An Index of Everything (and Everyone) Mentioned in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir

It only took Barbra Streisand six years to complete her EGOT, but it took her more than 20 to pen My Name is Barbra, her recently-released memoir from Viking Press. And if two decades sounds like a long time, you must not have picked up your copy yet. Clocking in at 966 pages—48 hours and 14 minutes if you’re listening to the read-by-Babs audiobook—the tome spans the singularly prolific artist’s 81 years on earth, from her torch-singing origins in Greenwich Village gay bars to her fraught relationship with her mother, Diana Kind. “I do love her,” Streisand writes in the short, wrenching chapter all about Diana. “But that doesn’t mean I like her.” 

Repeated throughout is a quote from G.B. Shaw’s Saint Joan (coincidentally, Barbra’s middle name): “It is an old saying that he who tells too much truth is sure to be hanged.” Well, in My Name is Barbra, Streisand braves the gallows. But the book, for all its unvarnished truth-telling, lacks an index. “No flipping straight to the sordid bits,” Streisand seems to say. 

Until now. A Fran Fine-level Barbra fan, I inhaled the masterpiece in a few short days and cobbled together a handy little index—“cheat sheet” might be more apt; it’s not perfectly comprehensive, but it’ll get you where you need to go—for those eager to skip the filler and get to the meat of it. I recommend starting with Barbra’s digressions on the subject of food. They go down like buttah.

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Abe, Shinzo | Page 840

“In 1994 I was approached by the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to be part of a program which over the years had brought in speakers ranging from Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, to Ted Turner, the founder of CNN.

I thought, Oh my God … I was intimidated, yet it was hard to refuse, because they happened to catch me at just the right moment. I was so incensed at what was going on, and this was an opportunity to express my feelings about it.”

Acid reflux | 868

“It’s interesting how quickly I regressed from being charmed to ‘this will never work.’ I guess I was looking for the negative, and I found it. So I left, and Jim remembers that I didn’t even say goodbye to him. 

I went home so distressed that I asked Renata to make me a hot dog with mustard and relish. Fuck the diet. And then when I had finished it, I said ‘I need another one.’ I ate them both in bed, with two coffee ice cream cones afterward (I can never have just one), while I read the latest issue of The Economist. I thought, No more relationships. Back to politics.

Jim called several times that night, but I wasn’t ready to speak to him. I told Renata to say I was out.”

Acting like a chocolate chip | 35, 53

The Actors Studio | 16, 36, 48, 87, 431

“Adam’s Rib” | 342

Adams, Bryan | 859-860

Adler, Stella | 343

Aerosmith | 877

Abzug, Bella | 229, 350-353, 399, 795, 842

 “Here we were, two Jewish girls . . . Bella from the Bronx and Barbra from Brooklyn . . . who made good!”

Agassi, Andre | 746-747, 795

“It was a completely unexpected relationship, and it was fun. He sent me six dozen pink and yellow roses after one dinner. He came out to the ranch. I remember playing tennis with him as my partner in doubles (don’t laugh), and I was trying so hard that I tore my meniscus. I actually heard it pop, but I didn’t want to stop, even to ice it, because I didn’t want to look like a wimp.”

Aghayan, Ray | 426

AIDS crisis | 617-618, 635, 640, 730, 749, 775, 782, 816

Air Force One | 810

“Airplane!” | 656

Albright, Madeline | 826-828, 908, 958

Alda, Alan | 313, 352, 

Aleichem, Sholem | 545

Alexander the Great | 648

Alexandre de Paris | 219

Ali, Muhammad | 429

“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” | 405

“Alice in Wonderland” | 191, 434

“All Night Long” | 405, 531, 533

Allen, Woody | 131, 335, 709

“I was on the bill with Woody Allen, but we barely met. We were both such loners that we never said anything to each other. He would read in his dressing room, and I would read in mine.”

Altman, Robert | 602

Amazon stock | 895

American Civil Liberties Union | 398

American Film Institute | 896

“An American in Paris” | 724

AMFAR | 618

Andersson, Bibi | 336, 339 

“Angelina Scarangella” | 223

Angelou, Maya | 893

“Angels in America” | 645

“Anna Karenina” | 237, 323

“On July 11, the first day of shooting, we were in an abandoned railroad station, built in the 1880s, with a soaring ceiling, Romanesque brick arches, and wrought-iron gates. We were doing the scene where the Ziegfeld girls arrive in Baltimore. There’s a moment when I step off the train, and I suddenly had an idea. I asked Willy, “What if we do a takeoff on Garbo’s entrance in Anna Karenina?” It’s a famous scene, where she’s hidden behind a burst of smoke coming off the train wheels, and then it clears to reveal her beautiful face as she stands in the doorway of the train. I thought it would be funny to do the same shot, but this time it would reveal me, coughing and waving the smoke away…”

“Another Evening with Harry Stoones” | 79, 192

“Another unsupportive male” | 701

Anouilh, Jean | 36

“Anxiety” | 782

“In my thirties I was plagued with more anxiety-related problems. As I wrote in my journal, ‘I wish my stomach was absolutely normal again. I wish I could accept my fears and think everything will turn out okay. I want to be more loving, even to myself. I want to learn how to redirect negative thoughts into more positive ones.'”

“Anyone Can Whistle” | 608, 752

AOL stock | 895

“Apparently Bush had called Clinton beforehand…” | 914

“Apparently no one brings a dog to the White House…” | 938

Apple stock | 895

Arafat, Yasser | 834-835

Archerd, Army | 470

Arendt, Hannah | 839

Aristotle | 648

Arlen, Harold | 50, 59, 66, 103, 120, 121, 124, 125, 134, 230, 444, 497, 604, 739-740

Armstrong, Louis | 65, 282

Armstrong-Jones, Antony (Lord Snowdown) | 257

Arnstein, Nicky | 109, 112, 154, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, 167, 186, 518

Art prices | 310-311

Astaire, Fred | 218

“Attracted to attractive men” | 673

“I wanted to share my life with someone. It was very lonely being me… For Christmas I went to Aspen, and there, at a party, a man walked up to me. That was refreshing… if a guy makes the first move, he’s already a step ahead. And this guy was lean and tan, with an easy grin (and good teeth). His name was Don Johnson, and he was the heartthrob of the moment on the TV series Miami Vice. I have to admit, I’m very attracted to attractive men. (Okay, so I’m superficial!) It’s almost like an aesthetic thing . . . like a piece of art. I collect!”

Avedon, Richard | 215, 218, 238, 330

“The Awful Truth” | 342

Aznavour, Charles | 591, 910

Bacall, Lauren | 171, 352, 851, 853-855, 861-863, 897

Bacharach, Burt | 331, 334

Backyard concert | 630-632

Bacon, Kevin | 640

Baez, Joan | 137

BAFTA | 862

Balanchine, George | 331, 332

Baldwin, Alec | 795, 940

Baldwin, James | 648

Bancroft, Anne | 109, 110, 112, 315

“But Ray, as I only learned much later, had reservations about Anne Bancroft… And so did Jule. He was writing songs that required a singer with range, and he wasn’t sure Bancroft could handle them. And as he acknowledged after he had heard me sing, ‘In my head, I was really writing for Barbra.'”

Banderas, Antonio | 940, 956-957

Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center | 918

“Barefoot in the Park” | 366

Barr, Roseanne | 830

Barry, John | 720

“Barry Lyndon” | 545

Bartkowiak, Andrzej | 618, 660, 667, 853, 860, 935

Baryshnikov, Mikhail | 603, 893

“We shot it in 1984 in London, which was way ahead of America fashion-wise. I’d see these incredible-looking kids with Mohawk hairdos and dazzling makeup on the streets and ask, ‘Do you want to be in my video?’ I said the same thing to Mikhail Baryshnikov one night when he came over to the table in a Chinese restaurant where Richard and I were eating. Miraculously he said yes and played a role in one of my fantasies. As a child I wanted to be a ballet dancer, and who would be better than Misha to leap through a window, lift me up, and sweep me off my feet?”

Bashert | 103, 213, 394, 442, 961

Basie, Count | 113

Basin Street East | 132, 133, 175

Basinger, Kim | 795

Baskin, Richard | 307, 588, 602-603, 612, 614, 616, 650-651, 671-672, 685, 690, 764, 766, 771, 791, 802, 810, 856, 870, 883-884, 921

Baskin-Robbins | 307

Bates, Kathy | 636, 

“Batman” | 472, 759

Battle, Kathleen | 764

Bean, Orson | 68, 69, 74, 101

The Beatles | 150, 188, 398, 958

Beaton, Cecil | 132, 175, 238, 304, 305, 308, 575

Beatty, Warren, 37, 38, 285, 298, 359, 472, 480-481, 591, 680, 696, 749, 765, 828, 897

“Warren and I go back a long way (back to summer stock) and there’s some water under that bridge. Recently, we were on the phone talking politics and who knows what else when he said, “I remember why we broke up.”

I said, “When were we together?”

Then I hung up and asked myself, Did I sleep with Warren? I kind of remember. I guess I did. Probably once.”

Becker, Lee | 109

The Bee Gees | 499, 503

Begelman, David | 540-541, 552, 576

Begley Jr., Ed | 298

“Behind the Green Door” | 316

Being called a “bitch” | 2, 284, 382

“Being a kook” | 91, 111, 163, 172, 300, 675

Belafonte, Harry | 284-285, 350, 352

Belmondo, Jean-Paul | 93, 910

“Bells Are Ringing” | 106

Benny, Jack | 139, 789

Bening, Annette | 298, 765, 828

Beresford, Bruce | 587

Bergdorf Goodman | 193, 194, 196

Bergman, Alan | 517-521, 524, 532, 536, 550, 587-589, 591, 594-595, 597, 602, 605, 651, 685, 720, 725, 739, 741, 763, 785, 789, 795, 810, 830, 859, 880, 883, 897-898, 915, 919, 942, 948-950, 953, 958

Bergman, Ingmar | 336-340, 561, 580, 587

“Bergman understood the beauty of stillness. Over and over again, he man-aged to create so many quiet yet compelling moments. He had a profound sense of truth, and that’s what I respond to on-screen.”

Bergman, Ingrid | 183, 238, 263-264, 729

Berle, Milton | 20, 139

Berlin, Irving | 187, 920

Berman, Shelley | 193

Bernhardt, Sarah | 45, 278, 282, 301, 311-312, 905, 906

Bernstein, Leonard | 103, 116, 190, 229, 350, 441, 616, 618, 626, 789

“But when we were about to release [The Broadway Album], I didn’t know what kind of response it would get. The person whose opinion mattered so much to me was Leonard Bernstein’s, so I sent him a copy of the album. Here’s the note I received in return:

Dear Barbra,

I love your voice, your style, your guts, your arrangements (Somewhere is something else!) and I love you for sending me the album. Putting It Together is putting it mild.

Thank you,

Lenny

That made me feel blessed.”

Berry, Chuck | 764

Bertolucci, Bernardo | 290, 603

“The Best Years of Our Lives” | 236

“Betrayal” | 469

“I couldn’t believe what I was looking at, and I don’t want to reread it now. I do know that Frank took great pleasure in ridiculing me and Jon, and our ‘$6 million home home.’ He twisted the facts, and he made up stories, saying that he had to persuade me to put the moment with Leon Russell into the script, and that he had to convince me to hire Bob Surtees . . . when it was exactly the other way around.

I was furious and immediately called him up. ‘How could you lie like this?’

Was he delusional?

…But in the article, he told a different story… every anecdote was meant to paint him as the savior and Jon and me as fools. When I challenged him on it, he kept reiterating that the article was not for publication. And I made the mistake of believing him. I still didn’t realize that I was dealing with a pathological liar. And as I’ve said, I cannot deal with people who lie.”

Beyoncé | 914-915

“And when Beyoncé came out to sing ‘The Way We Were,’ I was thrilled. After her last note, in the midst of the applause, she looked up at me and said, ‘It’s an honor to sing for you, Miss Streisand.’ At the party afterward, she was so charming and complimentary, and I told her I felt the same way about her. She’s done such imaginative work in her music and her videos . . . she just knocks me out.”

Bigelow, Kathryn | 733

“Birds flying around loose inside my home” | 478

“The Birth of a Nation” | 840

Bisset, Jacqueline | 405

Blair, Tony | 841, 931-932

Blanchett, Cate | 924

Blass, Bill | 191, 194

“The Blob” | 94

Bloch-Bauer, Adele | 802

“Blowjobs” | 668

The Blue Angel | 82, 92, 110, 116, 129

“Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” | 335

Bogart, Humphrey | 854

Bogdanovich, Peter | 341-347, 398, 795, 849, 958

Bogosian, Eric | 640

Bon Soir | 55-56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 71, 75, 82, 101, 105, 106, 109, 115, 116, 117, 119, 123, 125, 138, 190, 193, 217, 731, 779, 962, 964

Bonaparte, Napoleon | 258

Border crossing | 532-533

Botti, Chris | 929

Bourke-White, Margaret | 681, 924

Boxer, Barbara | 819, 942

“Boyz n the Hood” | 731 

Bradley, Tom | 631

Branagh, Kenneth | 643

Brandeis, Louis | 907

Brando, Marlon | 24, 49, 93, 138, 178, 234, 273, 283-298, 350, 559, 580, 746, 751, 789-790, 813, 855, 880

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” | 371

Breaking royal protocol | 429

“I didn’t like the feeling I got when I was standing in the receiving line waiting to meet the queen. I struggled with whether I should curtsy or not. After all, she wasn’t my queen. And the idea of curtsying to anyone felt demeaning. Then there were all these rules. According to protocol, you’re not supposed to speak until the queen speak to you. And women were required to wear gloves.

Huh? That seemed like something out of another era. And if women were required to wear gloves, why not men?

When Jon dared me to ask her, I said, ‘How much do you want to bet?’

He said, ‘A hundred.’

And I thought, Why not? (This is probably why I got a D in conduct back at the yeshiva.)

When the queen and I were finally face-to-face, I did do a kind of curtsy, and she said something complimentary (which of course I’ve forgotten). And then I asked, ‘Why do women have to wear gloves to shake your hand, but not men?’ She looked a bit startled. I doubt she had ever thought about it. She said, ‘I’ll have to think about that one. I suppose it’s tradition.'”

Brecht, Bertolt | 331, 332

Brel, Jacques | 216, 217

Breyer, Stephen | 819

Brice, Fanny | 105-106, 108-110, 125, 136-137, 152-154, 160, 165, 166, 177, 186, 195, 207, 242, 277, 315, 518

Bricusse, Leslie | 214, 267, 957

Bridges, Beau | 851

Bridges, Jeff | 851, 853, 854, 857-858, 860, 862, 869, 897

Bridges, Lloyd, 851, 

“The Bridges of Madison County” 849

“Brief Encounter” 485  

“Bringing Up Baby” 341-342

“Brokeback Mountain” 646

Brolin, James | 3, 10, 295, 297, 298, 327, 395, 474, 482, 494, 503, 589, 671, 720, 810, 819, 824, 842, 863, 865-888, 890, 896, 898-900, 902, 909-911, 915, 940, 943-946, 948, 950, 951, 955, 957, 963-965

Brolin, Josh | 297

“I had also invited Jim’s son Josh to join us, because I knew how much he admired [Marlon] Brando. Kelly Preston suggested we take a snapshot of us all, which is something I wouldn’t normally do because I don’t like people taking pictures of me. But I’m glad I have it.”

