Introduction: 1966 and 1967, Caution
“No American films”: Rex Reed, “After the ‘Blow-Up,’ a Close-Up,” New York Times, Jan. 1, 1967, D-7
“It was all right”: Bosley Crowther, “The Underground Overflows,” New York Times, Dec. 11, 1966.
Chelsea Hotel’s manager: Crimp, “Our Kind of Movie,” 102.
“it was in someone’s bedroom”: Brigid Berlin, “Brigid Berlin Talks to Factory Co-Worker Paul Morrissey,” Interview, February 1989, 57.
“I can’t believe”: Steven Watson, Factory Made, 308.
“golden age for creative”: “No Limits,” Newsweek, June 22, 1964.
Chapter One: Winter 1968, Guts
“I had this idea”: Yacowar, The Films of Paul Morrissey, 21.
Viva Paper Towels: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 1969, 17.
“They felt they were”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
The Glory of the Fuck: Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol, 146.
“The story is”/“Jackie Kennedy”/“Save it”: Sally Kempton, “Viva of the Visions,” Village Voice, Feb. 22, 1968, 51.
“There were planes”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
“All of the males”: Margia Kramer, “The Warhol File,” Village Voice, May 17, 1988.
“sick sex”: Robert Wilonsky, “Southern Comfort,” New Times Los Angeles, Feb. 11–17, 1999, 4.
“pornographer”: Southern, The Candy Men, 262.
“not a suitable vehicle”: Ibid., 263.
atoll of Tetiaroa: Manso, Brando, 634.
“I have nothing”: Southern, The Candy Men, 311.
“1960s movie”/“wonderful ass”: Manso, Brando, 636.
“Soon, rumors reached”: Southern, The Candy Men, 313.
“every one conceivable”/“We’re keeping it a secret”: Offen, Brando, 181.
“This movie makes”: Bosworth, Marlon Brando, 157.
one thousand British pounds: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“madly in love”: Gerald Clarke, “Petronius Americanus,” Atlantic, March 1972, 51.
“To cane a woman”: Johnson, Intellectuals, 326.
“I love prostitution”: “More of Gore,” Screw, Nov. 23, 1970, 6.
“a skit, a song”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan Plans a Stage Tribute to Eros,” New York Times, April 9, 1969, 54.
word “fuck” on TV: Lahr, The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, 15.
“So that’s my obit?”: Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, 311.
“It’s to be an erotic evening”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“co-devising and co-directing”: Ibid.
White recalled meeting: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“organization of an orgy”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“four fellows wanking”: Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, 351.
“non-queers”: Ibid., 362.
“There’s been enough”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan Plans a Stage Tribute to Eros,” New York Times, April 9, 1969, 54.
“gentle stimulation”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
“something far out”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“I seldom start”: Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, 142.
“Absolutely like Joan of Arc”: Russell Halley, “The Complete Works of Gore Vidal,” Atlantic, March 1975, 19.
“It got more interesting”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 577.
“yellow legal pads”: Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, 140.
“Myra had been a male”: Ibid., 142.
“fragile white race”: Ibid., 151.
“cold, clinical sex”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1979, 74.
“le maitre Tyler”: John Calendo, “Parker Tyler,” Andy Warhol’s Interview, March 1973, 44.
“hot stuff”: Vidal, Palimpsest, 106.
“Anaïs in all the flowing”: Ibid., 107.
“Oh God, to wake up”: Hollis Alpert, “Dialogue on Film,” American Film, April 1977, 38.
“just a big queen”: Mitzel and Abbott, Myra & Gore, 80.
“Bunny Breckinridge was”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 579.
“part castle, part dungeon”: Fonda, Jane Fonda, 176.
an owl dropped: Ibid.
“Can I have”: Bosworth, Jane Fonda, 254.
female lead in Bonnie and Clyde: Andersen, Citizen Jane, 136.
“Vadim promised”: Fonda, Jane Fonda, 177.
started popping Dexedrine, while her director/husband: Ibid, 180.
“Brigitte Bardot type”: Freedland, Jane Fonda, 99.
even if Vadim also wanted: Bosworth, Jane Fonda, 254.
“I don’t think I know”: “Gore’s Myra,” Time, Feb. 16, 1968, 69.
“very best satirical work”: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 584.
“right-wing circles”: Andrew Solomon, “Gore Vidal Receives a Visitor,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 15, 1995, 40.
“New York Times would not advertise”: Vidal, Palimpsest, 102.
“Gore has slipped”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1969, 74.
“You know, Hemingway’s problem”: Mitzel and Abbott, Myra & Gore, 76.
took time to have lunch: Hellman to author; Oct. 16, 2011.
“I hoped that Ned”: Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, 151.
masturbation session: Kaplan, Gore Vidal, 583.
Vidal sign a release/Heinemann/Anthony Blond: Ibid., 588.
“coquettishly”/“sexual problems”: “Myra the Messiah,” Time, Feb. 16, 1968.
“Myra favors anything”: “Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal,” Playboy, June 1969, 94.
“high camp”: Sandra Shevey, “Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.
“Most of us worry”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1969, 74.
“Everyone below Rosenthal”: Larry Gross, “Abe Rosenthal’s Reign of Homophobia,” Truthdig, May 16, 2006.
Lenny Bruce/“schmuck”: Scherman, Pop, 218.
Dr. Donald Kaplan/Tulane Drama Review: Bram, Eminent Outlaws, 81.
“Short people can’t”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“Why not me?”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Well, life is”: Rex Reed, “Breakthough by ‘The Boys in the Band’,” New York Times, May 12, 1968.
“I had to sublet”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Too many dykeisms”: Andy Humm, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Hits 40,” Gay City News, June 26, 2008, 64.
“I’m worried about you”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“a changed woman”: Wendell Rickeets, “Talking Truth,” Bay Area Reporter, Feb. 8, 1990, 35.
“I don’t know anyone”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010; also, Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“Not a weekend”: Richard Kramer, “A Play of Words About a Play,” New York Times, Oct. 31, 1993, 8.
“Anyone who had”: Peter Filichia, “Stagestruck,” TheaterWeek, June 17, 1996, 10.
“Edward didn’t”/Barr exchange: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“I’m only directing”: Rondo to author; Dec. 10, 2010.
