I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir (44 page)

With Belinda and Joey at the Red House.

With Jack Lemmon.

Me in the seventies.

With William Holden before shooting
Damien: Omen II
in Malibu, 1978.

With Burgess Meredith at the Red House in Malibu, late seventies.

Directing
Tell Me a Riddle
, 1980, with Lila Kedrova, left, and Fred Murphy, a great cinematographer, behind the camera.

With friends and actors from my documentaries.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck, with Milton Justice and Joey, winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for HBO’s
Down and Out in America
, Goldie Hawn, Vanessa Redgrave, and Mary Beth Yarrow.

With Dinah.

With Belinda.

Joey, photographed by Roddy McDowall.

Me in
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?
(1979).

First, to Roberta Morris Purdee, for her calm smarts and her ability to translate and arrange my handwritten ink-stained pages into this book, for producing me.

Then my heart doctors, the great Dr. Marianne Legato and Dr. Schneller, also Dr. Livoti, Laurie Hurt for many years of Pilates and good gossip, and Dr. Slatken, for saving my eyesight just in time.

To Letty Pogrebin, for giving me her agents, David Kuhn and Becky Sweren, who led me to Penguin’s wonderful David Rosenthal and Sarah Hochman.

—and to all my girlfriends, who will be in the next book; also Julian Schlossberg, David Bruson, and Dinah Manoff Mortell, for their painstaking editing, and Walter Bernstein, for his wise encouragement.

And last—to Jimmy Breslin, who said, “Just write
it!”