The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (55 page)

HUAC hearings: Stephen E. Ambrose,
Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962
, vol. 1 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 157–60.

“she had spurned”: ibid., 209.

antilynching bill: Zoe Trodd, ed.,
American Protest Literature
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), 279–80.

Gahagan, Downey, Boddy: Ambrose, 209–10.

symphony of smear: Herbert S. Parmet,
Richard Nixon and His America
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1990), 186.

“Long after Watergate”: ibid.

“Such fuckin’ lies”:
PB,
136.

“can be seen”: Feeney, 52–53.

“If you ever saw”: ibid., 92.

“It is the sum”:
Barnard Bulletin,
10/27/1952.

cross-country fund-raiser:
Charleston Gazette,
10/7/1956;
Austin Daily Herald,
10/17/1956.

“Henry Fonda looked”:
Butte Montana Standard,
10/28/1956.

“intimately”:
PB,
136.

“is withdrawn”: Vidal,
United States,
799.

Puerto Rican houseboy:
Syracuse Post-Standard,
7/31/1963.

high campaign gear:
Provo
Daily Herald,
7/14/1960;
Oxnard Press-Courier,
6/28/1960;
Long Beach Independent,
9/17/1960;
Oxnard Press-Courier,
9/30/1960;
Hayward Daily Review,
10/27/1960;
Florence Morning News,
11/2/1960. Fonda’s PT-109 ad is at
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1960/henry-fonda
.

The Ed Sullivan Show
:
Syracuse Post-Standard,
2/11/1961.

National Cultural Center: Alice Goldfarb Marquis,
Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding
(New York: Basic Books, 1995), 55.

the president will thank him:
New York Times,
5/20/1962.

“a registered Republican”: Sarris,
Confessions of a Cultist,
52.

Alger Hiss trial: Fiedler,
An End to Innocence,
3–24; Whitfield, 27–31; Allen Weinstein,
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Trial
(New York: Knopf, 1978).

Ronald Reagan: Edward M. Yager,
Ronald Reagan’s Journey: From Democrat to Republican
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 98.

“There is something a bit wicked”: Andrew Sarris, “Film Fantasies, Left and Right,”
Film Culture
(Fall 1964): 34.

based on Stevenson and Nixon:
Burlington Daily Times-News,
10/24/1963.

“a couple of lines”:
Auburn Citizen-Advertiser,
8/30/1963.

will likewise vanish: Marcus, 61.

“Gentlemen, the president”: John Baxter,
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997), 189–91.

“I’m beginning to
feel
”:
San Antonio Light,
3/19/1963.

sitting in a dentist’s chair:
FML,
284.

The courage of life:
John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
—
50th Anniversary Edition
(New York: HarperCollins, 2006 [1956], 225.

“What makes it a ‘Western’”: Kael,
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
42.

“Long before he even suspected”: Joseph Heller,
Catch-22
(New York: Dell, 1974 [1961]), 85.

Democratic Study Group: Julian E. Zelizer,
On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2
000 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 104.

Paulsen special:
Ogden
Standard-Examiner
, 10/21/1968.

“a reasonably tall”: Norman Mailer,
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
(New York: Signet, 1970 [1969]), 122.

“There is a poverty”: Norman Mailer,
St. George and the Godfather
(New York: Signet, 1973 [1972]), 22.

“an absence of rich greeting”: ibid., 107.

read by JFK: Hoberman, 66–67.

“more muted”: Greil Marcus,
Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
(New York: Holt, 1997), 207.

10. HE NOT BUSY BEING BORN

“I’ve made lots of westerns here”:
Fort Walton Beach Playground Daily News,
9/19/1966.

“
running in the streets
”: Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry,
Helter Skelter
(New York: Norton, 1994 [1974]), 392 (italics in original).

a party is held:
Syracuse Herald-Journal,
6/28/1966.

“Were he never”: Peter Bogdanovich, “Homage to Hank,”
New York Times,
7/3/1966. See also Bogdanovich’s
Who the Devil Was in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors
(New York: Random House, 2005), 300–317.

Louis Jean Heydt:
Fresno Bee,
1/30/1960.

“You’re going to fall behind”: Kiernan, 120–21.

The Country Girl
:
FML,
238–39.

she pretends that her father: Brough, 127.

Lee Strasberg: Ross and Ross, 99;
The American Weekly,
2/19/1961.

“such a panic”: Kiernan, 89.

