The View from the Bridge (37 page)

Similarly, there are a great many friends and coworkers who have stood by me, put up with my nonsense, or held my hand, in a word hung in there and helped sustain me in my life as I hope I have helped them in theirs.

I can't possibly name them all, but as regards the creation of this book, I must acknowledge Alan Gasmer, who suggested I write it; Charlotte Sheedy, who thought she could sell it; Rick Kot, my diligent editor, who sought to spare me my worst excesses; John McNamara, who encouraged me to keep them in; and my assistant, Wendy Kush, for staying unfazed throughout.

I must also thank Karen Moore for introducing me to my shipmate Harve Bennett and the world of
Star Trek.

I owe thanks as well to the cast of the original show, who generously put up with my new ideas and graciously let a stranger among them.

And to my
Star Trek VI
writing partner, Denny Martin Flinn, now sadly departed, as well as my able editor and comrade-in-arms on
Star Trek II
and
The Day After
, the late William Dornisch.

Also, the late Ned Tanen, who was “crazy” enough to green-light the film version of
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
, let me try my hand at
Don Quixote
, and generally stayed more amused than angry when I tried his patience.

Thanks as well to Ron Roose, film editor par excellence and the best friend a man could ask for.

And also Tony Bill, Craig Fisher, Michael Phillips, Michael Lerner, Herb Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe, Bob Papazian, John Pomfret, Shep Faison, Siobhan Darrow, Eric Young, Alex Young, Jeff Kleeman, Mark Edmundson, Stanley Jaffe, Gary Lucchesi, Holly Palance, Tom Rosenberg, Max Kennedy, Roger Spottiswoode, Juris Jurjevics, David Foster, Marty and Sandy Davidson, William Kinsolving, Harry and Mary Jane Ufland, Pierce Brosnan, Tim Van Rellim, Mary Jo Slater, Jerry Leider, David Chapman, Bob Shapiro, David Dierks, and Aaron Zidenberg.

And finally, a special thanks to my family, to Lauren, also to Rachel, Mad eline, and Roxanne, whose unflagging enthusiasm for movies and for life has helped inspire my own—

And to Stephanie, to whom I owe everything.

ABC

Abel, Robert

Abrams, J. J.

Adam, Ken

Alexander, Karl

Allen, Woody

Alley, Kirstie

American Insurrection
(Doyle)

Amiel, Jon

Andrews, Amy

Andropov, Yuri

Aristotle

Arkin, Alan

Arnaz, Desi

Arnott, Peter

Ashley, Ted

Assault on a Queen
(film)

Assault on a Queen
(Finney)

Auntie Mame
(Dennis)

Avon Books

Ball, Lucille

Barber, Ed

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Beatty, Warren

Beich, Al

Benjamin, Dick

Bennett, Harve

Benton, Robert

Bernstein, Leonard

Besch, Bibi

Bluhdorn, Charlie

Bogart, Humphrey

Book of Hours
(Duc de Berry)

Booth, Edwin

Booth, John Wilkes

Bradley, Paul

Brando, Marlon

Bresson, Robert

Brosnan, Cassie

Brosnan, Pierce

Broyard, Anatole

Bruce, Nigel

Buchanan, Pat

Buckley, William F. Jr.

Burton, Richard

Bush, George

Butrick, Merritt

CAA

Caine, Michael

Cambern, Donn

Candy, John

Capra, Frank

Cattrall, Kim

Chandler, Raymond

Chapman, David

Clarkson, Patricia

Cohen, Art

Coixet, Isabel

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Collins, Michael

Colman, Ronald

Columbia Pictures

Confessions of a Homing Pigeon
(Meyer)

Conjuring
(
Fifth Business
)

Connery, Sean

Conrad, Joseph

Coppola, Francis Ford

Cornwell, Bernard

Cottilard, Marion

Courage, Alexander

Cruz, Penélope

Curtis, Robin

Davies, Robertson

Davis, Bette

Davis, Martin

Deceivers, The
(film)

Deceivers, The
(Masters)

Desilu

Dhiegh, Khigh

Dierks, Dave

Diller, Barry

Doohan, James

Dornisch, Bill

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Doyle, William

Dutch
(Morris)

E. P. Dutton

Duvall, Robert

Dying Animal, The
(Roth)

Dykstra, John

Earp, Wyatt

Easton, Bob

Eastwood, Clint

Eggar, Samantha

Eidelman, Cliff

Einstein, Albert

Eisner, Michael

Elaine's

Ellsberg, Daniel

E. P. Dutton

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.

Farnon, Robert

Farrar, Scott

Fate of the Earth, The
(Schell)

Fielding, Lewis J.

Field of Blood
(Seymour)

Field of Blood
(
The Informant
)

Fields, Verna

Fifth Business
(
Conjuring
)

Fifth Business
(Davies)

Finney, Jack

Fiorentino, Linda

Fletcher, Robert

Flinn, Denny Martin

Flynn, Errol

Forester. S.

Foster, David

Foster, Jodie

Fox

Frederick the Great

Freud, Sigmund
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Fukuyama, Francis

Gambino, Richard

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

Ganis, Sid

Gere, Richard

Giamatti, Paul

Gibbons, Winifred

Gilbert, W. S.

Gilliam, Terry

Godard, Jean-Luc

Goldberg, Whoopi

Goldman, William

Goldsmith, Jerry

Goldwyn, John

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Green, Jack

Greene, Graham

Greenwood, Bruce

Grosbard, Ulu

Guerre, Martin

Hackman, Gene

Hall, Cecelia

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

Hanks, Tom

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich

Hawthorne Books

Hennessy, David

Herzog, Werner

Hiller, Arthur

Hirst, Michael

Holmes, Sherlock

Holst, Gustav

Hopkins, Anthony

Hopper, Dennis

Hornblower, Horatio

Horner, Harry

Horner, James

Hornstein, Marty

Hoskins, Bob

Houdini, Harry

Howard, David

Howard, Toni

Hughes, Howard

Human Stain, The
(film)

Human, Stain, The
(Roth)

Hume, Ed

Huston, John

Huston, Walter

I Am Not Spock
(Nimoy)

I Am Spock
(Nimoy)

ILM (Industrial Light & Magic)

Iman

International Famous Agency (IFA)

Isaacs, David

Ivory, James

Jack the Ripper

Jaffe, Herb

Jaffe, Mari-Carmen

Jaffe, Stanley

Jaffe, Steven-Charles

Jagger, Mick

James, Henry

Jennings, Joe

Jewell, Austen

Jurjevics, Juris

Kael, Pauline

Kagan, Jeremy

Kamen, Stan

Kapoor, Shashi

Karas, Anton

Katzenberg, Jeffrey

Kauffman, Phil

Kaye, Nora

Kazan, Elia

Kelley, DeForest

Kent, Alexander

Kidman, Nicole

Kingsley, Ben

Kings Road

Kinski, Klaus

Kinsley, Michael

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirkpatrick, David

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Kissinger, Henry

Klingon

Koenig, Walter

Konchalovsky, Andrei

Koppel, Ted

Kubrick, Stanley

La Guardia, Fiorello

Lakeshore Entertainment

Lansing, Sherry

Lassally, Walter

Laurence, Fran

LeRoy, Mervyn

Levine, Ken

Lincoln, Abraham

Lithgow, John

Lohman, Paul

London, Barry

Love Story
(film)

Love Story
(Segal)

Love Story Story
(Meyer)

Lucas, George

Lucchesi, Gary

Ludovico, Lucia

Lyne, Adrian

Macdonald, Ross (Kenneth Millar)

McDowell, Malcolm

Machiado, Ole

McKellan, Ian

Malle, Louis

Mancuso, Frank

Mango, Alex

Marcus, David

Maslin, Janet

Masters, John

Matoian, John

May, Elaine

Merchant, Ismail

Merchant Ivory Films

Meredith, James

Meyer, Lauren

Meyer, Nicholas:

as actor

childhood of

as director

father of

as film reviewer

first full-length screenplay of

girlfriend of (Kelly)

mother of

moves to Los Angeles

Oscar nomination of

in Paramount's publicity department

stepmother of

at University of Iowa

at Warner Brothers story department

as writer

Meyer, Rachel

Meyer, Stephanie

MGM

Micah Clarke
(Doyle)

Milchan, Arnon

Milk, Harvey

Millar, Kenneth (Ross Macdonald)

Minor, Mike

Minsky, Howard

Mirisch, Walter

Monroe, Marilyn

Montalban, Ricardo

Monte Carlo Television Festival

Moore, Karen

Morris, Edmund

Morris, Oswald

Mortimer, John

Morton, Joe

Muller, Julian

Murch, Walter

Murphy, Eddie

Nabokov, Vladimir

Nardino, Gary

Nederland, Jim

Newton, Robert

Nichols, Mike

Nichols, Nichelle

Nicita, Rick

Nimoy, Leonard

9/11

Nixon, Richard

O'Brien, Patrick

Okrand, Marc

Olivier, Laurence

O'Neill, Eugene

Orion Picturs