Brooks, James L. | 587-588

Brosnan, Pierce | 852

Brubeck, Dave | 148

“Bubble-headed” | 774-775

Bud Light | 134

“Bugsy” | 730

Burnett, Carol | 108, 109, 112, 315, 406

Burton, Richard | 175, 198

Bush, Barbara | 914, 942

Bush, George H.W. | 761, 764, 942

Bush, George W. | 893, 903, 914

Bush, Laura | 914

“But your father didn’t become a star” | 236

Butterworth, Jez | 955

C-SPAN | 832

Caan, James | 423-427, 429

“Cabaret” | 405, 421, 554

Cabo San Lucas (lying fisherman) | 214

“Caddyshack” | 472

Caesarean section | 224

Cagney, James | 109

Cahn, Sammy | 135, 740

Caine, Michael | 589

Caldwell, Erskine | 924

Caldwell, Zoe | 442

Callas, Maria | 35, 438-439, 441-442

“You could say it all started with Maria Callas…

After I found Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin album and Johnny Mathis’s Good Night, Dear Lord on a supermarket rack when I was a teenager, my next big discovery in my midtwenties was Maria Callas. I bought an album of her singing Puccini arias and it’s the one record I kept playing over and over through the years.”

Calling the TV station to change the volume | 845-846

Calloway, Ann Hampton | 881

“Camelot” | 114

Canby, Vincent | 411, 536

Cantor, Eddie | 236

Capitol Records | 186

Capote, Truman | 50, 132

“Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton, and Tennessee Williams were in the audience on various nights. That was serendipitous, since Truman Capote wrote the book and cowrote the lyrics for House of Flowers, the show that gave me my first song, “A Sleepin’ Bee.”

Capshaw, Kate | 795

Cardin, Pierre | 591 

“Carefully molded slices of salami. Very artistic” | 963

“His wife, Annie, had set out fruit and cheese, breads and dips, olives and chocolates, and my favorite bite-size sesame crackers (that she brought all the way from Taiwan). And it was all presented so beautifully… what I first thought was a rose turned out to be carefully molded slices of salami. Very artistic.

I was so busy eating that I could hardly focus on the tapes.

My voice was higher back then… I kind of sounded like a bird.”

“Carmen Jones” | 284

Carnovsky, Morris | 545

Caron, Leslie | 220, 285, 286, 304, 751

“Carousel” | 615

Carroll, Diahann | 284, 350

Carruth, Tom | 878

Carson, Johnny | 130

Carter, Jimmy | 844

Cartier | 169, 494, 759

“Casablanca” | 393

Castro, Fidel | 353, 357-358, 362 

CBS | 189, 195, 197, 225, 399-400, 766

Cézanne, Paul | 145 

Chagall, Marc | 839

Chambers, Marilyn | 316

Chanel, Coco | 218, 265

“I’ve seen photos of myself, wearing a jaguar suit and hat that I designed, sitting in the front row at Chanel and staring straight ahead. I was afraid that if I so much as moved, I might start to gag in the middle of the show. I can see now, looking at the picture, that Marlene Dietrich was sitting just four chairs away from me, but I had no idea at the time. The whole day is kind of a blur. I have a vague memory of meeting Coco Chanel, because I have the photo of the two of us smiling at each other, she with her strong, wonderful face. Normally I would have been very excited and full of questions, but I felt so miserable that I just wanted to lie down.”

“Changing with the times” | 330-334

Channing, Carol | 273-274, 276

Channing, Stockard | 640

Chaplin, Charlie | 159, 183, 353, 923

Chaplin, Sydney | 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, 168, 169, 180, 181, 182, 183, 206, 222, 261, 281, 282, 558, 782

“Chariots of Fire” | 548

Charles, Ray | 400

Chase, Chevy | 631

Chayefsky, Paddy | 527-529

Chazelle, Damien | 951

Chekhov, Anton | 431, 488

“I thought, Both of these men are brilliant directors, and they’re right. What was I doing? Waiting for Chekhov to come along?”

Chernobyl | 627-629, 634

Chevalier, Maurice | 337

“Children of a Lesser God” | 733

Chisholm, Shirley | 399

Chopra, Deepak | 300-302

“My friend Donna Karan and I went up to Deepak Chopra’s institute in Massachusetts for a retreat, where you eat vegetarian food and get Ayurvedic treatments. (They pour oil over your head. She loved it. I hated it.)”

“A Chorus Line” | 919, 939

Christie, Julie | 359

Cimino, Michael | 536

“Cinderella Liberty” | 314, 652

“Citizen Kane” | 584

Clift, Montgomery | 648

Clinton, Bill | 645, 762-766, 768-770, 772-775, 794, 805, 807-811, 819, 824, 826-827, 832-837, 840-841, 882-873, 888-890, 893, 898, 902, 903, 908, 914, 915, 918, 923, 931, 932, 942-943 ; impeachment of, 890

“To me the problems facing us were overwhelming . . . social injustice, gender inequality, nuclear proliferation, climate change. But Bill Clinton seemed to think that if there was a problem, there must also be a solution. And it felt as if he were enjoying the challenge!”

Clinton, Chelsea | 766

Clinton Climate Initiative | 907 

Clinton, Hillary | 327, 762-763, 765-766, 770, 819, 832, 872-873, 903, 908, 913, 915, 923, 940-943

Clinton, Virginia | 766, 770, 783, 795, 803, 805, 806-812, 829, 834, 902

Close, Glenn | 838-839

CNN | 819

Coburn, James | 286, 

“Coco” (Broadway musical) | 265

Coffee ice cream | 3, 23, 295, 296, 867-868, 917

Cole, Natalie | 779, 862

Coleman, Cy | 739

Coleman, Ornette | 52

Colette | 306, 330, 648

Collins, Joan | 267, 268, 270

“I looked up and saw a man and a woman walking down the stairs into the club. He was very handsome, with dark wavy hair, and she looked ravishing in a red dress. He was talking. She was laughing. It’s an image I’ve never forgotten. I remember thinking, Oh my God, what a beautiful couple! And then I realized it was Tony Newley and Joan Collins, the actress he had married that year.

I didn’t make any effort to talk to them… to me, they seemed untouchable. They were stars, and I was still just a supporting player.”

Collins, Judy | 764

Columbia Pictures | 725

Columbia Records | 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 123, 125, 186, 197, 199, 202, 252, 256, 330, 334, 401-403, 440, 476, 478, 503-504, 602, 607, 611, 617, 624, 640-641, 679, 680, 726, 755 

Comden, Betty | 350

“The Conformist” | 545, 603

“One moment [from the ‘Emotion’ music video] was inspired by a favorite scene from The Conformist and was my homage to Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro. A woman is sitting on top of a desk in a businessman’s office when he pulls out a string of pearls to entice her. My yellow coat is the one note color in the black-and-white frame.”

Connery, Sean | 828

Conroy, Pat | 679, 684-693, 696, 699, 703-705, 716-717, 728, 731, 734-735

Cook, Tim | 118

“Someone recently showed me that when you ask your iPhone a question about me, even Siri says my name wrong.

So I called Tim Cook at Apple. And was told they’re going to fix it. And they did.

Back to Ed Sullivan.”

Coolidge, Martha | 587

Cooper, Bradley | 473, 647, 939

Cooper, Gary | 233, 559

Cooper, Marilyn | 86, 94

Coppola, Francis Ford | 295, 434

Corman, Cis | 43, 44, 53, 74, 182, 205, 206, 207, 215, 216, 217, 220, 222, 224, 249, 257, 258, 301-302, 322-323, 345, 353, 356, 452, 483, 508, 515, 528-529, 532, 540, 543, 574, 594, 596, 604, 638, 639, 645, 656, 690, 702, 708, 711, 721, 733, 778, 795, 805, 825, 836-839, 842, 851, 875, 898, 904, 905, 948

Costner, Kevin | 696

Courage, Alexander | 615

Couric, Katie | 370 

Cousins, Norman | 806

Coward, Noël | 121

Cranston, Alan | 629

Crawford, Cheryl | 165

Crawford, Cindy | 795

La Croix d’Officier des Arts et des Lettres | 591

Crystal, Billy | 733

Cuban Missile Crisis | 124

“There’s one song on the album I’m afraid to listen to . . . ‘Happy Days Are Here Again.’ My concept was that the whole world was collapsing (I had been terrified by the recent Cuban Missile Crisis), but I wasn’t happy with the ending. I’m geshreying (yelling, in Yiddish), getting so emotional that it’s embarrassing.”

Curtis, Tony | 140 

Cutting grandfather’s ear hair | 10, 641 

“I loved my grandpa, even though he once washed my mouth out with red Lifebuoy soap when I said a bad word. But I knew he loved me. I would sit on his lap and cut the hairs out of his ears. That’s real intimacy.”

d’Arbanville, Patti | 489, 675

d’Estaing, Valery | 430

da Vinci, Leonardo | 531, 648

Dalai Lama | 93, 877, 902

Daltrey, Roger | 603

“Damn right I want to be in control” | 473

“Dances with Wolves” | 696, 720

Dandridge, Dorothy | 614

Danner, Blythe | 696, 703, 904

Daschle, Tom | 630

Dassin, Jules | 23

Dating | 26, 46, 76, 93, 258, 259, 374, 408-412, 602, 674, 784, 793, 869

David, Hal | 331, 334

Davis, Bette | 171, 236, 246, 590-591, 729

“Bette Davis made a comment [on the Yentl Oscar snub] that I will always treasure: ‘Tell her it’s only the best fruit the birds pick at.'”

Davis, Clive | 330, 331, 332, 334

Davis, Judy | 838-839

Davis, Miles | 52, 77, 116

“Over and over again, I would play these jazz records… Ornette Coleman, Stan Getz, Miles Davis.. that I found in a Greenwich Village record store.”

Davis Jr., Sammy | 148, 284, 350

Davison, Bruce | 636

Day, Doris | 109, 405 

“The Day the Earth Stood Still” | 94

De Laurentiis, Dino | 338

de Lempicka, Tamara | 487

De Niro, Robert | 904

“The Deer Hunter” | 904

Degas, Edgar | 145

Del Toro, Guillermo | 951

Delon, Alain | 910

DeLuise, Dom | 79

DeMille, Cecil B. | 422, 896

Demme, Jonathan | 730

Democratic National Convention | 349

“The real world was complicated. The 1960s had been tumultuous. After the shock and horror of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, I just wanted to crawl under the covers. Instead, I agreed to sing at the Democratic National Convention in 1964 to support his successor, fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson, and Funny Girl closed for one night on Broadway so I could perform at his inauguration in 1965. But there was no joy in it for me.”

Demy, Jacques | 199

The dentist | 2, 27, 28, 931

Dench, Judi | 219

Depp, Johnny | 298

“Designer yarmulke” | 579

Diamond, Neil | 2, 418, 484, 500, 505, 802

“The Diary of Anne Frank” | 20, 928

“We had tickets for The Diary of Anne Frank. Our seats were in the back of the balcony at the Cort Theatre, and I remember they cost $1.89. (Or was it $1.98?) The actors were far away, but we could see the whole sweep of the stage. I’ve realized, in retrospect, that there’s something to be said for the bird’s-eye view. Now that I can afford the expensive seats, I’m not sure they’re really better. If you’re too close, you can see the makeup, the sweat. It destroys the illusion.

I was mesmerized by the play. I remember thinking to myself, Anne is fourteen; I’m fourteen. She’s Jewish; I’m Jewish. Why couldn’t I play the part? I felt I could do it just as well as Susan Strasberg… especially since Anne had difficulties with her mother. She was convinced her mother didn’t understand her. I could definitely relate to that.”

DiCaprio, Leonardo | 951

Didion, Joan | 443-444, 446

“It was Jon who pulled the script out of a pile. He told Sue Mengers that he wanted to see everything that was sent to me, and he liked one by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunner. It was a gritty, behind-the-scenes look at the world of rock and roll, and I had already dismissed it because I thought it was fundamentally cold. The love story between two singers seemed almost secondary.”

Dietrich, Marlene | 121, 218, 233, 238, 240

Diller, Barry | 631

Diller, Phyllis | 60, 61, 62, 63, 69, 93, 605, 897

Dillon, Melinda | 696

“The Dinah Shore Show” | 132, 133

Dinkins, David | 831

Dion, Celine | 862-863

Dior | 218

Directing | 237, 254, 275, 280, 297, 306, 336, 339, 354, 376, 389, 395, 446, 455-458, 490, 509, 512-513, 517, 538, 542-544, 547, 552-553, 589, 598, 600, 634, 637, 647, 656, 719

Directors Guild of America | 587, 591, 655, 730-731, 733, 747-748

Disco | 497-499

Disney | 191, 814, 817

Disneyland | 414, 884

“Diva myth” | 241, 269

“Dog Day Afternoon” | 236, 446

Dogs | 3, 59, 213, 214, 219, 223, 249, 268, 278, 327, 411, 467, 483-484, 818, 910, 938, 943-946, 951, 955-956, 964; cloning dogs, 945, 946

“Two months later I got a call from the cloning lab. They had warned us from the beginning that the cells might not take, but it turned out that not only did the process work, but it produced more dogs than I anticipated.

So now I have three dogs… Fanny, the eldest, who often looks at Violet and Scarlet as if she can’t believe what has happened. She was the only child, and now she has to share her home with two rambunctious invaders. They’re both curly-haired like Sammie and look so much alike that I had to put lavender and red silk flowers on their collars to identify them.”

Dolby Stereo | 467

Dole, Bob | 873

Douglas, Kirk | 139

Douglas, Melvyn | 655

Douglas, Mike | 130

Douglas, Michael | 795

Dowd, Maureen | 773-775

“The Dresser” | 587

Dreyfuss, Richard | 636, 639, 656, 657, 660, 664, 667, 670

Duchamp, Marcel | 839

Duchess of Windsor | 218-219, 369

Duke of Windsor | 369, 723

Dunaway, Faye | 442

Dunne, John Gregory | 443-444, 446

Duse, Eleanora | 45

Dylan, Bob | 958

The Eagles | 417

Eakins, Thomas | 211

Eastwood, Clint | 461, 655, 771

“Easy Rider” | 307, 344

eBay | 895, 899

Ebb, Fred | 118, 421

Ebert, Roger | 390, 470, 581, 861

Edgar, Bob | 630

“Educating Rita” | 589

Eichhorn, Lisa | 531

Einstein, Albert | 161, 258, 327, 746

“According to Einstein, everything is energy. I don’t pretend to understand this, but I was curious enough to look it up and came across something intriguing. In quantum physics two particles can become inexplicably and inextricably connected, so that whatever happens to one instantly affects the other, even if they’re miles apart. It’s called ‘entanglement.’ And that basically describes love, doesn’t it?”