“Don’t get involved”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“I read the play”: Ibid.
“There’s nothing in The Knack”: Alfred Zelcer, “Cliff Gorman—Coitus Interrupted,” After Dark, Dec. 1971, 22.
“You’re so Hollywood”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
Although he studied: Andy Humm, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Hits 40,” Gay City News, June 26, 2008, 64.
“Make up whatever”: Ibid., 82.
“Do you think”/“Aristophanes”: Mary Talbot, “How One Man’s ‘Band’ Changed Theater,” Daily News, June 19, 1996, 37.
“word somehow got out”/“Our Town”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“I found it highly skillful”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“It was 1968”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Clinton Wilder”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Here it is”: Gussow, Edward Albee, 164.
“I’ll take one”: Ibid., 165.
“So there was”: Alfred Zelcer, “Cliff Gorman—Coitus Interrupted,” After Dark, Dec. 1971, 22.
word “shit”/“infinitely more vulgar”: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 373, 377.
“I’m sure everyone”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
Chapter Two: Spring 1968, Partners
“Even in college”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“We thought people”: Rado to author; June 16, 2010.
“ ‘Sodomy’ was not”: MacDermot to author; June 15, 2010.
“Who’s Rado and Ragni”: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
director of choice, Gerald Freedman: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
obvious one for Michael Butler: Butler to author; Dec. 4, 2010.
“I wanted Jim”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
“We were looking”: Wollman, The Theater Will Rock, 48.
“environmental theater piece”: Cohen to author; Aug. 17, 2011.
“These two guys”: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
“Galt MacDermot didn’t fit”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
“I didn’t find them”/narc: MacDermot to author, June 15, 2010.
“pansexuality”/“omnisexual”: Sheela Lambert, “The Man Behind the Hair,” The Advocate, March 12, 2009.
“idea of close friendship”: Rado to author, June 16, 2010.
“very guy situation”/“like any couple”: Arenal to author; Dec. 12, 2010.
“Tom was very secretive”: Cohen to author, Aug. 17, 2011.
“They were lovers”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
“Why aren’t the girls”/choreography credit: Arenal to author, Dec. 12, 2010.
“It was crazy backstage”/“spaced out”: Arenal to author, Dec. 12, 2010.
“You tasted the Vitamin”: Grode, Hair, 125.
“The stagehands hated”: Arenal to author, Dec. 12, 2010.
body stockings: Davis, Letting Down My Hair, 59.
“Only a few”: MacDermot to author, June 15, 2010.
“totally artistic decision”: Grode, Hair, 70.
“[e]veryone was momentarily”: Davis, Letting Down My Hair, 76.
“The shots ‘shrivelled’”: Ibid.
“Many of the girls”: Ibid., 234.
bogus “raid”: Grode, Hair, 70.
“There was a time”: Davis, Letting Down My Hair, 118.
The League denied/“I have to thank”: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
John Schlesinger: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
Groucho Marx/peephole: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“I saw straights”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“a funny, frank”: “New Plays,” Time, April 26, 1968, 97.
“calls a fag”: Wilfred Sheed, “Gay Life Gets a Sharp Going Over,” Life, May 10, 1968.
“party of bitchy fags”/“Probably most homosexuals”: Frances Herridge, “ ‘The Boys in the Band’ Alters Author’s Life,” New York Post, April 22, 1968.
“A couple of years”: Clive Barnes, “ ‘Boys in the Band,’ ” New York Times, April 15, 1968, 48.
“People like Tynan”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
Philip Roth declined: Feiffer to author; Dec. 7, 2010.
Playboy/Drs. William Masters: Maier, Masters of Sex, 203.
“studs and cartoonists”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
When he’d polished the play: Feiffer to author; also, Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 398.
“The Jewish women”: Roth, Reading Myself and Others, 34.
slide show/“L.B.J.’s testicles”: Ibid., 31-32.
“The issue seems”: Sam Tanenhaus, “John Updike’s Archive,” New York Times, June 20, 2010, C1.
“sort of a crusader”: Dick Cavett, “John Updike Interview,” Conversations with John Updike, 230.
Wolper Company: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 66.
“kind of a mess”: John Updike, “Bech Meets Me,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 14, 1971, 3.
“My observation about American”: Elinor Stout, Converations with John Updike, 79.
late-blooming sexual awareness: Updike, Self-Consciousness, 135.
17th Century Day pageants: Charles Thomas Samuels, “The Art of Fiction XLIII: John Updike,” Paris Review, Winter 1968.
“surge of belonging”: Updike, Self-Consciousness, 51.
“Updikes are the ringleaders”: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 76.
“about not just couples”: James Schiff, Updike in Cincinnati, 58.
“all the religious ones”: Sally Reston, “John Updike Works Three Hours and Poses as a Vacationer,” Vineyard Gazette, May 3, 1968.
“I plotted Couples”: Charles Thomas Samuels, “The Art of Fiction XLIII: John Updike,” Paris Review, Winter 1968.
“only the marsh geography”: Ibid.
she felt smothered: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 76.
“It is very tempting”: “Musical Beds,” Newsweek, April 8, 1968, 125.
“lot of dry talk”: “View from the Catacombs,” Time, April 26, 1968, 76.
“This book deals”: Sally Reston, “John Updike Works Three Hours and Poses as a Vacationer,” Vineyard Gazette, May 3, 1968.
Menemsha Beach: Ibid.
“I seem to remember”: Updike, Self-Consciousness, 123.
“almost universally anti-war”: Ibid. 114.
“too reflexive, too Pop”: Ibid.
“The solution to”: Ibid., 115.
“lugubrious bojunk”: Ibid., 120.
“mood of black despair”: Robin Brantley, “Knock Knock,” New York Times Magazine, June 25, 1976, 50.
“that Village Voice ad”: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 361.
Martinson/“accomplice”: Roth, The Facts, 148.
“emancipator”: Ibid. 149.
“bus from Port Authority”: Ibid., 156.
Chapter Three: Summer 1968, Politics
advanced him $250,000: Ibid., 157.
“different from any other book”: Sandra Shevey, “I Think It’s Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.
“With this book”: Mitzel and Abbott, Myra & Gore, 63.
a near fistfight: Gerald Clarke, “Petronius Americanus,” Atlantic, March 1972, 49.
screen be erected: Bram, Eminent Outlaws, 12.
“I’m all for the breaking”: Paul Jabara, “A Visit with Gore Vidal,” After Dark, July 1972, 52.
“I saw your sign”: “More of Gore,” Screw, Nov. 23, 1970, 8.
Andy Warhol spent: Paul Carroll, “What’s a Warhol?,” Playboy, Sept. 1969, 133.
“Could I please be”: Diaries, unpublished articles by Lance Loud; also Lance Loud to author.
Baker agreed but balked: Watson, Factory Made, 339.
Solanas two thousand dollars /“thief and vulture”: Southern, The Candy Men, 320.
Kenneth’s Hair Salon: Bockris, Warhol, 297.
“Andy, Andy”: Mark Shivas, “ ‘Cowboy’ Director Had a Blind Spot,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1970.
“John and I”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“that bunch of perverts”: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov, 9, 1969, 17.
“Say something to Andy”: Mark Shivas, “ ‘Cowboy’ Director Had a Blind Spot,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1970.
“There were a few”: Morrissey to author; Oct. 13, 2011.
“It was amazing”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“six-day bacchanal”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
“Darling, they’re so”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“What attracted me”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 293.
“terribly careful”: Frank Spotnitz, “John Schlesinger,” American Film, Jan. 1991, 36.
“It was a book”: Kevin Thomas, “John Schlesinger,” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1969, 22.
“faggot stuff”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 314.
“The book had”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
a movie for Elvis Presley: Frank Spotnitz, “John Schlesinger,” American Film, Jan. 1991, 20.
the name Sammy Davis Jr.: Ibid.
stronger language, more nudity: Watson, Factory Made, 337.
“It was the only studio”: Picker to author; Aug. 29, 2011.
“commercial filmmakers”: Rosalyn Regelson, “Where Are ‘The Chelsea Girls’ Taking Us?,” New York Times, Sept. 24, 1967, D15.
“My partners here”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 314.
Julie Christie, who showed: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“It’s grim”: “Schlesinger Faces Pressure,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 22, 1970, A-3.
“He was afraid”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
“We’re ready, my queen”/“frivolity”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.
“All of which changed”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
“The crew were these”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“It depressed me”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 313.
“Neil Simon picture”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“some nebbish Mike Nichols”: Patrick Goldstein, “Midnight Cowboy,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 2005.
“So I hear”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 316.
One day, Schlesinger gave: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 313-14, 318.
“Dustin was prodding”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“What is my motivation”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 146.
Then there was Brenda Vaccaro: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 326.
also played offscreen: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“Well, it’s in a movie”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 324.
“Joe, the cowboy”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
When they’d completed: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 291.
Elkins met Michael: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“Why didn’t they”/“How dare you”: Bockris, Warhol, 309.
“I vaguely knew”: Morrissey to author, Oct. 13, 2011.
“When you’re young”: Watson, Factory Made, 342.
“There was always”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 30, 2012.
“He’d have these plants”: Highberger, Superstar in a Housedress, 101.
“nine-to-fiver”: anonymous source to author.
“Think of the millions”: Dick Lochte, “Conversations with Paul Morrissey,” Los Angeles Free Press, May 24, 1974.
“I was making fun”: William Grimes, “A Warhol Director on What Is Sordid,” New York Times, Dec. 26, 1995, C13.
Chapter Four: Autumn 1968, Revelry
“teach Andy”/“Oh no, we can’t”: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 153.
“Do you honestly”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 332.
“youth adviser”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 416.
“bit more solo”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 32.
“In Britain, the underworld”: Ibid., 31.
“I idolized those”: John Powers, “Sympathy for the Devil,” L.A. Weekly, June 3, 1988, 39.
“Just a few pages”: Lanza, Fragile Geometry, 37.
“We would rehearse”: Salwolke, Nicolas Roeg, 2.
“This ménage à trois”: Special Features, Performance DVD.
“My first scene”: Ibid.
“Donald could be quite”: Umland, Donald Cammell, 104.
“Jagger simply took”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 32.
“But I smelled”: Richards and Fox, Life, 255.
Richards was having sex: Ibid., 256.
“twister and a manipulator”: Ibid., 253.
“The Importance of Being Earnest”: Romany Bain, “The Changing Faces of James Fox,” She, 1972, 21.
“He literally became”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 33.
“each of them”/“Neanderthal gangster”: Ibid., 32.
“Mick is not acting”: Ibid.
But he flat out: Lanza, Fragile Geometry, 37.
“basically harmful”: Romany Bain, “The Changing Faces of James Fox,” She, 1972, 20.
arrested on drug charges: Walker, Hollywood UK, 413.
“very macho, violent”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 33.
went to South Africa: Walker, Hollywood UK, 423.
“At the time”: Ibid., 424.
“We screened everything”/“Bi”: Ibid., 417.
“Even the bathwater”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 31.
“This film, for”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 418.
had endured the usual mindless conversations: Mazursky to author; June 21, 2011; also, Mazursky, Show Me the Magic, 156; Special Features, Bob & Carol DVD.
Gerber laughed: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 109.
“It bears precious little resemblance”: Southern, The Candy Men, 319.
“that something ought to be done”: Ibid., 320.
Buck Henry sent Southern: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 110.
“In spite of”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 168.
“full vag-pen”: Southern, The Candy Men, 188.
“There’s something so inappropriate”: Ibid.
“I’m not aware”: Ibid., 267.
“Since they are both”: Special features, If . . . DVD.
“if we’re naked”: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.
“one of the most animalistic”: Special features, If . . . DVD.
Chapter Five: Winter 1969, Bonanza
“It was research”: Sappington to author; June 23, 2010.
“We just took”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Tynan made a hard”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Oh! Calcutta!, he thought”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Ken had a lot”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
at least four skits: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Tynan was a real”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“such a dirty show”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“It was a theater”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“tribute to a great English”: Jerry Talmer, “Tynan,” New York Post, April 9, 1969.
“I was afraid”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan Plans a Stage Tribute to Eros,” New York Times, April 9, 1969, 54.
“attract the killers”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan’s Elegant Erotica,” New York Times, Oct. 20, 1968, 1.
“Harold Pinter was tempted”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
Hilly Elkins and Bill Liberman: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“nonorgiastic style”: Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, 364.
“We’re disinfecting”: Craig Karpel, “No Penetration in Eden,” Village Voice, May 15, 1969, 41.
“They were, indeed”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“actors, and especially English”: Kael, “Victim,” For Keeps, 34.
“some middle-aged urban”: Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House, 128.
“I don’t mind”: “Oh! Calcutta!,” Entertainment World, Oct. 24, 1969.
“We wanted an attractive”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“heterosexual fascists!”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 13.
“When we take down”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“Simultaneously with our”: Ibid.
thirty helmeted, gas-masked: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 257.
“What was great”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
including critic Richard Schechner: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 257.
“to overcome violence”: Malina and Beck, Paradise Now, 80.
“Jim had decided”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
$2,500 donation: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 257.
“lewdly and lasciviously”: Herman, Rock ’n’ Roll Babylon, 60.
“You’re all a bunch”: Ibid.
“ivory shaft”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
Jeanne Baretich/“consensual sodomy”: “Show Must Go,” New York Post, March 25, 1969, 24.
local clergyman who: Lewis Funke, “City Officials Consulting with ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ Staff,” New York Times, May 24, 1969.
“rubbing of the genital”: John Mullane, “Vow to Keep ‘Che’ on After Second Arrest,” New York Post, May 8, 1969, 68.
“There have been seventy”: Ibid.
“If I were afraid: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
A flamboyant showman: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“faux-Napoleonic grandeur”: Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House, 126.
“the unmentionable”: Ibid., 127.
“I was a little”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“There’s a good chance”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 15.
“The worst that could”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“I think all”/“guide”: Enten to author; Jan. 4, 2011.
“no-fuck law”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 17.
“How can you touch”: Peter Hellman, “Arriving at the Naked Truth,” New York, June 30,, 1969, 57.
“I’d like to”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 25.
multimedia work/“inhibitions”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
Chapter Six: Spring 1969, Fetishes
censors at the Gray Lady: Craig Karpel, “No Penetration in Eden,” Village Voice, May 15, 1969, 40.
“subject matter of pornography”: Intelligent Puritan, “Tynan: And Is That Bad?,” New York Times, June 15, 1969, 10.
“To scotch most”: Leo Mishkin, “A Peek at ‘Oh! Calcutta!,’ ” Morning Telegraph, May 5, 1969.
“Will sexual intercourse”: Ibid.
“No. We’re not”: Mishkin, “A Peek at ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ ”
“include actual sexual”: Henry Raymont, “ ‘Che!’ Tests the Limits,” New York Times, March 24, 1969.
“done it”: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 259.
“I personally would”: Jerry Tallmer, “Tynan,” New York Post, April 9, 1969.
“Recommended for mature”: Lewis Funke, “City Officials Consulting with ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ Staff,” New York Times, May 24, 1969.
“unofficially inviting”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
“Well, can I”: Sappington to author, June 23, 2010.
“They offered extremely”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
“Tynan threatened”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Tynan’s skits”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“There is no theatrical”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
actor Leon Rossom/actress Nancy Tribush exchange: Ibid.
“A few times”: Sappington to author, June 23, 2010.
Nureyev/Dempsey exchange: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 37.
“full-length play”/“Tynan cast”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
world premier: Earl Wilson, “A Night of Nudity,” New York Post, June 18, 1969.
“Opening night was”: Sappington to author, June 23, 2010.
“People who had”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
Sardi’s party: Wilson, “A Night of Nudity.”
“Break a member”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
“You’re a very nice”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“They were disastrous”: Ibid.
“A police official”: Earl Wilson, “ ‘Calcutta’ Rolls On,” New York Post, June 25, 1969.
$234,969/“Scalpers were”: “$15 Top for ‘Calcutta,’ ” New York Times, May 30, 1969.
Elkins liked to give: Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House, 127.
two million copies/“greatest blow”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1969, 73.
“We were stunned”: “ ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Almost Didn’t Make It,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 13, 1969. B-6.
“There would be seventy-five”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.
“We felt the X”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 332.
“I didn’t like”: Gregory King, “Herlihy’s Modified ‘Cowboy’ Rapture,” Variety, May 4, 1971.
“We filmed two”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 314.
“I’m afraid I”: King, “Herlihy’s Modified ‘Cowboy’ Rapture.”
“I want to do”: Frank Spotnitz, “John Schlesinger,” American Film, January 1991, 37.
“Well, we don’t”: Ibid.
“I met him”/“I told Columbia”: Kramer to author; June 23, 2010.
“We’re paid to”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 22.
“Trevelyan told us”: Kramer, Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings, 64.
“It was very emotional”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“This scene is by far”: Algate and Robertson, Censorship in Theatre and Cinema, 126.
“Certainly one lesbian”: Judith Crist, “Banned in Boston,” New York, March 30, 1969, 54.
“I wasn’t quite out”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“The scene I wrote”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
Reed made an impromptu visit: Russell, Altered States, 67.
“You’re going to be seen”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“one of the most exposed”: Spoto, Otherwise Engaged, 106.
“full-frontal nudity”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
The night before: Russell, Altered States, 72.
“Alan had very little”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“Tumultuous applause”: Russell, Altered States, 72.
losing twenty pounds: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“It was a difficult scene”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“The task was quite”: Spoto, Otherwise Engaged, 106.
“The scenes in which”: Baxter, Glenda Jackson, 64.
“But I wouldn’t budge”: Goodwin, Evil Spirits, 123.
“Poor Ollie”: Baxter, Glenda Jackson, 63.
Suddenly, Last Summer: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“Trevelyan was a real”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
appropriately sterile/deciding vote: Philip Oakes, “Mister Bluenose,” Sunday Times Magazine, July 3, 1966.
“How can you exercise”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“In the end”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“This film included”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 117.
“Trevelyan had that”: Baker, Director’s Cut, 93.
“I remember that after Blow-Up”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 115.
“Because it was the first”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“It was known as”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
Chapter Seven: Summer 1969, Revolution
“This unpleasantness”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“You’re the producer!”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“We will replace”: Ibid.
$1.6 million: Bruce Bahrenburg, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Becomes Movie,” Newark Evening News, Aug. 24, 1969.
“Crowley knew”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“No fags smoke”: Andy Humm, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Hits 40,” Gay City News, June 26, 2008, 46.
“There was a lot of crap”: Alfred Zelcer, “Cliff Gorman—Coitus Interrupted,” After Dark, December 1971, 18.
“monkey house”: Thomas Quinn Curtis, “Parisians Hail Premiere of ‘The Boys in the Band,’ ” New York Times, Sept. 20, 1969.
And down under: Raymond Stanley, “Actors in Aussie ‘Boys’ Convicted on Vice Squad Obscenity Charge,” Variety, Aug. 6, 1969. 2.
Boris Karloff’s co-op: New York Post, Sept. 3, 1968, 43.
“It’s a gigantic”: Arthur Bell, “Bell Tells,” Village Voice, undated clip.
“As a straight man”: Friedkin, The Friedkin Connection, 137.
“had gotten bored”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“consciously fag”: Bahrenburg, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Becomes Movie.”
“Is the country”: Katie Kelly, “The ‘Boys’ Are Having a Bit of a Party Again,” New York Times, July 13, 1969.
“Who can predict”: Ibid.
“bane of my existence”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“emotional strain”: “Los Angeles Judges Act on ‘Calcutta,’ ” New York Times, Dec. 19. 69.
“genital contact”: “Cops Nab Frisco ‘Calcutta’ Actors,” Variety, Nov. 5, 1969, 63.
management did suspend: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
Warhol’s effort to combine: Colacello, Holy Terror, 5.
“They don’t even dare”: Taylor Mead, “Lions Love,” Inter/VIEW, vol. 1, 1969, 16.
“Jerry got totally”/“You’ve got to”/Ellen Stewart: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
Chapter Eight: Autumn 1969, Trauma
“The directors of”: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.
“I’ve always thought”: Bernard Weinraub, “Hollywood Reigns as Film Fete Opens,” New York Times, Sept. 17, 1969, 50.
“This’ll give”: Mazursky, Show Me the Magic, 159.
“When you first start”: Weinraub, “Hollywood Reigns as Film Fete Opens.”
“I feel nervous”: Ibid.
“Mayor John Lindsay”: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.
the phone rang: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.
“It’s nice to be here”: Guy Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 1969, 18.
doubled over with laughter: Colacello, Holy Terror, 5.
Katharine Hepburn: Flatley, “How to Be Very Viva.”
Warhol courted: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 156.
They also arrested: Vincent Canby, “Warhol’s Red Hot and ‘Blue’ Movie,” New York Times, Aug. 10, 1969, 2.
“cheap date”: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 154.
Golightly/Woodlawn Cemetery: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 3.
Holly Woodlawn in Gay: Watson, Factory Made, 339.
“Intrigued by my boldness”: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 5.
“Hi, Holly”: Ibid, 132.
“If you were wearing”: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.
“Morrissey was very”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
“Three days of love”: Ferguson, Little Joe, Superstar, 89.
“Stop the Method”: Ibid., 97.
“so humiliated”/Sylvia Miles: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 144.
“forty commercials”: Steven Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, April 2001, 422.
“I am convinced”: Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
“Oh, just leave”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies.”
“well-thumbed page”: Ibid.
“lacked that touch: Ibid., 420.
“Perhaps because of”: Mark Goodman, “Myra/Raquel,” Time, Nov. 28, 1969, 86.
Nero’s mother: “Fellini’s Faces,” After Dark, March 1969, 14.
“I never could”/“too choice”: Chandler, She Always Knew How, 243.
stars ranging from: Sandra Shevey, “I Think It’s Just Beginning,” After Dark, Feb. 1969, 53.
“I was anointed”: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second documentary, 2003.
“marvelously artificial”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 422.
“old hack”: Rex Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” Playboy, August 1970, 80.
“I was supposed: Ibid.
“epicene Rex Reed”: Mark Goodman, “Myra/Raquel,” Time, Nov. 28, 1969, 88.
David Brown broke out: Steven Daly; “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, 425; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
“boys’ night out”: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 426.
“She’s a sweet”: Ibid., 424.
“Old Raccoon”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 80.
“She looks like”: “Mae and Myra,” VLife, Nov. 2003, 47.
“Darling, don’t you”: Daly, “Swinging in the Seventies,” 424.
“wild frenzy dance”: Calvin Trillin, “Through the Muck with Myra,” Life, March 6, 1970, 52.
One day, Head asked: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 425.
“Oh, this must be”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 155.
“The set was closed”: Ibid., 80.
“Do you masturbate”: Ibid., 155.
“We just disagree”/Tom O’Horgan: Joe Broady, “Sarne Stays as ‘Myra’ Director,” Variety, Oct. 1, 1969, 7.
“today picture”/“Bullshit”: Reed, “Myra Goes Hollywood,” 155.
I Am Curious account/quotes: Associated Press; also, “Jackie Puts Judo Hold on Newsman,” Temple of Schlock, Feb. 1, 2009.
“Everyone has quit”: Joyce Haber, “Shell Shock on the ‘Myra’ Set,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19, 1969.
scent of burning marijuana: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 425.
“teenage soap opera”: Bob Thomas, “Dolls Sequel for Meyer,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Sept. 29, 1969.
“The previous film”: Ibid.
“I’ve considered full”: Ebert, Life Itself, 22.
“20th is letting”: Nat Freedland, “Russ Meyer Beyond Nudies,” Entertainment World, Jan. 30, 1970, 11.
“The rushes look”: Ibid., 13.
Altamont/Loud/Hoffman: Hoffman to author; Nov. 21, 2011.
Mick Jagger, surrounded: Gimme Shelter documentary, 1970.
“I have bad news”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 297.
“demonic, insane”: Helmut Berger profile, Internet Movie Database.
“Visconti wondered”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 298.
“We were the hit”: Ibid., 305.
Chapter Nine: Winter 1970, Outrage
“Doors started opening”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 419.
“Most of the audience”: R. Joseph Libin, “Don Cammell,” Interview, July 1972, 20.
censors excised: Walker, Hollywood UK, 422.
“brilliantly shot”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 163.
in his coat pocket: Walker, Hollywood UK, 411.
“I discovered that”: Libin, “Don Cammell,” 10.
Paramount Pictures unveiled: Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, 171.
Sarne’s idea/young Shirley Temple: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 426; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
Midnight Cowboy R-rating: Phillips, John Schlesinger, 129.
“No way”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“I am somewhat”: Ronnie Cowan, “Helmut Berger Outspoken Thespian,” Citizen News, July 27, 1970, 19.
Chapter Ten: Spring 1970, Kisses
“I had a very intense”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 68.
“I don’t suppose”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 117.
Keller/Schlesinger/Bannen exchange: Daimon Lawrence, “Hiram Keller,” Andy Warhol’s Interview, Vol. IV, No. 10, 1974, 31.
“Ian wasn’t free”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
phoned her client/“I’m not a queer”: Faulkner, Peter Finch, 250.
“Dear John”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“That’s exactly”: Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch, 211.
“we became like”: Phillips, John Schlesinger, 309.
“I didn’t think”: Guy Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1971, 12.
“The kiss!”: Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch, 310.
“John, is this really”: Ibid.
“I did it for England”: Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” 12.
“You’re the hot”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“To ask them”: Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” 12.
“We screamed”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“Oh, it’s a wonderful”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 118.
“We’d filled the little theater”: Ibid., 116.
Chapter Eleven: Summer 1970, Retreat
“two men grabbed”: Steven Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” Vanity Fair, April 2001, 426.
Crowley introduced himself: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“The gay boys?”: Joseph Modzelewski, “1st Lady of Sex Speaks Out,” Daily News, June 25, 1970, 4.
Brown recalled the scene: Daly, “Swinging into the Seventies,” 427; also, Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 129.
“Nobody can understand”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 242.
“There’s no point: Ibid.
“definitive blowjob”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 136.
“pornography without”/refused all ads: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.
“the great Stanley K”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 136.
“The book itself”: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.
“A janitor”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“Of all the ways”: “Power to the Peeples,” Time, Aug. 16, 1971, 47.
“Some of the actresses”/“clap”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“Dad, is this”: Van Peebles to author, Aug. 20, 2012.
“I did not altogether”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 247.
“It was the most painful”: LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 336.
Burgess had been here before: Ibid. 337.
“It’s as though”: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.
“That’s not the way”: Lanza, Phallic Frenzy, 109.
“Look, I’ve got some bad”: Baxter, An Appalling Talent, 193.
“Because we gave creative”: Picker to author, Aug. 29, 2011.
“I landed on my ass”: Baxter, An Appalling Talent, 193.
“Mr. Kubrick has”: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 55.
“I feared, justly”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 217.
“Nothing was a difficult”: Nichols to author; June 13, 2011.
“From the moment”: Bergen, Knock Wood, 222.
Nichols had her do the scene: Crane and Fryer, Jack Nicholson, 80, 84; also, Ann-Margret, Ann-Margret, 205.
to help Nicholson: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 220, 224.
“It was this wild”: Parker, Warren Beatty, 399.
“Now, that’s what”: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 223.
“the pro”: McDouglas, Five Easy Decades, 128.
“I was one of the first”: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Playboy, April 1972, 72.
“I appeared puffier”: Ann Margret, Ann-Margret, 209.
“depressive stupor”: Ibid., 210.
Nichols on nude scenes: Carnal Knowledge symposium, Walter Reade Theater, NYC, June 12, 2011.
Nichols never stopped working: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 402.
He recalled a conversation: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
Chapter Twelve: Autumn 1970, Arrests
“vice that won’t”: “Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal,” Playboy, June 1969, 94.
“I felt like Elizabeth”: Guy Flatley, “He Enjoys Being a Girl,” New York Times, Nov. 15, 1970, 15.
apartment of Mme. Chardonet: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 11.
“lift your dress”/“Finally, the police”: Flatley, “He Enjoys Being a Girl,” 2.
“Holly only worked”: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 17.
Lance approached her: Stein, Edie, 413–14; also Lance Loud to author.
“If anyone had said”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
“it is about Mahler”: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 298.
“All the details”: Mann, Unwritten Memories, 152.
the executives at Warners: Bogarde, Snakes & Ladders, 305.
Warsaw, Oslo, Helsinki: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 75.
“girlfriend”/Berenson: Ronnie Cowan, “Helmut Berger Outspoken Thespian,” Citizen News, July 27, 1970, 19.
“You don’t think”: Amy Collins, “The Lure of Visconti,” Vanity Fair, December 2001, 308.
“healthy appetite”: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 76.
“Hell, man, now”: Ibid., 79.
“Of course it’s important,” Lanza, Phallic Frenzy, 109.
Redgrave, Paris, Claire, Sutton, Fyles, Gilbert, Vernon, Baird quotes: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.
“comfortable thing to do”: Hell on Earth (documentary), 2002.
“These lessons often”: Russell, Altered States, 105.
“shitty”: “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” Playboy, August 1972, 79.
“nice Jewish girl”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 124.
He even wrote: Fine, Bloody Sam, 193-94.
“religious reasons”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 129.
“What appealed to me”: Ibid., 125.
“Lolita-ish girl”: Ibid., 126.
“I do think of Sam”: Dan Yergin, “Peckinpah’s Progress,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 31, 1971, 16.
“He was plastered”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.
“I’m like a good whore”: Ibid.
“Several weeks ago”: The American Presidency Project online.
Chapter Thirteen: 1971, Fatigue
“I shot that stag”: Dan Yergin, “Peckinpah’s Progress,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 31, 1971, 16.
“Like a princess”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 200–1.
Word of their talk: Ibid., 201–2.
“There were only two”: Van Peebles to author, Aug. 20, 2012.
“the [black] community comes”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“When we arrived”: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company documentary, 2004.
“Not only is he baptized”: Newton, To Die for the People, 118.
“Sweetback grew into”: Ibid., 122.
“Van Peebles pictures”: “Black Workshop Charges Racial Sabotage in ‘Sweet’,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 21, 1971, 22.
“Hell, my father”: Baadasssss! DVD, special features.
“I stood a steroetype”: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company documentary, 2004.
“cultural genocide”: ACLU press release, March 22, 1971.
“They don’t have”: “Civil Liberties Union,” Hollywood Reporter, March 24, 1971.
John Erlichman and Bob Haldeman were sitting: Nixon tapes, May 3, 1971; YouTube.
“It’s gonna go”: “Playboy Interview: Norman Lear,” Playboy, March 1973, 62.
“We’re going to be getting”: “Playboy Interview: Carroll O’Connor,” Playboy, Jan. 1973, 74.
“fifty stations”: “Family Fun,” Newsweek, March 15, 1971, 68.
contract guarantee him: “Playboy Interview: Carroll O’Connor,” 70.
Visconti/Warners: Bogarde, An Orderly Man, 73.
“great scandal”: Ibid., 74.
“Queen of England”: Ibid., 80.
“ticket prices”: Adair, The Real Tadzio, 25.
“would have been detrimental”: Ibid., 27.
Xaviera Hollander account: Hollander to author; May 30, 2012; also, Hollander, The Happy Hooker, 12, 159, 162, 114, 117, 195, 284, 11.
“I’d never negotiated”: The Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary documentary, 2010.
“she was blatant”/“Bob Abel wanted”/“It brought sex”: Dunleavy to author, May 31, 2012.
Oscar campaign to get: Woodlawn to author; May 2, 2011.
“If you watch”: Ferguson, Little Joe, Superstar, 98.
He even got Ben Gazzarra: Woodlawn, The Holly Woodlawn Story, 159.
“I’ve made my statement”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 206.
“very different animal”: Ibid., 207.
R, rather than: Simmons, Peckinpah, 137.
“this venerable member”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 207.
“dubious in its intention”: Simmons, Peckinpah, 137.
“immediately doubled the queues”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 217.
“I hoped people”: Fine, Bloody Sam, 208.
“Shall I discuss this”: Ibid., 210.
“There are two kinds”: “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” 73.
“They were animals”: Gibson and McDonnell, Unfiltered, 82.
“Sometimes I’d have to”: Jon Stewart, “Fritz the Cat: America’s First X-rated Cartoon,” Ramparts, March 1972, 46.
Malcolm McDowell inquired if: McDowell to author; Oct. 4, 2011.
assistant director quit: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.
“Lolita could not”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 244.
“Napoleon Symphony”: Baxter, Stanley Kubrick 258.
I thought I was Stravinsky”: McDougal, Five Easy Decades, 137.
forty-five cuts/R rating: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” Playboy, April 1972, 84.
“The orgasm is audible”: Ibid.
“unattractive”: Ibid.
Frankenheimer/Wyler reviews: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, 403.
“It was assaulted”: Ibid.
“But what do we learn”: Rosalyn Dexter, “Do Men Really Hate Women?,” New York Times, July 2, 1971, 1.
“I’ve balled all”: Thompson, Jack Nicholson, 108.
“chicks dig it”: “Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson,” 76.
“Men don’t like”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
“going with Gloria Steinem”: Nichols to author, June 13, 2011.
“very tough faggots”: Mailer, Prisoner of Sex, 27.
“ego-tripping”: Manso, Mailer, 523.
sometime after: Ibid., 522.
That spring, Sir John Trevelyan: Mark Kermode, “The Devil Himself,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 54.
“There’s nothing too subtle”: Hell on Earth documentary, 2002.
“masturbation fantasies”: Ibid.
“excesses never seen”: Phillips, Ken Russell, 106.
“When one reads”: Ibid.
More problematic than: Kermode, “The Devil Himself,” 55–56.
“Ashley cut”: Russell, Altered States, 198.
Sunday Bloody Sunday made it to premiere night: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“I make no personal”: Guy Flatley, “I Suppose Some People Will Be Shocked,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1971, 13.
“Americans are taught”: Paul Jabara, “A Visit with Gore Vidal,” After Dark, July 1972, 52.
“Lance had this sense”: Hoffman to author.
would be “fun”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“the first ones”: Loud, Pat Loud, 90–91.
“This documentary will”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“no one ever looked”: Ruoff, An American Family, xv.
“That was flattering”: Loud, Pat Loud, 94.
“They were to live”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
“a nice, quaint”: Loud, Pat Loud, 96.
Alan Raymond, the cinematographer, was receiving: Ruoff, An American Family, 24.
“I was like a deer”: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“I love it”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
De Niro, Al Pacino: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.
Loud Before Pat: Loud, Pat Loud, 98.
“thickening of the atmosphere”: Ibid., 121.
“Almost a million”: Ibid., 129.
“I was so influenced”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
Raymonds/“terribly avant-garde”: Ibid.
Edie Sedgwick materialized: Stein, Edie, 413–14.
Chapter Fourteen: 1972, Frenzy
Burgess consented to join: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.
“Kubrick went on”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 257.
“embarrassment”: Crumb documentary, 1994.
“I was not quite”: LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 360.
“the blacks”: Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, 253.
“Neither cinema”: Ibid., 257.
Detroit News: LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 362–63.
Reynolds/Cosmopolitan account: Reynolds, My Life, 174, 175.
“You ought to pose”: Hurwood, Burt Reynolds, 51.
“such a cold day”: Brando, Brando, 425.
“Brando had the personality”: Higham, Brando, 274.
“In Bacon”: Bosworth, Marlon Brando, 183.
“Let’s talk about”: Carey, Marlon Brando, 222.
“He wanted me to play”: Brando, Brando, 424.
“No one was willing”: Higham, Brando, 274.
“Films like Midnight Cowboy”: Picker to author, Aug. 29, 2011.
“The sexual scenes”: Manso, Brando, 737.
“Bernardo wanted me”: Brando, Brando, 425.
“like seeing the same one”: Carey, Marlon Brando, 224.
“We have to wait”: Manso, Brando, 742.
Marchak/“I can’t”: Manso, Brando, 742.
“for structural reasons”: Carey, Marlon Brando, 226.
“oedipal relationship”: Manso, Brando, 743.
“It was just his complex”: Judy Klemesrud, “Maria Says Her ‘Tango’ Is Not,” New York Times, Feb. 4, 1973.
“You are the embodiment”: Manso, Brando, 743.
“I’m much more free”: Carey, Marlon Brando, 226.
Brando conceived it: Bosworth, Marlon Brando, 187.
“Maria and I simulated”: Carey, Marlon Brando, 425.
“And I was so angry”: Dennis McLellan, “Maria Schneider, 1952–2011,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 04, 2011.
“do something outlandish”: Manso, Brando, 759.
“I felt I had violated”: Ibid., 736.
Boreman/burgundy Jaguar XKE: Lovelace, Ordeal, 10.
“There was no love”: Ibid, 64.
“sword-swallowing”: Ibid., 117.
Damiano/Traynor/Lovelace encounter: Inside Deep Throat documentary, 2005.
“I knew some starlets”: Lovelace, Ordeal, 120.
“Six before”: Ibid., 136.
Adolf Hilter: Inside Deep Throat documentary, 2005.
“Chuck was an”: Simon Garfield, “Deep Throat: The Aftermath,” Independent on Sunday, June 28, 1992.
“Linda needed someone”: Inside Deep Throat documentary, 2005.
“People didn’t realize”: Ibid.
“Suppose your balls”: Ibid.
Bob Sumner, thought: Ralph Blumenthal, “Porno Chic,” New York Times Magazine, Jan. 21, 1973, 31.
“I’m really offended”: “Rabbit, Run,” New York, Nov. 27, 1972, 46.
“Mike Nichols told me”: Blumenthal, “Porno Chic,” 30.
“Once it broke”: Ibid.
“You lost your cherry”/Shawn: Kellow, Pauline Kael, 193.
Willis/Ephron/Dershowitz: Inside Deep Throat documentary, 2005.
“Look, you want me”: Blumenthal, “Porno Chic,” 31.
“My father”: Rex Weiner, “Sore from Throat,” Variety, Aug. 18, 1997.
“The government became”: Inside Deep Throat documentary, 2005.
“If it was pornography”: Pete Hamill, “Hix Nix Skin Flix,” New York, Sept. 4, 1972, 66.
Candy and Holly: Candy Darling documentary, 2009.
“I was naked”/ “Lou Reed”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
“He did more”: William Grimes, “A Warhol Director on What Is Sordid,” New York Times, Dec. 26, 1995, C13.
“I did those films”: Morrissey to author, Oct. 13, 2011.
“Paul thought those films”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 29, 2012.
“Adding to the”: Andrew Sarris, “Confessions of a Porn Enthusiast,” New York Observer, April 3, 2005.
“I could hear her”: Ibid.
“She single-handedly”: Ibid.
“The text of the court”: Mel Gussow, “Director Claims ‘Last Tango’ is ‘Film on the Present,’ ” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Feb. 3, 1973.
“cracked, like china”: Loud, Pat Loud, 134.
show would help launch: Pat Loud to author, June 10, 2010.
“You won’t believe: Ibid.
“I knew that everybody”/“This is educational”: Loud, Pat Loud, 148.
Chapter Fifteen: 1973, Backlash
“The sexual preference”: Clarence Petersen, “We Were Very Naive about a Lot,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1973, 6.
“the flamboyant, leechlike”: Anne Roiphe, “Things Are Keen but Could Be Keener,” New York Times Magazine, Feb. 18, 1973.
“The silence of the Louds”: Shana Alexander, “The Silence of the Louds,” Newsweek, Jan. 22, 1973, 28.
“Pat was screaming”: An American Family Revisited documentary, 1983.
“We don’t say”: Ruoff, An American Family, 101.
talk show’s ratings: “The Divorce of the Year,” Newsweek, March 12, 1973, 49.
“I can confirm”: Thomas, Brando, 262.
$100,000 advance/“I look like a criminal”: Mel Gussow, “Director Claims ‘Last Tango’ is ‘Film on the Present,’ ” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Feb. 3, 1973.
Buckley/Reasoner: “ ‘Tango’: The Hottest Movie,” Newsweek, Feb. 12, 1973.
“Brando’s cock up”: Bosworth, Marlon Brando, 190.
“Can a man”: Thomas, Brando, 250.
“Women are the only”: Jonathan Cott, “A Conversation with Bernardo Bertolucci,” Rolling Stone, June 21, 1973.
“Perfect macho soap”: Manso, Brando, 762.
“I consider myself”: Guy Flatley, “Bertolucci Is All Tangoed Out,” New York Times, Feb. 11, 1973, 15.
“I’m more than bored”: Ibid.
“I’m bisexual completely”: Judy Klemesrud, “Maria Says Her ‘Tango’ Is Not,” New York Times, Feb. 4, 1973.
“He was so wonderful”: Manso, Brando, 736.
“got worried about taboos”: Klemesrud, “Maria Says Her ‘Tango’ Is Not.”
Deep Throat trial: Inside Deep Throat documentary, 2005.
Mailer party/Sarris quotes: Andrew Sarris, “Confessions of a Porn Enthusiast,” New York Observer, April 3, 2005.
Epilogue: 1973 and Beyond, Finales
Bibles/“I got a lot”: Frank Rich, “The Gay Decade,” Esquire, November 1987.
“homo of the year”: “The Divorce of the Year,” Newsweek, March 12, 1973, 49.
“one entire chapter”: Friday, “Introduction,” My Secret Garden, xiv.
“New American Library saw”: “Playboy Interview: Erica Jong,” Playboy, September 1975, 64.
“When it was released”: Castle, The Stanley Kubrick Archives, 173.
“I found myself”: Nichols to author, June 13, 2011.
“porn to end all”: Southern, The Candy Men, 329.
“The straight world”: Making the Boys documentary, 2009.
“the first four minutes”: “Child Porno Law Removes ’70 ‘Sweetback,’ ” Variety, Sept. 24, 1980.
“A man bearded”: Blake Morrison, “Introduction,” A Clockwork Orange, xix.
“Michelle and my daughters”: Author observation.
“But it’s obviously tacked”: “Michelle Obama Talks,” iVillage, Aug. 21, 2012.
“see her pussy”: Bart, Infamous Players, 94.
“ ‘Brave’ is ‘naked’ ”: Helen Jackson, “Brave Are the Naked,” Daily Variety, Oct. 20, 2012, 11.