Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [327]
397 during one of their semimonthly dinners: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, October 7, 2007.
he showed Mitchell a copy of an antitrust article: The Age of Turbulence, p. 97; “The Assault on Integrity,” TON, August 1963, pp. 31–32.
She had drawn him from a world of empiricism: The Age of Turbulence, pp. 52–53.
The revival stirred unusual interest: Allen McCauley, “Ayn Rand, a Radical for True Capitalism,” Bergen County Record, February 22, 1973.
“[Penthouse Legend] is the kind of play”: Clive Barnes, “Stage: ‘Penthouse Legend,’ a Courtroom Drama,” NYT, February 23, 1973, p. 20.
It closed after thirty performances: “Closing the Record Book on 1972–1973,” NYT, Arts & Leisure, July 1, 1973, p. 3.
a line, or a few lines: The issue in dispute is whether AR’s anger about the changes in her dialogue was justified, or even reasonable.
“One mistake was all it took”: Taped, unpublished interview with Phillip and Kay Nolte Smith by journalist JW in preparation for a CBC special report on the tenth anniversary of AR’s death, entitled “Ideas: The Legacy of AR” (1992).
“She was relentless in pursuit”: TPOAR, p. 387.
“visual distortions”: “Art and Sense of Life,” The Objectivist, March 1966, p. 38.
“By then, there was something almost reckless”: TPOAR, p. 387.
She talked about “denouncing” them: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 23, 1983.
Her behavior with him shocked and upset the Kalbermans: Author interview with EK, July 21, 2006.
She viewed his rebellion: OHP, Robert Hessen, November 10, 2004.
On the advice of her secretary: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“Leonard was destroyed”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
For years, no producer: 100 Voices, Perry Knowlton, p. 315.
They held a press conference: “On His Own, Al Ruddy Readying Ayn Rand’s 1957 Atlas Shrugged,” Variety, May 17, 1972, p. 32.
It was during the Ruddy negotiations: Author interview with Daryn Kent-Duncan, April 25, 2005.
now she decided that she wanted Raquel Welch: 100 Voices, Michael Jaffe, p. 516.
the French actor Alain Delon: 100 Voices, Albert S. Ruddy, p. 510.
“She never had [an actor to play] Galt”: 100 Voices, Susan Ludel, p. 401.
He and Rand had begun working: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
her own soon-to-be best-selling novel: Hanta Yo: An American Saga (New York: Doubleday, 1979) became a 1984 ABC miniseries entitled The Mystic Warrior, adapted by Jeb Rosebrook.
Silliphant told her a harrowing story: Author interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
One evening in the early 1970s: TPOAR, p. 366.
Those who met him afterward: Author interview with Martha and John Enright, July 6, 2006.
“But he hated California”: TPOAR, p. 384.
“Don’t humor him”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
She assigned him papers: TPOAR, p. 365.
At one point she asked: Taped, unpublished interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 20, 1983.
“He never got kindness from her”: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
He apparently ordered beer: 100 Voices, Eloise Huggins, p. 440.
“If Ayn happened to open the door”: Author interview with Florence Hirschfeld, Jonathan Hirschfeld, and EK, August 25, 2006.
Eloise Huggins later disclosed to a confidante: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
“she [always] talk[ed] about”: 100 Voices, Eloise Huggins, p. 439.
“I [have] had Frank”: Letter to Gerald Loeb, August 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 154).
One year, when Frank wasn’t strong enough: Taped, unpublished interview with Barbara Weiss, conducted by BB, September 25, 1983.
In the spring of 1979: Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (New York: New American Library, 1979).
Surprisingly, perhaps, she made an appearance: The Phil Donahue Show, broadcast from Madison Square Garden, May 1979.