Fosse (92 page)

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   “It was not the right way to”: Ibid.

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   He tried Raquel Welch: Raquel Welch, interview with the author, May 9, 2012.

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   He considered his sometime girlfriend Joey Heatherton: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   Her mother had been a showgirl: Judy Klemesrud, “Valerie Perrine, or, The Return of the Hollywood Sex Kitten,”
New York Times,
December 1, 1974.

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   “That was”: Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “We read two hundred and fifty actresses”: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   “I’m Leonard Albert Schneider”
and following:
Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   Fosse respectfully rented his own: Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 300. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   “I remember how Gwen suffered”: John Rubinstein, interview with the author, September 30, 2010.

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   “He suddenly allowed a lot of”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
284.

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   a short distance from the sand was a white cypress: Jay Sears, interview with the author, February 16, 2012.

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   lobster especially, and Chinese spare ribs: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “I would have made a terrific waiter”: Linda Winer, “Shade of Bob Fosse Raised by ‘Chicago,’”
Newsday,
November 22, 1996.

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   Brahms, Chopin, or: Richard Natale, “Dining with Bob Fosse,”
Viva,
1973.

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   Too much scotch could take Fosse down: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “I love big parties”: Natale, “Dining with Bob Fosse.”

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   “Most nondancers don’t understand”: Fred Mann III, interview with the author, February 22, 2011.

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   began after Ann’s last matinee
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “We were just reading scenes”
and following:
Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   the more he came to believe that Lenny’s layers
and following:
Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “Bob insisted that no extra could”: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   as Fosse had promised Hoffman they would: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “We got a problem”
and following:
David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   “what’s your shlong doing on that ashtray?”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “You’re ugly! What are you doing here?”: Ibid.

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   “It was vicious”: Ibid.

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   “Bob, it’s not working”: Ibid.

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   “Dustin felt I was restricting him”: Kenneth L. Geist, “Fosse Reflects on Fosse,”
After Dark,
February 1980.

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   “Nobody talks like this, Bob”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   he liked what the speed and exhaustion: Bruce Surtees, interview with the author, March 28, 2011.

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   “All Dustin wants to do is talk!”: Ibid.

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   “Someone tell Fosse I’m not a machine!”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “[Fosse] wanted to be Lenny”: Ibid.

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   “There are not a lot of movie directors”: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   “We can know what this means”: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   “It was ballsy”: Bruce Surtees, interview with the author, March 28, 2011.

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   “I want this to be like”: Ibid.

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   “We would just run the whole magazine”: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   They shot the final monologue twice: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   “You’re worse than your father”
and following:
Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   “Why are you doing this?”: Neil Machlis, interview with the author, September 1, 2010.

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   “Who would ever dream of”: Ibid.

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   Greenhut’s phone rang. “Hello?”: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   “I had complete trust in Bobby”: Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   An acting robot: Ibid.

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   “He spent more time rehearsing”: Larry Mark, interview with the author, September 17, 2010.

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   “Hi, Bobby”
and following:
Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “It wasn’t sexual”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “Bobby, I can’t do it”: Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “That’s why he got to know you”: Ibid.

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   “I’m embarrassed by that story”: Bob Fosse interview,
Midday,
CBC-TV Canada, July 7, 1987.

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   told Perrine to think of her Great Dane: Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   “In the beginning, we were going”: Neil Machlis, interview with the author, September 1, 2010.

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   “We were burning film”: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   “The guy is overrated and he knows it”: Tim Cahill, “Dirty Lenny on the Silver Screen,”
Rolling Stone,
December 5, 1974.

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   “There came a point late in the shoot”: Bruce Surtees, interview with the author, March 28, 2011.

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   The cinematographer gave Larry Mark a coconut: Larry Mark, interview with the author, September 17, 2010.

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   “It was like [Fosse] was trying to get even”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “Fosse showed no remorse”: Bruce Surtees, interview with the author, March 28, 2011.

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   “Because there was no money”: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

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   Dustin Hoffman behind a baby grand: Tom Lofaro, interview with the author, February 10, 2011.

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   It was an atmosphere
and following:
Kitty Bruce, interview with the author, February 15, 2013.

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   “His cough would wake me up”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   “He just wanted to be there”: David Picker, interview with the author, October 7, 2010.

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   Swiss cheese sandwich with mustard on white
and following:
Larry Mark, interview with the author, September 17, 2010.

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   “Can you make it smaller?” he would ask: Bruce Surtees, interview with the author, March 28, 2011.

