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Authors: Sam Weller
Page 208: “I've never eaten more ice cream ⦔: Author interview with Stanley Kauffmann.
Page 208: “We knew it was brilliant”: Ibid.
Page 208: “Noted
New York Times
critic Orville Prescott lauded ⦔:
New York Times,
Oct. 21, 1953.
Page 209: “The first hardcover printing was 4,250 copies ⦔: Eller and Touponce,
Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction
.
Page 209: “⦠the novel was in its seventy-ninth printing ⦔: RB,
Fahrenheit 451,
1989 Ballantine paperback.
Page 210: “On Tuesday, August 18 ⦔: RB's 1953 datebook, from RB's private collection.
Page 211: “It's an ocean of fantastic bits and pieces ⦔: Kunert, MayâJune 1972,
Take One
.
Page 212: “He would be paid $12,500 ⦔:
Moby Dick
contract, dated Sept. 2, 1953, from RB's private collection.
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CHAPTER 19
Page 214: On Saturday, September 12, 1953 ⦔: RB's 1953 datebook, from RB's private collection.
Page 214: “It took me all of about an hour ⦔: Author interview with Dr. H. Regina Ferguson.
Page 214: “Two days later ⦔: RB's 1953 datebook, from RB's private collection.
Page 214: “We forgot to pack diapers ⦔: Author interview with Maggie Bradbury.
Page 215: “The Bradburys boarded the SS
United States
⦔: www.ss-united-states.com.
Page 215: “Regina Ferguson had been on ships before ⦔: Author interview with Dr. H. Regina Ferguson.
Page 215: “Ray was on the edge ⦔: RB's 1953 datebook, from RB's private collection.
Page 215: “It was a very strong storm ⦔: Author interview with Dr. H. Regina Ferguson.
Page 215: “There were lots of bumps and bruises ⦔:
Chicago Daily Tribune,
Sept. 23, 1953.
Page 216: “⦠the SS
United States
arrived ⦔: RB's 1953 datebook, from RB's private collection.
Page 216: “In the 2000 essay âBeautiful Bad Weather' ⦔: RB, “Beautiful Bad Weather,” MayâJune 2000,
National Geographic Traveler
.
Page 218: “Left to our devices ⦔: Viertel,
Dangerous Friends: At Large with Huston and Hemingway in the Fifties
.
Page 218: “The screenplay they presented Huston ⦔: Huston,
An Open Book
.
Page 218: “Luckily for Huston ⦔: Ibid.
Page 218: “As the train sped through the dark ⦔: Author interview with Dr. H. Regina Ferguson.
Page 219: “There was snow everywhere ⦔: Author interview with Susan Bradbury.
Page 219: “I was really very fond ⦔: Author interview with Dr. H. Regina Ferguson.
Page 219: “When the curtain went up ⦔: Ray Bradbury, speech at the Sons of the Desert annual banquet, Oct. 6, 2001.
Page 220: “âVery simply,' said Huston to Ricki ⦔ RB,
Green Shadows, White Whale
.
Page 220: “John Huston and Enrica Soma ⦔: Madsen,
John Huston
.
Page 221: “John Huston had fallen ⦔: Huston,
An Open Book
.
Page 224: “He was weird ⦔: Author interview with Maggie Bradbury.
Page 224: “Peter was a very intelligent man ⦔: Ibid.
Page 224: “Huston had bought Ricki ⦔: This scene is described exactly how RB remembered it in Peter Viertel's book
Dangerous Friends: At Large with Huston and Hemingway in the Fifties
.
Page 224: “The normal reaction ⦔: Author interview with Maggie Bradbury.
Page 226: “Huston very wisely ⦔: Cunningham, 1961 UCLA Oral History Program transcript.
Page 226: “John had a rough way ⦔: Author interview with Peter Viertel.
Page 226: “Huston was really ⦔: Ibid.
Page 227: “This man ⦔: Huston,
Open Book
.
Page 227: “Author Gary Fishgall ⦔: Fishgall,
Gregory Peck
.
Page 228: “politically very liberal ⦔: Author interview with Don Congdon.
Page 229: “Hugh Marston Hefner ⦔: Author interview with Hugh Hefner.
Page 229: “⦠Hefner bought the fifty-thousand-word ⦔: 1954 story sales, from RB's private collection.
Page 229: “The story seemed ⦔: Author interview with Hugh Hefner.
Page 229: “⦠after seven months of hard work ⦔: Ray Bradbury, acceptance speech for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, at the National Book Awards, Nov. 15, 2000.
Page 229: “⦠the script was completed ⦔: Ray noted the date he completed work on
Moby Dick
on a one-page notation titled “90 Minutes in Paris,” from RB's private collection.
Page 230: “Ray left London on April 16, 1954 ⦔: Ibid.
Page 230: “⦠the most difficult picture I ever made ⦔: Huston,
Open Book
.
Page 230: “Gregory Peck acknowledged ⦔: Fishgall,
Gregory Peck
.
Page 230: “Huston was not that good ⦔: Ibid.
