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Los Angeles Times,
Apr. 5, 1989.
Solomon, Alan, “Poopsie Picks,”
The Stentor,
p. 4, May 18, 1956.
“So Much for Star Wars,”
People,
Sept. 5, 1977.
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Stein, Jeannine, “Click,”
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,
Sept. 18, 1984.
———, “Oscar: An Overnight Sensation,”
Los Angeles Times,
Mar. 31, 1989.
———, “Where the Stars Come Out to Shine After Oscars Show,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. 2, Mar. 29, 1989.
“Survive! Tale of Cannibalism,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 29, 1976.
Tamaya, Steve, “Closed School Reborn as Studio,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. LB1, Jan. 10, 1982.
Taylor, Clarke, “The People’s Movie Moves the Village,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. L29, Sept. 9, 1979.
———, “Village People Try a New Look,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. B3, July 19, 1981.
Terry, Clifford, “Allan Carr, Counselor to the Stars,”
Chicago Tribune,
p. 35, Oct. 13, 1974.
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———,
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NOTES
In the notes, Author Interviews are designated “AI.”
Introduction
Facts, quotes, and observations regarding Hilhaven Lodge circa 1999 were obtained from an Author Interview (AI) with Brett Ratner, who also gave the author a tour of the house, on August 18, 2007.
Ingrid Bergman anecdotes: Laurence Leamer,
As Time Goes By: The Life of Ingrid Bergman,
pp. 107, 162-163, and Donald Spoto,
Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman,
pp. 170-171.
viii “place like Woodland”: Paula Chin and Kristina Johnson, “Marathon Man,”
People,
p. 112.
xi “Walk around the”: Vito Russo, “A Visit with Allan Carr,”
The Advocate,
p. 36.
Chapter 1
1 “streaked”/“private party”: Clifford Terry, “Allan Carr, Counselor to the Stars,”
Chicago Tribune,
p. 35.
1 “invitation isn’t fabulous”: AI, Kathy Berlin, Apr. 18, 2009.
2 “in the fabled”: Original invitation, Brett Ratner collection.
2 $200,000: AI, Daniel Gottlieb, July 1, 2009.
2 “James Caan”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16. 2007.
3 “pig city”: Alan Cartnal, “Allan Carr: Clocked by Alan Cartnal,”
Interview,
p. 9.
3 “Jewish gymnasium”: Nancy Collins, “The Uphill Racer, Allan Carr,”
Women’s Wear Daily,
p. 17.
3 Kim Novak’s brief: Bob Weiner, “Big Man on Broadway,”
Sunday News Magazine,
p. 7, Aug. 21, 1983.
3 “walk sideways”: AI, Warren Cowan, May 17, 2007.
3 “I stepped off”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
3 “so life-threatening”: AI, Ann-Margret, Apr. 17, 2008.
4 “I was shocked”: Terry, “Allan Carr,” p. 35.
4 “He was just”: “The Gatsby of Benedict Canyon,”
Time,
p. 52, Aug. 30, 1976.
4 “Body by Dr.”: AI, Joel Schumacher, Apr. 6, 2009.
4 “the old trick”: Collins, “Uphill Racer,” p. 17.
4 “Joe Namath’s knees”: Terry, “Allan Carr,” p. 35.
4 “my elephant skin”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
5 “jaw wired shut”: AI, Ann-Margret, Apr. 17, 2008.
5 its title,
Jaws
:
New York Post,
p. 6, Nov. 17, 1978.
5 “confidante to Ann-Margret”: AI, Marvin Hamlisch, July 26, 2007.
5 “She’s not a”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
5 “Ann-Margret owes”: AI, Roger Smith, Apr. 17, 2008.
5 “did every step”: AI, Dyan Cannon, Aug. 10, 2007.
5 “fired Dyan Cannon”: Terry, “Allan Carr,” p. 35.
6 “She always seemed”: “Cass Elliot’s Death Laid to Heart Attack,”
Los Angeles Times
, p. B2.
6 “Cass Elliot and”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
6 a party person: AI, John Kander, Sept. 1, 2005.
6 “bring glamour back”: “So Much for Star Wars,”
People,
Sept. 5, 1977.
7 “Allan is as rich”/Hackett: Jacobs, Jody, “Carr Gives a Friendship Party,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 5, 1980.
7 “only in 3-D”: AI, Joanne Cimbalo, Dec. 18, 2007.
7 “Because they’re all”: Paul Morrissey, “Big Hit in Hollywood: Pat Ast,”
Interview,
p. 41, Oct. 1978.
7 “Hello, It’s Allan”: AI, Mitzi Brill, May 9, 2007.
8 “invited his Rolodex”: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
8 “cross-pollinated lists”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
8 “instant Elsa Maxwell”: “Gatsby of Benedict Canyon,” p. 52.
8 “Bianca Jagger showed”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
8 “Stigwood disco period”: AI, Alice Cooper, Oct. 1, 2007.
9 “the bridge between”: AI, Peter Guber, Jan. 10, 2008.
9 “Allan’s parties unique”: AI, Ron Bernstein, Apr. 8, 2009.
9 “like Noah’s ark”: AI, Joel Schumacher, Apr. 6, 2009.
9 “loud, vulgar extravaganzas”: AI, Rex Reed, Apr. 16, 2009.
9 “Allan Carr’s house”/“A list”: “Hanging Out with the L.A. Rockers,”
Time,
Apr. 25, 1977.
9 “career doctor”: “Gatsby of Benedict Canyon,” p. 52.
10 “Rock people are”: “Hanging Out.”
10 “whole rash of”: AI, Alice Cooper, Oct. 1, 2007.
11 “You can’t go”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
11 “whether they would”: AI, Gary Pudney, Feb. 27, 2007.
11 “daughter Edie Goetz”: AI, Zvi Howard Rosenman, July 10, 2007.
11 “these beach kids”: AI, Craig Zadan, Nov. 27, 2007.
11 “the twinkies”: AI, Kathy Berlin, Apr. 18, 2009.
11 “So many gay”: AI, Brett Ratner, Aug. 18, 2007.
11 “If you ever”: AI, anonymous source.
11 “really out there”: AI, Gregg Kilday, Feb. 13, 2009.
11 “epicene”: “Gatsby of Benedict Canyon,” p. 52.
11 “making it up”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
12 “product-placement parties”: AI, Laurence Mark, Aug. 21, 2006.
12 “It was marketing”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
12 “comical version of”: AI, Zvi Howard Rosenman, July 10, 2007.
12 “a sweet guy”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
12 “thick Russian accent”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
12
tout
L.A.: Terry, “Allan Carr.”
12 “feel like Secretariat”: Joyce Haber, “Two Parties Hollywood Never Gives,”
Los Angeles Times
, p. E16, Apr 11, 1974.
13 satin Cossack pants: Ibid.
13 “their clothes off” “No! No!”: Terry, “Allan Carr,” p. 43.
13 “muscle-bound young”: Haber, “Two Parties.” p. E16.
13 “Nureyev was sexually”: AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
13 “a midnight party”: AI, David Steinberg, Aug. 22, 2007.
14 “Nureyev’s getting”/“But that wasn’t”/“young, hairless boys”: AI, Zvi Howard Rosenman, July 10, 2007.
14 his “Marvin”/Nureyev:
People,
pp. 44-49, Aug. 6, 1979.
15 “Easter bush”: Terry, “Allan Carr,” p. 35.
15 “‘being hung’”: AI, Alice Cooper, Oct. 1, 2007.
15 “the good Allan”: AI, David Geffen, Apr. 21, 2009.
15 “way he lived”: AI, Gary Pudney, Feb. 27, 2007.
15 “big Hollywood life”: AI, Joan Rivers, Sept. 25, 2007.
Chapter 2
16 “fiesta-colored Civic”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
17 “Columbia doesn’t”/“The What?”/“Making
Tommy
”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
17 “I’d only heard”: Ann-Margret with Todd Gold,
Ann-Margret,
p. 201.
18 “can she sing?”: Ibid.
18 “Allan showed Columbia”: AI, Peter Guber, Jan. 10, 2008.
18 “such TV coverage”: AI, Warren Cowan, May 17, 2007.
18 “too obvious:” AI, Kathy Berlin, Apr. 18, 2009.
19 “Allan’s
Tommy
party”: AI, Warren Cowan, May 17, 2007.
19 “subway concept”: AI, Kathy Berlin, Apr. 18, 2009.
19 $150,000/$5,000: AI, Bobby Zarem, Aug. 7, 2008.
19 “When Allan hired”: Ibid.
19 “
Entertainment Tonight
”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
19 “white and glass”: AI, Bobby Zarem, Aug. 7, 2008.
20 renegade publicist/“Stigwood was already”: Ibid.
20 “greatest goof”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
21 “sphincter arrest”: AI, Peter Guber, Jan. 10, 2008.
21 “terrific to terrible”: Marian McEvoy, “Subway Siren,”
Women’s Wear Daily
.
21 50 pounds/“I’ve never been”: “The Bash,”
Newsweek.
21 “costume ball”: AI, Kathy Berlin, Apr. 18, 2009.
21 “Who concerts”/“A little bit”: “The Bash.”
22 silver-plated hypodermics: McEvoy, “Subway Siren.”
22 “see Ann-Margret”: “The Bash.”
22 “I love this”/the centerpieces: McEvoy, “Subway Siren.”
22 “It’s not easy”: Gregg Kilday, “Bash Follows ‘Tommy’ Premiere,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. 14.
23 “cross-sexual cavortings”: Elizabeth Peter, “Bump in the Night,”
Newsweek
.
23 “totally apolitical”: AI, Roger Smith, Apr. 17, 2008.
23 “Allan never”: AI, Joan Rivers, Sept. 25, 2007.
23 “If Allan”: AI, Gregg Kilday, Feb. 13, 2009.
24 “1970s hedonistic era”: AI, Lila Burkeman, July 19, 2007.
24 “Stigwood didn’t talk”: AI, Kathy Berlin, Apr. 18, 2009.
24 “Allan was synchronistic”: AI, Peter Guber, Jan. 10, 2008.
Chapter 3
26 “Michael wanted”/“I was sure”/ “Michael, you”: AI, Marvin Hamlisch, July 26, 2007.
27 “They were having”: AI, John Breglio, Nov. 15, 2007.
27 “Marvin is really”: AI, David Kennedy, July 17, 2007.
27 “People forget that”: AI, Marvin Hamlisch, July 26, 2007.
Chapter 4
28 David Geffen, Cher: Jody Jacobs, “Show Goes on for the No-Show,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. E3.
29 “We don’t pretend”: Robert Opel, “Cycle Sluts,”
Drummer,
p. 8, Oct. 1976.
29 “Montezuma’s Revenge”: “Cycle Sluts,”
Los Angeles Times.
29 leopard print bathrobe: Jacobs, “Show Goes On,” p. E3.
29 “a bunch of hustlers”/“front lawn”: “Cycle Sluts.”
29 “chemically altered”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
30 “servants change”: Jacobs, “Show Goes On,” p. E3.
30 “guys in leather chaps”: AI, Lorna Luft, July 26, 2007.
30 “future of show”: Jacobs, “Show Goes On,” p. E3.
30 “his childhood”: AI, Lorna Luft, July 26, 2007.
30 “nameless Hollywood”: Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,”
Daily Variety,
p. 2.
30 “something you know”: AI, Dyan Cannon, Aug. 10, 2007.
31 “survival story”: AI, Joel Schumacher, Apr. 6, 2009.
31 “Before Allan”: AI, David Geffen, Apr. 21, 2009.
31 “virgin until”/“This guy”: AI, Gary Pudney, Feb. 27, 2007.
Chapter 5
32 “quite a shock”: AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
33 “our getaway car”: Jody Jacobs, “Capote and His Pen Pals,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. G1.
33 “no ashtrays”/“red tape”: Ibid.
34 “bathrooms were fit:” AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
34 “anyone peeking”: “West Coast Maxwell,”
Playbill
.
35 “party’ parties”: Jody Jacobs, “Capote,” p. G1.
35 “I always”/“I bet”: Ibid.
35 “old friend”: AI, Richard Hach, Aug. 16, 2007.
35 “La Cote Basque 1965”: Liz Smith, “Truman Capote in Hot Water,”
New York Magazine,
pp. 47-51.
35 “Carole Matthau and”: Archerd, “Just for Variety,” p. 3.
36 “Why, if”: Ibid, p. 49.
36 “the no place”: Gerald Clarke,
Conversations with Capote,
p. 152.
36 “onion soup”: AI, George Christy, Mar. 6, 2007.
36 “rice and beans”: Jody Jacobs, “Capote,” p. G1.
36 “such sadness”: AI, Dominick Dunne, Sept. 19, 2006.
36 “fun if Truman”: AI, Joseph Wambaugh, Mar. 5, 2009.
36 “kinds of friends”: AI, David Steinberg, Aug. 22, 2007.
37 “those occasions”: AI, Don Bachardy, Mar. 6, 2009.
37 “The joke”: AI, Bruce Vilanch, Aug. 13, 2007.
37 “spectacular”/“inventive”: Lawrence Grobel,
Conversations with Capote,
p. 152.
Chapter 6
38 a dinner invitation: Liz Smith, “The Duchess & the Lord,”
Daily News,
Aug. 30, 1976.
38 visit Mexico City: AI, Maury Yeston, May 5, 2008, and Gregg Kilday, “Allan Carr—Greasing the Wheels,”
Los Angeles Times,
p. 46.
39 “Freddie, you’re”/“It will work”/“If we can”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
40 “first thing I”/“Just give me”: AI, John Breglio, Nov. 15, 2007.
41 “Let me fiddle”: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
41 “brilliant job”/
Won Ton Ton
: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
41 “hired thirty dogs”/Marisa Berenson: AI, Laurence Mark, Aug. 21, 2006.
41 Merv Griffin/“want your chair”: James Bacon, “Hollywood, a Town Going to the Dogs,”
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,
p. C12.
42 More problematic/erection: Richard Levine, “The Selling of a Used Car,”
Esquire,
p. 186, Nov. 1983.
42 “amazing event”: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
42 cornflakes: “Survive! Tale of Cannibalism,”
Los Angeles Times
.
42 ninety minutes: Lee Grant, “Two Pictures on the Same Subject,”
Los Angeles Times
.
42 “It’s terrible”/“Whoa!”/Sam Arkoff: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
43 Sam Arkoff/“This movie can”: Ibid.
43 “Paramount had nothing”: AI, David Picker, Aug. 6, 2007.
43 “Let’s go for”/60-40: AI, Freddie Gershon, Apr. 2, 2007.
44 “strange deals”/“400 prints”: Wanda McDaniel, “Sometimes I Feel like Staying Home to Watch ‘Dynasty’,”
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
.
44 $1 million: “So Much for Star Wars,”
People,
Sept. 5, 1977.
44 “Elizabeth Taylor”: Gael Love, “Allan Carr,”
Interview,
Oct. 1984.
44 “snuff film”: Frank Rich, “Hitting Rock Bottom—Maybe,”
New York Post
.
44 “delicatessen movie”: Rana Arons, “A Genius at Promotion,”
Us
.
44 “The only thing”: “4.6 mil Dom. Rentals for Par From ‘Survive!,”
Variety,
Oct. 8 1976.
44 “Hey, I didn’t”: Michael Blowen, “Flamboyant Producer Allan Carr,”
Boston Globe,
p. A1.
45 “terribly happy”/“no other project”: Lee Grant, “Two Pictures.”
46 “After $10 million”: Bob Weiner, “Big Man on Broadway,”
Sunday News Magazine,
p. 7, Aug. 21, 1983.
46 “
Vaseline
”:
New York Times,
p. C6, July 2, 1976.

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