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   “What are you doing?”: Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   would lean into Trudy Ship: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.

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   Hoffman wanted to join, but Fosse: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “He was never totally specific”: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

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   “I’m so depressed”: Ibid.

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   he’d seen a big, bearded man: Ibid.

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   “He fought everything so hard”: Dustin Hoffman, interview with the author, September 13, 2012.

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   about 360,000 feet of printed film to: Cahill, “Dirty Lenny on the Silver Screen.”

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   “He taught me how to be hard on material”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   Sometimes lunch would be personally delivered: Ibid.

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   “There were times in the cutting room”: Jonathan Pontell, interview with the author, February 7, 2011.

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   He made no effort to hide the attaché: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “I’m positive that Bob did this intentionally”: Ibid.

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   “Bob would talk to me about”: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.

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   He would laugh at himself for dating: Ibid.

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   “Who was it last night?”: Ibid.

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   One night Fosse invited Kim and Ann: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
301.

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   At home, Fosse found Kim had: Ibid.

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   “If you can’t go by the rules”: Ibid., 305.

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   The performance, Fosse decreed: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “It was the racial monologue”: Ibid.

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   “[Fosse] was frequently demeaning him”: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.

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   “Throw it out,” Fosse said: Ibid.

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   “We discovered that by fragmenting”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   Ralph Burns called “Fosse time”: Ibid.

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   “Film is just like music”: Michael Blowen, “Will Gritty ‘Star 80’ Glitter at the Box Office?,”
Boston Globe,
November 6, 1983.

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   Fosse wrote him asking for co-credit: Bob Fosse/Julian Barry correspondence, June 6, 1974, LOC, box 47B.

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   “I wrote back and told him no”: Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   Fosse said he’d never bring it up: Ibid.

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   “He was coughing and coughing”: Trudy Ship, interview with the author, January 21, 2011.

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   “The nerve-racking thing”: Robert Greenhut, interview with the author, August 31, 2010.

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   singeing one side of his mouth: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “Although we had worked on each other’s”
and following:
Herb Gardner, 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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   “We used to turn on the radio”: Paddy Chayefsky on
Dinah!,
CBS, March 2, 1977.

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   Around ten every morning, John Kander: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.

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   “We were pregnant a lot in those days”: “Dialogue with Liza Minnelli, Fred Ebb, and John Kander,” January 14, 1974, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

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   “I would never write a completed lyric”: John Kander and Fred Ebb’s
Chicago,
Martin Gottfried on Bob Fosse, “Theater Talk,” videotaped at Top Line Studios, September 27, 1996.

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   “Put in two finger snaps”: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.

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   “Our copy was so messy”: Ibid.

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   Verdon’s
Chicago
contract was a valentine: Gwen Verdon’s
Chicago
contract, September 27, 1974, LOC, box 18C.

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   “Gwen knew a child needed both parents”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “And she continued to love him”: Ibid.

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   “If you want to make something good”: Paul Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes,”
New York,
December 16, 1974.

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   “I’d wake up in the morning”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,”
Rolling Stone,
January 19, 1984.

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   “In American writing now”: Anatole Broyard, “Love on the Critical List: Books of the Times to Control the Uncontrollable Greatest of All Obstacles,”
New York Times,
July 30, 1974.

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   “Above all,
Ending
made me feel”: Ibid.

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   likening it to a string-quartet: Stuart Ostrow,
Present at the Creation, Leaping in the Dark, and Going Against the Grain
(New York: Applause, 2006), 81.

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   “My characters were as far from”: Hilma Wolitzer, interview with the author, July 5, 2010.

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   they should turn the script away: Robert Alan Aurthur’s sixteen-page step outline, December 23, 1974, LOC, box 13D.

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   Fosse talked Aurthur into inventing: Ann Guarino, “The Fall of a Curtain, the Rise of an Idea,”
New York Daily News,
March 17, 1976.

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   “What’ll happen is I’ll probably die”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies.”

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   “Don’t let me do anything I’ve done before”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   Stevens soon realized exactly what: Ibid.

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   Ann Reinking called it “the Know”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “You have to have the magnificent stare”: Ibid.

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   had fascinated Fosse since he saw Tony Richardson’s: Marilyn Stasio, “A Tough ‘Chicago’ Is Where Bob Fosse Lives,”
Cue,
July 7, 1975.

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   “The performer portrays incidents”: Bertolt Brecht and John Willett (ed. and trans.), “Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting,”
Brecht on Theater: The Development of an Aesthetic
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1992), 93.