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.
INDEX
ABC
Abel, Robert
Abrams, J. J.
Adam, Ken
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
African Queen, The
Alexander, Karl
Alien
Allen, Woody
Alley, Kirstie
All the President’s Men
Alphaville
American Insurrection (Doyle)
Amiel, Jon
Andrews, Amy
Andropov, Yuri
Aristotle
Arkin, Alan
Arnaz, Desi
Arnott, Peter
Around the World in Eighty Days
Ashley, Ted
Assault on a Queen (film)
Assault on a Queen (Finney)
Auntie Mame (Dennis)
Avon Books
Back to the Future
Ball, Lucille
Banker to the Poor
Barber, Ed
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Beatty, Warren
Beich, Al
Ben-Hur
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
Bound for Glory
Bradley, Paul
Brando, Marlon
Bresson, Robert
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
Bringing Up Baby
Brosnan, Cassie
Brosnan, Pierce
Broyard, Anatole
Bruce, Nigel
Buchanan, Pat
Buckley, William F. Jr.
Burton, Richard
Bush, George
Butrick, Merritt
CAA
Caine, Michael
California
Cambern, Donn
Candy, John
Capra, Frank
Captain Horatio Hornblower R. N.
Carmina Burana
Casablanca
Cattrall, Kim
Chandler, Raymond
Chapman, David
Chicago Sun-Times
China Syndrome, The
Citizen Kane
Clarkson, Patricia
Classics Illustrated
Cohen, Art
Coixet, Isabel
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Michael
Colman, Ronald
Columbia Pictures
Company Business
Confessions of a Homing Pigeon (Meyer)
Conjuring (Fifth Business)
Connery, Sean
Conrad, Joseph
Coppola, Francis Ford
Cornwell, Bernard
Cottilard, Marion
Courage, Alexander
Crossfire
Cruz, Penélope
Curse of the Cat People, The
Curtis, Robin
Daily Iowan
Darling Lili,
Davies, Robertson
Davis, Bette
Davis, Martin
Day After, The
Day After Tomorrow, The
Deceivers, The (film)
Deceivers, The (Masters)
Deception
Deep Space Nine
Desilu
Dhiegh, Khigh
Dierks, Dave
Diller, Barry
Dinosaurs
Don Quixote
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
Easy Rider
Eggar, Samantha
Eidelman, Cliff
Einstein, Albert
Eisner, Michael
Elaine’s
Elegy
Ellsberg, Daniel
E. P. Dutton
Face in the Crowd, A
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Farnon, Robert
Farrar, Scott
Fatal Attraction
Fate of the Earth, The (Schell)
Field of Blood (Seymour)
Field of Blood (The Informant)
Fields, Verna
Fifth Business (Conjuring)
Fifth Business (Davies)
Finney, Jack
Fiorentino, Linda
Fitzcarraldo
Fletcher, Robert
Flinn, Denny Martin
Flynn, Errol
Forester. S.
Foster, David
Foster, Jodie
Fox
Frame-Up, The
Fräulein Doktor
Frederick the Great
Freud, Sigmund The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Fukuyama, Francis
Galaxy Quest
Gambino, Richard
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
Ganis, Sid
Gere, Richard
Giamatti, Paul
Gibbons, Winifred
Gilbert, W. S.
Gilliam, Terry
Godard, Jean-Luc
Godfather, The
Godfather Part II, The
Goldberg, Whoopi
Goldman, William
Goldsmith, Jerry
Goldwyn, John
Gone with the Wind
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Grease
Green, Jack
Greene, Graham
Greenwood, Bruce
Grosbard, Ulu
Guerre, Martin
Hackman, Gene
Hall, Cecelia
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hanks, Tom
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Hawthorne Books
Heat and Dust
Hennessy, David
Henry V,
Herzog, Werner
Hiller, Arthur
Hirst, Michael
Holmes, Sherlock
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The West End Horror
Holst, Gustav
Honey Factor, The
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
Informant, The
International Famous Agency (IFA)
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Isaacs, David
Ivory, James
Jack the Ripper
Jaffe, Herb
Jaffe, Mari-Carmen
Jaffe, Stanley
Jaffe, Steven-Charles
Jagger, Mick
James, Henry
Jaws
Jennings, Joe
Jewell, Austen
Judge Dee and the Haunted Monastery
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
King Kong
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
Latin Lovers
Laurence, Fran
Lawrence of Arabia
LeRoy, Mervyn
Letter, The
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
Mae West
Malle, Louis
Manchurian Candidate, The
Mancuso, Frank
Mango, Alex
Mannix
Man of La Mancha
Man Who Would Be King, The
Marcus, David
Maslin, Janet
Master and Commander
Masters, John
Matoian, John
May, Elaine
M. Butterfly
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)
Mikado, The
Milchan, Arnon
Milk, Harvey
Millar, Kenneth (Ross Macdonald)
Minor, Mike
Minsky, Howard
Mirisch, Walter
Mission: Impossible
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
New Leaf, A
Newton, Robert
New York
New York Post
New York Times
Nichols, Mike
Nichols, Nichelle
Nicita, Rick
Nightline
Night That Panicked America, The
Nimoy, Leonard
9/11
Nixon, Richard
North and South, Book
O’Brien, Patrick
Odd Man Out
Odyssey, The
Okrand, Marc
Olivier, Laurence
O’Neill, Eugene
On the Beach
On the Waterfront
Orion Picturs
Othello
O’Toole, Peter
Out of the Past
Pacino, Al
Papazian, Bob
Paramount Pictures
publicity department of
Star Trek II and
Star Trek IV and
Star Trek VI and
Parisot, Dean
Parkes, Walter
Patient Number One
Peckinpah, Sam
Peters, Brock
Piaf, Edith
Picker, David
Plimpton, George
Plummer, Christopher
Pollock, Tom
Prager, Timothy
Preminger, Otto
Prentiss, Paula
Pressman, Michael
Price, Leontyne
Prisoner of Zenda, The
Ptak, John
Pudd’nhead Wilson (Twain)
Queen Mary
Quiz Kids
Rabin, Yitzhak
Raft, George
Ralston, Ken
Rathbone, Basil
Reagan, Ronald
Rebel Without a Cause
Reds
Reed, Marilyn
Rescher, Gayne
Reuther, Steve
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The (Morris)
RKO
Robards, Jason
Robbins, Jerome
Roberts, Janet
Roddenberry, Gene
Star Trek VI, and
Romeo and Juliet
Roose, Ron
Roots
Rosenberg, Tom
Rosenman, Leonard
Ross, Herb
Roth, Philip
Rózsa, Miklós
Russo, Richard
Sadat, Anwar
Sallin, Robert
Schell, Jonathan
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schliemann, Heinrich
Schoppe, Jim
Schwartz, Bill
Scofield, Paul
Segal, Erich
Sellers, Arlene
Sellers, Kevin
Serling, Rod
Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The (film)
Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The (Meyer)
Seymour, Gerald
Shapiro, Bob
Shatner, William
Shepherd, Dick
Should the Patient Know the Truth? (Meyer, ed.)
Shultz, George
Silverstein, Elliot
Simpson, Don
Sinatra, Frank
Skidoo
Slater, Christian
Slater, Mary Jo
Socrates
Some Like It Hot
Sommersby
Sony Pictures
Sounder
Sowards, Jack B.
Special Bulletin
Spiegel, Sam
Spielberg, Steven
Splash
Spoils
Spottiswoode, Roger
Star Trek
cast of
Catholic mass compared to
in France
Kirk’s character in
Meyer’s first encounter with
Mission: Impossible comp
ared with
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
credits in
DVD edition of
editing of
eels in
Kirk in
music in
opening night of
prep for
previews of
rehearsals for
shooting of
Spock’s death in
title of
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
blankets from
budget for
credits for
DVD edition of
filming of
final cut of
prep and casting for
Roddenberry and
script for
title of
Star Wars
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars program
Steel, Dawn
Steenburgen, Mary
Stein, Gertrude
Stein, Howard
Steiner, Max
Stern, Howard
Stewart, Jimmy
Stewart, Patrick
Stiller, Jerry
Stoddard, Brandon
Stoppard, Tom
Straight Man (Russo)
Stravinsky, Igor
Takei, George
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens)
Tanen, Ned
Target Practice
Tartikoff, Brandon
Tartikoff, Calla Lianne
Thatcher, Kirk
Third Man, The
Thomas, Ambrose
Time After Time
Tiomkin, Dmitri
Todd, Mike
Tolstoy, Leo
Touch of Evil
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
Trumbull, Douglas
Turner, Lana
Twain, Mark
20th Century Fox
20Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
Under Fire
Understudy, The
Unforgiven
United Artists
Universal Pictures
University of Iowa
Van Gulik, Robert
Van Rellim, Tim
Variety
Vendetta
Vie en Rose, La
Vietnam War
Voltaire
Volunteers
Waite, Ric
Walken, Christopher
Wall-to-Wall Trap, The (Freedgood)
Walsh, Raoul
Walton, William
Warner, David
Warner Brothers
Time After Time and
War of the Worlds
Watson, Dr. John
Weir, Peter
Weissman, Philip
Welles, Orson
Wells, Frank