Eisner, Michael | 586

Ekland, Britt | 220, 265

“Elevated into oblivion” | 905

Eliot, T.S. | 823

Ellsberg, Daniel | 397-399

E-mail | 288

Emmy Awards | 147, 196, 644, 830, 839, 880, 900-901, 903

Emperor Akihito | 824

Empress Michiko | 824

Endometriosis | 534, 862

Environmental Protection Agency | 959

Equal Rights Amendment | 353

Erlichman, Marty | 71, 78, 95, 105, 106, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 129, 130, 136, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 148, 149, 150, 159, 162, 163, 169, 179, 186, 189, 194, 195, 198, 202, 205, 209, 220, 221, 222, 225, 227, 228, 234, 242, 252, 257, 267, 274, 275, 283, 306, 326, 330, 331, 359, 361, 363, 365, 388, 391, 393, 398-401, 405, 446, 449, 451, 478-479, 535, 604, 608, 634, 730, 739, 750, 756, 781, 788-789, 792, 813-815, 822, 826, 828-829, 842, 883-884, 890, 901, 909, 910, 915, 925, 927, 940, 954, 957, 963

Erté | 462, 618

Etting, Ruth | 50

“Evening Primrose” | 753, 755

“Every burp…” | 218

“Everyone loves pizza” | 879

“We couldn’t have a wedding without all our favorite foods. For the hors d’oeuvres, I definitely wanted smoked salmon with leek crème fraîche, baby blintzes, wonton pillows stuffed with vegetables, sushi, coconut shrimp, and pizza. (Everyone loves pizza.)”

“Evita” | 543

“Fabrent” | 10

“Fabulous snow queen” | 323 

Facebook | 942

Fairbanks, Douglas | 353

“Fame” | 549

“Fanny and Alexander” | 580, 587

“The Fantasticks” | 70, 102, 190

“Faputzed” | 856

Fashion/jewelry | 7, 11, 21-22, 15, 21, 47, 49, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 66, 68, 69, 80, 101, 102, 111, 125, 133, 134, 139, 140, 141, 146, 147, 149, 153, 169, 170, 183, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 211, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 227, 230, 247-249, 251, 256-257, 261, 262, 275-277, 285, 288, 289, 303, 305, 306, 308, 311, 323, 370, 371, 374, 400, 402, 408, 411, 425-426, 437, 461, 470-471, 494, 531-532, 536, 540, 560, 575, 579, 580, 588, 591, 603, 703, 705, 767, 785, 788-789, 820, 868, 879-881, 886, 957

FBI | 481

Fear of flying | 674

“I’m an earth sign . . . Taurus . . . and we don’t like to be suspended in midair. I was very nervous, and kept trying to distract myself with books and newspapers . . . anything I could think of. And then, as we were nearing New York and beginning the descent, my ears started to hurt. The stewardess stopped by my seat and said brightly, ‘This is exciting. It’s the first time the pilot is going to be landing the plane!’”

Fellini, Federico | 593

“I sat there, completely entranced. Fellini had wavy grayish hair, glasses, and was dressed in a white shirt, a vest, and a coat and tie. He looked like any of the other prosperous businessmen at the adjoining tables. But there was something magnetic about him. He had the most penetrating gaze, as if he could see right through to the core of your being.”

Feminism | 478, 481, 491, 503, 512, 522, 525-526, 580, 585, 588, 590-591, 597-600, 634, 641, 748, 763, 782, 785, 794, 844, 889, 890, 904, 911-912, 918, 928, 930, 938, 941, 943, 958, 959, 960

Fendi | 494

“The Ferryman” | 955

“Fiddler on the Roof” | 439, 518, 615

Field, Sally | 631, 655, 656

Field, Ted | 872

Fields, Freddie | 583

Fields, Verna | 344

Fiennes, Ralph | 643, 822-824, 828, 956

Filming “Don’t Rain on My Parade” | 248-250

“It taught me something. The first time an actor tries something is often the best. So when I directed, I tried to film the actors as soon as the camera is there and the scene is on its feet.”

Fire Island | 637, 640, 642-643, 648

First Artists | 353, 444, 447, 467, 471, 488, 507, 707, 828

First and last singing lesson | 55-56

“First” time singing | 53

“First woman to produce, direct, write and star in a movie” | 579

“First woman to win a Golden Globe for directing” | 588

Firth, Colin | 924

Fischer, Bobby | 26

Fisher, Carrie | 849

“Five Easy Pieces” | 344

Fleetwood Mac | 417, 764

“Don Henley of the Eagles and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac bought property in the same canyon, although we never socialized . . . we all wanted our privacy. And in 1978 all three of us, unbelievably, won Grammy awards (I got two for ‘Evergreen’), and we called it Grammy Canyon.”

Fleetwood, Mick | 417

Fleming, Victor | 508

Flipping the Senate | 634

Flowers changing color | 302

Fonda, Henry | 139, 178, 179

Fonda, Jane | 405, 631

“For Pete’s Sake” | 405, 410, 492

Ford, Gerald | 429, 903

Ford, John | 874

Forman, Milos | 471, 507, 509, 827

Fosse, Bob | 156, 157, 405 

Fossil fuels | 832-833, 840, 959

Foster, David | 617

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” | 883, 911

Fox News | 903

“They can take a slur hatched at the Republican National Committee or a lie huckstered by the Heritage Foundation, repeat it on Fox, hit it on Limbaugh, print it in The Wall Street Journal, until it’s coming out of every media outlet imaginable. Repeating lies over and over doesn’t make them any more true. But it does make people believe the lies a little more until finally they stop demanding the truth.”

Foxx, Jamie | 939

Frampton, Peter | 453

Francis, Anne | 255

Frank, Anne | 928

Franklin, Aretha | 113, 764

“The French Connection” | 617

Friedkin, William | 617-619

Frost, David | 257, 258 

“Fuck the diet” | 868

“Fuck first and talk later” | 639

“I wanted [The Normal Heart] to be a love story, not a sex story. But Larry didn’t see it that way. He regarded his play, and the movie, as a gay manifesto. He was declaring, This is the way it is. We fuck first and talk later. That’s the freedom we wanted and fought hard for, and even though this behavior was killing gay men, some of them did not want to give it up. Larry was trying to change this behavior, but he also wanted to show it, as an accurate reflection of these men’s sexuality.”

“Fuck it” | 503

“Fuck off!” | 317-318

“Funny Face” | 218

“Funny Girl” | 113, 135, 137, 141, 142, 143, 149, 151, 152-184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 205, 206, 207, 208, 221, 222, 225, 234, 371, 383, 405, 475, 518, 550, 611, 614, 651, 665, 675, 727, 739, 766, 779, 782, 788, 794, 796, 798, 825, 849, 851, 883, 904, 919, 922-924, 926, 946

“Funny Lady” | 420-430, 604, 607, 817

Gallin, Sandy | 300

Garbo, Greta | 24, 161, 233, 237, 363

Gardner, Ava | 614

Garland, Judy | 26, 114, 118, 135, 145, 146, 147, 148, 399, 444, 461-462, 582, 606, 632, 739, 778, 825

“A few years earlier, I had been walking down the street in Manhattan when I saw a sign that said Judy Garland was taping a show. I walked in and joined the audience. That’s where I saw her perform live, and she was magnificent. Now I would be singing with her.

…I’ll never forget singing that duet. We sat next to each other (me in my white middy blouse), and I noticed she was shaking. She grabbed my arm, as if to steady herself, and then clasped my hand and held on to it tightly. She never let go of me until the end of the song.”

Garr, Teri | 589, 849

Garson, Greer | 236

“Gaslight” | 183

Gassman, Vittorio | 592

Gates, Bill | 773-774

Gaudí, Antoni | 308

“The Gauntlet” | 771

Gay bars | 53

“Cis, Harvey, and Barry all came with me to the Lion on the night of the contest in June 1960. I was so naïve… I didn’t even realize it was a gay bar until I noticed that Cis and I were the only women in the whole place.”

“Gays of a certain age…” | 926

“There were headlines in the paper reporting that the movie was canceled, with lines like ‘Arthur Laurents put the kibosh on it, as gays of a certain age throw themselves out their windows by the thousand.’”

Gay cousin | 74, 77, 825

“A gay manifesto” | 639

Gay rights | 350, 647, 773, 836-838, 844, 912, 959

Gay roommates | 52, 53, 72, 73

“Let me set the record straight. Barry and I were never lovers. We were close friends. I thought he was probably gay, but then he told me he had a son, so I figured he was bisexual. At moments, there might have been some sort of sexual tension between us. But it was all very confusing. I was still so inexperienced that I didn’t know what was going on.”

Gaynor, Janet | 444

Gaynor, Mitzi | 109

Geffen, David | 398, 612, 619

Genet, Jean | 76

“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” | 106

“Gentlemen’s Agreement” | 590

“Few movies were about Jewish subjects . . . Gentleman’s Agreement was made in 1974 by very courageous people. Others would rather not risk any controversy.”

George magazine | 841

Gere, Richard | 543, 569, 696, 795

Gernreich, Rudy | 449

Gershwin, George | 50, 66, 120, 604, 614, 626

Gershwin, Ira | 50, 55, 66, 444, 604, 626

Getz, Stan | 52

Gandhi, Indira | 913

Giannini, Giancarlo | 593

Gibb, Barry | 500-505, 632

Gibb, Robin | 501

Gielgud, John | 350

“Gigi” | 303-304, 724

Gilliam, Terry | 857

Gingrich, Newt | 840-841, 843, 889

Ginsberg, Ruth Bader | 819

Ginzburg, Louis | 543

Giving birth | 223, 224

“I had a record of a woman calmly doing her panting, as I was taught, through each contraction, and I played it over and over again, copying every pant. (I sounded just like a dog in heat.) At the end you hear the cry of the baby being born, which always made me cry too. I wanted my experience to be as serene as that record.

Well, record schmecord. The universe had other plans.”

GLAAD | 839

“The Glass Menagerie” | 33, 280, 813

“The Godfather” | 348, 355

“The Godfather, Part II” | 422

Goethe | 59, 850

“Someone told me that publishers give sheet music for free to professional singers, but I knew they wouldn’t recognize my name. So I asked my mother to call and pretend she was Vaughn Monroe’s secretary… It was the perfect illustration of something Goethe said, which I’ve always loved: ‘At the moment of commitment, the entire universe conspires to assist you.’ And I had committed to giving this singing thing a try.”

Goldberg, Whoopi | 327, 631

Goldberger, Murph | 629

Golden Globes | 262, 391, 472, 539, 587-589, 591, 670, 730, 862, 896

Goldman, Bo | 529

“Gone with the Wind” | 393, 724

Goodman, Benny | 132

Goodwin, Doris Kearns | 842

Gordon, Ruth | 161, 162

Gore, Al | 762, 764-766, 770, 873, 892, 893, 903

Gore, Lesley | 439

Gore, Tipper | 893

Gormé, Eydie | 109, 112

Gould, Elliott | 85, 86, 87, 93, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 113, 114, 129, 130, 131, 132, 138, 139, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 150, 161, 162, 169, 180, 197, 205, 206, 207, 215, 216, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 229, 233, 234, 241, 243, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 268, 278, 285, 287, 288, 322, 335-337, 340, 345, 347, 407, 421, 426, 468, 604, 606, 617, 795, 798, 829, 877-878

“That night the phone rang, and a voice on the other end said, ‘I’m Elliot Gould. I was there this afternoon and I thought you were brilliant.’

And then he hung up.

I had no idea who he was.

Then I found out I got the part… my first part in a real Broadway show.”

Gould, Glenn | 441

Gould, Jason | 3, 43, 148, 202, 220, 221, 223, 224, 241, 243, 261, 289, 309, 322, 326, 329, 335, 337, 340, 345, 353-354, 360-361, 410, 413-416, 448, 451, 468, 481, 484, 493, 497, 498, 521, 574, 587, 605-606, 645, 672, 675, 689, 690, 694, 705-707, 712, 714-716, 722, 730, 733, 764, 794-795, 800, 829, 870, 883, 898-899, 910, 920-923, 958,  961-962; directed by Barbra, 690; homosexuality of, 644

Goulet, Robert | 114 

“The Graduate” | 446, 904, 

Grammy Awards | 128, 129, 151, 188, 197, 391, 417, 442, 471-472, 484-485, 504, 608, 617, 626, 781, 863, 880, 916

Grandchildren | 951, 965

Grande, Ariana | 957

Grant, Cary | 233, 342-343

“Ryan seemed a little dazed after the encounter, and I couldn’t wait to hear what words of wisdom the great Cary Grant had offered.

‘Well, he said get a tan, because then you won’t have to spend as much time in the makeup chair.’

‘Is that all?’

‘One more thing. Wear silk underpants.’”

Grant, Lee | 590

Grant, Richard E. | 957

Grayson, Kathryn | 23 

“The Great Santini” | 696

“The Great White Hope” | 311

Greco, José | 45

Greek mythology | 682-683, 735-736, 768

Green, Adolph | 350

Greenspan, Alan | 819

Griffith, D.W. | 353, 840

Griffith, Melanie | 677

Grimes, Tammy | 109

Group Theater | 545

“The Guilt Trip” | 917

Gun control | 522-523, 890, 959

“When the Constitution was written, it took time to load a gun, which could fire only one shot at a time. Now we have assault weapons that can fire dozens of bullets in a few seconds. Should Individuals be allowed to carry those?”

Guy-Blaché, Alice | 840

“Guys and Dolls” | 330, 789

“Gypsy” | 80, 106, 111, 154, 168, 213, 608, 924-927, 952-954

Hackford, Taylor | 957

Hackman, Gene | 359, 531, 534

Haines, Randa | 733

Hair, nails, makeup | 25-26, 29, 30, 54, 108, 194, 212, 239, 243, 247, 256, 276, 278, 296, 314, 360, 370, 374, 402, 406-407, 411, 437, 450, 480, 596, 603, 605, 716, 785, 800, 853, 882-883, 906

“I was definitely earnest, as you can see. But I didn’t look like the other honor students I hung around with. They wore brown oxford shoes with laces and thick glasses. I had streaked hair, which I did myself. I would take a piece of cotton, soak it in hydrogen peroxide straight from the bottle, and bleach strands of my hair. Then, when I got tired of that look, I bought Noreen henna rinse at Woolworth’s and tried to get ride of the bleached part. What I didn’t know was that inside each capsule were tiny little crystals in different colors, so chunks of hair turned red, green, and blue. I looked like a London punk rocker… way ahead of time… although it was a complete accident.”

