“I’m sure everybody tells you”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8mATxMYUfA.
He met with a psychiatrist: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/director-roman-polanski-discusses-the-great-calamities-of-his-life-a-932931.html.
He went to the wake Warren Beatty: Julie Payne to author.
“The whole crime seems so illogical to me”: https://www.scribd.com/document/232487572/Tate-LaBianca-Investigation-Polygraph-of-Roman-Polanski.
He offered a reward: Tom Burke, “The Restoration of Roman Polanski,” Rolling Stone, Jul. 18, 1974.
“There is something here,” “Nothing but Bodies,” Time, Aug. 15, 1969.
“a scene,” Time said: Ibid.
“Excuse me,” Polanski sobbed: Newsome, “Blasts Press for Printing False Tales.”
“We sat around,” Sylbert said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkwEGRG_kK8.
“some kind of amateur sleuth”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFL8gl_49Rk.
horn-rimmed glasses: Jim Newsome, “Glasses: New Tate Clue,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Oct. 24, 1969.
“The house was always full”: Susanna Moore to author.
“Roman,” Moore said: Ibid.
“I think I was probably a better human”: Polanski, Playboy interview.
“I like young women”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFL8gl_49Rk.
“What happened to me diminished”: Bernard Weinraub, “If You Don’t Show Violence the Way It Is…” New York Times Magazine, Dec. 12, 1971, SM36.
“our destinies are the result”: Max Tessier, “Interview with Roman Polanski,” translated by Paul Cronin and Remi Guillochon, in ed. Cronin, Polanski: Interviews, 83.
“After all,” he said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFL8gl_49Rk.
“Unfortunately,” he said, “there is no lesson”: Polanski, Playboy interview.
Bruce Lee: Giesbert, “Roman’s Novel.”
He bought a pin mike, a transmitter: Polanski, Roman, 321.
John Phillips’s Jaguar: Ibid.
“All of a sudden”: James Greenburg, “All Grown Up … At 60,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 13, 1994.
PART TWO: EUCALYPTUS
Julie Payne always had stories: Julie Payne to author.
“We all did,” she said: Ibid.
“Reading this book,” she said: Ibid.
“Why don’t we live like other people”: Ibid.
“I never left Beverly Hills”: Ibid.
“a delicate person,”: Ibid.
“What do your parents … do?”: Ibid.
“They never had this ‘poor-little-me-screenwriter’ attitude”: Ibid.
“It looked like Miss Havisham’s”: Ibid.
“I understood the care”: Ibid.
symptoms and allergies: Ibid.
“Nobody knew what was happening”: Ibid.
“They were so out of it”: Ibid.
“completely turned inside out”: Ibid.
“Roman was trying so hard to talk”: Ibid.
“Before Sharon Tate’s murder”: Jeff Guinn, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), 273.
“We lost trust”: Sharmagne Leland-St. John to author.
“It was the ending”: http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2013/03/towne-country-ffc-interviews-robert-towne.html.
“It was that kind of town”: Paul Mazursky to author.
“The original version of Shampoo”: Biskind, Star, 145.
“Robert had written a script”: Ibid., 141.
“Bob would love to work”: Ibid., 140.
“If you don’t do it,” Beatty warned: Ibid., 141.
“a photo essay alive with his own childhood”: Lawrence Dietz, “Raymond Chandler’s L.A.,” West, Dec. 14, 1969.
“The best time to see Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles”: Ibid.
“That is not an arbitrary choice” Ibid.
“So great is the rate of change”: Richard G. Lillard, Eden in Jeopardy (New York: Knopf, 1966), 12.
“Planned or unplanned”: Ibid., p. 176.
“which smash”: Davie, California: The Vanishing Dream, 61.
“a light wash of colors”: Robert Towne, “Growing Up in a City of Senses,” Los Angeles Magazine, May 1975.
Towne had never read Raymond Chandler: Joel Engel, Screenwriters on Screen-writing: The Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft (New York: Hyperion, 1995), 215.
his old roommate, Edward Taylor: Sarah Naia Stier to author.
“I used to like this town”: Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (New York: Random House, 2002), 396.
“In reading these words”: Engel, Screenwriters, 215.
“One thinks of a woman incinerating”: Dietz, “Raymond Chandler’s L.A.”
“I want a gun”: Julie Payne to author.
“wolf-killers”: Ibid.
“Take this one”: Ibid.
“Hira was a born writer’s dog”: Ibid.
Quincy Jones’s dogs: Ibid.
“Get her the gun”: Ibid.
“Where do you work?”: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Screening of Chinatown, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Los Angeles, Nov. 18, 2004. Postscreening panel discussion, audio at Margaret Herrick Library.
Kerr’s Sporting Goods on Wilshire: Julie Payne to author.
his directorial debut: Robert Towne, “Dialogue on Film.”
“I work from eight to eleven”: “Sidney Skolsky,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Mar. 27, 1970.
“We had similar ambitions”: Lawrence Grobel, Above the Line: Conversations About the Movies (Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2000), 122.
After a week or so: Julie Payne to author.
“I do favors for friends”: Gene Siskel, “Robert Towne—Script, Scalpel, Action, Oscar,” Chicago Tribune, May 9, 1976.
“To do it and make it work”: Wayne Warga, “Writer Towne: Under the Smog, a Feel for the City,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18, 1974.
“Jack always had his buddies”: Patrick McGilligan, Jack’s Life (New York: W.W. Norton Company, 1994), 95.
“I like the stream-of-consciousness approach”: Dave Zurawik, “Jack Nicholson,” Boston Globe, Dec. 17, 1978.
“Corey taught that”: Beverly Walker, “The Bird Is on His Own,” Film Comment, 21 no. 3 (May/June 1985).
“Nicholson doesn’t do television!” Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel, Jack Nicholson: The Unauthorized Biography, 20.
“Cinema’s what it’s about for me”: Gregory Kirschling, “Classic Jack,” Entertainment Weekly, Nov. 4, 2005.