Fosse (96 page)

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   “Hey, could you do this role”
and following:
John Lithgow, interview with the author, August 9, 2010.

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   There was no time to skip shooting: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   “This was Friday night”
and following:
Cheryl Clark, interview with the author, April 19, 2011.

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   Fosse called Sandahl Bergman
and following:
Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

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   vowing to an incredulous Albert Wolsky that each would: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

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   “I’d like to call up Danny Melnick”
and following:
Sandahl Bergman, interview with the author, April 27, 2012.

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   “Columbia was kind of”: Frank Price, interview with the author, February 26, 2013.

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   “By the time the [
All That Jazz
]
budget
reached”: Rosenfield, “Long, Winding Road of ‘Jazz.’”

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   “We can’t have this thing going up”: Frank Price, interview with the author, February 26, 2013.

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   This was seven days: Rosenfield, “Long, Winding Road of ‘Jazz.’”

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   “I thought Bobby was going to”: Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   Assemble the picture: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,”
American Film,
November 1979.

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   “Are we supposed to stop production”: Ibid.

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   “Excuse me for a second”
and following:
AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of
All That Jazz.

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   “Dan Melnick called”
and following:
Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   drove directly to Alan Ladd Jr.
and following:
Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

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   “You’re out of the picture”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of
All That Jazz.

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   Who got which was decided by: Alan Ladd Jr., interview with the author, June 7, 2010.

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   had to work as the final number: Vincent LoBrutto,
By Design: Interviews with Production Designers
(New York: Praeger, 1992), 126–27.

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   sent Walton and Phil Rosenberg back to: Ibid.

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   “It was getting quite frightening”: AMPAS cast and crew reunion screening of
All That Jazz.

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   In came yards and yards of: LoBrutto,
By Design,
126.

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   Crouched behind the bleachers: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   Peppino, taking Fosse’s quiet to mean: Ibid.

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   “Where’s Peppino?”: Ibid.

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   “Peppino was a gentleman”: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   Peppino and Lovett admired an entombed: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   “That’s the same shot”: Ibid.

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   The incarcerated dubbed themselves Prisoners
and following:
John Lithgow, interview with the author, August 9, 2010.

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   Doby advocated for replacements
and following:
Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   Albert Wolsky put a rush on their costumes: Albert Wolsky, interview with the author, August 11, 2010.

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   “Bob started changing things”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “Fifteen days”: Wolfgang Glattes, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “It was the hardest physical thing”
and following:
Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
DVD commentary.

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   “Maybe somebody will say”: Leslie Bennetts, “Bob Fosse—Dancing with Danger,”
New York Times,
April 6, 1986.

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   “You know, that must be kind of exhilarating”
and following:
Roy Scheider, Bob Fosse Memorial, Palace Theater, October 30, 1987, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

EIGHT YEARS

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   Aside from the pirouettes
and following:
Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

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   “It was a life”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “It wasn’t the movie’s fault”: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   “The set dresser [Phil Rosenberg] had”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “All those years and all that work”: Bernard Drew, “Life as a Long Rehearsal,”
American Film,
November 1979.

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   “I just want to run through”: Wende Phifer, interview with the author, February 15, 2011.

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   “He would make small talk”: David Ray, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   “I still have one artery partially clogged”: Martin Burden, “Fosse Lights Up,”
New York Post,
November 14, 1979.

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   “If you stay on the beat”: Alan Heim, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “Gwen was trying to make it”: Kathryn Doby, interview with the author, November 27, 2010.

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   “That’s not how we used to do”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   “Gwen was obviously territorial”: Name withheld, interview with the author, September 10, 2010.

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   Fosse attributed partially to discomania: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   “I’d want to see your quick changes”: Blane Savage, interview with the author, February 6, 2011.

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   “When I film the section when Charles”: Wayne Cilento, interview with the author, January 27, 2011.

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   “I’d never do that to a dancer again”: Laurent Giroux, interview with the author, December 13, 2010.

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   “That put the fear of God in us”
and following:
Bill Hastings, interview with the author, January 8, 2011.

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   “He got introverted when he was”: John Sowinski, interview with the author, February 1, 2011.

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   “Normally, we’d be relaxed”: Bill Hastings, interview with the author, January 8, 2011.

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   “There’s a section”
and following:
Michael Tronick, interview with the author, March 22, 2011.

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   “He wanted to be the victim”: Greg Lawrence,
Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz
(New York: Faber and Faber, 2003), 122.

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   “It was all about Bobby pretending”: Ibid., 120.

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   “When I saw it, I was devastated”: Gordon Harrell, interview with the author, February 23, 2011.

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   “What do you think?”: Ben Vereen, interview with the author, January 11, 2011.

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   “He felt guilty about some of”
and following:
Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   A private screening for Gwen, Nicole
and following:
Chris Chase, “Fosse’s Ego Trip,”
Life,
November 1979.

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   “I can’t walk into one of those”: Ibid.

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   “Bobby had this boyish charm and enthusiasm”: Sherry Lansing, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   a math teacher before she became: Aljean Harmetz, “Sherry Lansing, Former Model, Named Head of Fox Productions,”
New York Times,
January 2, 1980.

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   “Bob’s in the bathroom”
and following:
Sherry Lansing, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

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   “I really think Bob Fosse thought”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   turned on the TV and disappeared again
and following:
Chase, “Fosse’s Ego Trip.”

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   “Julie seemed depressed”: Lynn Lovett, interview with the author, February 17, 2011.

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   While Janice Lynde was in town
and following:
Janice Lynde, interview with the author, May 4, 2011.

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   “Tragic,” he replied: NewsCenter 4, NBC, February 28, 1980.

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   “Of all the shows you’ve done”: David Sheehan, interview with the author, July 23, 2012.

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   got a standing ovation
and following:
Sherry Lansing, interview with the author, July 22, 2010.

SEVEN YEARS

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   “Gwen was careful with her”
and following:
Chris Chase, “Fosse’s Ego Trip,”
Life,
November 1979.

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   “That’s the future”:
All That Jazz,
Clifford Sager interview transcripts, LOC, box 1A.

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   On weekends, they drove out to Quogue
and following:
Nicole Fosse interview,
Dance in America,
WNET archives, September 6, 1989.

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   He considered, again, doing a full ballet: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,”
Daily Variety,
December 21, 1979.

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Atlantic City,
Cy Coleman’s idea: Carol Lawson, “Broadway,”
New York Times,
January 11, 1980.

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   interest from Liza Minnelli and Goldie Hawn: Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998; first published by Bantam in 1990), 351.

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   “Besides”: Kenneth L. Geist, “Fosse Reflects on Fosse,”
After Dark,
February 1980.

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   “the need for attention”: Bob Fosse/Clifford Sager correspondence June 2, 1980, LOC, box 48B.

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   Fosse met with writer Jack Heifner
and following:
Jack Heifner, interview with the author, June 25, 2012.

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   Fosse and Sam Cohn invested in the Laundry
and following:
Susan Anderson, interview with the author, January 14, 2013.

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   “Bob always needed to be around writers”
and following:
E. L. Doctorow, interview with the author, May 5, 2012.

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   Lunches consisted of big bowls: Cynthia Scheider, interview with the author, March 25, 2011.

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   “I didn’t buy Bobby’s dark-guy thing”: Ibid.

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   Fosse was in the Winter Garden opening night: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

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   Merrick, they had been told, would have: Marie Brenner, “Like No Business I Know,”
New York,
September 8, 1980.

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   “I’m sorry to have to report”: Cliff Jahr, “‘42nd Street’ Log—the Making of a Hit,”
New York Times
, September 7, 1980.

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   No one but the family: John Anthony Gilvey,
Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005), 297.

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   Jammed that night with the likes of Fosse: Brenner, “Like No Business I Know.”

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   “There were so many rumors that”: Carolyn Kirsch, interview with the author, February 11, 2011.

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   “That night my sons told me”: Marge Champion, interview with the author, August 24, 2011.

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   “That son of a bitch”: Lee Roy Reams, Theater Production Workshop Dialogue Series Features
Sweet Charity,
Marymount Manhattan College, March 15, 2011.

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   “Why would I do that?”: Gail Benedict, interview with the author, January 6, 2011.

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   That summer, Fosse wrote to him
and following:
Bob Fosse/Jerome Robbins correspondence, July 25, 1980, Jerome Robbins Papers, box 507, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the New York Library for the Performing Arts.

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   Reading, at Paddy’s suggestion: Roderick Mann, “Bob Fosse—Writing ‘Star 80’ Was Easy, Filming It Wasn’t,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 13, 1983.

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   Stratten reminded him of his younger self: Ann Reinking, interview with the author, November 15, 2010.

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   “That girl could make me a lot of money”: Teresa Carpenter, “Death of a Playmate,”
Village Voice,
November 5, 1980.

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   “It was all too big for him”: Ibid.

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   “I somehow identified with him”: Barry Rehfeld, “Bob Fosse’s Follies,”
Rolling Stone,
January 19, 1984.

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   underlining gruesome specifics in red pen: Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten autopsy report, case number 658824, filed August 25, 1980, Los Angeles Superior Court.

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   Teresa Carpenter led Fosse to public documents: Teresa Carpenter/Bob Fosse correspondence, LOC, box 31C.

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   It came easier than expected: Mann, “Bob Fosse—Writing ‘Star 80’ Was Easy.”

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   “You don’t need another writer”: Ibid.

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   “What are you going to do about anything?”
and following:
Ronald Davis Oral History October 17, 1979, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library.

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   Paddy was back in the hospital with pleurisy: Shaun Considine,
Mad as Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefsky
(New York: Random House, 1995), 392.

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   Herb’s Christmas dinner party, an epic
and following:
Pamela Larsson-Toscher, interview with the author, February 14, 2011.

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   I don’t have the answers, he would say: Miscellaneous correspondence, LOC, box 47A.

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   Fosse took over a corner of the River Café
and following:
Considine,
Mad as Hell,
393.