Halston | 194

“Hamilton” | 940

Hamlin, Harry | 543, 640

Hamlisch, Marvin | 155, 168, 371-373, 377, 384, 391-392, 398, 401, 739, 786-787, 789, 792-793, 821, 830, 859, 862, 879-880, 883, 885, 897, 898, 918-920, 939

Hammerstein, Oscar | 51, 73, 604, 614-616, 626, 741, 746

Hanks, Tom | 828, 880

“A Happening in Central Park” | 225-232, 534, 629, 780, 956

Harkin, Tom | 761

Harris, Barbara | 280, 

Harris, Richard | 303

Harrison, George | 398

Harrison, Rex | 220

Hart, Lorenz | 55, 103, 139, 290, 604

Hastert, Dennis | 889

Hathaway, Anne | 940

Hating stardom | 283

Hatred of food | 281

“To Have and Have Not” | 854

Havel, Václav, 827-828

“I remember going to [Madeleine Albright’s] farm in Virginia for a picnic supper in honor of Václav Havel, the dissident playwright who became president of Czechoslovakia. He was inspiring, because instead of being resentful after his years as a political prisoner, he chose to focus on the good in people and move on, like Nelson Mandela.”

Hawks, Howard | 342, 854

Hawn, Goldie | 359, 631

Haydn, Tom | 631

Hayes, Isaac | 418

Hayward, Susan | 93

Hayworth, Rita | 49, 68

HBO | 634, 646, 829-830, 838

“He could really fling that tush around!” | 689

“Suddenly this rather shy, courtly Southern gentleman turned into this hip-shaking hoofer. Loose as a goose. Boy, he could really fling that tush around! We had such fun, dancing the shag right in the middle of my office.”

“Heaven’s Gate” | 536, 538-539

Hecht, Ben | 342

“Hedda Gabler” | 516

Hedren, Tippi | 414

Helicopter | 572

Hellman, Lillian | 34

“Hello, Dolly!” | 60, 143, 234, 268, 273, 274, 275, 276, 283, 319, 449, 615, 862, 922, 926

“Hello, gorgeous” | 243, 264

“And then it was my turn. I was still examining the famous gold statue that I was holding in my hands. It was absolutely beautiful, so I said to the statue, ‘Hello, gorgeous.’ I didn’t plan on saying it, just as I hadn’t planned on winning.”

Hemingway, Ernest | 365

Henley, Don | 417

Henry, Buck | 314, 315, 318, 342-343

Hepburn, Audrey | 218, 236, 304, 729

Hepburn, Katharine | 238, 318, 342, 511; Oscar tie with, 263-265

“Here, look at my breasts” | 317

“Just before the camera rolled, I took Herb and George aside and pulled them into a closet with me. I took off my top and said, ‘Here, look at my breasts.’ It was my un-dress rehearsal. I didn’t want to be topless for the first time in front of the camera. 

We all came out of the closet. Herb said ‘Action!’ and I tossed off my top and walked across to the bed. ‘Cut. Print,’ Herb said. ‘That was beautiful, Barbra.’

When Herb showed me the footage privately the next day, I closed my eyes at first. But then I forced myself to look. And I killed it.”

Herman, Jerry | 739

“Heater Street” | 544

Hickeys | 449

Hill, Anita | 748

Hines, Mimi | 109, 207

“Hippie period” | 415

“Hoarder… shot her way out of the house” | 352 

Hoffman, Dustin | 45, 76, 353, 637, 656, 759, 828, 897, 903, 904

“Dustin Hoffman was also studying acting at the Theatre Studio and working as the janitor there, in exchange for classes. He was kind of cute, in a funny-looking way, and he was seeing a friend of mine from acting class, Elaine Sobel. She wore glasses but was very pretty, like a girl in a 1950s movie who takes off her glasses and lets down her hair and violà! When Dustin got a part in an off-Broadway play years later, that was big news… the janitor from Curt Conway got an acting job!”

Hoffman, Josef | 757

Holden, William | 30

Holland, François | 938

Holiday, Billie | 52, 65, 113, 135, 438, 442

“I acquired an agent, Irvin Arthur. He worked with Joe Glaser’s agency, the Associated Booking Corporation. Joe had represented Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, so that sounded good to me.”

Holliday, Judy | 109

Hollywood Blacklist | 381-382, 386, 395

Hollywood Ten | 381-382

Hollywood Women’s Political Committee | 629, 631, 762, 826, 872

Holman, Libby | 129

Holmes, Rupert | 433-437, 450-451, 478, 750

“Homeland” | 560

Homophobia | 639-640, 643-644, 646

“Talking about this made me emotional. I said, ‘Homophobia is another disease that has to be cured.’ This is still my most fundamental belief… everyone deserves dignity and respect. We all need to open our hearts to love and compassion.”

Hookers | 657

Hope, Bob | 145

Hopkins, Anthony | 905

Hopper, Edward | 125, 857

Horn, Shirley | 751

Horne, Lena | 127, 129

Horowitz, Vladimir | 116, 451

Horta, Victor | 909

“The Hospital” | 527

Hot water bottle “doll” | 11, 813

“Hotel” | 589, 865

House Un-American Activities Committee | 381, 395, 399

Houston, Whitney | 631 

Howard, James Newton | 720-725, 731, 869, 870

Howe, James Wong | 422-423, 425-426, 428

“Hud” | 422, 655

Hudson, Rock | 405, 617

Human Rights Campaign | 903

The hungry i club | 79, 131, 132

Hunter, Tab | 93

“The Hurt Locker” | 733

Huston, Anjelica | 631-632, 897

Huston, John | 220, 365, 897

Hypochondria | 789

“I Can Get It for You Wholesale” | 80, 93, 105, 107, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119, 126, 167, 172, 625, Audition for, 85-90, Tryouts, 95-96, Opening night, 97

“I don’t like Hawaiian shirts” | 868

“He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, and I don’t like Hawaiian shirts. (They’re too flamboyant and they distract from a person’s face.)”

“I don’t remember good reviews … only the bad” | 297

“I had to be my own father…” | 576

“I had called the major news networks…” | 882

“I like when I’m wrong…” | 251

“I love detail…” | 304 

“I wanted my crew to be healthy…” | 562

“I’ll show you, motherfucker” | 655

“I’d like to do this movie,” he [Martin Ritt, director of Nuts] told me, ‘but I don’t know if you can play the part.’

I was completely taken aback. The character in this movie was a tough cookie. Didn’t he know I came from Brooklyn?

I took a deep breath and very quietly said, ‘I’ll show you, motherfucker, who can play this part!'”

“I’m being kidnapped” | 427

“I’m the mother! She’s nothing without me!” | 798

“I’m your enemy” | 841

Ibsen, Henrik | 42, 431, 516

Iñárritu, Alejandro | 951

Inner child | 11, 104, 192, 193, 269-270, 813, 854, 875-876, 962

“I didn’t have a doll, but I would fill a hot-water bottle as a substitute and pretend.”

Interior design | 41, 55, 68, 70, 89, 90, 91, 99, 139, 149, 153, 154, 160, 176, 210, 215, 216, 221, 222, 223, 235, 278, 289, 291, 300, 304, 306, 308, 310, 316, 327, 351, 352, 354, 407, 410, 412, 415-416, 437, 460, 486-487, 491, 496, 536, 537, 539, 540, 542, 554, 556, 563, 574, 591, 678, 679, 685, 702, 742, 769, 771-772, 786-787, 790, 818, 848, 866, 871, 881, 896, 906, 909, 951

“International incident” | 422

“Into the Woods” | 753

Intruders | 906

Irving, Amy | 336, 544, 550, 559, 560, 561, 564, 583, 585, 589, 897

Jabara, Paul | 497-498

“The Jack Paar Show” | 821

Jackman, Hugh | 939

Jackson, Glenda | 390

Jackson, Jesse | 825-826

Jackson, Michael | 298, 505, 764

James Bond | 309, 605, 720, 852

James, Henry | 648

“Jaws” | 344

Jefferson, Thomas | 771-772

Jennings, Peter | 824

Jesus Christ | 687

“I’m always looking for the truth… ‘The truth will set you free,’ as Jesus said in the Bible.”

“Jezebel” | 236

“JFK” (film) | 730

Joan of Arc | 661

Joel, Billy | 478, 

Johnson, Don | 673-677, 680, 690, 828

Johnson, Lyndon Baines | 349, 352

Jolson, Al | 711

Jones, James Earl | 359

Jones, Jennifer | 233

Jones, Quincy | 128, 129, 295, 296, 298, 359, 582, 583, 602, 631, 757, 759, 764, 795, 857, 882, 897, 921

Joplin, Janis | 418

“I came out of the booth and asked, ‘What’s going on?’

Jon [Peters] said, ‘Look, you’re not getting it. You have this great instrument but you’re not really getting down, you know?’

You could have heard a pin drop in the studio. But the thing is, he was probably right… and I knew it. ‘Well, I’m not Janis Joplin. I don’t sing that way.'”

Jordan, Barbara | 631

Jordan, Louis | 303

Joy, Brugh | 678, 680, 682, 782, 822

“The Judy Garland Show”| 145, 146, 147, 148

“Julia” | 405, 652

Kael, Pauline | 283, 318, 363, 390, 581-582

“Maybe the reason the movie [The Way We Were] missed out on the big awards was because people sensed something was missing and didn’t understand why Katie and Hubbell broke up. Several critics pointed out gaps in the storyline. Pauline Kael wrote, ‘The decisive change in the characters’ lives which the story hinges on takes place suddenly and hardly make sense.'”

Kahn, Madeline | 347

Kallen, Kitty | 118

Kander, John | 118, 421

Kane, Carol | 543-544

Kanin, Garson | 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 185, 186

Karan, Donna | 300-301, 747, 750, 764, 766-767, 778, 788, 795, 820, 823, 824, 879-881, 886; acting, 852, 895, 921, 929, 957

Karimloo, Ramin | 956

Kaufman, George S. | 79

Kaye, Danny | 147

Kazan, Elia | 165, 294, 295

“When Rot Steiger pulls out the gun and points it at [Marlon] Brando [in On the Waterfront], Brando was supposed to say, ‘Put down the gun.’ But instead he just pushed it away gently and looked at him, shaking his heaf and saying, ‘Charley… Charley… Oh, Charley.’ 

What he was feeling was beyond words. He and Steiger were doing what felt right to them in the moment. And that’s the take Kazan ultimately used in the movie.”

Keats, John | 516

Keel, Howard | 23

Kelly, Gene | 273-275, 277-281

Kelly, Grace | 219, 

Kennedy Center Honors | 603

Kennedy, Edward | 399, 766

Kennedy, John F. | 133, 134, 149, 349, 352, 737, 763, 771, 840, 843-844, 872

“After the dinner everyone who had performed lined up to meet the president. The protocol people were very clear… this was a quick meet and greet. We were not to detain him by asking for anything as plebeian as an autograph. 

When JFK got to me, he told me that I had a beautiful voice and asked, ‘How long have you been singing?’

I said, ‘About as long as you’ve been president.’

He laughed, and then I did exactly what we were told not to do. I asked him if he would sign a card from the dinner for my mother. When he handed it back to me, I told him, ‘You’re a doll.’ That’s a real Brooklyn expression… and I guess some people were a little surprised to hear me saying it to the president. Frankly, it just slipped out.”

Kennedy Jr., John F. | 841-842

Kennedy, Robert | 352

Kerkorian, Kirk | 781-782, 797

Kern, Jerome | 604, 614, 626

Kerr, Deborah | 24, 109

Kerry, John | 903

Kershner, Irvin | 672

Kidd, Michael | 277, 282, 862

Kidman, Nicole | 915

Kilgalllen, Dorothy | 62 

Kind, Diana | 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45, 52, 61, 62, 74, 80, 95, 97, 98, 114, 134, 141, 171, 172, 173, 211, 212, 264, 287-288, 292, 317, 321, 323, 325, 358, 389, 405, 409, 439, 451, 513, 516, 535, 544-545, 567, 577, 589, 664, 680, 712, 721, 727, 744-746, 778-779, 795-804, 807, 883, 901-903, 925, 961, 964, 965

Kind, Louis | 7, 13, 20, 22, 44, 297, 374, 408-409, 653, 656, 664-666; seeing “Funny Girl,” 665, 666, 744, 763

Kind, Roslyn | 13-14, 17, 52, 675, 727, 795, 883, 923

“King Lear” | 925

King, Ben E. | 766

King, Carole | 334, 359, 401, 439, 450

King, Coretta Scott | 795

King Jr., Martin Luther | 350

“The King and I” | 24, 109, 111, 187

“The King’s Speech” | 924

Kirkland, Sally | 431-433

Klein, Calvin | 229

Klein, Robert | 316

Klimt, Gustav | 125, 210, 310, 802, 909-910

“Klute” | 314, 405 

Korman, Harvey | 662

Kosygin, Aleksei | 231

Kovács, László | 343-344, 405, 422

“I loved working with László, who was part of a new breed of cinematographers… he had shot Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces. He really knew how to light, and he was also kind and caring. He had that twinkle in his eye… a joy for life.”

Krabbé, Jeroen | 706, 715, 927

Kramer, Larry | 296, 635-649

“Remember, this was a time when some people didn’t care if gay people lived or died. I was trying to get that group to change their minds, and Larry’s approach was probably not the best way to do it. But he delighted in pushing boundaries. He loved the hedonistic beach scenes on Fire Island. As he said in a letter, ‘The shots of ten, twenty, thirty thousand gay men walking along the ocean will make every gay man in the world want to see it and will scare the shit out of every born-again. But most importantly, Fire Island was what the 70s were all about in the gay world… all those gorgeous available men.’ 

That’s great if you only want gay men to come to the movie. I wanted this movie to appeal to the entire world.”

Kreisler, Fritz | 715

Kristofferson, Kris | 448-450, 452, 454, 456-460, 465, 469-471, 474, 479, 897, 909, 916, 956

“I remember the first time we met, a few years before this project came along. Marty called and said, ‘Do you want to see this guy named Kris Kristofferson at the Troubadour? I hear he’s good.’ So I went that night, and there he was onstage, so beautiful… with perfect white teeth… and barefoot. Incredibly sexy.

I thought, Hmmm…

We saw each other for a while after that… he and his Bull Durham cigarettes. He gave me hickeys on my neck. Thank God I had a two-piece bathing suit by Rudi Gernreich with a turtleneck top to hide them!”

Kubrick, Stanley | 545, 562

Kurosawa, Akira | 23

Kvelling | 923

La Gallienne, Eva | 20

Lampert, Zohra | 109

Lancaster, Burt | 359

Lane, Burton | 739

Lang, Evelyn | 316

Lansbury, Angela | 171

“Largest concert in the state of Arizona” | 453-454

Las Vegas | 137, 179, 217, 265, 266, 293, 316, 347, 354, 440, 449, 604-605, 629, 674, 746, 757, 780-781, 786, 789-790, 797, 803, 807-808, 812, 815, 830, 890, 894, 965

“The Last Picture Show” | 341, 446-447

Latifah, Queen | 914

“Queen Latifah spoke of watching me as a young girl and being inspired to leap over barriers: ‘Barbra threw out the rule book when it came to a standardized idea of what a movie star was… we don’t just do what the boys want us to do. We can do it all. We can sing, we can act, we can produce, and we can lead, not just the people whop are working with us, but all the girls who have dreams like you did. You just have to have the courage, like Miss Streisand, to reach for them.’ I blew her a kiss, and she ended with the words ‘An original doesn’t conform to our expectations, she changes them… forever.'”

