Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

 

A

Academy Awards, 117, 120–24, 129–32, 157, 325, 326–30

Adagio for Strings (Barber), 299, 306

Afman, Frans, 229, 235, 330

Albee, Edward, 21, 60

Alien (film), 140

Allen, Woody, 313, 327, 328

All the President’s Men (film), 72

Alonzo, John, 178

Alves, Joe, 136

American Film, 272, 289–90

Anderson, Walter, 321

Any Given Sunday (film), 179, 254

The Apartment (film), 30

Apocalypse Now (film), 119, 131, 140, 194, 227, 235, 275, 288, 299, 315

ARENA party, 207, 211

Ashby, Hal, 117, 217–18, 256–58

At Close Range (film), 258–59, 313

Avatar (film), 50

 

B

Baby Boy (Gregg), 147

Bacall, Lauren, 131–32

Baggot, King, 148

Bakshi, Ralph, 140

Barber, Samuel, 299, 306

Barnes, Sergeant, 82–89, 92, 95–97, 267, 279, 289, 299

Batman (film series), 107, 149

The Battle of Algiers (film), 71, 271

Beatty, Warren, 123–24, 129–30, 132, 149, 317

Becket, Thomas, 59

Belize, 214, 215–16

Bellow, Saul, 21, 146

Belushi, Jim, 227, 236, 240, 241, 243

Benjamin, Bob, 146–47, 299–300

Berenger, Tom, 267–68, 279, 283, 289, 299, 327, 330

Berg, Jeff, 153, 154, 195

Bernstein, Bill, 146–47, 299–300

Bertolucci, Bernardo, 178, 297

Beswick, Martine, 69

Billings, Marion, 232, 243, 251, 272, 276, 292, 300, 318

Bimini, Bahamas, 167–69

Blake, William, 143

Block, Lawrence, 194–95

Blue Velvet (film), 197, 313, 328

Body Heat (film), 158

Bolt, Robert, 71–73, 77, 105, 117, 153–54, 262, 323

Bonner, Ray, 207

Born on the Fourth of July (film), 111–19, 122, 175, 182–83, 187, 197–98

Born on the Fourth of July (Kovic), 89, 112, 113, 164

Boyle, Richard, 222–23, 226–27, 250–51, 262, 297, 327, 330

Elizabeth and, 207, 208, 209, 219–20

El Salvador trip and, 207, 209–17

girlfriend Esther, 205, 219–20, 222, 228, 327

girlfriend Maria, 213, 231–32 (See also Carrillo, Elpidia)

political activism, 204–5

Salvador and, 217, 219–20, 233, 243–44, 251–55, 276, 292

Salvador stories of, 112–13, 205–6

Braddock: Missing in Action III (film), 284

Brandel, Marc, 147–48, 150

Brando, Marlon, 63, 99, 325–26

“Break” (screenplay), 48–51, 79, 267

Bregman, Marty, 106, 111–13, 117–18, 164–66, 175–77, 179, 181–83, 186, 188, 193, 250, 262, 295, 298. See also under Platoon; Scarface (film, 1983)

Bridges, Jeff, 218, 257

The Brink’s Job (film), 117

Bronze Star, 43, 66, 92

Brown, David, 294

Bruckheimer, Jerry, 187

Buddha and Buddhism, 82, 114, 159, 160

Bugsy Malone (film), 108

Buñuel, Luis, 59

Burbank Studios, 107, 177–78

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 136, 137

Busey, Gary, 227

 

C

CAA (Creative Artists), 226, 243, 255–56, 293, 298

Caine, Michael, 129, 150, 151, 152, 153, 158, 327

Cambodia, 38, 97–98, 205

Cameron, Jim, 50, 221, 258–59

Canby, Vincent, 158, 183, 315

Cannes Film Festival, 111, 116, 119, 270–71, 287

Capone, Al, 164, 165, 193, 246

Capra, Frank, 150, 179

Carolco Pictures, 216

Carr, Budd, 263

Carrillo, Elpidia, 232–33, 238–39, 245–46, 249, 252–53, 310

Carter, Jimmy, 9–10, 58, 156

Cassavetes, John, 65

Castro, Fidel, 165, 177

Chan, Eddie, 192

Chariots of Fire (film), 121, 323

Chekhov, Anton, 59, 60

Children of a Lesser God (film), 328

China Beach (TV series), 296

Chinatown, 188, 190–91, 192

Churchill, Winston, 14, 236

CIA, 93, 171, 254–55, 302, 314

Cienfuegos, Ricardo, 210, 211, 219, 224

Cimino, Michael, 119, 122–23, 127, 131, 188–91, 193–94, 198, 221, 251, 264, 268, 278, 303–4

“The Clerk” (screenplay), 143

Close, Glenn, 176, 305

Cockburn, Alexander, 273

Cohen, Eli, 293–94

Cohen, Leonard, 164

Cold War, 19, 57, 156, 198

Collins, Joan, 173

Columbia Pictures, 107, 108, 110–11, 119, 135

Coming Home (film), 116–17, 119, 126, 131, 132

communism, 15, 53–54, 156, 177, 181, 254–55, 259–60, 272, 320

“Company Man” (screenplay), 302–3

Conan the Barbarian (film series), 136–43

Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), 306

Contras, 260, 273, 314

Coppola, Francis, 113, 140, 188, 288, 291, 315

Corliss, Richard, 315

Costa-Gavras, 71, 231, 275

“The Cover-Up” (screenplay treatment), 71, 72, 73, 105

Cox, Elizabeth, 181, 185, 189, 218, 295, 327–28, 329

Boyle and, 207, 208, 209, 219–20

Oliver’s dating of, 144–46, 154–56, 159, 160–61

Oliver’s marriage to, 162–63, 175, 186–87, 196, 201–3, 273–74, 297, 309, 327

Oliver’s parents and, 223, 225, 146, 310

Platoon and, 280, 281, 284, 285, 299, 323–24

Salvador and, 220, 226, 232, 234, 251–52, 253, 263, 275–76, 282

Scarface and, 165, 168–69, 170, 180

The Crash of ’79 (Erdman), 126

The Crimson Pirate (film), 298

Crouse, Lindsay, 117

Cruise, Tom, 187, 316–17

Cuba, 165

Curtis, Tony, 304–5, 323

Cusack, John, 266

 

D

Dafoe, Willem, 194, 267–68, 270, 289, 299, 327, 330

Daly, John, 256, 295–97, 301–2, 313–14. See also under Platoon; Salvador

d’Aubuisson, Roberto, 207, 211

David, Keith, 268, 283

Davis, Bette, 11, 329, 330

Davis, Brad, 121–22, 123

Davis, Peter, 71

DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), 166, 190–91

de Antonio, Emile, 71

death squads, 207, 210, 212, 314. See also Salvador

The Deer Hunter (film), 119, 121–24, 131, 189, 227, 251

“Defiance,” 180, 181, 182, 185–86, 250–51, 295–96, 302

DeFreeze, Donald, 71

De Koven, Roger, 69

De Laurentiis, Dino, 117, 141–43, 216, 295, 298. See also Platoon; Year of the Dragon

Delerue, George, 263, 299, 306

“Demolished Man” (screenplay), 143

Denby, David, 251, 282, 315–16

De Palma, Brian, 136, 150, 175–76, 178–83, 191, 193, 322

Depp, Johnny, 268

Depression, 18, 19, 31, 56–57, 172

Deville, Michel, 143

Diller, Barry, 129–30

Dillon, Kevin, 268

directing, 125, 135, 146–47, 264, 268, 323, 328. See also The Hand; Platoon; Salvador

Directors Guild Awards, 324

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (film), 59–60

The Doors, 49, 50. See also Morrison, Jim

The Doors (film), 229, 304

Douglas, Kirk, 300

Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell), 70

“Dreams of Dominique” (screenplay), 51

Drexel Burnham, 312

Dr. Strangelove (film), 53, 80

drugs, 44–46, 53, 55–60, 62, 122–24, 127–28, 143–44, 151, 159–62, 168–70, 175–76, 184, 187, 218, 225, 265

Duarte, José Napoleón, 207, 210, 219, 230

The Duellists (film), 121, 140

Dye, Dale, 269, 274–75, 277, 279–80, 283, 289, 321, 330

 

E

Eastwood, Clint, 106, 267

Easy Rider (film), 79

Ebert, Roger, 183, 276, 315

Edelstein, David, 276

Edson, Richard, 268

 8 Million Ways to Die (film), 217–18, 225, 256–58

Eight Million Ways to Die (Block), 194–95, 196

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 14, 19

Elias, Juan Angel, 85–89, 95, 96–97, 101, 267, 289, 299

El Salvador, 205–7, 209–17, 219, 264. See also Salvador

Erdman, Paul, 126

Escobar, Pablo, 184

Estevez, Emilio, 194, 266

The Exorcist (film), 113, 201

 

F

FBI, 44–45, 145, 154, 155, 166, 190–91

Fellini, Federico, 51, 53

Fields, Bert, 198–99

film critics, 119, 121, 183–84

film editing, marketing, and distribution, 254, 262, 284–85

Film Finances, 227–29, 231, 243, 246–47, 261–62, 266, 269, 277, 287

filmmakers vs. writers, 64, 264

film prints, 308

film school, 60–62, 63–66, 186, 264

1st Cavalry Division, 43–44, 82, 85, 86, 317–18

First Blood (film), 198

First World War, 13, 17, 22, 67, 99, 125

Flashdance (film), 121, 187

Fleischer, Richard, 142–43

Flower of the Dragon (Boyle), 205

Fonda, Jane, 72, 116–17, 124–26, 131, 146, 154, 318, 327

Ford, Corkey, 268

Ford, Gerald, 102

Fort Apache, The Bronx (film), 117

Foster, Jodie, 108

France, 12, 13, 16, 21–22, 30. See also Paris, France

François, Annie, 271

Frankenheimer, John, 106, 126–27

The French Connection (film), 113, 188, 190

Frid, Jonathan, 69

Friedkin, Billy, 113, 116–17, 151, 188, 267, 324

Full Metal Jacket (film), 188, 260

 

G

Gabel, Miles, 29, 27–28, 51

Gable, Clark, 11

Garbo, Greta, 11, 177

Garcia, Andy, 257

Geffen, David, 231

Gerber, Billy, 313

Germans, 13–14, 15

Ghia, Fernando, 71, 323

Giant (film), 155

Giap, Vo Nguyen, 94

Gibb, Cindy, 227, 241–42, 260

Gibson, Derek, 297, 299

Giger, H. R., 140

Glenn, Charlie, 301

Glennon, Jim, 222, 232

Gloria (secretary in El Salvador), 210, 213–14, 219, 224

Gloria’s whorehouse, 212

Glover, Corey, 268

Godard, Jean-Luc, 59

Goddet, Jacqueline (mother), 18, 98, 99, 100, 155, 203, 207, 208, 274, 310

arrival in New York City, 9, 10–11, 16–17

“Dreams of Dominique” and, 51

Hollywood parties and, 128, 327, 330

life in New York City, 29, 30–31, 51–53

Lou’s decline and death and, 195–96, 200, 203–4, 223–24, 225–26, 234

marriage to and divorce from Lou, 20–22, 24, 26–32, 56–57, 174

Oliver’s relationship with, 23–25, 33, 36, 51–53, 67–68, 74, 88–89, 102, 132, 159

young adulthood, 12–16

Goddet, Jacques “Pépé” (grandfather), 12, 13, 22–23, 31, 67, 99

Godfather (films), 164, 184

Golden, Pat, 268

Golden Age of cinema, 11

Golden Globes, 119, 121–24, 174, 323–24

Goldschmidt, Ernst, 300, 301

Goldwater, Barry, 115

Gone With the Wind (book and film), 11, 150

Goodman, Walter, 275

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 186, 225

Gorillas in the Mist (film), 294–95

Gottlieb, Robert, 35

Grant, Cary, 130, 132, 326

“Greed” (screenplay), 312–13, 316–17, 326. See also Wall Street

Greek heroes, 69, 76, 82–83, 85, 89, 120, 188, 203. See also Odysseus

Green, Gerald, 261–62, 277, 330. See also under Platoon; Salvador

Gregg, Jess, 147

Guber, Peter, 107–8, 111, 121, 123–24, 134–35, 149, 294

 

H

Hackman, Gene, 297

Haig, Alexander, 197, 260

Haines, Randa, 328

Halberstam, David, 316

Hall, Ed, 26, 27, 29, 31

Hamburger Hill (film), 260–61

The Hand (film), 136, 154

Caine in, 129, 150, 151–52, 153, 158

casting and characters, 149–50, 152, 292

failures of, 152–53, 156–58, 162–63, 178, 189, 207, 242

The Lizard’s Tail and, 147–48, 150

Orion and, 147–50, 156–57, 266

Pressman as producer for, 148–49, 152, 304

release of, 263, 273

special effects in, 148, 150–51

Hannah and Her Sisters (film), 300, 313, 327

Hasenfus, Eugene, 314

Hasford, Gustav, 188

Hawks, Howard, 164, 324

Hayes, Billy, 46, 103, 107–11, 119–20, 122–23, 134–35

Hearst, Patty, 71

Hearts and Minds (documentary film), 71

Heaven Can Wait (film), 119, 123, 130, 132

Heaven’s Gate (film), 127, 188, 190, 251

Hecht, Ben, 164

Hemdale distribution company, 221, 258, 261, 263, 277, 284, 287, 296–97, 310, 313, 330

Hemmings, David, 221

High Noon (film), 127, 230, 300

Hill, Lance, 256

Hill, Steven, 117

Hill School in Pennsylvania, 25–26, 29, 31, 32, 170

Hitchcock, Alfred, 150, 178, 191

Ho, Alex, 190, 194, 207, 209, 211–14, 224, 278, 281–82, 329–30. See also under Platoon

Hoagland, John, 227

Ho Chi Minh and Ho Chi Minh Trail, 86, 94

Hoffer, William, 103, 107–8

Hoffman, Dustin, 79, 125, 149–50, 291, 317, 329

Hollywood, 4, 103–4, 111, 117, 121–25, 127–30, 133, 150, 162, 293, 322, 325

Homer, 80, 128, 169, 264, 298, 302. See also Odysseus

Honduras, 214–15

Hoosiers (film), 258–59, 297

Hoover, J. Edgar, 19

Hopkins, Anthony, 152

Horner, James, 149

Howard, Robert E., 135–36, 137, 139, 143

Huckleberry Finn (fictional character), 19

Hughes, Howard, 165–66

Hughes, John, 277

Huston, John, 142, 232, 324

Hyams, Joe, 326

 

I

ICM, 153, 154, 195, 226, 255

The Iliad (Homer), 80

Indictment: The McMartin Trial (TV movie), 254

International Berlin Film Festival, 320–21

“In the Steppes of Central Asia” (symphonic poem), 65–66

Irish Film Festival, 310

Irons, Jeremy, 305

Irvin, John, 260–61

Irving, Clifford, 301–2

 

J

Jacob, Gilles, 270

Jaffe, Andrea, 232, 297

Jagger, Mick, 128

James Bond series, 136

Jaws (film), 73, 136, 140

JFK (film), 255

Joffé, Roland, 121, 328

Johnson, Lyndon, 54, 94, 230–31

Johnson, Reggie, 268

Jones, Danny, 77, 78, 101–2

Jordan, Neil, 310

Journey to the End of the Night (Céline), 66

Juban, Jun, 194, 285, 287, 289

Juliet of the Spirits (film), 51

Jurado, Katy, 230

 

K

Kael, Pauline, 119, 183, 251, 291–93, 319–20

Kaiser, Bob, 301

Kalki (Vidal), 128

Kamen, Stan, 105, 153–54

Kasdan, Lawrence, 158

Kassar, Mario, 216, 304

Kaye, Simon, 327

Kazan, Elia, 63, 113–14, 144, 162, 211, 233–34, 322, 324

Keaton, Diane, 129–30

Kennedy, Jackie, 52, 322

Kennedy, John F., 32, 46, 115, 322

Kennedy, Robert, 94–95

Killer: A Journal of Murder (film), 254

The Killing Fields (film), 121, 231, 323

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 94

King Kong (film), 148

Kipling, Rudyard, 6

Kissinger, Henry, 80, 197

Kline, Kevin, 296

Kopelson, Arnold, 329, 330. See also under Platoon; Salvador

Koppel, Ted, 310, 316

Korean War, 19, 54, 84, 154–55

Kovic, Ron, 89, 112–18, 145–46, 164, 204, 206

Krim, Arthur, 125, 146–47, 157, 299–301, 318, 330

Kroll, Jack, 272

Kubrick, Stanley, 53, 63, 187, 188, 260, 266, 326

Kuehn, Andy, 327, 328

 

L

Lancaster, Burt, 298, 300, 304–5

Langella, Frank, 58

Laos, 38, 86, 97–98

The Last Emperor (film), 297

Last Tango in Paris (film), 99, 325

Last Year in Vietnam (film), 65–66

Las Vegas, Nevada, 5, 230, 249, 250, 252–53

Laughton, Charlie, 176

Leahy, Tim, 81–82

Lebanon, 67–68, 74

Leigh, Vivien, 11

Le Mouton Enragé (film), 143

Le Pétomane, 305

Libération (newspaper), 271

A Life (Kazan), 144

Lindfors, Viveca, 152

Liu, Herbert, 192

The Lizard’s Tail (Brandel), 147–48, 150. See also The Hand

Lombardi, Chris, 252–53

Lomita, Sal, 299–300

London, England, 72, 108, 109–10

Los Angeles, California, 73–74, 101, 103–5, 115, 161, 175, 180, 293

LRRP (Lurps, Long-Range Recon Patrol), 85–87

Lumet, Sidney, 105, 106, 113, 165, 166, 175, 177

Lynch, David, 188, 197, 313, 328

 

M

Mailer, Norman, 21, 77

Malibu, California, 256–57

Mann, Abby, 293–94

Mann, Michael, 184

Manoogian, Haig, 61

Manson, Arthur, 272–73, 315, 318

Marcos, Ferdinand and Imelda, 269, 270

Marcovicci, Andrea, 152

Mardigian, Ron, 105, 143–44, 153

Marshall, Alan, 108, 110, 124

Marshall, Bob, 198–99, 218, 259, 260, 297, 330

Maryknoll nuns, 207, 241–42, 260

Maslin, Janet, 272, 276

Massapequa, Long Island, 113, 115, 118

Matlin, Marlee, 328

McCambridge, Mercedes, 155

McCarthy, Joe, and McCarthy era, 19, 71

McEnroe, Annie, 152

McGill, Bruce, 152

Meacham, Annie, 69

Medavoy, Mike, 146–47, 149, 157, 231, 259–60, 265–66, 299, 301–2, 325

Melnick, Danny, 110–11

Melville, Herman, 84, 127–28

Menéndez, Ramón, 239, 248, 249

Menschel, Mike, 226, 227, 255, 330

merchant marine, 33–34

“Method” school of acting, 176

Mexico, 1–5, 34, 44, 216–17, 219, 227, 229–36, 5, 234, 236–37, 238–49, 254

MGM, 189, 196–97, 199, 217, 229, 263

Miami, Florida, 165–68, 177, 180, 312

Miami Vice (TV series), 184

Michaelson, Matilda (grandmother), 18, 20, 24

Midnight Cowboy (film), 79, 147, 300

Midnight Express (film), 111, 145, 146, 183, 323

Billy Hayes’s dishonesty and, 134–35

emotions expressed in, 119–20

filming of, 114

Golden Globes, 119, 121–24, 174

Oliver’s reputation and, 223

opening and reviews of, 116, 119, 271, 320

Oscars awarded to, 130, 131–32

scene with Hayes’s father, 46

screenwriting for, 108–10, 111

success of, 119, 153, 157, 158, 322

Midnight Express (Hayes and Hoffer), 103, 107–8

military-industrial complex, 19, 56

Milius, John, 140–42

Milken, Mike, 312

Miller, Arthur, 21, 53, 60, 264

Milne, Charlie, 61

Missing in Action (film series), 119, 198

The Mission (film), 72–73, 323, 328

Mitchell, John, 156

Mitchell, Margaret, 11

Moby Dick (Melville), 84, 127–28

Montana, Tony (fictional character), 128, 170–77, 184, 190, 211–12

Moreau, Jeanne, 25, 113

Morocco, 74, 75

Moroder, Giorgio, 107, 121, 131, 178

Morones, Bob, 240

Morrison, Jim, 49–50, 59–60, 85, 102, 137, 141, 143, 160, 292

Moses, Mark, 268

Muni, Paul, 164, 165

Murphy, Rosemary, 152

My Beautiful Laundrette (film), 277

Myers, Peter, 258

 

N

Napoleon, 178, 190, 324

National Press Club, 324–25

national security, 95–96

Natural Born Killers (film), 80, 172

Neidorf, David, 268

neoliberalism, 271

Newman, Paul, 117, 329

New Wave film movement, 64

New York City, 9–10, 16–18, 24–26, 29–32, 36–37, 48–53, 58–59, 61–62, 74, 78, 102, 175, 309

New York Stock Exchange, 323

Nicaragua, 205, 215, 260, 273, 277, 314

Nicholson, Jack, 79, 130, 291

Nicita, Rick, 293

O

1984 (Orwell), 200–201

Ninotchka (film), 177

Nixon (film), 254, 305

Nixon, Richard, 10, 45, 48, 115, 134, 147, 156, 197, 292

Norris, Chuck, 119, 198, 284, 321

North Vietnamese Army (NVA), 38, 41–43, 86, 92–94, 277

Novak, Kim, 133

novel writing, 34–35, 48

NYU, 61–62, 67, 72, 81–82, 186, 207

 

O’Bannon, Dan, 140

Odets, Clifford, 264, 304

Odysseus (fictional character), 36, 80–82, 96, 98, 188, 264, 298

The Odyssey (Homer), 128, 302

Ogilvy & Mather, 323

Olivier, Laurence, 58, 130–31, 151, 326

“Once Too Much” (screenplay), 112, 296

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film), 157, 300, 318

On the Waterfront (film), 63, 114, 325

Oppenheimer, Dean, 61

Orion Pictures, 125, 146–50, 153, 156–57, 266, 302, 313–14. See also under Platoon; Salvador

Orwell, George, 70, 78, 200–201

Ovitz, Mike, 255–56

 

P

Pacino, Al, 79, 105–6, 111–12, 116–18, 152, 193, 324. See also under Scarface (film, 1983)

Pakula, Alan, 72

Parade magazine, 321

“Paradise Lost” (Time magazine), 167

The Parallax View (film), 72

Paramount Pictures, 295, 300, 314

Paris, France, 11–16, 21–22, 51, 78, 98–101, 113, 169–70

Parker, Alan, 108–11, 116, 119, 121–24, 133, 176, 193, 223

Parker, Robert, 159–60

Paths of Glory (film), 53, 63, 266, 300

Patton (film), 80

Patton, George, 15

Pauley, Jane, 318

Peckinpah, Sam, 59, 112, 232, 296

Pedersen, Chris, 268

Pelet-Collet, Adele “Mémé” (grandmother), 12, 13, 22–23, 98–100

Penn, Chris, 267

Penn, Sean, 221, 313

Pentagon, 89, 92–93, 95, 268–69, 284

Peters, Jon, 126, 129–30, 149–50, 153–54, 156–57, 294, 298

Petrie, Dan, 117, 118, 151

Pfeiffer, Michelle, 170, 176

Philippines, 5, 154, 194, 196–98, 235, 260, 265, 267–70, 274–90, 327

Phillips, Michael, 160

Pierrot le Fou (film), 59

Pines, Steve, 114, 206, 218–19, 225, 265, 295, 330

Platoon (film), 5–6, 201, 270, 310, 322, 324–25. See also Barnes, Sergeant; Elias, Juan Angel

Afman and, 229

Bregman and, 105–6, 107, 111

casting for, 266–68

Cimino and, 188, 189, 190, 194, 198, 221, 304

Daly and, 221–22, 231, 247, 250, 259–62, 266, 276, 287, 297, 299–300, 314, 319, 323, 329–30

De Laurentiis and, 189, 190, 194, 196–200, 217, 221, 260, 295

filming and editing of, 280–90, 298–99, 302, 306–8

Green and, 217, 220–21, 261–62

Ho and, 194, 196–97, 260–61, 265, 275, 277–78, 281–82, 286–87, 289–90, 300

Kopelson and, 217, 220–21, 259, 261–62, 266, 269, 277, 281–82, 285–87, 296

music for, 299, 305–6

opening and rollout of, 311, 313, 314–15, 318–19, 320–21

Orion Pictures and, 231, 259, 261, 265–66, 299–302, 311, 318, 322

Oscars nominations and awards, 327–29, 330

Pentagon and, 268–69

Philippines and, 269–70, 274–75, 276–80

public reaction to, 321–22, 330

rejection of, 118–19, 121, 122, 131

reviews of, 315–16, 317–18, 319–20

Richardson and, 270, 275, 278, 280–81, 283, 286–87, 289, 299

screenplay (See “The Platoon”)

“Second Life” (follow-up script), 296, 302

Tanen and, 295

“The Platoon” (screenplay), 78–89, 96–98, 101–2, 221, 311

Pleskow, Eric, 146–47, 299–301, 318

Polish underground movement, 323

Pollack, Sydney, 72, 113, 291

Pollock, Tom, 198

presidential election (1976), 9–10

Pressman, Ed, 135–36, 140–41, 143, 147–49, 152, 304–5

Pretty in Pink (film), 277

PSO, 218, 258

Puttnam, David, 108, 110, 121, 123, 124, 223, 323

 

Q

Quinn, Francesco, 268

Quiz Show (film), 304

 

R

Racing Club of Paris, 12–14

Raging Bull (film), 157

Rambaldi, Carlo, 148, 151

Rambo (film series), 119, 198, 216–17

Reagan, Ronald, 57, 116, 156, 198, 205, 210–11, 260, 270–71, 273, 277, 310, 314, 318, 320, 322

Redford, Robert, 291, 304

Reds (film), 130

Reeves, Keanu, 266–67

Reversal of Fortune (Dershowitz), 305

Richardson, Bob, 232, 238, 242, 250, 251–53, 327, 330. See also under Platoon

Riordan, James, 141, 143–44, 145, 187, 226, 243–44, 245, 261, 285–86

Rock, Dr., 222, 226, 227, 236, 243, 251

Romero, Óscar, 207, 230, 245, 246

A Room with a View (film), 313

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 19, 57, 235–36

Rourke, Mickey, 193, 251

Rubeo, Bruno, 232, 239, 275, 278, 289

Rudin, Scott, 313, 317

Russia and Russians, 13–14, 15, 19, 20, 185, 236. See also Soviet Union

 

S

Sagaponack, Long Island, 185, 190, 225

Saigon, Vietnam, 33, 38, 84, 92, 93–94

Salter, James, 127

Salvador (film)

Boyle’s stories and, 112–13, 205–6

budget for, 207, 224, 225, 227–28, 229, 235

Daly and, 221–24, 227–29, 233, 235–36, 243, 246–47, 250, 253–54, 258–60, 262–63, 266

filming and editing of, 1–5, 236–37, 238–53, 254–55, 258–60, 262–63

government censor and, 239–40, 244

Green and, 216–17, 219, 221–24, 227–37, 240, 242–44, 246–48, 250, 262

Jacqueline and, 310

Kopelson and, 231, 243, 260, 271

musical score, 263

Orion Pictures and, 231, 259–60, 265–66

Oscar nomination, 327, 330

Pines and, 218–19

political situation and, 314, 320

preparation for filming of, 226–36

release and opening of, 263–64, 272–73, 275–77, 310–11

research trip for, 209–17

reviews of, 270–72, 275–77, 282–83, 291–93, 320

screening of, 259–60

screenwriting for, 217, 219, 221

Zanuck/Brown Company and, 294

Salvadoran civil war (1980), 205–7

San Antonio, Texas, 154–56, 162

Sanchez, Paul, 268

Sand Creek massacre (1864), 325–26

San Diego, California, 45–47

Sandoval, Francisco Mena, 211

San Francisco, California, 5, 44, 230, 236, 249, 250, 251–52

San José, Costa Rica, 214

San Sebastian Film Festival, 310

Santa Ana, battle of, 207, 230, 246–48, 272

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 230–31

Sarkis, Najwa, 62, 66–69, 70, 73–75, 102, 144, 265

Savage, John, 227, 244–45, 247–48

Scarface (film, 1932), 164, 165–66, 171

Scarface (film, 1983), 165, 168–69, 170, 180

Bregman and, 164–66, 175–77, 179, 181–83

Cimino and, 188–89

De Laurentiis and, 189

nightclub scene in, 178–79, 191

Pacino and, 164, 165, 173, 175–77, 179, 181–83, 324

public reaction to, 183–85, 211, 246

research for, in Florida, 165–69, 170

rough cut and problems with, 181–83

screenwriting for, 164–75, 193

Year of the Dragon compared to, 190–91

Scarfiotti, Nando, 178

The Scarlet Empress (film), 61

Schwartz, Delmore, 76

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 136–37, 142–43, 236–37

Scorsese, Martin, 61, 65, 66, 157, 188, 232, 264, 322

Scott, George C., 80

Scott, Ridley, 121, 140, 306

screenwriting. See also specific screenplay names

abandoned scripts, 147

based on memories of January 1, 1968, 77

for Born on the Fourth of July, 111–14, 117

for Eight Million Ways to Die, 194–95, 196

following Vietnam, 58, 59, 60, 64, 66

with Jones, Danny, 78, 101–2

in Los Angeles, 103–5, 110, 113–14

for Midnight Express, 108–10, 111

Oliver’s schedule for, 129, 144, 159

Oscars for, 122–23, 131–32

Platoon revisions, 194

rejections, 70–71

for Salvador, 217, 219, 221

for Scarface, 164–75, 193

for Seizure, 68–69

for Year of the Dragon, 188–94

“Second Life” (Platoon follow-up script), 296, 302

Second World War, 10–11, 13–14, 17–19, 21, 54, 80, 84, 95, 97

Seizure (film), 68–70, 73, 152–53, 162, 206, 207, 292

Serpico (film), 106, 188

Shampoo (film), 130, 149

Shattered Silence (screenplay offer), 293–94

Shaw, Robert, 73, 140

Sheen, Charlie, 266, 277, 279, 283, 288–90, 296, 298–99, 311, 317, 319–20, 330

Sheen, Martin, 226–27, 228, 235, 311

The Shining (film), 187

The Short-Timers (Hasford), 188

Shostakovich, Dmitri, 181

Silverstein, Joshua (grandfather), 17–18

Simon, Neil, 129, 131–32

Simpson, Claire, 278–79, 327

Simpson, Don, 187

Sirola, Joe, 69

Siskel, Gene, 276, 315

Smith, Gordon, 267, 279

Smith, Lois, 117

smuggling charges, 44–45

Soames, Richard, 227–28, 229, 231, 266, 269, 277, 281, 287

Solo Faces (Salter), 127

Sony Pictures, 107, 149

Soviet Union, 21, 156, 181, 225, 236, 271, 323. See also Russia and Russians

Spielberg, Steven, 113, 140, 141, 322

squibs, 178–79, 247

Stallone, Sylvester, 119, 198

Stand and Deliver (film), 239

Stanislavski Method, 58

A Star Is Born (film), 126, 149

Sternberg, Josef von, 61

stock market crash (1929), 17–18, 20

Stone (Riordan), 141, 187, 226, 243–44

Stone, Henry, 58

Stone, Jimmy, 58, 146

Stone, Louis (father), 17–20, 53–54, 56–57, 155

courtship and marriage to Jacqueline, 14–17, 20–21, 24

declining health and death of, 195–96, 199, 200, 203–4, 219, 223–26, 234

divorce from Jacqueline, 26–32, 56, 57, 174

Oliver influenced by, 71, 88–89, 115, 128, 159, 234, 262, 309

Oliver’s relationship with, 33– 36, 46–47, 56–58, 67–68, 100, 102, 132, 146, 264

as parent, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24–25, 62–63

Stone, Sean, 201–4, 208–9, 219–20, 223, 225, 234, 251–52, 263, 274, 280, 284, 298, 309, 327

Strasberg, Lee, 176

Streisand, Barbra, 125, 126, 129, 149, 291

Summer, Donna, 10, 107, 128

Sutherland, Donald, 255

Swedish nanny, 203, 208–9, 220, 222, 224, 228–29, 234

Sweet Smell of Success (film), 300, 304

 

T

Tanen, Ned, 176, 295

Tarzan (Burroughs), 136, 137

Taylor, Chris (fictional character), 79, 88–89, 96, 97, 289, 298–99

Taylor, Elizabeth, 328–29, 330

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 7, 82, 323

Terminator (film), 221, 313

Thatcher, Margaret, 271

Three Days of the Condor (film), 72

Time magazine, 167, 200, 315, 318

Todd, Tony, 268

To Live and Die in LA (film), 267

“Tom Mix and Pancho Villa” (screenplay), 301–2, 303, 304

Top Gun (film), 187, 316

Towne, Robert, 256, 257–58

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film), 160, 235, 285

Truman, Harry, 19, 54

Turkey, 46, 103, 107, 116, 123, 125, 134

20th Century-Fox, 313, 317

25th Infantry, 43, 84, 90, 93, 317–18, 322

 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (film), 141, 303

Tyson, Mike, 55

 

U

“Ulysses” (Tennyson), 7, 323

United Artists, 125, 157, 299, 300

Universal Pictures, 106–7, 117, 176–77, 179–81, 183, 186, 250–51

US government, challenges to, 71–72

US Infantry, 35–36. See also 25th Infantry

 

V

Vajna, Andy, 216

Varney, Ginger, 272

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 321

Vidal, Gore, 128, 129, 186, 259

Vietnam, 33, 72, 86, 90, 97–98, 205. See also specific city names

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 88

Vietnam War. See also Born on the Fourth of July; “The Break”; Coming Home; The Deer Hunter; “Once Too Much”; Platoon; “The Platoon”

Agent Orange and, 67

America following, 10

black soldiers in, 44, 55–56

drugs in, 162

Firebase Pace, 205

flashbacks to, 36–37

folly of, 115–16

friendly fire in, 87, 89–90

The Hand and, 153

Jane Fonda’s outspokenness on, 126

January 1, 1968, 38–43, 77, 92–94, 322

killing civilians, 90–92

Lou Stone on, 53–54

lying about winning, 92–96

Oliver’s service in, 38–44, 82–89

Oliver’s teaching during, 33

Oliver’s volunteering and training for, 35–36

protests against, 80, 145–46, 204

PTSD and, 47, 322

Reagan and, 116, 156, 198

Tet Offensive, 94

uneasiness about, 99

US failure in, 77, 80, 94–96

veteran’s network in Los Angeles, 115

Year of the Dragon and, 189–90

Villechaize, Hervé, 69

Viva Zapata! (film), 211, 324

Voight, Jon, 116–17, 131, 132, 149

von Bülow, Sunny, 305

 

W

Wagner, Paula, 226, 255, 267, 293, 295, 316, 330

Wall Street, 15, 18, 53, 57, 70, 304, 312–13

Wall Street (film), 172, 184, 186, 326

Warner Bros., 125, 157, 189, 313

War on Drugs, 45, 131, 134, 147, 184

Wayne, John, 130–31, 132, 326

Weakness and Deceit (Bonner), 207

Weaver, Sigourney, 294–95, 327

Webb, Jim, 316

Weill, Sandy, 57

Weiser, Stanley, 186, 304–5, 312

Westmoreland, William, 93, 94

Whitaker, Forest, 268

White, Barry, 10, 107, 128

White, Stanley, 208–9, 251, 269

Wilde, Oscar, 276

Wilder, Billy, 30, 177, 305, 324

“Wilderness” (screenplay), 159–60

William Morris Agency, 105, 153–54

Williams, Tennessee, 21, 24, 60, 311–12

Willis, Bruce, 194, 267

Win, Nguyen, 274, 279–80, 281

Windsor-Smith, Barry, 136

women’s movement, 71–72, 79

Woods, James, 226–29, 233–34, 238, 240–50, 252–55, 258, 260, 262, 267, 272, 292, 310, 327, 329–30

Woronov, Mary, 69

Writers Guild, 256, 297

writers vs. filmmakers, 64, 264

writing, 62–63, 64, 70–71. See also novel writing; screenwriting

Wyler, William, 114, 324

 

Y

Yablans, Frank, 189, 197

Yale University, 18, 20, 26, 32–33, 34–35, 48

Year of the Dragon (Daley), 188–90

Year of the Dragon (film), 188–94, 198, 199, 208, 217, 251

 

Z

Z (film), 71, 271

Zanuck, Dick, 294

Zanuck/Brown Company, 293–94

Zapata, Emiliano, 1, 247

Zinnemann, Fred, 106, 114, 127

Zorich, Louis, 69