She has spent:
MLSF,
99, 107–8.

“a bit of a romp”: Ross and Ross, 95.

“counter-need”: ibid., 99.

“somewhere inside yourself”: ibid.

“Difficult and very sensitive”: Al Aronowitz, “America’s Answer to Bardot: The Young Jane Fonda,” at
http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column63index.html
. This is a forty-thousand-word expansion of Aronowitz’s profile “Lady Jane,”
The Saturday Evening Post,
3/23/1963.

“a no-good”:
DTD,
93–94.

his certainty of adult conspiracy: Reed, 208.

“not part of this system”:
DTD,
99.

“a rare combination”: “Life Guide,”
Life,
12/1/1961, 27.

Susan Brewer:
DTD,
120–21.

unknown Warren Beatty: David Thomson,
Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes: A Life and a Story
(New York: Vintage, 1988 [1987]), 70.

“I don’t know what the Method is”: Aronowitz, “America’s Answer to Bardot.”

“will
act out
”: Norman Mailer,
Marilyn: A Biography
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), 108.

“Analysis”:
New York Times,
7/16/1967.

“a Kafkaesque nightmare”:
MLSF,
128.

She persuades him: Kiernan, 138.

PT 109
:
DTD
, 160–61; Hoberman, 57–58.

“a parasite”:
FML,
287.

“the five worst plays”: Guiles, 112.

“neurotic drive”:
Pasadena Independent,
2/13/1961.

“more neurotic and selfish”: ibid.

“are not likely to be”: ibid.

“It breaks his heart”: Aronowitz.

“Natalie Wood didn’t want”: Joseph Heller, “
Playboy
Interview,”
Playboy
, June 1975, 72.

Get Yourself a College Girl
: Springer, 212.

“It’s like working”:
Aniston Star,
12/14/1969.

“a camera-viewing of strange festivals”:
Des Moines Register,
9/18/1966.

“perverse” and “hateful”: Thomas Thompson, “A Place in the Sun All Her Own,”
Life
, 3/29/1968, 72.

request for threesomes:
MLSF,
154–55.

“I’m much more relaxed”:
Kingston Daily Gleaner,
2/1/1965.

they marry:
Burlington Daily Times-News,
8/16/1965.

Times Square billboard:
Lowell Sun,
3/10/1965.

Playboy
publishes nude photos:
Albuquerque Journal,
8/27/1966.

“I’d so much wanted”:
MLSF,
211.

Peter meets Eugene McDonald III:
DTD,
130. In
FML,
Peter claims they met at Westminster, the boarding school Peter attended in Connecticut (256).

“a complicity”:
San Mateo Times,
2/26/1965.

Brothers in romance and rebellion:
Arizona Daily Star,
2/12/1965;
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
3/5/1964;
DTD,
188, 190.

Peter feels he knows the truth:
DTD,
195.

“I know where I am”: Reed, 205.

“The sun was shining”: G. Barry Golson, ed.,
The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
(New York: Playboy, 1981), 152.

“morbid and bizarre”: Steve Turner,
A Hard Day’s Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song
(New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 111.

“the movie business”:
FML,
283.

“They’ve gone too far”:
Lowell Sun,
8/5/1967.

“all sorts of sleazy”: Renata Adler,
A Year in the Dark: A Year in the Life of a Film Critic 1968–1969
(New York: Berkley, 1971 [1969]), 147.

Bonnie and Clyde
and
Rosemary’s Baby
: Kiernan, 208.

“My father is a fantastic”:
San Antonio Express,
12/19/1969.

earns $6 million:
Oakland Tribune,
10/1/1967.

“Well I have seen”: E. L. Doctorow,
Welcome to Hard Times
(New York: Random House, 1960), 22.

“didn’t come off”:
Hayward Daily Review,
8/25/1966;
Oakland Tribune,
10/27/1967.

In 1966, Peter is involved:
DTD,
227–36. See also
Albuquerque Tribune,
6/21/1966;
Syracuse Post-Standard,
11/28/1966;
Tucson Daily News,
11/28/1966.

takes the stand to testify:
Long Beach Independent,
12/3/1966;
Fresno Bee,
12/13/1966.

“Make the most”:
Syracuse Post-Standard,
12/28/1966.

“without all the big-studio shit”: Reed, 216.

pornographic concepts: ibid., 217.

“Nobody told me”: ibid., 208.

“My father was never”: ibid., 219.