Laubenstein, Linda | 636

Lauper, Cyndi | 626

Laurel and Hardy | 13, 73

Lauren, Ralph | 461

Laurents, Arthur | 80, 81, 82, 84, 88, 89, 94, 95, 96, 97, 101, 126, 127, 128, 139, 247, 364-366, 369-370, 376, 377, 379, 381-386, 388-391, 393-394, 608-609, 616, 684, 924, 926, 927, 937, 952, 954

Laurie, Piper | 280, 

“Lawrence of Arabia” | 245

Lawrence, Steve | 112

Layton, Joe | 132, 190, 195, 209, 225, 226, 227, 399-400

Lazenby, George | 309, 605

Leahy, Patrick | 630

Lean, David | 268, 365

Lear, Norman | 631

Led Zepplin | 444

Lee, Gypsy Rose | 924

Lee, Peggy | 390

Left side of face | 307

Legrand, Michel | 200, 201, 202, 203, 216, 401, 497, 518-520, 532, 550, 554, 587-589, 591, 597, 685, 741, 910

Lehman, Ernest | 605

“The Lehman Trilogy” | 955

Leigh, Vivien | 238

Lemmon, Jack | 139 

“Marty said every agent in Hollywood was coming to check me out, because I had no representation at the moment, and they had brought their biggest stars along with them…Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Jack Benny, Edward G. Robinson, Ray Milland, Jack Lemmon.” 

Lennart, Isobel | 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 156, 166, 167, 169, 175, 235, 236, 237, 247, 427

Lennon, John | 330, 334, 398

Lenya, Lotte | 331, 332

Letterman, David | 822, 826

Lerner, Alan Jay | 604

Levinson, Barry | 730

Lewis, C.S. | 905

Lewis, Robert | 165

Liberace | 137, 138, 142

Library of Congress | 957

Lieberson, Goddard | 113, 114, 116, 117, 153, 169, 330, 421

“Like buttah” | 830

“Mike Myers had played the character, a New York Jewish woman with big hair and long nails, on Saturday Night Live for years. The running joke was that Linda [Richman] idolized me…as she famously said, my voice was ‘like buttah’… and Mike was so hilarious that the line became part of the culture. Just for fun I did a walk-on one night when he was doing the routine with Madonna and Roseanne Barr and completely surprised them.”

Limbaugh, Rush | 903

Lindsay, John | 229, 257

Liotta, Ray | 849

Listening to/watching her own work | 122, 123, 127

“Little Fockers” | 917

“A Little Night Music” | 619-621

“A little obsessive” | 468

“Little Women” | 589

Livingston, Ron | 889

Loewe, Frederick | 604

Lombard, Carole | 238

London, Julie | 123

“The Long Island Incident” | 839

Lord Byron | 516, 648

Loren, Sophia | 93, 289

Losing virginity | 74, 76

“I was eighteen when I had my first love affair…although to call it a love affair seems like a stretch of the imagination. This man and I had a few interesting evenings together. On a night with a full moon, he handed me a cigarette, and I took a puff and went weak in the knees. I thought it was him. Turns out it was marijuana, which I had never smoked before (and rarely after). One thing led to another…I’m not going to go into details. Use your imagination. The next day when we ran into each other he just said ‘Hi’ and kept going, as if nothing had ever happened between us… God, I hated him for not being kinder. But it started my wheels spinning. Some nights I felt like a cat in heat… my body ached for him… feelings I had never experienced before. At least it gave me more material to work with when I did The Jack Paar Show for the second time, on May 22… When I sang about wanting someone, for the first time I actually understood it.”

Love of food | 7, 15, 23, 27, 29, 34, 35, 42, 43, 44, 54, 61, 65, 67, 68, 77, 80, 84, 90, 98, 99, 107, 108, 142, 144, 151, 155, 176, 187, 194, 204, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 248, 256, 273, 274, 295, 296, 307, 308, 309, 315, 321, 322, 324, 351, 375, 407, 423, 430, 448, 482, 501-502, 520, 523-524, 537-538, 542, 550, 557, 561-562, 578, 591, 596, 602, 682, 720, 722, 740, 757, 779, 789, 791, 815-816, 824, 827, 833-834, 868, 873-874, 879, 882, 884, 909, 917, 929, 944, 953, 962, 963, 965

“My best memory of that time is lying on my bed, reading movie magazines and eating Breyer’s coffee ice cream. It came in a square box, divided into sections like Neapolian, except it was coffee on each side with a slab of cherry vanilla in the middle… I would eat that first and save my favorite flavor, coffee, for last. I wanted that to be the taste that lingered in my mouth. (I used to eat a pint of coffee ice cream whenever I could and still stay skinny as a rail. Why couldn’t that be true now?)”

“Love Me or Leave Me” | 109

“Love Story” | 340, 342, 

“Love in the Time of Cholera” | 681

Lovet-Lorski, Boris | 757

“Lucky! Eventually the couple got divorced” | 871

Lumet, Sidney | 235, 236

MacDonald, Jeanette | 32, 337

MacLaine, Shirley | 656, 667, 733, 802, 828, 896

“After I hired him, Shirley MacLaine asked, ‘How could you hire Marty Ritt? Don’t you know he’s a misogynist?’ (I didn’t)” 

[…] “I remember thinking, Shirley was right. He is a misogynist.” 

Mackie, Bob | 426

McPherson, Elle | 852

Madam Alex | 657

Madison, Dolley | 769

Madonna | 626, 830

“I remember sitting in the audience on the night of the ceremony, February 24, 1987, and thinking, Just look at the amazon women I’m up against: Madonna, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, and Cyndi Lauper.”

Magnani, Anna | 287

Maher, Bill | 828, 915, 951

Mahler, Gustav | 839-840

“The Main Event” | 509, 757

Malden, Karl | 656

“A Man for All Seasons” | 646

Mandel, Johnny | 751-752

Mandela, Nelson | 827, 831

“I was depressed the next day, when suddenly the phone rang. It was Nelson Mandela. We had met a few months earlier during his visit to LA, and now he wanted to thank me for a donation and invite me to come to South Africa: ‘I am waiting for you and will embrace you with open arms.’ He told me, ‘I still think of the moment when I met you in Los Angeles. Are you still looking as formidable as you did on that occasion?’ What a charmer…”

Mangano, Silvana | 57

Mann, Thomas | 591

March, Frederic | 236, 444

“Marcus Welby, M.D.” | 865

Marijuana | 74, 265-266, 428

“I wasn’t a pot smoker, although I do remember one night in LA when we went out with Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland. I must have had a puff or two of what they were smoking, or else I just got a contact high, because we were giggling all through dinner. At one point we were making up all sorts of crazy flavors for ice cream.”

Marley, Bob | 418

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | 681

Marshall, Penny | 631

Martin, Dean | 145

Martin, Mary | 109, 154

“Marty” | 527

Marx Brothers | 806

Marx, Groucho | 112, 380

Marx, Harpo | 380

Masina, Giulietta | 593

Maslin, Janet | 579-580, 727

“I doubt people paid much attention to her, but they do read The New York Times, and I was on pins and needles waiting for that review [of Yentl]. Imagine how I felt when, in the first sentence, Janet Maslin accused me of wearing a ‘designer yarmulke.’”

Mason, James | 141, 444, 461

Mathis, Johnny | 52, 54, 438, 749-750, 921

Matisse, Henri | 210

“A matter of principle” | 366

Matthau, Carol | 295, 580-581, 828

Matthau, Walter | 275, 279-282, 580, 729, 828

Matz, Peter | 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 134, 135, 186, 188, 190, 195, 209, 604-607, 611-614, 616, 624-625, 716, 721, 860

Maxim’s | 591 

Mayer, John | 658

MacFarlane, Seth | 940

“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” | 314, 422

McCarthy, Eugene | 350, 399

McCartney, Paul | 330

McCarthy, Melissa | 939

McDowell, Roddy | 135

McGovern, George | 359, 399

McGraw, Ali | 340, 

McQueen, Steve | 141, 234, 353

Medford, Kay | 162, 219

Meditation | 300

“Next we were supposed to go into a room to meditate. Donna [Karan] and I went in together and pretty soon I heard her snoring.”

“Meet the Fockers” | 645, 903, 905, 944

“Since I was playing a sex therapist, I suggested giving [Robert De Niro] a massage. I once had a masseuse who sat on my back, so why not try that? Bob really got into it and kept saying, ‘Press harder. Harder!’ To this day my left thumb joint has never recovered… and every year, Bob sends me flowers on my birthday (not sure if that’s guilt or affection!).

Meir, Golda | 741-742, 913

Melato, Mariangela | 592

Mellencamp, John Cougar | 602

Mencken, H.L. | 943

Mendes, Sam | 955, 956, 

Mengers, Sue | 162, 259, 270, 272, 340-342, 344-346, 367, 405, 430, 443, 493, 531, 534, 535, 536; firing of, 535

Mercer, Johnny | 200

Merkel, Angela | 913

Merman, Ethel | 147, 169, 350

“In one of those ‘spontaneous’ TV moments, Judy was complimenting me on the way I could belt (I never thought of myself as a belter) when suddenly an inimitable voice rang out, and then the camera turned to Ethel Merman, spot-lit in her seat audience and belting out a song. She came up onstage to say hello and lead ‘the new belter,’ me, and her fellow belter, Judy, in a spirited rendition of ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business.’ I gamely joined in (wearing my burgundy middy blouse now) and tried to look enthusiastic, even though I barely knew the words. But it didn’t matter, because you couldn’t hear me, or Judy, anyway. Ethel completely drowned us out.”

Merrick, David | 80, 82, 83, 96, 97, 99, 109, 136, 142, 143, 282

Merrill, Bob | 154, 155, 156, 167, 185, 186, 187

“The Merry Widow” | 337-339

MeToo | 600

MGM | 540-541, 576, 583, 679, 724

MGM Auctions | 279

“Miami Vice” | 673-674, 676

Michelangelo | 648

Midler, Bette | 631

“Midnight Express” | 549

Midnight massages | 866, 886

“The Mike Douglas Show” | 130

Mikulski, Barbara | 630, 819

Milland, Ray | 139

Miller, Arthur | 34

Mingalone, Dick, 853

Minnelli, Liza | 147, 733, 778, 825, 

Minnelli, Vincente | 303, 304, 306, 307, 309, 311

“The Miracle Worker” | 109, 364

Miranda, Lin-Manuel | 940

Mirren, Helen | 957

“The Mirror Has Two Faces” | 618, 644, 847, 859, 865, 872, 873, 878, 

Mitchell, George | 631

Mitchell, Joni |333, 398, 450

“David Geffen was there with Joni Mitchell and asked me to sing her song ‘I Don’t Know Where I Stand.’ I was a little nervous to sing it in front of her and said, ‘Forgive me, Joni’ (only half in jest), but it was nice to be able to tell her, so publicly, ‘I love your music and I also love the way you sing.’”

Mitchum, Robert | 109

Modigliani, Amedeo | 125, 128, 145, 210, 212, 213, 931, 932, 935, 936, 940

Moffett, D.W. | 640, 643

Monet, Claude | 145

“And then there was the more regal side of the town, like going to a dinner party at the home of Bill and Edie Goetz. He was one of the original partners in what became 20th Century Fox, and she was the daughter of one of the founders of MGM, Louis B. Mayer. I had never seen a home like this, with paintings by Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Modigliani hanging on the walls. There was a self- portrait by Vincent van Gogh that particularly fascinated me, because it was unfinished. (Later, I think the whole thing was determined to be a fake.) But this was the first time I realized that some people could actually buy a great painting and have it in their home.”

Monochrome | 23, 90, 190, 252, 305, 546, 662, 787

Monroe, Marilyn | 37, 239, 303, 841

“After the class there was a lunch with some Harvard undergraduates and fellows from the Institute of Politics, hosted by John F. Kennedy, Jr. I thought he was a doll, just like his father. And he had that same twinkle in his eye, as I found out a year later when he asked me to be on the cover of his new magazine, George. His idea was to have me dress up in a slinky gown like Marilyn Monroe when she sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to his father. I thought he was kidding at first, but he was serious. I told him I’d rather be a historical figure, so we settled on Betsy Ross sewing the flag.”

Monroe, Vaughan | 59

Monsanto | 215

Montand, Yves | 303, 306, 306, 729, 

Moore, Dudley | 852

Moreau, Jeanne | 591, 617 

Morgan, Helen | 50, 125, 129

Morrison, Van | 857

“After we were done shooting for the day, [Jeff Bridges] appeared at my dressing-room door with his favorite Van Morrison CDs and said, ‘Come on, dance with me!’”

Moss, Kate | 957

Moynihan, Patrick | 767

“Mrs. Miniver” | 236

“Mud insurance” | 228

“Mudbound” | 589

Mudslide | 575

Mulroney, Brian | 778-779

Munch, Edvard | 125, 470

Muni, Paul | 20

Murdoch, Rupert | 758, 908

“When President Clinton called me up to the stage at a conference in New York to thank me for my one-million-dollar pledge (the biggest donation my foundation had ever made at that point, because I was so concerned about climate change), Rupert Murdoch was in the audience. And I said exactly what I was thinking: ‘Mr. Murdoch, you’re a billionaire and you only gave half a million dollars. Don’t you think you should write another check?’ Everybody laughed. (Maybe not Murdoch. I wonder if he ever matched my donation.)”

Murphy, Ryan | 647, 648

Murrow, Edward | 746

“My Brother’s War” | 873

“My commitment to the gay community” | 643

“And then [Larry Kramer] turned his fire on me. In April 1996 he told Variety, ‘This woman has had this play since 1986.’ (Not true, since he had reneged on our original deal and also took the project back for four years during that period.) He went on to question my commitment to the gay community, which was contradicted by the facts.” While I was trying to push forward with The Normal Heart, my production company, Barwood Films, made the TV films Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, which won three Emmys and brought home to millions of Americans the painful truth about the unconscionable treatment of gays in the military, and What Makes a Family?, about the unfair laws concerning gay adoption.”

“My Fair Lady” | 113, 304, 580, 615

“My Passion for Design” | 906

“My power as a woman…” | 246

Myers, Mike | 830

“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” | 750

Nagame, Paul | 932

Name change | 59-60

Nancy Drew | 24

NASA | 942

“Barbara [Bush] gave me a scarf. We shared some laughs as we talked about our dogs as well as the state of the union. And during the concert, when I introduced them to the audience, they got a standing ovation. A lot of people from NASA and the military were there, and it was a wonderful night.”

