“Say something to Andy”: Mark Shivas, “ ‘Cowboy’ Director Had a Blind Spot,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1970.
“There were a few”: Morrissey to author; Oct. 13, 2011.
“It was amazing”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“six-day bacchanal”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
“Darling, they’re so”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“What attracted me”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 293.
“terribly careful”: Frank Spotnitz, “John Schlesinger,” American Film, Jan. 1991, 36.
“It was a book”: Kevin Thomas, “John Schlesinger,” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1969, 22.
“faggot stuff”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 314.
“The book had”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
a movie for Elvis Presley: Frank Spotnitz, “John Schlesinger,” American Film, Jan. 1991, 20.
the name Sammy Davis Jr.: Ibid.
stronger language, more nudity: Watson, Factory Made, 337.
“It was the only studio”: Picker to author; Aug. 29, 2011.
“commercial filmmakers”: Rosalyn Regelson, “Where Are ‘The Chelsea Girls’ Taking Us?,” New York Times, Sept. 24, 1967, D15.
“My partners here”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 314.
Julie Christie, who showed: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“It’s grim”: “Schlesinger Faces Pressure,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 22, 1970, A-3.
“He was afraid”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
“We’re ready, my queen”/“frivolity”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.
“All of which changed”: Hellman to author, Oct. 16, 2011.
“The crew were these”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“It depressed me”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 313.
“Neil Simon picture”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“some nebbish Mike Nichols”: Patrick Goldstein, “Midnight Cowboy,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 2005.
“So I hear”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 316.
One day, Schlesinger gave: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 313-14, 318.
“Dustin was prodding”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“What is my motivation”: Buruma, Conversations with John Schlesinger, 146.
Then there was Brenda Vaccaro: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 326.
also played offscreen: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“Well, it’s in a movie”: Peter Biskind, “Midnight Revolution,” Vanity Fair, March 2005, 324.
“Joe, the cowboy”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
When they’d completed: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 291.
Elkins met Michael: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“Why didn’t they”/“How dare you”: Bockris, Warhol, 309.
“I vaguely knew”: Morrissey to author, Oct. 13, 2011.
“When you’re young”: Watson, Factory Made, 342.
“There was always”: Dallesandro to author, Sept. 30, 2012.
“He’d have these plants”: Highberger, Superstar in a Housedress, 101.
“nine-to-fiver”: anonymous source to author.
“Think of the millions”: Dick Lochte, “Conversations with Paul Morrissey,” Los Angeles Free Press, May 24, 1974.
“I was making fun”: William Grimes, “A Warhol Director on What Is Sordid,” New York Times, Dec. 26, 1995, C13.
Chapter Four: Autumn 1968, Revelry
“teach Andy”/“Oh no, we can’t”: Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, 153.
“Do you honestly”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 332.
“youth adviser”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 416.
“bit more solo”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 32.
“In Britain, the underworld”: Ibid., 31.
“I idolized those”: John Powers, “Sympathy for the Devil,” L.A. Weekly, June 3, 1988, 39.
“Just a few pages”: Lanza, Fragile Geometry, 37.
“We would rehearse”: Salwolke, Nicolas Roeg, 2.
“This ménage à trois”: Special Features, Performance DVD.
“My first scene”: Ibid.
“Donald could be quite”: Umland, Donald Cammell, 104.
“Jagger simply took”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 32.
“But I smelled”: Richards and Fox, Life, 255.
Richards was having sex: Ibid., 256.
“twister and a manipulator”: Ibid., 253.
“The Importance of Being Earnest”: Romany Bain, “The Changing Faces of James Fox,” She, 1972, 21.
“He literally became”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 33.
“each of them”/“Neanderthal gangster”: Ibid., 32.
“Mick is not acting”: Ibid.
But he flat out: Lanza, Fragile Geometry, 37.
“basically harmful”: Romany Bain, “The Changing Faces of James Fox,” She, 1972, 20.
arrested on drug charges: Walker, Hollywood UK, 413.
“very macho, violent”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 33.
went to South Africa: Walker, Hollywood UK, 423.
“At the time”: Ibid., 424.
“We screened everything”/“Bi”: Ibid., 417.
“Even the bathwater”: David Del Valle, “Memo from Cammell,” Video Watchdog, No. 35, 1996, 31.
“This film, for”: Walker, Hollywood UK, 418.
had endured the usual mindless conversations: Mazursky to author; June 21, 2011; also, Mazursky, Show Me the Magic, 156; Special Features, Bob & Carol DVD.
Gerber laughed: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 109.
“It bears precious little resemblance”: Southern, The Candy Men, 319.
“that something ought to be done”: Ibid., 320.
Buck Henry sent Southern: Gerber, Trippin’ with Terry Southern, 110.
“In spite of”: Hill, A Grand Guy, 168.
“full vag-pen”: Southern, The Candy Men, 188.
“There’s something so inappropriate”: Ibid.
“I’m not aware”: Ibid., 267.
“Since they are both”: Special features, If . . . DVD.
“if we’re naked”: McDowell to author, Oct. 4, 2011.
“one of the most animalistic”: Special features, If . . . DVD.
Chapter Five: Winter 1969, Bonanza
“It was research”: Sappington to author; June 23, 2010.
“We just took”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Tynan made a hard”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“Oh! Calcutta!, he thought”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Ken had a lot”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
at least four skits: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Tynan was a real”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
“such a dirty show”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“It was a theater”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“tribute to a great English”: Jerry Talmer, “Tynan,” New York Post, April 9, 1969.
“I was afraid”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan Plans a Stage Tribute to Eros,” New York Times, April 9, 1969, 54.
“attract the killers”: Lewis Funke, “Tynan’s Elegant Erotica,” New York Times, Oct. 20, 1968, 1.
“Harold Pinter was tempted”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
Hilly Elkins and Bill Liberman: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“nonorgiastic style”: Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, 364.
“We’re disinfecting”: Craig Karpel, “No Penetration in Eden,” Village Voice, May 15, 1969, 41.
“They were, indeed”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“actors, and especially English”: Kael, “Victim,” For Keeps, 34.
“some middle-aged urban”: Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House, 128.
“I don’t mind”: “Oh! Calcutta!,” Entertainment World, Oct. 24, 1969.
“We wanted an attractive”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“heterosexual fascists!”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 13.
“When we take down”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“Simultaneously with our”: Ibid.
thirty helmeted, gas-masked: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 257.
“What was great”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
including critic Richard Schechner: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 257.
“to overcome violence”: Malina and Beck, Paradise Now, 80.
“Jim had decided”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
$2,500 donation: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 257.
“lewdly and lasciviously”: Herman, Rock ’n’ Roll Babylon, 60.
“You’re all a bunch”: Ibid.
“ivory shaft”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
Jeanne Baretich/“consensual sodomy”: “Show Must Go,” New York Post, March 25, 1969, 24.
local clergyman who: Lewis Funke, “City Officials Consulting with ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ Staff,” New York Times, May 24, 1969.
“rubbing of the genital”: John Mullane, “Vow to Keep ‘Che’ on After Second Arrest,” New York Post, May 8, 1969, 68.
“There have been seventy”: Ibid.
“If I were afraid: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
A flamboyant showman: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“faux-Napoleonic grandeur”: Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House, 126.
“the unmentionable”: Ibid., 127.
“I was a little”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“There’s a good chance”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 15.
“The worst that could”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“I think all”/“guide”: Enten to author; Jan. 4, 2011.
“no-fuck law”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 17.
“How can you touch”: Peter Hellman, “Arriving at the Naked Truth,” New York, June 30,, 1969, 57.
“I’d like to”: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 25.
multimedia work/“inhibitions”: Childers to author, June 12, 2010.
Chapter Six: Spring 1969, Fetishes
censors at the Gray Lady: Craig Karpel, “No Penetration in Eden,” Village Voice, May 15, 1969, 40.
“subject matter of pornography”: Intelligent Puritan, “Tynan: And Is That Bad?,” New York Times, June 15, 1969, 10.
“To scotch most”: Leo Mishkin, “A Peek at ‘Oh! Calcutta!,’ ” Morning Telegraph, May 5, 1969.
“Will sexual intercourse”: Ibid.
“No. We’re not”: Mishkin, “A Peek at ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ ”
“include actual sexual”: Henry Raymont, “ ‘Che!’ Tests the Limits,” New York Times, March 24, 1969.
“done it”: Tytell, The Living Theatre, 259.
“I personally would”: Jerry Tallmer, “Tynan,” New York Post, April 9, 1969.
“Recommended for mature”: Lewis Funke, “City Officials Consulting with ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ Staff,” New York Times, May 24, 1969.
“unofficially inviting”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
“Well, can I”: Sappington to author, June 23, 2010.
“They offered extremely”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
“Tynan threatened”: White to author, Jan. 21, 2012.
“Tynan’s skits”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“There is no theatrical”: “Waiting for Calcutta,” Newsweek, June 16, 1969, 107.
actor Leon Rossom/actress Nancy Tribush exchange: Ibid.
“A few times”: Sappington to author, June 23, 2010.
Nureyev/Dempsey exchange: Barrett, First Your Money, Then Your Clothes, 37.
“full-length play”/“Tynan cast”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
world premier: Earl Wilson, “A Night of Nudity,” New York Post, June 18, 1969.
“Opening night was”: Sappington to author, June 23, 2010.
“People who had”: Liberman to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
Sardi’s party: Wilson, “A Night of Nudity.”
“Break a member”: Feiffer to author, Dec. 7, 2010.
“You’re a very nice”: Sex in ’69: The Sexual Revolution in America, History Channel, 2009.
“They were disastrous”: Ibid.
“A police official”: Earl Wilson, “ ‘Calcutta’ Rolls On,” New York Post, June 25, 1969.
$234,969/“Scalpers were”: “$15 Top for ‘Calcutta,’ ” New York Times, May 30, 1969.
Elkins liked to give: Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House, 127.
two million copies/“greatest blow”: Laura Bergquist, “Gore Vidal,” Look, July 29, 1969, 73.
“We were stunned”: “ ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Almost Didn’t Make It,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 13, 1969. B-6.
“There would be seventy-five”: Hoffman to author, Oct. 19, 2012.
“We felt the X”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 332.
“I didn’t like”: Gregory King, “Herlihy’s Modified ‘Cowboy’ Rapture,” Variety, May 4, 1971.
“We filmed two”: Mann, Edge of Midnight, 314.
“I’m afraid I”: King, “Herlihy’s Modified ‘Cowboy’ Rapture.”
“I want to do”: Frank Spotnitz, “John Schlesinger,” American Film, January 1991, 37.
“Well, we don’t”: Ibid.
“I met him”/“I told Columbia”: Kramer to author; June 23, 2010.
“We’re paid to”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 22.
“It was very emotional”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“This scene is by far”: Algate and Robertson, Censorship in Theatre and Cinema, 126.
“Certainly one lesbian”: Judith Crist, “Banned in Boston,” New York, March 30, 1969, 54.
“I wasn’t quite out”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“The scene I wrote”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
Reed made an impromptu visit: Russell, Altered States, 67.
“You’re going to be seen”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“one of the most exposed”: Spoto, Otherwise Engaged, 106.
“full-frontal nudity”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
The night before: Russell, Altered States, 72.
“Alan had very little”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“Tumultuous applause”: Russell, Altered States, 72.
losing twenty pounds: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“It was a difficult scene”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“The task was quite”: Spoto, Otherwise Engaged, 106.
“The scenes in which”: Baxter, Glenda Jackson, 64.
“But I wouldn’t budge”: Goodwin, Evil Spirits, 123.
“Poor Ollie”: Baxter, Glenda Jackson, 63.
Suddenly, Last Summer: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“Trevelyan was a real”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
appropriately sterile/deciding vote: Philip Oakes, “Mister Bluenose,” Sunday Times Magazine, July 3, 1966.
“How can you exercise”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
“In the end”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“This film included”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 117.
“Trevelyan had that”: Bak
er, Director’s Cut, 93.
“I remember that after Blow-Up”: Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, 115.
“Because it was the first”: Kramer to author, June 23, 2010.
“It was known as”: Special Features, Women in Love DVD.
Chapter Seven: Summer 1969, Revolution
“This unpleasantness”: Crowley to author, Dec. 1, 2010.
“You’re the producer!”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“We will replace”: Ibid.
$1.6 million: Bruce Bahrenburg, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Becomes Movie,” Newark Evening News, Aug. 24, 1969.
“Crowley knew”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“No fags smoke”: Andy Humm, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Hits 40,” Gay City News, June 26, 2008, 46.
“There was a lot of crap”: Alfred Zelcer, “Cliff Gorman—Coitus Interrupted,” After Dark, December 1971, 18.
“monkey house”: Thomas Quinn Curtis, “Parisians Hail Premiere of ‘The Boys in the Band,’ ” New York Times, Sept. 20, 1969.
And down under: Raymond Stanley, “Actors in Aussie ‘Boys’ Convicted on Vice Squad Obscenity Charge,” Variety, Aug. 6, 1969. 2.
Boris Karloff’s co-op: New York Post, Sept. 3, 1968, 43.
“It’s a gigantic”: Arthur Bell, “Bell Tells,” Village Voice, undated clip.
“As a straight man”: Friedkin, The Friedkin Connection, 137.
“had gotten bored”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“consciously fag”: Bahrenburg, “ ‘Boys in the Band’ Becomes Movie.”
“Is the country”: Katie Kelly, “The ‘Boys’ Are Having a Bit of a Party Again,” New York Times, July 13, 1969.
“Who can predict”: Ibid.
“bane of my existence”: Making the Boys documentary, 2011.
“emotional strain”: “Los Angeles Judges Act on ‘Calcutta,’ ” New York Times, Dec. 19. 69.
“genital contact”: “Cops Nab Frisco ‘Calcutta’ Actors,” Variety, Nov. 5, 1969, 63.
management did suspend: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
Warhol’s effort to combine: Colacello, Holy Terror, 5.
“They don’t even dare”: Taylor Mead, “Lions Love,” Inter/VIEW, vol. 1, 1969, 16.
“Jerry got totally”/“You’ve got to”/Ellen Stewart: Butler to author, Dec. 4, 2010.
Chapter Eight: Autumn 1969, Trauma
“The directors of”: Mazursky to author, June 21, 2011.
“I’ve always thought”: Bernard Weinraub, “Hollywood Reigns as Film Fete Opens,” New York Times, Sept. 17, 1969, 50.