Fosse (93 page)

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   “‘Gest’ is not supposed to mean gesticulation”: Ibid., 104.

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   “The reason I haven’t called you”
and following:
Julian Barry, interview with the author, September 6, 2010.

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   “People would walk into the editing room”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “You were a better cutter before”: Ibid.

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   “I just don’t feel good”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   The first week of dance: “Fosse Fatigue Causes Delay in Start of ‘Chicago’ Rehearsals,”
Variety,
November 6, 1974.

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   “The number started with me”: Chita Rivera, interview with the author, February 3, 2011.

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   Fosse showed the company images of: Graciela Daniele, interviewed by Michael Kantor, March 30, 1999, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

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   “Go over there”: Ibid.

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   “In ‘All That Jazz’”: Gene Foote,
In the Company of Friends: Dancers Talking to Dancers III, the Men of Fosse,
videotaped at the New Dance Group, New York, on December 9, 2007.

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   “It was the crown”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “It got so that he wouldn’t put on”: Ibid.

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   Heim said Fosse didn’t look so good: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   Reinking was worried about the purplish color: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “Are you okay?”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   placed a big bouquet of red roses: Gary Gendell, interview with the author, June 12, 2012.

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   Tony Walton showed off a model: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
316.

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   “I was shocked”: Moira Hodgson, “When Bob Fosse’s Art Imitates Life, It’s Just ‘All That Jazz,’”
New York Times,
December 30, 1979.

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   He asked stage manager: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
316.

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   Like a truck was driving:
All That Jazz,
Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   Friedman called Leder, as directed: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
316.

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   Joe Harris and Ira Bernstein ran into Neil Simon: Ira Bernstein, interview with the author, May 17, 2011.

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   Fosse—trying to keep calm—told Harris: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 317.

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   “The show is over”: Ibid.

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   “What do you mean?”: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”

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   1 to 2 percent on the value: Kenneth Turan, “Insuring the Stars: You Think Your Policy’s High-Risk?,”
Washington Post,
September 19, 1977.

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   At 3:30, Fosse’s doctors called Broadway Arts:
All That Jazz,
Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   “[Gwen] really went through this”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz
, 318.

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   She believed this was, in a way:
All That Jazz,
Gwen Verdon interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   “Please don’t let them keep me”: Suzanne Daley, “Stepping into Her New Shoes,”
New York Times,
June 21, 1981.

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   “Alan,” Verdon said to Heim: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   At 5:30 that evening, producers Fryer and Harris:
All That Jazz,
Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   “It’s exhaustion,” they said: “Fosse Exhausted, ‘Chicago’ Tryout Opening Delayed,”
Daily Variety,
October 31, 1974.

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   Dr. Ettinger moved Fosse: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   He asked if he could have a smoke: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
320.

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   They would take a vein: Ibid.

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   The following day, the
Chicago
company: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   Pam Sousa booked a couple commercials: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   She threw parties: Jan Hodenfield, “Gwen Verdon & Chita Rivera: 2 from the Chorus,”
New York Post,
May 31, 1975.

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   he called the theater to check up: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   Heim came to the hospital with a report: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   Cinema One’s best opening day:
Variety,
full-page advertisement, November 14, 1974.

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   “Fosse has learned”: Pauline Kael, “When the Saints Come Marching In,”
New
Yorker,
November 18, 1974.

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   Drugged out, he called Annie: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “I’m going to a real opening”: Ibid.

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   Fosse made a pass at almost every nurse: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”

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   Outside his door, the ICU nurses held: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “Bob, are you smoking?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “We sure picked the right subject”: Gottfried,
All His Jazz,
324.

THIRTEEN YEARS

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   America had become a showbiz nation: Ambitious scholars take note: bridging 1970s disenchantment culture with the rise of our current (perhaps ancient) showbiz reality is a subject that deserves its own book. In the meantime, I took them piecemeal. For a fine survey of the 1970s, see Bruce J. Schulman,
The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
(New York: Free Press, 2001). For fine surveys of showbiz culture, see Neil Postman,
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
(New York: Penguin, 1985), and Neil Gabler,
Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
(New York: Knopf, 1998). Or just watch Scorsese’s
The King of Comedy
(1983) and Weir’s
The Truman Show
(1998). Their prescience is delightful and terrifying.

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   “We all have to put on”: Bob Fosse, May 18, 1986, interview with Kevin Boyd Grubb, LOC, audiocassette.

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   “The 70s was the decade in which”: Norman Mailer, “Mailer on the ’70s—Decade of ‘Image, Skin Flicks, and Porn,’”
U.S
.
News and World Report,
December 10, 1979.

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   “Bob took me to Patsy’s for dinner”: Deborah Geffner, interview with the author, October 1, 2010.

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   “Young choreographers”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “It was spy versus spy”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “I remember when I walked into”: Donna McKechnie, interview with the author, October 14, 2010.

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   They had him on an ice mattress
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “There is this profound period”: Nancy Bird, interview with the author, February 16, 2011.

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   “It is a little difficult to, you know”: Bob Fosse,
Tomorrow with Tom Snyder,
NBC, January 31, 1980.

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   He got sentimental one night: Paul Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes,”
New York,
December 16, 1974.

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   Chayefsky promised Bob that if Bob died first: Roderick Mann, “Bob Fosse—Writing ‘Star 80’ Was Easy, Filming It Wasn’t,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 13, 1983.

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   Actor John McMartin called in the middle: John McMartin, interview with the author, November 8, 2010.

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   The
Pippin
cast took up a collection: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   Garson Kanin sent a book: Book referenced in miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 47B.

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   Valerie Perrine sent a life-size: Valerie Perrine, interview with the author, February 26, 2011.

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   Dustin sent zinnias: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”

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   “How long has it been since you’ve”: Joyce Haber, “A Possible Dream for Rod McKuen,”
Los Angeles Times,
December 3, 1974.

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   “Tony”:
All That Jazz,
Tony Walton interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   Wolfgang Glattes saw someone: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   Nurses unplugged it: Gardner, “Bob Fosse Off His Toes.”

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   Student nurse Kathy Zappola
and following:
All That Jazz,
Kathy Zappola interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   There were fights: Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 327. Citations refer to the Da Capo edition.

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   “The hospital staff didn’t know who”: Ibid., 329.

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   Gwen had to disguise Nicole:
All That Jazz,
Gwen Verdon interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   he looked to her more like a machine:
All That Jazz,
Nicole Fosse interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   bust pads: Ibid.

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   As Gwen looked on, Nicole put his heart:
All That Jazz,
Phil Friedman interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   Long after she left, his mind was still: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Being in the hospital was starting to do weird things: Ibid.

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   regrets lined up: Scott Hornstein, “The Making of Lenny: An Interview with Bob Fosse,”
Filmmakers Newsletter,
February 1975.

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   making quiet, shaky love to Ann Reinking
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   nuns danced: “Bob Fosse,”
The Dick Cavett Show,
PBS, July 8, 1980.

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   “I had a strange dream”: Shirley MacLaine,
My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir
(New York: Bantam, 1995), 186.

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   He was discharged on December 10, 1974: Tom Buckley, “Ann Reinking Plays Herself in ‘All That Jazz,’”
New York Times,
January 4, 1980.

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   she in her back brace and he: Ibid.

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   Fosse quit smoking: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   Gwen threw a Christmas party: Jan Hodenfield, “Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera: 2 from the Chorus,”
New York Post,
May 31, 1975.

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   at Herb Gardner’s party, he got drunk: Bob Fosse and Robert Alan Aurthur, interview with Dr. Joe Wilder, August 26, 1975, LOC, box 14B.

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   “Can you get me some Dexies?”: Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   He took off for Palm Desert, and then: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,”
Daily Variety,
January 14, 1975.

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   “Bob looked terrible”
and following:
Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.

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   He explained to Welch that: Raquel Welch, interview with the author, May 9, 2012.

406   At three o’clock that morning, Emanuel
and following:
Emanuel Wolf, interview with the author, March 17, 2012.

TWELVE YEARS

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   “After the heart attack, he was getting”: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “Hal offered in the spirit of”: Ira Bernstein, interview with the author, May 17, 2011.

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   he wondered if they wondered if he: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “He got winded”: Pam Sousa, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   “That will hold,” he would say: Candy Brown, interview with the author, January 7, 2011.

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   “It got creepy”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “You want me to tell Bob Fosse”: Ibid.

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   “I’m not sure he even wanted to be there”: Cheryl Clark, interview with the author, April 19, 2011.

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   “treat this section like an E. E. Cummings poem”: Ibid.

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   “Bobby doesn’t know how he wants”
and following:
Richard Korthaze, interview with the author, March 24, 2011.

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   “Their love was reinitiated in the”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “They were having a difficult time”: John Kander, interview with the author, November 10, 2010.

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   If everyone runs out on Roxie, Verdon argued: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “She asked Fosse for it”: Ibid.

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   “She knew”: Ibid.

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   “I thought Bob was like the Emcee”: Ibid.

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   There were two ways to get results, Fosse told: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “If you ever want anything from anybody”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   “He made Gwen unattractive”: Tony Stevens, interview with the author, February 8, 2011.

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   “That’s the great Gwen Verdon”: Chita Rivera, interview with the author, February 3, 2011.