“Nashville” | 602

National Endowment for the Arts | 843-844

National Organization for Women | 591 

Navratilova, Martina | 648

NBC | 839

Neal, Patricia | 263, 655

Need for control | 231-232

Nelligan, Kate | 695, 696, 731

Netanyahu, Benjamin | 931

Netflix | 473-474, 944, 951

“Network” | 236, 527

New York Philharmonic | 229

Newley, Anthony | 214, 267-272

Newman, Paul | 350, 353, 399, 655, 707

Newman, Phyllis | 100

Newman, Randy | 333

Nichols, Mike | 586-587

Nicholson, Jack | 298, 307, 359, 587, 631-632, 

“I was sitting by myself in the guesthouse, trying to calm down, when Jack and Anjelica found me there. Jack is very laid back, with a dry sense of humor. He talks and laughs, and I never quite understand what he’s talking about. Still, the two of them made me feel better.”

Nielsen, Leslie | 656, 658, 660, 663

“The Night They Raided Minsky’s” | 617

“The Nightingale” | 589

Nilsson, Harry | 333

Niven, David | 220

Nixon, Richard | 395, 398-399, 872

Nixon’s Enemies List | 399

“No Strings” | 121

Nobel Prize | 501, 835

“I was willing to get on a plane to see Barry, because it would also give me a chance to meet with Isaac Bashevis Singer again, who was in Miami at the time. He was the Polish- born author who wrote the short story that was the basis for Yentl, and he had recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now that’s a combination . . . Barry Gibb and I. B. Singer. That should give you a glimpse of what my life was like at this point . . . stimulating!”

Nolte, Nick | 695, 697, 700-704, 706, 708-710, 712-714, 716, 729-730, 897

Norell, Norman | 214

“Norma Rae” | 655

“The Normal Heart” | 635-636, 638-640, 643-649, 656, 823-824, 838, 849, 905

Norman, Jessye | 774

“North by Northwest” | 274 

North, Sheree | 93, 94

Nose | 1, 57, 58, 140, 175, 212, 213, 215, 238, 280, 402-403, 545, 548, 785, 961

Novak, Kim | 30, 68

NRA | 840, 889

Nuclear proliferation | 630, 634, 959

“Nude scene” | 316-317

Nudist retreat | 144 

“For some reason [Elliott Gould] had thought it would be a great idea to take me to Esalen, the original New Age retreat. Of course we got lost, and when we finally arrived, it was very late, and the whole place looked deserted. Finally someone showed up and checked us in and then picked up a flashlight to lead us down a dirt path through the trees. The air did not smell like pine. In fact, it stank. I asked, ‘What is that smell?’ and our guide said, ‘Oh, that’s sulfur from the hot springs. Everyone comes to bathe in the water. It’s very healing.’ Clothing was optional. Yuck!”

Nyro, Laura | 333-335, 450

O’Donnell, Chris | 689

O’Hara, Maureen | 874

O’Neal, Ryan | 340-343, 346-347, 367, 488-489,  897, vs. Jon Peters, 489

O’Neill, Eugene | 226

Obama, Barack | 824, 839, 913, 908, 938, 939

“In 2011, when Jim and I arrived at another state dinner at the Obama White House, for the president of China, one woman reporter asked me, “Why do you think you were invited?” I thought that was rather rude, so I answered back, ‘Maybe because I worked in a Chinese restaurant!’”

Oberon, Merle | 233

“Obsessed with mortality” | 242

Obsession | 672

“He probably felt neglected. I admit it, I am obsessed when I’m in the midst of a project… to the exclusion of all else (except my son). My friends complain that they never see me, and that makes me feel guilty, and now I was feeling even more pressure because I didn’t want to disappoint my lover.”

Olivier, Laurence | 219, 244, 293, 

On not being a fan of her own work | 242, 882

On never giving up | 396

“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” | 132, 234, 261, 274, 299, 306, 320-321, 360, 415, 575, 587, 602, 604, 794

“On the Town” | 111, 129, 132, 138

“On the Waterfront” | 73, 178, 289, 294, 545, 656, 746,

Onassis, Jaqueline Kennedy | 149, 323, 737-738, 769, 821-822

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” | 529

Ono, Yoko | 398

Ontkean, Michael | 543 

Ophuls, Max | 839-840

“Ordinary People” | 652

Oreos | 80

Orion Pictures | 536, 538-539

Oscars | 236, 246, 252, 261, 263, 264, 289, 319, 320, 329, 335, 339, 342, 379, 390-391, 405, 422, 472, 545, 589, 597, 652, 655, 688, 696, 725, 731-733, 746, 770-771, 833, 862-863, 880, 920, 924, 935, 951

Oscars snub | 589-590, 596, 619, 731-732, 770-771

“These awards are part popularity contest, and I’ve never put myself out there, winning friends and influencing people. I don’t go to everyone else’s openings, because I hate getting dressed up and wearing high heels. If I must go, I’ll slip in the back door. I don’t feel comfortable posing for pictures on the red carpet… I can’t stand there with my hip out, showing off my dress and jewelry. (Besides, they always pick the wrong photos.) It’s just my innate reserve, but some people probably take it personally. So why would they vote for me?”

“Out of Africa” | 720

“The Owl and the Pussycat” | 144, 282, 313, 322, 343, 365, 408, 852

Paglia, Camille | 768

“I was interested to see that several men came to my defense in the Letters to the Editor column… ‘Keep the peekaboo power suit, Barbra; you earned it.’ But the best response was from feminist scholar Camille Paglia, who wrote, ‘Barbra Streisand looked spectacular. Radiating molten sexuality and stunning artistic power, she nearly upstaged President Clinton. She was all man and all woman.’

I loved that. She certainly got the message and had no problem with it.”

“The Pajama Game” | 111

Pakula, Alan J. | 405

Paparazzi | 592

Paramount Pictures | 539, 586, 751

Parasite | 374

Parker, Alan | 549

Parker, Colonel Tom | 449-450, 605

Parker, Sarah Jessica, 915

“Crammed in with the contest winners were a few more recognizable faces, like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nicole Kidman, and Sarah Jessica Parker, as well as old friends like Marilyn and Alan, Jule Styne’s widow, Maggie… and Jim, who was right in front. (Most of my guests were watching from a more spacious room at the Waldorf, where we had arranged food, drink, and a live feed.)”

Pasteur, Louis | 306

“Pat and Mike” | 342, 

Patinkin, Mandy | 543, 550-551, 553, 558-560, 568, 587, 589, 

Pavarotti, Luciano | 859

Pavlova, Anna | 242

“The Pawnbroker” | 235

Peabody Awards | 197, 830, 839

Peck, Gregory | 49, 233, 262, 263, 303, 399, 482, 559, 795, 802, 813

Peck, Veronique | 263, 795

Pelosi, Nancy | 819, 908

Pendleton, Austin | 852

Penn, Irving | 175

Penn, Sean | 298

“Marlon [Brando] died on July 1, 2004. The memorial service was at Mike Medavoy’s house. Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, Johnny Depp, and Michael Jackson were there, along with Marlon’s family. Quincy Jones, Sean Penn, and Ed Begley, Jr., spoke. I hadn’t known that Marlon was an inventor. Ed reminded us that Marlon had patented a tuning device for his conga drums.”

Pentagon Papers | 397-398

“In the spring of 1973, I was asked if I’d be willing to do a fundraiser for Daniel Ellsberg, who was on trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers. He put his life on the line because he believed that if Congress, and the American people, could finally read the truth about the Vietnam War, they would put an end to it.

Well, I’m a stickler for the truth, I was against the war, and just like Katie, I felt it was important to support people who were willing to stand up for their principles.”

[…]

“[Daniel Ellsberg] said it was our fifty thousand dollars that enabled them to continue the trial another two weeks… and those two weeks turned out to be crucial. That was just enough time for the news to break that Dan’s psychiatrist’s office had been burglarized and Nixon was behind it. The charges against Dan were dismissed on the grounds of government misconduct, and then the Watergate hearings began. And that was the beginning of the end for the president.”

Penzias, Arno | 774

Peres, Shimon | 594, 833-835, 903, 929-933

Perfectionism | 557, 589, 622-624, 695, 790-791, 814, 846, 881

“I looked through the camera and said, “Wait! There’s no plant life. It doesn’t look natural.” I had a picture in my head of long, thin grasses undulating in the water, but the prop people could only get fat ones. So we split each stalk up the middle.

I know. We were literally splitting hairs. But that’s my attention to detail, which is either a blessing or a curse (probably both).”

Perlman, Itzhak | 893

Perm | 480

Perot, Ross | 764

Perry, Richard | 332-334, 

Persoff, Nehemiah | 294, 545, 566-567, 591, 897

PETA | 80

“I came in to audition in November. Since the play took place in the 1930s, I was wearing my 1930s coat, to put me in a period mood. It’s made of karakul, the smooth honey- colored fleece of a lamb, trimmed around the collar and the hem with matching fox fur (this was before PETA). I bought it in a thrift shop for ten dollars and thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. What made it so special was that the inside was just as lovely as the outside… the lining was embroidered with colorful baskets of flowers, done in chenille threads, with a little pocket made of ruched silk.”

“Peter Pan” | 111

Peters, Jon | 291, 406-418, 424-425, 428-430, 443-446, 449-451, 453, 460, 463-465, 469-472, 479, 483, 489, 491-495, 509-510, 532, 538-539, 574-575, 601, 650, 657, 680, 690, 723, 756, 865;  “Radar for power,” 428; vs. Ryan O’Neal, 489

Pfizer | 894

“The Phantom of the Opera” | 750

“Philadelphia” | 646

Piaf, Edith | 303

Picasso, Pablo | 145, 381

“And then the movie turns on a dime again, when the director finds a wire behind a Picasso painting, and all the guests are shocked to realize their conversation is being taped.”

Pickford, Mary | 353

Picon, Molly | 410

Pine, Chris | 940

Pinza, Ezio | 751

Plato | 648, 682

The Playboy Club | 267

Playboy magazine | 478, 481-482, 496, 504

“I remember being kind of shocked when Warren Beatty once told me bluntly that ‘a movie star has to be fuckable.’

Well, I was a movie star, so I guess some people thought of me that way.

Did I ever think I was sexy? No.

And now Playboy was saying that they wanted to put me on the cover of the issue with my interview. They told me that would be a first for the magazine, and I thought, Well, no one will expect that. So I said okay, as long as I had photo approval. At the shoot they handed me the Playboy Bunny costume… basically a skimpy black bathing suit with a push-up bra. Let’s just say I had nothing like that in my closet. It was so different from my image and my own sense of self that it was almost disconcerting to put it on, but I have to admit it was also kind of fun, and quite flattering to my figure. But I didn’t like the symbolism of the outfit. After all, I was a feminist and I didn’t want to do anything that might be interpreted as a betrayal of the movement. And frankly, I thought, Better not look too sexy, because then people might not take me seriously as a filmmaker.”

Pleshette, Suzanne | 109

Poitier, Sidney | 284, 285, 314, 353, 582, 614, 828, 898, 958

Pollack, Sydney | 366-367, 369, 375, 377, 379-380, 383-386, 388-391, 393-395, 446, 448, 487, 585, 612, 619, 631, 656, 684, 795, 882, 897, 905, 937, 953

“Porgy and Bess” | 614-615

“Porn film” | 316

“This was the moment when Felix and Doris wind up making love, after they each got evicted from their own apartments and rang the doorbell of Felix’s friend… played by Robert Klein, a gifted comedian who would open for me later in Las Vegas. His girlfriend, by the way, was played by Marilyn Chambers (billed here as Evelyn Lang), who went on to star in the porn film Behind the Green Door. Maybe they should have asked her to do the nude scene!”

Porter, Cole | 604, 648

“The Poseidon Adventure” | 348

Powell, Colin | 773-774, 958

Prentiss, Paula | 109

Presley, Elvis | 449-450, 605

“Wow! Elvis had agreed to be the second person to play this room (two thousand seats, with an extra two hundred packed in) after my monthlong stint was up. On closing night he attended my show and came backstage afterward. He walked in with two bodyguards, and then gave the guys a look and gestured with his head (like in the movies), which clearly meant ‘Scram.’ So the two of us were alone in my dressing room. I was a bit nervous to meet him, so I started putting polish on my nails, because I didn’t know what else to do. I’m not good at small talk, and I wasn’t a big Elvis fan at the time (I came to really love him later). My shyness was paralyzing. I have no memory of our conversation. I barely looked up. But at the same level as my eyes was a huge silver belt buckle and his belly button, because his suit jacket was open to the waist and he had no shirt on, just his bare chest. His thick head of hair was dyed jet-black, and I thought, Why would a young man dye his hair like that? He was only thirty-four. Maybe he was prematurely gray?”

Preston, Kelly | 297, 828, 880

“Pretty Woman” | 465, 720

Prévert, Jacques | 200

Previn, André | 883

“That’s when the glorious music began. This was a piece I had fallen in love with, written by André Previn for the movie The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I first heard it on an album of movie themes that John Williams put together and sent to me, because it included ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me?’ I remember thinking, I want to walk down the aisle to this... it was so lush and romantic.”

Prince | 915-916

Prince Charles/King Charles III | 421-422, 816-819

“The Prince of Tides” | 510, 639, 678-682, 690, 692, 720, 727, 733-734, 738, 742, 745, 747, 750, 758-759, 764, 767, 794, 803, 830, 845, 847, 853, 899, 905, 927

Princess Alexandra | 593

Princess Diana | 730-731

“I was impressed with the way Diana visited hospitals and held the hands of AIDS patients. Her kind, open attitude did a lot to destigmatize the disease. And she was lovely to look at… tall, pretty, with a great figure. I liked her cropped hair, her blue eyes, and her longish nose. She was warm and friendly, and it was fun to sit next to her in the balcony of the theater at Leicester Square, watching the film. When it ended, people started to applaud. The lights came up. I was told that the princess has to stand up first… that was royal protocol… but instead Diana was smiling and clapping along with everyone else and she whispered to me, ‘You must stand up.’

I said, ‘Really? You’re supposed to stand up first. Are you sure it’s all right?’

She said, ‘Absolutely!’ and gave me a little push.”

Princess Margaret | 220, 257

Private home mall | 247, 276

Pro-Barbra protest (see: Oscars snub) | 597

“I really didn’t feel like pretending, so I stayed home and watched [the Oscars] on TV. I was amazed to see protesters outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. A women’s group dedicated to equality in the film business had gathered in support of me. One sign said, ‘Oscar, can you hear me?’ I was touched.

Out of our five nominations, only Michel, Marilyn, and Alan won for Best Original Song Score. Well, at least we got one.”

“Producer mode” | 592

Proper pronunciation of “Streisand” | 60

“Because I couldn’t change Streisand, even though everybody has always mispronounced it. They say ‘Stryzand’ or ‘Stryzin,’ but why are they saying a z if there’s no z there? You’d think people would see ‘sand’ and pronounce it with a soft s, like sand on the beach… but they don’t. Maybe I should have changed the spelling to “Strysand” with a y, but I didn’t like the look of that. So I just figured I’d keep it as it always was.”

