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3 One incident during filming: Warren G. Harris, Natalie and R.J.: Hollywood’s Star-Crossed Lovers (New York: Doubleday, 1988), 136.
4 Rosenberg reluctantly called Spiegel: Interview with Arthur Penn, October 11, 1996.
5 Jane Fonda … was curious about Redford: Interview with Jane Fonda, February 19, 1999.
6 This Property Is Condemned, meanwhile, was in development hell: Interview with Sydney Pollack, September 1, 1995.
7 The Andalusian coast Redford opted for: William Sansom, “The Great Game of Getting Away from It All,” Life, April 1960.
8 Shauna had enrolled: Interview with Shauna Redford Schlosser, June 3, 1998.
9 In July, Stan Collins received a postcard: Interview with Stan Collins, June 14, 1996.
10 Peer Oppenheimer, a journalist he’d met: Peer J. Oppenheimer, “The Hide-and-Seek Life of Robert Redford,” Family Weekly, August 20, 1967.
11 Talk of westerns filled his evenings: Interview with Sydney Pollack, September 1, 1995.
11. Toward Concord
1 It earned $9 million: John Douglas Eames, The Paramount Story (London: Octopus, 1985), 256.
2 Paramount’s wrath seemed inevitable: Interview with Mike Frankfurt, May 14, 1996.
3 The record profits of $20 million: Eames, The Paramount Story, 115.
4 In his memoirs, Polanski wrote: Roman Polanski, Roman (London: Pan, 1982), 282.
5 Sitting on the perimeter fence: Interview with Mike Frankfurt, May 14, 1996.
6 On August 5, 1968, in a press conference: “Film Star, 4 Others Buy Timp Haven Ski Resort,” Salt Lake Tribune, business section, August 6, 1968, 18.
7 By 1940, of the 477 movies released: Edward Buscombe, ed., The BFI Companion to the Western (London: Andre Deutsch, 1988), 47–53.
8 The story’s significance, as Harry Lawton wrote: Harry W. Lawton, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (New York: Award, 1970), 8.
9 An article in Variety criticized: Byro, review of Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, Variety, October 19, 1969. Excerpted in James Spada, The Films of Robert Redford (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1984), 132.
10 “He was tough—from a poor part of town”: James Salter, Burning the Days: Recollection (New York: Random House, 1997), 234.
11 Salter’s treatment, dated September 1967: Robert Redford Papers, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University. Redford has scribbled on the front page, “First project under new banner ‘Wildwood Productions.’ ”
12 CMA was an outgrowth of MCA: Interview with Stephanie Phillips, July 20, 1996.
13 But film historian Andrew Horton, later evaluating his oeuvre: Andrew Horton, The Films of George Roy Hill (Irvington, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1984), xiv.
14 Humor, on which the simple, linear story: Interview with Paul Newman, June 10, 1996.
12. Fame
1 The back injury at the end of filming: Interview with Marcella Scott Krisel, November 6, 1997.
2 Redford took pride in his business sense: Interview with Mike Frankfurt, May 14, 1996.
3 Redford assigned Wayne, Lola’s brother: Interview with Wayne Van Wagenen, January 30, 1998.
4 When they started out, Hendler was: Interview with Reg Gipson, September 15, 1995.
5 The epilogue of Eastman’s original draft: Charles Eastman, Little Fauss and Big Halsy (New York: Noonday Press, 1970), 160.
6 “Somewhere is Halsy, somewhere is Little”: Ibid., 161.
7 In the fall of 1970, Paramount complained: Letter to Gary Hendler from Mike Frankfurt, dated October 5, 1970, recording Stanley Jaffe’s complaints against Redford. Sundance archive.
13. Two and a Half Careers
1 Pollack and Calley decided to shoot: Interview with Sydney Pollack, February 15, 2002.
2 Milius’s script had been gutted: Sydney Pollack’s script and notes on file, Mirage Productions, Paramount Studios, California.
3 The writer Robert Pirsig has observed: Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (London: Black Swan, 1992), 55.
4 As postproduction finished, Lola and the kids: Interview with Mike Shinderling, February 9, 1998.
5 For months he had been observing: Interview with Julie Mack, June 20, 1996. This dispute stretched into the 1990s. Continuing