Hurd, 199–200
• Hawks, Howard, 121–23
• Haysbert, Dennis, 85
• Hayworth, Rita, 27
• HBO, 102
• Head, Edith, 119
• Heche, Anne, 92
• Hefner, Hugh, 7
• Heist, 18n, 94n, 99, 101, 185, 194
• Hemingway, Ernest, 130n
• Hepburn, Audrey, 27, 93–94, 158
• Hepburn, Katharine, 50, 93, 158
• Herodotus, 42
• High and Low, 71–74
• Hillside Strangler, 217, 218
• His Girl Friday, 121
• Hitchcock, Alfred, 47, 190
• Hitler, Adolf, 80, 183, 202
• Hoffa, 193–94
• Hoffman, Dustin, 91
• Holiday, Billie, 187
• Homme et Une Femme, Un, 42
• Honeymooners, The, 43
• Hoover, J. Edgar, 158
• Hopkins, Anthony, 184
• Horne, Lena, 29
• Houseman, John, 46–48, 170
• House of Games, 80, 99, 139–41, 219, 220
• House Un-American Activities Committee, 51
• Houslin, Diane, 155
• Housman, A. E., 135, 138
• Huber, Harold, 99
• Hurst, Fannie, 97
• Huson, Paul, 117
• Hustler, The, 79

• Idle, Eric, 88
• Ikiru, 25
• I Lost It at the Movies (Kael), 17
• Imperial Gardens, 44
• Indecent Exposure (McClintick), 118n
• Informer, The, 118
• Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The, 29
• Ipcress File, The, 27
• Irby, Michael, 86
• Israeli Air Force, 190
• I Was a Male War Bride, 43
• Iyengar, B. K. S., 92

• Jay, Ricky, 18n, 41, 42, 98–99, 149–50n, 161, 212, 219–22, 224
• Jealousy, 53
• Joan of Arc, 13
• Joan of Bark, 86
• Johann, Zita, 48
• Johnson, Robert, 6
• Johnson, Samuel, 174n
• Jolson, Al, 189
• Jones, Gloria, 225
• Jones, James, 225
• Jones, James Earl, 30
• Jordan, Neil, 71
• Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A (Olmsted), 125–27
• Juilliard School, 46
• Just Tell Me What You Want, 95n

• Kael, Pauline, 17
• Kammann, Erica, 155
• Kardashian, Kim, 211
• Karloff, Boris, 48
• Katz, Jonathan, 68n
• Kazan, Elia, 50–51
• Keaton, Buster, 3, 50, 149
• Keep Your Pantheon (Mamet), 66
• Kelly, Grace, 68
• Kelton, Pert, 43
• Kennedy, John F., 35
• Kenney Baden, Linda, 59–60
• Kern, Jerry, 80
• Kid Stays in the Picture, The (Evans), 170
• Killing, The, 80, 90
• Kilmer, Val, 150, 181, 184
• Kimbrough, Emily, 119
• Kimbrough, Linda, 42, 119
• King, Alan, 94, 95n, 213
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 197
• King Kong, 26, 30, 52
• King Lear (Shakespeare), 110
• King of Comedy, The, 79
• Kingston Trio, 6
• Kinski, Klaus, 29
• Kipling, Rudyard, 17, 187
• Kiss of Death, 90n
• Kobayashi, Masaki, 146
• Krantz, Tony, 8–9
• Kubrick, Stanley, 79–80, 146, 162, 185
• Kurnitz, Harry, 123n
• Kurosawa, Akira, 25, 71–73
• Kwariani, Kola, 90

• Lake, The, 99
• Lake, Veronica, 90n
• Lamarr, Hedy, 3, 43, 92, 217
• Lancaster, Burt, 161
• Land of the Pharaohs, 121–22
• Lange, Jessica, 52
• Last Command, The, 43
• Laurel and Hardy, 90n
• Lawrence, T. E., 158
• Lawrence of Arabia, 158
• Le Carré, John, 136
• Lederer, Francis, 43, 92
• Lehmann, Olga, 117, 119
• Lelouch, Claude, 42
• Lenart, Lou, 190
• Lenin, Vladimir, 49
• Leonard, Sheldon, 99
• Leone, Sergio, 141
• Leopold and Loeb, 67
• Letter, The, 53
• Letter Never Sent, 50
• Levin, Ira, 183
• Levinson, Barry, 84
• Lewis, Jerry, 2, 67, 79
• Lincoln, Abraham, 83, 206
• Lindo, Delroy, 194
• Little Drummer Girl, The, 29
• Little Engine That Could, The (Piper), 11–14
• Littlefeather, Sacheen, 105
• Lloyd, Harold, 50
• Lloyd, Norman, 47–48
• Loden, Barbara, 50–51
• Lolita, 74n, 80
• Lomax, Alan, 6
• London, Jack, 22
• Loos, Anita, 97
• Lorre, Catharine, 217, 218
• Lorre, Peter, 92, 217
• Los Angeles Times, 206
• Louis XV, 93n
• Love in the Afternoon, 93
• Loy, Myrna, 27, 89
• Lukas, Paul, 218
• Lumet, Sidney, 74n, 91, 95n, 113n, 162, 165, 166
• LuPone, Patti, 192n
• Luria, Isaac, 191
• Lyon, Sue, 80

• MacGraw, Ali, 94
• Macy, Billy, 114, 173, 180
• Maginot Line, 81, 224
• Magnificent Seven, The, 25
• Magritte, René, 117
• Malkovich, John, 180, 185
• Maltese Falcon, The, 122, 217
• Mamet, Clara, 60n
• Mamet, Noah, 17, 162
• Mamet, Willa, 145
• Mamet, Zosia, 96n
• Man Called Horse, A, 30
• Manchurian Candidate, The, 65, 225
• Mankiewicz, Joe, 6
• Man on Fire, 181
• Man Ray, 117
• Mantegna, Joe, 45n, 87–88
• Man Who Would Be King, The, 26–27
• Marshall, Penny, 219
• Martin, Steve, 79, 80
• Martini, Max, 86
• Mason, Jackie, 66
• Mason, James, 166
• Matthau, Walter, 118
• Maugham, W. Somerset, 38, 75n, 188
• Maximilian furs, 159
• Mazurki, Mike, 90
• McBain, Ed, 72, 73
• McCarthy, Joseph, 50, 125, 166
• Meisner, Sanford, 111, 130
• Méliès, Georges, 74
• Mendieta, Ana, 54n
• Mengers, Sue, 27, 65, 92, 94
• Mercedes-Benz, 45n
• Mercer, Johnny, 187–88
• Mercury Theatre, 46, 47, 170
• Merrick, John, 30–31
• Meyer, Ron, 7, 9
• Michaels, Lorne, 167n
• Michelangelo, 142, 218
• Mickey Mouse, 2
• Middleton, Charles, 30
• Midler, Bette, 59
• Mifune, Toshiro, 71–72
• Miller, Jonathan, 212
• Mills, Irving, 6
• Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The, 118
• Miracle of the Bells, The, 65
• Mirren, Helen, 59–60, 158
• Mitchell, Radha, 181n
• Mitchum, Robert, 45, 198
• Miyaguchi, Seiji, 25
• MoMA, 197
• Monicelli, Mario, 146
• Monroe, Marilyn, 43, 125, 225
• Monsieur Verdoux, 119
• Montalban, Ricardo, 29, 30
• Monty Python, 212
• Moore, Dudley, 212
• Morgan, Ted, 38, 62, 62n, 75n, 188
• Morocco, 94
• Morley, Karen, 43
• Moscow Art Theatre, 114
• Mrs. Miniver, 211
• Mr. Wookey, 119
• Mummy, The, 48
• Muni, Paul, 30
• Music Box, The, 90n
• My Life in Art (Stanislavski), 114

• Naked City, The, 50
• Neighborhood Playhouse, 111, 114
• Neighbors, The, 60n
• Newman, Paul, 165, 166
• Newman, Randy, 94, 167n
• New York, 13, 110
• New York Daily News, 59
• New Yorker, 50
• New York Post, 59
• New York Times, 110
• Nichols, Mike, 45n, 50, 74–76, 88, 92, 94n, 95n, 100, 225
• Nicholson, Jack, 3, 52, 94, 119, 150, 225
• Night and the City, 50
• Night Watch, The (Rembrandt), 142
• Nimoy, Leonard, 30
• No Country for Old Men, 42
• Novarro, Ramon, 69, 119

• Oberon, Merle, 157
• O’Donoghue, Michael, 212
• Old Neighborhood, The (Mamet), 139
• Oleanna, 166
• Oliver, John, 67–68
• Olivier, Laurence, 96n, 117
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, 21, 125–27
• On Becoming American (Morgan), 62
• Once Upon a Time in America, 141, 193
• On Dangerous Ground, 46
• On Directing Film (Mamet), 79
• O’Neill, Ed, 66
• On Golden Pond, 89
• Only Angels Have Wings, 121
• Ordinary Daylight (Potok), 219
• Orion Pictures, 140, 141
• Orphans of the Storm, 225
• Oscars, 17n, 74n, 89, 121, 141n, 176, 212, 220–22, 224
• O’Toole, Peter, 158
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (Skinner and Kimbrough), 119
• Ovitz, Mike, 7, 9, 166–67
• Ox-Cart Man (Hall), 46
• Ozu, Yasujirō, 146

• Pabst, G. W., 43
• Pacino, Al, 59, 158
• Palance, Jack, 29
• Pandora’s Box, 43
• Paramount Pictures, 9
• Parker, Dorothy, 188
• Peck, Gregory, 96n
• Pendleton, Nat, 25, 90
• Penn, Sean, 71
• Phil Spector, 59–60, 102, 158, 176
• Photoplay, 17n
• Pickford, Mary, 69
• Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 199
• Pidgeon, Rebecca, 18n, 92, 141, 159, 165, 183, 194, 212, 221, 222
• Pinky, 29
• Pinocchio, 75n
• Pitt, Brad, 211
• Place in the Sun, A, 46n
• Playboy, 110
• Playboy Clubs, 7
• Players club, 117–18
• Poitier, Sidney, 30
• Pomerance, Bernard, 30–31
• Postman Always Rings Twice, The, 3, 52, 80, 111, 150, 193
• Potok, Andy, 159, 219
• Potok, Mme, 159
• Powell, Bill, 43
• Powell, Michael, 146
• Power, Tyrone, 75n, 89, 148
• Presley, Elvis, 187
• Pressburger, Emeric, 146
• Professionals, The, 29
• Prominent Features, 212
• Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 111
• Pulitzer Prize, 173

• Qualen, John, 43
• Queally, Hylda, 104
• Queue de Cheval, 194
• Quinn, Anthony, 29

• Rafelson, Bob, 3–4, 52, 80, 111, 113n, 139
• Raging Bull, 71, 141
• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 68
• Random Harvest, 155
• Ratoff, Gregory, 75n
• Ray, Nick, 211
• Razor’s Edge, The, 75n, 148–49
• Recessional (Mamet), 21n
• Redbelt, 79, 99, 101
• Reles, Abe, 58
• Rembrandt, 34, 142
• Renaldo, Duncan, 29
• Renoir, Jean, 50
• Richard II (Shakespeare), 18
• Richard III, 117
• Richardson, H. H., 21
• Rickles, Don, 65–68
• Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, 99
• Riefenstahl, Leni, 50
• Rififi, 50
• Road Runner, 181n
• Robertson, Cliff, 118n, 125
• Rodin, Auguste, 142
• Rogers, Roy, 201
• Ronin, 193, 225
• Rooney, Mickey, 29
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 82, 83
• Roosevelt, Teddy, 60
• Rosemary’s Baby, 170
• Rosenstone, Howard, 151
• Rosenthal, Jane, 84
• “Rose of ‘No Man’s Land,’ The,” 192n
• Roth, Joe, 193–95
• Rubinstein, Helena, 159, 162
• Rudin, Scott, 42, 74–76
• Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, The, 129–30
• Rutler, Matthew, 154

• Saboteur, 47
• Sabrina, 93
• SAG, 199
• Saïd, Saïd Ben, 104
• St. Johns, Adela Rogers, 97
• St. Nicholas Theatre, 114, 173, 174, 180
• Sanders, George, 43
• Scarface, 121, 123
• Schachter, Steven, 114, 173, 174
• Schliemann, Heinrich, 119
• Schlöndorff, Volker, 113n
• School of Rock, 42, 130
• Schwab’s Pharmacy, 44
• Scorsese, Martin, 71, 79, 141
• Scott, Lizabeth, 198
• Scott, Ridley, 51–52
• Scott, Tony, 181
• Seberg, Jean, 198
• Second City, 212
• Sellers, Peter, 80
• Serpico, 170
• Seven Samurai, 25
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape, 222n
• Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 166
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Mamet), 222n
• Shakespeare, William, 18, 27, 187, 211
• Shepitko, Larisa, 50
• Shimura, Takashi, 25
• Shovel of Stars, A (Morgan), 62n
• Sidney, Sylvia, 44, 45, 46n
• Simon, Neil, 110
• Simone, Winston, 212–13
• Simpson, O. J., 125, 198
• Simpsons, The, 87n
• Sinatra, Frank, 65, 68
• Sinatra, Tina, 65
• Silverman, Sarah, 67, 68
• Silverstein, Shel, 41, 42, 88, 116
• Sisyphus, 11
• Skelton, Red, 2, 67
• Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 119
• Skinner, Otis, 119
• Société des Gens de Lettres, 142
• Soderbergh, Steven, 222n
• Some Like It Hot, 43
• Son of Fury, 53
• Sopranos, The, 99
• South of Pago Pago, 53
• Spanish Prisoner, The, 79, 165
• Spartacus, 80, 93
• Spartan, 119, 150, 181
• Speed-the-Plow (Mamet), 5, 61, 184n
• Splendor in the Grass, 50
• Squirrels (Mamet), 42
• Stanislavski, Konstantin, 114, 160
• Star Trek, 30
• Star Wars, 42
• State and Main, 119, 184
• Steenburgen, Mary, 225
• Steinem, Gloria, 58, 225
• Steppenwolf Theatre, 180
• Sternberg, Josef von, 34, 43
• Stevens, George, 46n
• Stewart, Paul, 99
• Sting, The, 92n
• Stone, George, 99
• Streisand, Barbra, 94, 183
• Strode, Woody, 29
• Sturges, Preston, 44, 90n, 118, 146
• Sugarman, Joe, 93
• Sugarman, Oddy, 93
• Sullivan, Dewey, 90n
• Sullivan, Ed, 66
• Sullivan’s Travels, 44, 90n
• Summer Solstice, 89
• Suspicion, 190

• Take the Money and Run, 145
• Tambor, Jeffrey, 60
• Taylor, William Desmond, 125
• Test Pilot, 89
• They Won’t Forget, 30n
• Things Change, 87, 88, 99, 116, 141
• Thin Man, The, 90
• Thurber, James, 116
• Tierney, Gene, 75n, 148
• “To Build a Fire” (London), 22
• To Kill a Mockingbird, 93
• Tolstoy, Leo, 145, 159
• Tomorrow Never Dies, 161
• Tone, Franchot, 170
• Toutes Voiles Dehors, 79
• Tracy, Spencer, 129
• Trintignant, Jean-Louis, 42
• Trobriand Islanders, 83
• Trollope, Anthony, 80
• True Grit, 170
• Tucker, Forrest, 213
• Tulliver, Barbara, 38, 98, 100, 102–3
• Turner, Lana, 44
• Twain, Mark, 62, 98
• Tweed, Boss, 2
• Twelve Against the Gods (Bolitho), 41
• 20th Century Fox, 193, 195
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, 79, 80
• Tyson, Mike, 187

• Unfaithfully Yours, 97
• Unit, The, 65, 85–86, 140, 206
• United States Sanitary Commission, 125
• Universal Studios, 218
• University of Southern California (USC), 137
• Untouchables, The, 27, 153, 154
• Uris, Leon, 161

• Veidt, Conrad, 29, 217
• Verdict, The, 74n, 91, 165–66, 171, 176, 193
• VerMeulen, Michael, 173
• Victim, 200
• Vietnam War, 165
• Village Voice, 173
• Viva Villa!, 29
• Viva Zapata!, 29

• Wagner, Robert, 125
• Wag the Dog, 83–84, 91, 193
• Walk on the Wild Side, The, 201n
• Wall Street Journal, 110, 118n
• Wanda, 50–51
• Warner Bros. Pictures, 167n, 181n
• War of the Worlds, The, 47–48
• Washington, Denzel, 181
• Waters, Muddy, 6
• Weiner, Anthony, 59
• Weinstein, Harvey, 142, 180
• Welles, Orson, 46–47, 170
• We’re No Angels, 71
• Wilde, Oscar, 199, 200
• Wilder, Audrey, 93
• Wilder, Billy, 92–94, 113n, 146, 181n, 193
• Wild River, 50
• Wile E. Coyote, 181n
• Williams, Bert, 212
• Williams Sonoma, 137
• Winger, Debra, 139
• Winters, Roland, 117–18
• Winters, Shelley, 46n
• Wood, Natalie, 29, 32
• World War I, 81, 192
• World War II, 44, 46, 87, 117, 119
• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 75n
• Wright, Wilbur and Orville, 147–48
• Writers Guild of America, 84–85, 206–7

• Yates, Peter, 225

• Zaillian, Steve, 51–52
• Zanuck, Darryl, 75n
• Zanuck, Richard, 74n
• Zbyszko, Stanislaus, 90
• Zigler, Scott, 139, 140
• Zulu, 27