Proust, Marcel | 648

Puccini, Giacomo | 439, 850, 859

Puente, Tito | 74

Pulitzer Prize | 880

Putting up walls | 272

“Pygmalion” | 580

Quayle, Dan | 822

Queen Elizabeth II | 175, 429, 552, 768

“Queen & Slim” | 589

“The Quiet Man” | 874

Quinn, Anthony | 91 

Rabin, Yitzhak | 834-836

“A few months after I met Rabin, a script came to me that opened with a conversation among White House aides who were preparing for that pivotal meeting in the Rose Garden. Then it went back in time to cover fifty years of Middle Eastern history as told through the parallel stories of two boys… Rabin and [Yasser] Arafat… who became leaders of their rival factions. What I didn’t know and what really interested me was that they were both born in Jerusalem and grew up only a few miles apart… and yet they were worlds apart in ideology. Their diametrically opposed beliefs were like a wall between them, and although their histories were intertwined, they had never met until that day at the White House.”

Rainey, Ma | 52

“A Raisin in the Sun” | 284

Reagan, Nancy, 642

“And then Craig has a coughing fit as they’re standing in front of an electronics store, where twenty five TVs in the window are all tuned to Ronald and Nancy Reagan dancing at the inaugural ball.”

Reagan, Ronald | 123, 327, 628-629, 634-635, 641-642, 761

Redford, Robert | 366-370, 373, 376, 379-380, 382, 389-391, 393, 395, 472, 543, 681, 696, 756, 775, 794, 897, 916, 923, 935-937

“Winds were rocking the boat, and bats were swooping down at night. All I could think of was rabies, because Robert Redford had been bitten by a bat on Lake Powell just before we started filming The Way We Were, and had to undergo weeks of painful injections in his stomach.”

Redgrave, Vanessa | 263

Reed, Rex | 800

“Reel Models: The First Women of Film” | 840

Reincarnation | 58, 102, 300-301, 303, 305, 597

Reiner, Carl | 350, 398

Reiner, Rob | 631

Rembrandt | 89, 90, 128, 136, 546, 554, 563, 927

Reno, Janet | 773-774

“Reputation for being difficult” | 732, 743

“Rescuers: Stories of Courage” | 839

Resnick, Lynda | 398

“The Revenant” | 951

Richman, Linda | 830

Rickles, Don | 179

Ridley, Daisy | 939, 957

Right side of face | 355

Richie, Lionel, 779, 956

Ritt, Martin | 655-656, 658, 660-662, 666-669

“The River” | 939

Rivera, Chita | 109

Rivera, Geraldo | 579

Rivers, Joan | 40

Roach, Jay | 903

Robards, Jason | 171, 226, 851

Robbins, Jerome | 109, 110, 111, 112, 135, 136, 137, 142, 143, 154, 156, 157, 163, 164, 165, 166-169, 186, 208, 209, 255, 269, 616, 954

Roberts, Julia | 647

Roberts, Tony | 640 

Robinson, Edward G. | 139

“Rocky” | 471

Rodgers, Richard | 51, 55, 73, 103, 120, 290, 604, 615, 626, 739-741

Roe v. Wade | 356, 838, 959

“You hope certain people will be with you forever, but then reality strikes. I’ve lost too many friends recently . . . Peter Bogdanovich, Sidney Poitier, Colin Powell, and my brilliant friend Madeleine Albright, who was such an inspira- tion to me.

What she wrote about in her 2018 book Fascism: A Warning has come to pass, as authoritarians take charge in more and more countries. And one of their first targets is women. History has shown that a crackdown on women’s rights is one of the initial signs of a crackdown on democracy. And we’re seeing it right now in America with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. For almost fifty years, women had the right to choose whether or not to have a child, which is a no-brainer. That decision should not belong to the state.

Have women become too successful, rising to prominent positions in board- rooms, courthouses, and the halls of government? Are some men so desperate to limit a woman’s autonomy? Because this sure sounds as if they’re saying, Go back to the kitchen, babe.”

Rogen, Seth | 917-918

Rogers, Ginger | 234

Rogers, Kenny | 505

Rogers, Mimi | 852

Rolex | 881

Rolling Stone magazine | 441, 505

“Roman Holiday” | 236

Rome, Harold | 739

“Romeo & Juliet” | 432-433, 516

Rooney, Mickey | 91

Roosevelt, Franklin D. | 115, 833

Roosevelt, Teddy | 776, 844

Rose, Bill | 421, 423-424

“The Rose Tattoo” | 35, 422

Ross, Betsy | 842

Ross, Diana | 505, 764

Rossellini, Roberto | 729

Roth, Lillian | 93

Rowlands, Gena | 849, 851

Royal Winnipeg Ballet | 323

Ruffalo, Mark | 647 

Ruiz, Don Miguel | 902, 903

Russell, Kurt | 631

Russell, Leon | 459, 469, 477

Russell, Rosalind | 233, 238, 926, 

Rydell, Mark | 588, 651-655

Saint, Eva Marie | 178

Salinger, Conrad | 614-615

Same-sex marriage | 646-647

“The Sandpiper | 198

Sands, Diana | 79, 313

“Santa Claus is dead” | 103

Santana, Carlos | 453

Sardi’s | 97, 129, 180

“By now it seemed almost absurd that I had allowed myself to get involved with Sydney [Chaplin]. Like many a man who’s been told he’s delightful too many times, he loved to hear himself talk, and he would tell the same stories over and over. I was getting bored. All we had in common was the show. His favorite haunt was Sardi’s, where I always felt as if we were on display. I preferred diners.” 

Sargent, John Singer | 169

Sarkozy, Nicolas | 910

Sassoon, Vidal | 417

“Saturday Night Fever” | 499

“Saturday Night Live” | 830

Scaasi, Arnold | 256, 257, 261, 262, 303, 323, 

“Scarangella, Angelina” | 43

“Scarface” | 342

Scavullo, Francesco | 441, 498

Schapiro, Steve | 402

Schiele, Egon | 125, 210, 310, 909-910 

Schiffrin, Lalo | 497

“Schindler’s List” | 823

Schlesinger, John | 644

Schwarzkopf, Norman |774

Schneider, Bill | 819

Scorsese, Martin | 405, 531, 709

‘Same thing with Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. When I read that script, no director was involved, so I missed my chance to work with the extraordinary Martin Scorsese. I was also hesitant because I didn’t think people would accept me as a lousy lounge singer. (Little did I know I would end up playing one ten years later, in a flop called All Night Long.)’

Scott, Ridley | 730, 

Screen Actors Guild | 862; strike, 532

Séance | 513-515

Sedaka, Neil | 478, 485 

“Neil brought his wife, Leba, and she told me that she was initially afraid to come because she had read some gossip that I had birds flying around loose inside my house.

What? The reality was that I had two parakeets in a cage, just like plenty of other Brooklyn girls! I was so fed up with all these ridiculous stories, and instead of driving myself crazy by trying to respond, I decided to turn my feelings into a song. I already knew what the title would be: ‘Don’t Believe What You Read.’”

See-through pantsuit | 261-262, 264

Segal, George | 314-318, 354, 589, 849, 852

Selby, David | 729

Sellers, Peter | 220, 265

Serling, Rod | 91 

“Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story” | 644-645, 836-839, 845, 849

Seurat, Georges | 609, 621

“Seven Beauties” | 732-733

Sexual insecurity | 288

“Shadowlands” | 905

Shakespeare, William | 226, 431-433, 511, 516, 643, 891

“In English class that year, the books I chose to report on were by Stanislav- sky. I read My Life in Art, his autobiography, and An Actor Prepares, the first book of a trilogy that explained his theories about acting, and continued with Build- ing a Character and then Creating a Role. I wrote a paper on Shakespeare’s sonnets. I remember taking the subway all the way up to the Heckscher Theatre on Fifth Avenue and 104th Street to see George C. Scott in Richard III on a very cold and snowy night. I loved Shakespeare.”

Shalala, Donna | 819

Shalhoub, Tony | 643

“Shampoo” | 422

Shankar, Ravi | 45

Sharaff, Irene | 227, 247, 248, 249, 251, 275-277, 281

Sharif, Omar | 231, 245, 246, 248, 253, 260, 261, 270, 280, 425, 543, 923

Shaw, George Bernard | 31, 42, 100, 293, 580, 661, 836

Shawn, Dick | 138

Sheen, Martin | 350

Shimar, Yitzhak | 595

“The Shining” | 545

“Ship of Fools” | 314

Shoplifting | 21-22

“I loved the five-and-dime. There were so many items that were not very expensive . . . combs, bobby pins, lipsticks. But I also had another method of getting what I needed, which I’m not too proud of. Sometimes I would steal things. 

This was not as simple as random shoplifting. I was a very logical girl and I had my own system. It was all based on something I had noticed … people often discarded their receipts on the floor. I would look for them and pick them up. Most things were a dollar then, and the tax was three cents. So I would take an item that cost $1.03, something small like a lipstick or a compact that was relatively easy to slip into my bag. Then I’d head straight to the refund window . . . my heart beating fast . . . where I’d turn in the item with the receipt, collect the cash, and then use the money to buy something I really wanted.”

Shore, Dinah | 132

“Show Boat” | 614-615

Showtime | 835-835

Shriver, Eunice Kennedy | 429

Signoret, Simone | 303

“The Silence of the Lambs” | 730

“Silkwood” | 587

Sills, Beverly | 442

“Silver fillings” | 279

Simmons, Jean | 293, 790

Simon, Neil | 586

Simon, Paul | 330, 401

Sinatra, Frank | 179, 180, 303, 439

“I saw Frank later that year in Las Vegas, when I was preparing my show at the MGM Grand and he was performing nearby. After his show, he joined me and Marty for a late supper and we wound up going to see Don Rickles to- gether. But what I remember most about Frank is another night much earlier in my career, when I ran into him at a party and he said, ‘Kid, if anybody ever bothers you, just call me. I’ll take care of it.'”

Singer, Isaac Bashevis | 339, 501, 506-508, 510, 516, 519, 526-528, 537, 573, 580, 582, 728, 

“Singin’ in the Rain” | 614, 724

“Singing live, or nuclear annihilation” | 629

The Singing Nun | 150

Singleton, John | 731

Siri | 118

Six-Day War | 245

“$6 million home movie” | 469

“Skinny and Cat” | 681, 905

“The Slender Thread” | 366

Smith, Bessie | 52, 333

Smothers Brothers | 70

“So I booked the guy over the head with my pocketbook” | 495

Socrates | 648, 682, 686

“Who was it that said ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ (I just looked it up. It was Socrates.) But therapists are only human, and some whom I’ve met seem pretty confused.”

“Sold out in 18 minutes” | 789

“Someone behind me pinched my butt” | 597

Sondheim, Stephen | 127, 154, 608-611, 616, 619-621, 625-626, 732, 752-755, 765, 781-782, 784-785, 794, 924-927, 938, 953, 954

“I was determined to make this movie. I even decided to give people a little preview in the Back to Brooklyn concert. The first act finished with a Jule Styne medley that featured two songs from Gypsy, including a bit of “Rose’s Turn.” After all the publicity about whether the movie was on or off, it was like a declaration . . . I was going to play this role no matter what! 

But there was one more obstacle. All the original authors had to give their approval, and Sondheim had one condition. As he told me, “You can act or direct. I just don’t think you should do both jobs.”

‘Is it that you didn’t like Yentl?’ I asked him.

‘No, no,’ he replied, ‘I liked Yentl. I just think in this case it would be too hard.'”

“South Pacific” | 113, 751

Speaking Chinese | 15

“Spider-Man” | 465

Spielberg, Steven | 508, 544, 582-585, 631, 759, 795, 938, 

Spinella, Stephen | 643

“Splash” | 535

Springsteen, Bruce | 631

Stage fright | 231, 779-780, 782-784, 790-792, 794-795, 944

Stahl, Lesley | 746

Stalker | 481

“It’s interesting . . . as a teenager, you dream of being beautiful and seductive enough to attract men, but when the opportunity presented itself to me, I shied away from it. I had actually become scared of men coming after me, which wasn’t irrational . . . at this point I was dealing with a stalker who one night broke into Kim’s office adjacent to my house and took a shower. Another time he came back, stole my little convertible, and checked into the Beverly Hills Hotel, saying that he was my husband, the king of Israel, and that I was his queen.”

Stanislavsky | 30-31

Stanley, Kim | 49

Stapleton, Maureen | 656

“A Star is Born” (1954) | 26, 114, 141, 582, 825

“A Star is Born” (1976) | 67, 332, 405, 407, 440, 508-509, 570, 684, 699, 756, 916, 917, 951, 953, 956

Starbucks stock | 895

“Starfucker” | 37

Stark, Frances | 108, 109, 112, 154, 234

Stark, Ray | 106, 108, 109, 111, 139, 140, 142, 143, 156, 157, 159, 163, 169, 170, 172, 182, 183, 186, 204, 206, 207, 221, 222, 225, 227, 233, 234, 236, 239, 240, 242, 252, 255, 256, 257, 313, 314, 315, 319, 335, 364, 365, 366, 367, 371, 389, 402, 403, 420, 422, 424, 427-428, 430-431, 535, 579, 599, 740, 822

Starr, Ringo | 398

Steele, Tommy | 220

Steiger, Rod | 294

Stein, Gertrude | 648

Steinem, Gloria | 352, 634

Stern, Bert | 175

Stevens, Kaye | 109

Stewart, Jimmy | 233

Stewart, Sandy | 118

Stiller, Ben | 645-646, 903

Stock trading | 894-896

“While I was consumed with the state of the country, I had also developed another absorbing interest. As I wrote in my journal, “I’m addicted to the stock market . . . the risk and the reward. It gives me the drama I need for the day.” From about 1998 to 2000, I was trading Monday through Friday, from 6:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (which proves my level of commitment, because I’m not a morning person). But somehow the siren song of the stock market penetrated my sleep.

At 6:25 my eyes would open wide, without an alarm. I’d get up, throw on my bathrobe, sit down at my new desk with a cup of hot chocolate, and start trading.”

Stone, Oliver | 730

Storaro, Vittorio | 545-547, 561, 592, 603

Storch, Larry | 56

“La Strada” | 593

Strasberg, Lee | 36, 37, 48, 49, 133, 176, 182, 431-433, 833

Strasberg, Susan | 20, 30, 37

Streep, Meryl | 586

“A Streetcar Named Desire” | 813

The Streisand Effect | 906-907

“Let me say this loud and clear. Contrary to the explanation on Wikipedia, I did not attempt to “suppress” a photograph of my house. My issue was never with the photo … it was only about the use of my name attached to the photo. To cut a long story short, when a wealthy businessman took it upon himself to photograph thousands of homes along the California coast and create a web- site in 2002, all the homes were identified only by longitude and latitude and not by the owners’ names . . . except for five celebrities, including me. Suddenly there was a photo on the internet with my house, my name, and the exact co- ordinates where I lived. That put the safety of my family and myself at risk. We had already experienced several incidents with intruders over the years. So I hope you can understand my concern.

And this is what every description of the “Streisand effect” gets wrong. I wasn’t trying to remove the photo. All I asked was that this man please just treat me like everyone else and remove my name, for security reasons. But he refused.”

Streisand, Emmanuel | 8, 9, 14, 31, 98, 171, 242, 290, 405, 461-462, 513-516, 521, 544-545, 565, 568, 573, 576, 577, 589, 594, 716, 744, 759-760, 763, 791, 802-803, 805, 834, 851, 875, 891-892, 930, 931, 933, 961, 962, 964-965

“The Streisand method” | 615

Streisand, Sheldon | 513-516, 594, 795, 825, 883

Stritch, Billy | 778

“Stromboli” | 730

Stuart, Gilbert | 769

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | 284, 350

“Stupidest deal I ever made in my life” | 348

Styne, Jule | 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 134, 140, 142, 152, 154, 155, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 185, 186, 187, 188, 195, 205, 542, 739-740, 765, 825, 915, 924, 925, 927, 954, 

Sullivan, Ed | 20, 52, 118, 132, 138, 750

Summer, Donna | 497-498

“Sunday in the Park with George” | 608, 754

“The Sundowners” | 109 

“Sunset Boulevard” | 123, 750-751, 784

Super Bowl | 134

Susskind, David | 47, 91, 92

Swanson, Gloria | 123, 751

“Sweeney Todd” | 493

“Sweet Hearts Dance” | 677

“Swept Away” | 593

Swimming naked | 325, 345

Swinton, Tilda | 957

“Sylvia Scarlett” | 511

Tamia | 858

Tandy, Jessica | 733

Taylor, Elizabeth | 175, 198, 219, 289, 586, 775, 897

“And Elizabeth Taylor, now that’s a movie star! After I got to know Elizabeth, I realized she was one of the great broads, as down-to-earth as they come and hilariously raunchy.”

Taylor, James | 359

Taylor, Laurette | 813

Taylor, Reneé | 71, 149

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 648

“I was discovering more and more classical music. I would stand there and conduct Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet in front of the bathroom mirror, with tears streaming down my face.”

“Tender Mercies” | 587

“Terms of Endearment” | 587

“Thank God for Prozac…” | 901

“In March 2002, I was at my mother’s bedside when she died. For the past six years she had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Thank God for Prozac . . . when she started to get very agitated, her doctor prescribed it and that was incredible . . . she forgot to be angry.”

Thant, U | 321 

Thatcher, Margaret | 552

“Thelma and Louise” | 730

“Them!” | 94

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” | 366, 404

“This Property is Condemned” | 366

Thomas, Clarence | 748, 959

Thomas, Danny | 145

“Thoroughly Modern Millie” | 274

Thulin, Ingrid | 339

“Tin Men” | 656

Tinnitus | 16, 17, 52, 623, 801

Tolstoy, Leo | 24

“Anna Karenina was also the first classic novel I ever read. I went straight from Nancy Drew to Tolstoy. I was completely taken with Anna, dying for love. After all, isn’t passion what we all want in our lives?”

“The Tonight Show” | 130

Tony Awards | 99, 100, 121, 330, 940, 955

“Too demanding?” | 672

“Topless” | 316-317

Tormé, Mel | 145, 146

“A Touch of Class” | 390 

Tracy, Spencer | 318, 342, 508

Traffic accident | 865

Tramont, Jean-Claude | 531, 535-536

Travolta, John | 297, 828, 880

TriStar | 847-848

Trudeau, Justin | 327, 328, 819

Trudeau, Pierre | 258, 319-328, 675, 757, 824, 826

Truffaut, Francois | 487-488

“I remembered something François Truffaut told me when we met at my friend Mike Medavoy’s house. We were talking about the difficulty of finding good material. And he said, ‘So every picture might not be great, but at the end of your career, you have a body of work . . . some good, some not so good, but you have to keep working. You can’t wait for something perfect.'” 

Trump, Donald | 940-943, 947-948, 950, 955

“I was with Jimmy in the truck (his beloved Raptor), and we had the radio on, listening to the news and hearing Trump with his lies again. It was making my head spin. As I’ve said before, I can’t stand being lied to, and I don’t think the country should be lied to either. And I just couldn’t comprehend how he could tell all these lies with absolutely no guilt (clearly he’s not Jewish).”

Truth & honesty | 625, 661, 676, 718, 736, 745, 749, 773, 836, 838, 853, 877, 950, 956, 959, 960

Tucker, Sophie | 236

Turner, Ted | 840

Turner, Tina | 626

Turning forty | 556

Turturro, John | 640

Twain, Mark | 511-512

“Twelve Angry Men” | 235

“20/20” | 877

Twitter | 957

“Two Hands That Shook the World” | 835

Tyson, Mike | 674

UCLA | 547

Ullmann, Liv | 336, 339

“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” | 199

“Unforgiven” | 771

United Artists | 353, 536, 539, 540, 541, 576, 679

United Nations | 231, 321

Universal Studios | 651, 775, 840, 904, 927

“Up the Sandbox,” | 353, 355, 360, 362, 363, 367, 534, 570

Vacarro, Brenda | 828, 852, 869

Valentino | 957

Valentino, Rudolph | 139

van Gogh, Vincent | 125, 145, 927, 931

“And then there was the more regal side of the town, like going to a dinner party at the home of Bill and Edie Goetz. He was one of the original partners in what became 20th Century Fox, and she was the daughter of one of the founders of MGM, Louis B. Mayer. I had never seen a home like this, with paintings by Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Modigliani hanging on the walls. There was a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh that particularly fascinated me, because it was unfinished. (Later, I think the whole thing was determined to be a fake.) But this was the first time I realized that some people could actually buy a great painting and have it in their home. That was amazing to me.”

“Varian’s War” | 839

Verdon, Gwen | 352

Verhoeven, Paul | 706

“Verklempt” | 830, 938

“Back to 2015. It was nice to find myself seated next to two other old friends, Stephen Sondheim and Steven Spielberg, when we were all at the White House in November. We were about to receive what they call the nation’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Obama. He was very engaging that day, warming up a formal occasion with funny ad-libs. For example, when he started to read the description of me: ‘Born in Brooklyn to a middle-class Jewish family,’ he stopped, turned to me, and said, ‘I didn’t know you were Jewish, Barbra.’ That got a huge laugh. He mentioned what he called my chutzpah (pronouncing it perfectly), then continued, “And it helps when you’ve got amazing talent, all of which made her a global sensation—one whose voice has been described as ‘liquid diamonds’ .. Off the stage, she has been a passionate advocate for issues like heart disease and women’s equality. I’m getting all verklempt just thinking about it.”

Viagra | 894

“I read about this new drug for men called Viagra and thought, That’s going to be very popular! It was made by Pfizer, so I immediately bought some shares. I chose Apple because I liked their products. Renata loves Starbucks coffee, so I bought Starbucks. One time I picked a stock because it had my initials. (I don’t pretend to be any smarter than a monkey throwing darts, as they say.)”

Viertel, Peter | 365

Vietnam War | 350, 397, 903, 936

“They say art imitates life, but sometimes it’s the other way around. A few months after we finished filming The Way We Were, in the spring of 1973, I was asked if I’d be willing to do a fundraiser for Daniel Ellsberg, who was on trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers. He put his life on the line because he believed that if Congress, and the American people, could finally read the truth about the Vietnam War, they would put an end to it.

Well, I’m a stickler for the truth, I was against the war, and just like Katie, I felt it was important to support people who were willing to stand up for their principles.”

Vitti, Monica | 592

Vogue magazine | 175, 215, 219, 441

von Fürstenberg, Diane | 586

von Sydow, Max | 336, 337

Vreeland, Diana | 215

Vulnerability in men | 310

“I love strength but it’s the vulnerability in a man that goes straight to my heart.”

Wagner, Robert | 140

Wallace, Mike | 76, 77, 91, 92, 93, 742-746

Wallach, Eli | 656, 662

Waller, Fats | 60

Walters, Barbara | 877

Walters, Julie | 589

“The War of the Roses” | 904-905

Warhol, Andy | 229

Warner Bros. | 340, 341, 348, 433, 446-447, 467, 473, 539, 650-651, 653-655, 658, 668-669, 755-759

Warren, Diane | 877

Warren, Lesley Ann | 407, 409, 416

Warwick, Dionne | 626

Washington, George | 769, 772-773

Watergate | 398

Waters, John | 28

Watkin, David | 548

“The Way We Were,” | 291, 298, 364-397, 399, 401-402, 406, 431, 612, 652, 681, 684, 756, 794, 914, 916, 919, 920, 923, 936, 952

Wayne, John | 233, 329, 874

Webb, Jimmy | 330

Webber, Andrew Lloyd | 750-751, 784

Weber, Lois | 840

Wedding to Elliott Gould | 141, 142

“Then Elliott and I had a fight. Poor guy . . . he must have done something to bother me because I was pissed off and angry on our wedding night. I can’t even remember what it was about, probably because it was only a symptom of something deeper that was troubling me. As Elliott says now, ‘I don’t think you really wanted to get married.'”

Wedding to James Brolin | 878-887

Weill, Kurt | 331, 332

Welch, Raquel | 359, 421

Welles, Orson | 293, 362, 680

West, Cornel | 842

Werfel, Alma | 839

Werfel, Franz | 839

Werner, Oskar | 314

Wertmüller, Lina | 592-593, 732-733, 853

“West Side Story” | 80, 109, 111, 274, 361, 607, 616, 749-750

“What Makes a Family?” | 644-645, 839

“What’s Up, Doc?” | 341, 348-349, 366, 398, 405, 412, 447, 756, 852

“Where’s Poppa?” | 315 

Whitman, Walt | 648

Whitney Museum | 857

The Who | 603

“Who fucked up your hair?” | 868, 872

“Jim [Brolin] was also a very good driver, from racing cars when he was younger. He was kindhearted and sensitive, and he made me feel safe. He told me, ‘I fell in love with you the first night we met, when you said, ‘Who fucked up your hair?’ I knew from that moment we would be together.”

That made my heart skip a beat. And when he came home, as Jim says, ‘It was like a shampoo commercial. We just ran into each other’s arms.'”

“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” | 274, 315

“Who’s in charge in this country?” | 595

Wieseltier, Leon | 774

Wikipedia | 906-907

Wilder, Billy | 751

“Will anyone ever love me unconditionally?” | 800

“That’s always been my question. Will anyone ever love me unconditionally? It took years to come to terms with that. And part of that involved accepting my mother for who she is. As a wise friend once told me, “Suffering is the resistance to what is.'”

Williams, John | 883

Williams, Paul | 452, 454, 472, 477

Williams, Robin | 631

Williams, Tennessee | 34, 35, 48, 132, 133, 648

“The first significant scene I did was from Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo. I was playing a young girl who is intensely attracted to a boy but is so sexually inexperienced that she doesn’t know quite what to do.”

Willis, Bruce | 631

“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” | 414

Wilson, Patrick | 940

Wilson, Rita | 828, 880

Winfrey, Oprah | 118, 391, 908, 935

“Even now, after six decades in show business, people are still mispronouncing my name. Does anybody say Oprah WINE-fry? No. Judy Gar-LAND. No.”

Winger, Debra | 650-651

Winkler, Henry | 631

Wirth, Tim | 630

Withdrawing from people | 535

Withers, Bill | 419

“The Wizard of Oz” | 371, 552, 724

Women’s liberation | 356, 444

“I’m all for women and women’s rights, but people will just tune out if you’re too abrasive. I didn’t understand why feminists were burning their bras. What did bras have to do with it? (Maybe it was a symbol of constriction?) I hardly ever wore one anyway. Now I understand it in the context of revolution… sometimes you have to go to extremes in order to come back to the middle, a more balanced place.”

Wonder, Stevie | 401, 614

“Wonder Woman” | 589

Wood, Natalie | 140, 175, 234, 273

“There was something very endearing about [Gene Kelly’s] smile. I watched him fall in love with Natalie Wood on-screen and imagined what it would be like to have someone fall in love with me. But I was just a teenager, grateful to be in an air- conditioned movie theater eating

Mello-Rolls and Good & Plenty. And that’s the Cinderella story of my life…”

Woods, James | 386

Woodstock Music Festival | 228

“The weather was not our only challenge. Marty was worried about people being able to hear. This was two years before Woodstock and the era of big outdoor concerts. The typical sound systems weren’t designed to cover a huge expanse like Sheep Meadow… ninety acres. So he hired Phil Ramone, a sound engineer who was known to be inventive. And Phil rigged up a system of twelve towers throughout the meadow, with new “long throw” speakers on top.”

Woodward, Joanne | 263, 350

Woolf, Virginia | 648

Woolsey Fire | 951, 952

“The worst reviews of my career” | 470

Worth, Irene | 20

Wyler, Talli | 549

Wyler, William | 160, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250-254, 262, 264, 280, 344, 383, 427, 448, 464, 549, 579, 656, 728-729, 896

Wynn, Steve | 746-747

Yablans, Frank | 576

“Yankee Doodle Dandy” | 422

Yates, Peter | 587

Yeats, W.B. | 823

“Yentl” | 10, 74, 203, 294, 336, 339, 475, 499-501, 503, 506-513, 516-519, 522-523, 525-528, 530-533, 535-536, 545-548, 550, 552-553, 554-557, 559-560, 563-574, 578-581, 583-584, 586-591, 595-597, 600-602, 612, 619, 634, 636, 651, 653, 656, 680, 694, 696, 698, 702, 704, 728, 731-733, 738, 748, 757-758, 794, 814, 816, 827, 834, 838, 847, 861, 916, 924, 926, 927, 957, 958, ; “Yentl as demonic,” 528

The Yentl Syndrome | 911

“Years before, Dr. Bernadine Healy, the first female director of the National Institutes of Health, had identified what she called ‘the Yentl Syndrome’ to describe what happens when a woman goes to the emergency room with symptoms that don’t conform to those of the classic male heart attack. Often she’s not taken seriously, misdiagnosed, and undertreated. Maybe she’s told she’s having a panic attack and is sent home with an antacid. Sometimes she takes the pill, goes to bed, and never wakes up.”

YouTube | 739, 940, 957

“Meanwhile, Jim was looking at Twitter and YouTube on his phone and showed me what people were posting as they headed home from the show… like a video taken in the tube station, where the crowd continued the concert by breaking into their own rendition of ‘The Way We Were.’ That really warmed my heart.”

“You’ve got a great ass” | 407

Zahedi, Firooz | 803

Zanuck, Richard | 282

Zeffirelli, Franco | 592, 850

Zimmerman, Don | 706

Zsigmond, Vilmos | 422

Zuckerman, Pinchas | 706, 715