CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

 

Overture

My Family

The Met

Paris

Life Lessons

Boys

The First High School I Was Asked to Leave

An Unsentimental Education

On the Road

Detective Story

Arms and the Man

Grandmother Dora

Bromberg’s Memorial

My Parents Demand to Meet Arnie

444 Central Park West

The Committee

Dinah. My Dinah.

Two for the Seesaw

Burt Lancaster

Arnie’s Heart Attack

Marty Gang

AFTRA

Paris and Comeuppance

The Summer House

A New Life

Two for the Seesaw—Boston

The Balcony

Max Kampelman

Lenny Bruce

Intro to Joey

Max Calls

The Fugitive

Arnie’s Death

The Public Theater and Peyton Place

The Jump

Monaco

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

The Pool House

Say YES to Everything

In the Heat of the Night

The Red House

Valley of the Dolls

The Landlord

Dinah

The Neon Ceiling

Portnoy’s Complaint

George Schlatter

Plaza Suite and The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Adoption

On the Set of Shampoo

Fay

The Stronger

Voyage of the Damned

Airport ’77

The Green House

The Willmar 8

Tell Me a Riddle

Witia

“The Girl”

Ohio Shuffle

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

A Matter of Sex

Directing Theater for Joe Papp

When Women Kill

What Sex Am I?

Down and Out in America

Directors Accept Me

Battered

The Trio

Staying Together

No Place Like Home

Defending Your Life

Women on Trial

Three Hearts

Falling Apart at It’s My Party

Broadway Brawler

Lifetime

Ryan and Farrah

Burt Bacharach to Elizabeth Taylor

A Father . . . A Son . . . Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Baghdad ER

Children of the Blacklist

Queen of Denial

Russian Easter Egg

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

PHOTO CREDITS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR