Part One
Prologue:
“He was Fred Astaire!”
One:
“In a sense, I was a teenage rebel.”
Two:
“I was the focus of a circle of light.”
Three:
“Baby, I was in the movies!”
Four:
“Barbara was the first woman I ever loved.”
Five:
“Mainly, it was the wig.”
Six:
“The scene, that one moment, and nothing else.”
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Seven:
“Sweet Jesus! It was Howard Hughes.”
Eight:
“And then I met Natalie.”
Nine:
“He never spoke about Ava, not ever.”
Ten:
“That fucking cunt will never work in my studio again!”
Part Two
Eleven:
“I missed her loving me.”
Twelve:
“I have a frozen cock.”
Thirteen:
“My heart stopped when I saw her.”
Fourteen:
“Fred!…Fred!…Fred!”
Fifteen:
“She was with me for the rest of her life.”
Sixteen:
“Why did she love me? I think it was because I made her laugh.”
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Seventeen:
“I’ve always had affection for a theatrical rogue.”
Eighteen:
“Natalie hid nothing.”
Nineteen:
“Everything went away from me.”
Twenty:
“What happened to us, baby?”
Twenty-One:
“A gift for life.”
Twenty-Two:
“You have to have it.”
Twenty-Three:
“The world moves on.”
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher