Fosse (97 page)

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   “It was a very funny situation”: Ibid.

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   “So people can come in and”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   “the first time a work of such scope”: Lee Margulies, “‘Pippin’ to Bypass Normal Channels, Due on Pay TV,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 6, 1981.

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   Fosse rushed to the phone a day before: David Sheehan, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.

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   Sheehan sent a jet to Quogue: Ibid.

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   The weekend Roy and Cynthia Scheider came
and following:
Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   Paddy would fake bad death scenes
and following:
Considine,
Mad as Hell,
395.

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   “He wasn’t conscious”: Ibid., 396.

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   “Are you okay?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   An estimated five hundred people came: Herbert Mitgang, “Chayefsky Praised for Passion in Exposing Life’s Injustices,”
New York Times,
August 5, 1981.

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   “I kept looking for Bob before”: Lionel Larner, interview with the author, January 25, 2012.

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   when Mr. Weaver died: Charles Grass, interview with the author, September 4, 2012.

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   “Then I saw him”: Lionel Larner, interview with the author, January 25, 2012.

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   “the corrupt and lunatic energies”: Mitgang, “Chayefsky Praised for Passion.”

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   “When his turn came”: James Lipton,
Inside Inside
(New York: Dutton, 2007), 150.

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   “As most of you know, Paddy and I”: Ibid., 150–51. See also “Soft-Shoe Tribute at a Playwright’s Funeral: Chayefsky Mourned with Laughter and Dance,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 5, 1981.

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   “It was a very quiet dance for about”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

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   Fosse had drifted from the circle to: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
406.

SIX YEARS

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   he didn’t want to see: Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 409. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   “Whatever he wanted to do”: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

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   “On those occasions”: Ibid.

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   back-and-forths of rights and releases hobbled: Rosenfeld, Meyer and Susman/Jay Kanter correspondence, August 31, 1981, LOC, box 31B.

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   Fosse was also required to provide documentation: Ibid.

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   He reluctantly agreed to use close-ups: Bob Fosse/Jay Kanter correspondence, October 27, 1981, LOC, box 31B.

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   sending him tapes, which Fosse flatly hated: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “You’re cutting off the feet!”
and following:
David Sheehan, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.

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   “foolishly butchered version of the show”: Bob Fosse/
Pippin
cast correspondence, November 23, 1981, collection of Kathryn Doby.

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   Mariel Hemingway, a Cohn client, was desperate to: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   Cohn encouraged Fosse to give her a shot: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.

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   He liked Melanie Griffith: Ibid.

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   “You must read me”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   Hemingway turned up in New York: Ibid.

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   But breast size was a problem: Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.

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   Instinct told Hemingway this exchange was
and following:
Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   The studio answered with Richard Gere: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.

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   “That fucked him up”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   Sam Shepard came to his audition
and following:
Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.

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   Eric Roberts fielded Fosse’s interview questions
and following:
Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.

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   “He gave me everything”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   “I’m going to die in one of these places”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
412.

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   “On
Star 80
he was just impossible”
and following:
Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “He had this incredible ability”: Lynne Carrow, interview with the author, December 10, 2010.

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   Fosse scouted Vancouver in a fifteen-passenger: David Rose, interview with the author, December 10, 2010.

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   “Bob,” he asked: Ibid.

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   He had met her at a Westhampton Beach bar: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
414.

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   Fosse gave her a job working for Alan Heim: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   In the meantime, back in New York, they: Ken Laub, interview with the author, February 13, 2012.

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   “I’m going to go out there”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

FIVE YEARS

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   gave only a few notes, and left before
and following:
Brett Raphael, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.

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   “This piece is dressed and lit”: Mindy Aloff, untitled copy, September 27, 1982.

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   Glattes took charge of screen tests in LA: Bob Fosse/Wolfgang Glattes correspondence, April 2, 1982, LOC, box 35A.

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   “We have to use the same carpet”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “It was like none of his successes”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

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   Fosse insisted every bookcase on their: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.

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   “It was just a movie”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Fosse had the crew dress Snider’s former
and following:
Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.

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   Each “room” marked off on the floor: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.

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   “Start the movie”: Tony Gittelson, interview with the author, November 19, 2010.

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   “It was
all
choreographed”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   “It was so painful to work on”: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

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   “Cis,” he said
and following:
Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.

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   “It was like sounds were too loud”: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   One day he angrily cleared the set, only: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.

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   “I’d say, ‘Hey, Bob’”: Lynne Carrow, interview with the author, December 10, 2010.

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   “Everyone was all over him about”: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.

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   Dorothy’s sister Louise sent Fosse: Louise Hoogstraten/Bob Fosse correspondence, LOC, box 35A.

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   Fosse professed to be overcome with guilt: Bob Fosse/Louise Hoogstraten correspondence, LOC, box 35A.

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   “I’m living in a world where nobody”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   He regularly placed a rose bouquet: Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.

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   “He’s going to do it”: Cliff Robertson, interview with the author, September 28, 2010.

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   “He lied about everything”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   He appeared in the production office in: Grace Blake, interview with the author, May 10, 2011.

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   “Eric was so volatile”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   Without warning, Fosse would show up: Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.

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   Fosse asked him to remove the protective: Mariel Hemingway, interview with the author, May 30, 2011.

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   “[Roberts] got so into it”: Tom Hinckley and Kevin Gault, “Bob Fosse,”
Cable
Guide,
November 1984.

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   “What the fuck is wrong with you?”
and following:
Eric Roberts, interview with the author, May 7, 2012.

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   “We were all afraid of it”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   To the music of Strauss’s
Death and Transfiguration
: Michael Blowen, “Will Gritty ‘Star 80’ Glitter at the Box Office?,”
Boston Globe,
November 6, 1983.

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   “It was ballet”: Tony Gittelson, interview with the author, November 19, 2010.

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   Fosse talked them through every movement: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

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   factions of the crew actually placed bets: Mel Cooper, interview with the author, February 4, 2011.

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   Roberts broke into Cis Rundle’s house
and following:
Cis Rundle, interview with the author, July 21, 2011.

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   “We didn’t butt heads”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “I tried to make it like a musical”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,”
Rolling Stone,
January 19, 1984.

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   “It’s just possible that the Broadway musical”: Frank Rich, “Where Are the New Musicals?,”
New York Times
, July 12, 1981.

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   “There is not the same kind of intelligence”: Margaret Croyden, “The Box-Office Boom,”
New York Times,
May 10, 1981.

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   The summer of 1980 was Broadway’s biggest ever: Ibid.

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   “I see shows having more special effects”: Linda Winer, “Shade of Bob Fosse Raised by ‘Chicago,’”
Newsday,
November 22, 1996.

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   “I think he felt like that victory”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   Some nights, after leaving
and following:
Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 421. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   “tell me about Paddy”: Ibid.

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   Fosse asked Reinking to marry him
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

FOUR YEARS

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   “It was about fumblers trying”: Leslie Bennetts, “Bob Fosse—Dancing with Danger,”
New York Times,
April 6, 1986.

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   maybe Peter Allen would do the songs and: Miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 8B.

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   The afternoon Michael Jackson
and following:
Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   He stayed up nights calling his advisers: Nancy Griffin, “The ‘Thriller Diaries,’”
Vanity Fair,
July 2010.

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   they decided to try “Thriller”: Ibid.

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   “You’ve changed the face of dance”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “because he’s so fast”: Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   he had amassed a complete collection: Phoebe Ungerer, interview with the author, December 13, 2012.

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   Jackson asked to speak with Fosse alone: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “I’ll see you at the apartment”: Ibid.

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   “the whole front row walked out”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   But Fosse didn’t make any significant changes: Ibid.

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   “I was not thinking”: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

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   refusing to part with or even trim
and following:
Rick Shaine, interview with the author, July 11, 2012.

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   “If you’ve turned to writing”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

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   They settled on three rules: Ibid.

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   “All I wanted to master was that dance”: Pete Hamill, 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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   Doctorow found a package at his front door: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

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   Real writers, Fosse told Peter Maas: Peter Maas, 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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   “Living his entire life in show business”: E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

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   Fosse gave
Star 80
’s benefit premiere as: Fred Ferretti, “The Evening Hours,”
New York Times,
March 1, 1985.

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   “Constant rejection can be devastating”: Ibid.

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   Schickel, Siskel: Richard Schickel, “A Centerfold Tragedy of Manners,”
Time,
November 14, 1983; “The Best of 1983,”
At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert,
Tribune Entertainment, 1983.