Fosse (91 page)

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   “There was a cloud over his head”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “I sort of aired some of the dirty”: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.

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   “I think he’s very talented”: Laurie Johnston, “Fosse Discusses Creation of ‘Pippin,’”
New York Times,
November 7, 1972.

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   “Bob wanted no chorus in
Pippin
”: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   The girls would have poker nights: Ibid.

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   “We called Kathryn Mother”: Cheryl Clark, interview with the author, April 19, 2011.

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   They would play tricks on: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “We were a family on
Pippin
”: Ibid.

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   MGM days: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   “People in plays and in movies”: Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   “He was a star director”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   “Most of us got those calls”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “I get involved in the material and the people”: Johnston, “Fosse Discusses Creation of ‘Pippin.’”

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   “It made me nervous”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “I think it’s fair to say”: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   “I was never attracted to him”
and following:
Jennifer Nairn-Smith, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “There was always one person”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “She would be in tears, sobbing”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.

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   “He was a director”: Jennifer Nairn-Smith, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   he threatened to kill him: Ibid.

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   “I was working in the theater and”: Maxine Glorsky, interview with the author, September 7, 2010.

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   “Bob protected me from”: Jennifer Nairn-Smith, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “Jennifer and Ann came in one day”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “There were lots of poppers backstage”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   “Someone dropped a lude”: Cheryl Clark, interview with the author, April 19, 2011.

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   “I talked so much on the phone”
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “I know enough about emotions”: Chase, “Fosse, from Tony to Oscar to Emmy.”

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   “When Bob finally told us”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “We didn’t realize that”: Gene Foote,
In the Company of Friends: Dancers Talking to Dancers III, the Men of Fosse,
videotaped at the New Dance Group, New York, on December 9, 2007.

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   “Bob would remind us”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “Some people came up”: Ken Urmston, interview with the author, May 12, 2011.

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   “The audience is expecting me”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.

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   “I used to be more involved in patterns”: Johnston, “Fosse Discusses Creation of ‘Pippin.’”

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   “We did not work
with
each other”: Foote,
In the Company of Friends.

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   “Jolson’s, Martha Graham’s”: Walter Kerr, “It’s a Lovely Way to Do a Show,”
New York Times,
October 29, 1972.

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   “I don’t hesitate to lift from”: Johnston, “Fosse Discusses Creation of ‘Pippin.’”

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   “The follow spots for Fosse”: Maxine Glorsky, interview with the author, September 7, 2010.

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   “I kept telling him he was a good person”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “We now get to New York”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.

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   “Candy, Candy, Candy”: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   John Rubinstein felt the audience recoil: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.

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   “Part of the problem”: Stephen Schwartz, interview with the author, January 29, 2011.

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   “The statement of [
Pippin
]”: Johnston, “Fosse Discusses Creation of ‘Pippin.’”

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   “He never seems to enjoy achieving”: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,”
American Film,
November 1979.

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   “There’s something deflating in that”: Kerr, “It’s a Lovely Way to Do a Show.”

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   flew to Vegas to see Liza: Wayne Warga, “Bob Fosse: Triple Threat Director,”
Los Angeles Times,
January 21, 1973.

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   “I never use my name to get tickets”: Robert Wahls, “Bob Who? Bob Fosse!,”
New York Sunday News,
November 26, 1972.

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   “Don’t worry about it, pal”: Warga, “Bob Fosse: Triple Threat Director.”

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   Fosse brooded on the offer: Bob Fosse letter to Stanley Donen, March 29, 1972, LOC, box 47A.

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   “You can even wear a bowler”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
267.

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   “Nicole was crazy about that book”: Gwen Verdon interview,
Dance in America,
WNET archives, September 6, 1989.

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   “One sting”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   Fosse bought his Snake costume: Bob Fosse to Stanley Donen, March 29, 1972, LOC, box 47A.

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   Dazzled, Herb Gardner thought: Herb Gardner, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

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   Meeting him was Ilse: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
269.

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   Strolling the Madeira coastline: Ibid.

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   he felt he owed her: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   Abend had to hire a private detective: Louise Kiernan, “Murder She Wrote,”
Chicago Tribune
, July 16, 1997.

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   now writing Hallmark cards for a living: Andy Seiler, “Pssstttt! ‘Chicago’ Has a Secret Past,”
USA Today
, March 24, 2003.

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   Columbia concluded that grim material
and following:
Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   “I want to go out and find where we’re shooting”
and following:
Patricia Ferrier Kiley, interview with the author, March 4, 2011.

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   “They told us to bring resort wear”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   On the morning of February 13: Bob Fosse, interview with Stephen Harvey, 1983, LOC, box 60F.

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   “We knew what that meant”: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.

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   “When we left Africa, we came back”
and following:
Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “a harmless preoccupied guy”: “Wally Cox, TV Mr. Peepers, Dies at 48,”
New York Times
, February 16, 1973.

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   “They were roommates at one time”
and following:
Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “When you sat in the room”
and following:
Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   “They were diet pills”: David Freeman, interview with the author, April 12, 2013.

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   “He was not the sort of guy”: Drew Leder, interview with the author, November 18, 2012.

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   his secretary, Vicki Stein, did the lion’s share
and following:
Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   “He was a master watcher”: Christine Colby, interview with the author, March 20, 2011.

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   “He had a way of—how shall I”: Richard Korthaze, interview with the author, March 24, 2011.

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   “You’d be talking to Bob”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “The way you’re bounding ahead”: Sherri Kandell, interview with the author, July 8, 2012.

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   “I was just blown away”: Ibid.

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   “Lenny Bruce would push people’s buttons”: “Bob Fosse: Steam Heat,”
Great Performances: Dance in America.

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   “He could get so mean about it”: Jane Aurthur, interview with the author, September 9, 2010.

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   “He’d love to set up some kind”: Arlene Donovan, interview with the author, January 10, 2011.

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   “What I really want to do is find”: Lionel Chetwynd, “Except for Bob Fosse,”
Penthouse,
January 1974.

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   “You know, Julian”
and following:
Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   he knew the more good press he got: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “I confess I thought I had a shot”: Tony Awards, videotaped by the ABC Television Network at the Imperial, New York, March 25, 1973.

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   he flew to the Beverly Hills Hotel: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “He was really, really nervous then”: Ibid.

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   Shoring himself up with booze and tranquilizers: Chase, “Fosse, from Tony to Oscar to Emmy.”

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   In the limo to the ceremony, Fosse repeated: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   Janice decided to say nothing: Ibid.

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   “He was very still”: Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.

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   Janice was not with him: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “My legs were like cooked spaghetti”: Jan Hodenfield, “Bob Fosse Feet First,”
New York Post,
April 21, 1973.

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   “Hi, Dad”: Chase, “Fosse, from Tony to Oscar to Emmy.”

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   They convened in Fosse’s suite and opened: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “I’ll walk you one more block,” he had said: Herb Gardner, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

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   “Would you do
anything
to win one?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “His pain was extreme”: Ibid.

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   “He was afraid he would not be able”: Ibid.

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   “There’s this Looney Tunes cartoon”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

FOURTEEN YEARS

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   He was no longer interested in therapy: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Since getting off Seconal: Bob Fosse, interview with Dick Stelzer,
Star Treatment,
LOC, box 47C, folder 1.

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   Someone, Fosse used to say, must have scared: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,”
American Film,
November 1979.

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   That boy, Dr. Sager told him, was:
All That Jazz,
Clifford Sager interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   Fosse thought both: “Odd Ideas” notebook, LOC, box 53B.

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   He lasted only a few days: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Fosse hated the lithium: Ibid.

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   “I knew it was time to check out”: Ibid.

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   was concerned their hero was losing: Bob Fosse/Marvin Worth correspondence, May 8, 1973, LOC, box 20B.

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   a scene Fosse and Barry had completely invented: Ibid.

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   Worth said all the chronological: Ibid.

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   “We’d be talking about the form”: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.

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   “I was malleable”: John Kander and Fred Ebb as told to Greg Lawrence,
Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz
(New York: Faber and Faber, 2003), 126.

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   “He would say, ‘Oh, this is’”: Ibid.

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   “He’s an arrogant son of a bitch”: Ibid., 127.

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   Experts believed TV audiences were uninterested in:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/153521-Jeffrey-Ash-Broadway-Ad-Man-and-Producer-Dies-at-65-Stuart Ostrow
.

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   “This cameraman was just shooting us”: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   Therein lay the beauty of United Artists: A witty, concise rendering of the history of United Artists can be found in Steven Bach,
Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of
Heaven’s Gate (New York: Morrow, 1985).

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   “to protect the great motion picture public”: Ibid., 36.

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   “The thing about UA was we didn’t”: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   “I’d do anything to make it possible”: Ibid.

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   “I want you to play Lenny”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.