“Paramount thought it was going”: Ibid.
“Try this,” Evans said: Hawk Koch to author.
“the television mentality”: Fleming, High Concept, 30.
“Until then”: Ibid.
“We have no obligation to make history”: Don Cox, “The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip—Masters’ Mouse Trap Fails to Catch Eisner,” Variety Online, Apr. 3, 2000.
“In a free enterprise, private-property system”: Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” New York Times Magazine, Sep. 13, 1970.
“One thing must be very clear”: Charles A. Pratt, “Turning a Dud into a B.O. Hit,” Daily Variety 41st Anniversary Issue.
In a corner of his attic: Sharmagne Leland-St. John to author.
“These five nothing TV agents”: Marcia Nasatir to author.
“ten percent”: Ross Lipson, “Super-Agent Strikes Again,” New York Times, June 26, 1977.
“As long as they’re dumb enough”: Brian Kellow, Can I Go Now? The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent, 145.
“Studios now have an enormous amount”: Iorio, “Sleuthing.”
“What used to be quick”: Engel, Screenwriters, 221–22.
“There were practical reasons”: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/brilliant-bitter-history-las-fabled-810278.
“People hated Patrick”: Ibid.
“Hollywood has swelled its executive suites”: Jim Harwood, “More and More Outsiders Fill Film Exec Ranks,” Variety, Mar. 18, 1976.
“If I ever talk about politics”: Maureen Orth, “After Begelman: The Whiz Kids Take Over,” New York Magazine, June 12, 1978.
“None of us cooks”: Ibid.
“What we learned in the sixties”: Ibid.
“Bob Evans,” John Landis said: Ibid.
“Who’s that?”: Susanna Moore to author.
“[W]hen I saw the new movie people”: Peter Biskind, “Richard Sylbert,” Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 20, 2000.
“heard screams”: Julie Payne to author.
“It was the memory of that interview”: Polanski, Roman, 361.
an unwelcome change in the studio: Ibid., 367.
“The minute they paid that money”: McGilligan, Jack’s Life, 290.
“who, incidentally, I believe”: Academy Awards broadcast.
“I want more”: Polanski, Roman, 368.
PART FOUR: GITTES VS. GITTES
“Oh, little marriage”: Huston, Watch Me, 50.
“about a time in America when everybody”: Wayne Warga, “Nichols Making ‘Fortune’ with a Wealth of Talent,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 1974.
“Shorty,” said Jack: McGilligan, Jack’s Life 263.
“Yes,” Lorraine began: Nancy Collins, “Jack the Wolf,” Vanity Fair, Apr. 1994.
“My mother [Ethel May]’s intimate friends”: Ibid.
“Mud just grabbed that baby” Ibid.
“But they were both so afraid”: Ibid.
“After Jack found out the truth”: Julie Payne to author.
Anjelica found love notes: Huston, Watch Me, 61.
“I think we should marry this man”: Marie Brenner, “Cool Angel,” Vanity Fair, Nov. 1985.
“Is anyone here?”: Huston, Watch Me, 80.
“Many little girls fantasize”: Samantha Geimer, The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski (New York, Simon & Schuster, 2013), 17.
“knew [Polanski] was powerful and famous”: Ibid., 31.
“[Samantha] was a different girl”: Polanski, Roman, 385.
a love bite on her neck: Ibid.
change into a new outfit: Ibid.