Pauline Kael - Brian Kellow [233]
I also undertook crucial research at Berkeley University; the California State Historical Society; the Film and Television Archives of the University of California at Los Angeles; Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center (special thanks to Vita Paladino and Sean Noel); the Jewish Museum of New York City; Hampshire College; Kent State University (which houses the James Broughton collection); the Margaret Herrick Library of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pacifica Radio Archive; the New York Public Library (which houses the archives of The New Yorker); the Paley Center for Media; the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum; Petaluma Regional Library; the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Collection at the University of Texas, Austin (particularly for use of the Robert Mills Collection); the San Francisco Public Library; the Sonoma County Library; Special Collections at Stanford University (the William Abrahams papers); the University of Oregon Libraries; Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library (the Dwight Macdonald collection) and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library.
For assistance with my research, I am grateful to Mara Caden, Jean M. Cannon, Rebecca Feldhaus, Sonia Finley, Tristan Kraft, Beth Higgins, Craig Simpson, Shannon Sullivan, and Tracy Turner.
For me, the best part of preparing to write a biography is the chance to interview the people who knew the subject. Deepest gratitude to those who took the time to speak with me: Richard Albarino, Rutanya Alda, David Young Allen, Linda Allen, Nancy Allen, Kathryn Altman, Robert Altman, David Ansen, Rene Auberjonois, Bruce Baillie, Bob Balaban, Carroll Ballard, Allen Barra, Sue Barton, Jeanine Basinger, Thomas Baum, Jane Beirn, Sandra Berwind, Marion Billings, Alan Blackman, Roy Blount, Jr., Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Bosworth, Chris Bram, Harry Breitrose, Meredith Brody, Albert Brooks, Marjorie Broughton, Hilda Burton, Ernest Callenbach, Dyan Cannon, Joel Canarroe, Carol Carey, Kathleen Carroll, Veronica Cartwright, Charles Champlin, Carol Channing, Daryl Chin, Richard Christiansen, George Christy, Paul Coates, Judith Crist, Patrick Crow, Richard Daniels, Francis Davis, David Del Tredici, Dennis Delrogh, Erhard Dortmund, Trent Duffy, Karen Durbin, David Edelstein, Barbara Feldon, Suzanne Finstad, Jack Foley, William Friedkin, Warner Friedman, Polly Frost, Robert Getchell, Owen Gleiberman, Bruce Goldstein, Sydney Goldstein, Ricky Ian Gordon, Elliott Gould, Bob Greensfelder, John Guare, Donald Gutierrez, James Harvey, Buck Henry, Hal Hinson, Rebecca Hughes, Tresa Hughes, Joseph Hurley, James Ivory, Lamont Johnson, Simon Johnson, Howard Kaminsky, Kenneth Kann, Judy Karasik, Philip Kaufman, Marthe Keller, Howard Kissel, Shirley Knight, Jane Kramer, Richard Kramer, Stephen Kresge, Edward Landberg, David Littlejohn, George Litto, Becket Logan, Phillip Lopate, Tom Luddy, Sidney Lumet, Nick Macdonald, Elizabeth Macklin, George and Elizabeth Malko, Tom Mankiewicz, Jaime Manrique, Greil Marcus, Paul Mazursky, Patrick McGilligan, Sheila McGrath, Daniel Menaker, Sally Ann Mock, Joseph Morgenstern, Michael Murphy, Linda Olle, Ariel Parkinson, Pat Patterson, James Pegolotti, James Pritchard, Joe Regan, Alan Rich, Carrie Rickey, Janna Ritz, Dan Rosenblatt, Lillian Ross, Dana Salisbury, Alvin Sargent, Andrew Sarris, Ray Sawhill, Paul Schrader, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Charles Simmons, John Simon, Joel Singer, Hoyt Spelman, Michael Sragow, Sam Staggs, Nancy Steinbeck, Howard Suber, Dan Talbot, James Tamulis, Charles Taylor, Joan Tewkesbury, David Thomson, James Toback, Lee Tsiantis, Carol Van Strum, Steve Van Strum, Steve Vineberg, Bret Wallach, Jessica Walter, Armond White, William Whitworth, Frederick Wiseman, James Wolcott, Colin Young, Stephanie Zacharek, and Kenneth Ziffren.
Thanks to Ann Bassart, who allowed me to look over Pauline’s former home on Oregon Street in Berkeley, my former professors at