Page 230: “⦠placing ninth among the ten top-grossing films ⦔:
Daily Variety
.
Page 231: “On Saturday, April 17, 1954 ⦔: “90 Minutes in Paris,” from RB's private collection.
Page 231: “It was as if ⦔: Author interview with Dr. H. Regina Ferguson.
Page 233: “When you go to museums ⦔: Samuels,
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend
.
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CHAPTER 20
Page 235: “My understanding ⦔: Leon Uris to RB, May 19, 2001, from RB's private collection.
Page 235: “Cowards! McCarthyites! ⦔: The entire episode at the Crystal Room was substantiated by Martin A. Berkeley, a confessed former member of the Communist Party, in the FBI's secret file on Ray Bradbury. Freedom of Information/Privacy Act No. 0966766-001.
Page 235: “As for Leon Uris ⦔: Ibid.
Page 236: “⦠that country where it is ⦔: RB,
The October Country
.
Page 237: “He was paid $2,250 for the script ⦔: Story sales record for 1955, from RB's private collection.
Page 237: “Alfred Hitchcock left the day-to-day ⦔: Author interview with Norman Lloyd.
Page 237: “The director, according to Norman Lloyd ⦔: Ibid.
Page 237: “Ray's strength ⦔: Ibid.
Page 240: “My Irish cabdriver was a human being when drunk ⦔: RB to
Playboy
editor A. C. Spectrosky, May 17, 1965, from RB's private collection.
Page 240: “All of the months of walking the Dublin rains ⦔: RB to Walter Bradbury, Jan. 27, 1955, from RB's private collection.
Page 241: “Somehow the people ⦔: RB,
Dandelion Wine
.
Page 242: “If you just take hold ⦔: Cunningham, 1961 UCLA Oral History Program transcript.
Page 244: “As Gay recalled ⦔: Author interview with John Gay.
Page 244: “Ray was a most unusual character ⦔: Ibid.
Page 245: “God knows ⦔: Ibid.
Page 245: “They were fine with it ⦔: Ibid.
Page 246: “We were reunited in joy ⦔: RB, “The Renaissance Prince and the Baptist Martian,”
Horizon,
July 1979.
Page 248: “The funeral for Leonard Spaulding Bradbury was held ⦔: Obituary,
Waukegan News-Sun,
Oct. 21, 1957.
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CHAPTER 21
Page 250: “I was trying to get out of cooking Thanksgiving dinner! ⦔: Author interview with Maggie Bradbury.
Page 250: “helped define television as a dramatic art form ⦔: Presnell and McGee,
A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959â1964
.
Page 252: “⦠the bureau began investigating ⦔: Freedom of Information/Privacy Act No. 0966766-001.
Page 253: “⦠the pilot episode ⦔: Presnell and McGee,
A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959â1964
.
Page 254: “⦠the fifth episode of
The Twilight Zone,
âWalking Distance' ⦔: Ironically, despite Ray's assertions that “Walking Distance” had its origins in his story “The Black Ferris,” Rod Serling, as well as
Twilight Zone
fans the world over, consider the fifth episode of the series to be one of the very best.
Page 254: “On one level ⦔: Conlon, “The Many Fathers of Martin Sloan,”
Filmfax,
Dec. 2000âJan. 2001.
Page 255: “The authors also present another theory, quoting Rod Serling ⦔: Presnell and McGee,
A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959â1964
.
Page 255: “⦠as his agent, Don Congdon, complained ⦔: Author interview with Don Congdon.
Page 256: “⦠As you know, I've been under contract to you people now for 11 years ⦔: Ray Bradbury to Doubleday, Tim Seldes, June 2, 1960, from RB's private collection.
Page 257: “After eleven years ⦔: Letter from Ray Bradbury to Tim Seldes, July 8, 1960, from RB's private collection.
Page 258: “We used to run down Washington Street ⦔: Author interview with Skip Bradbury.
Page 259: “⦠producer Sam Goldwyn Jr. purchased âBlack Ferris' for six hundred dollars ⦔: Story sales record for 1954, from RB's private collection.
Page 261: “I was very excited about it ⦔: Kunert, MayâJune 1972,
Take One
.
Page 262: “In an unpublished
Paris Review
interview ⦔: Handwritten
Paris Review
interview done by RB, date unknown, from RB's private collection.
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CHAPTER 22
Page 262: “In 1962, two men appeared at the front door ⦔: RB unpublished speech to the American Institute of Architects, July 20, 2001.
Page 262: “[I] walked among the cities of the future ⦔: Ibid.
Page 263: “beliefs in architecture and the buildings of the future ⦔: Ibid.
Page 263: “I was afraid for the future ⦔: Ibid.
Page 265: “⦠Johnson denied any plagiarism charges ⦔: Calls and faxes sent to George Clayton Johnson's agent for this book were not returned.
Page 265: “I think that a lot of Bradbury was used in
The Twilight Zone
⦔: Sander,
Rod Serling: Television's Last Angry Man
.
Page 267: “Often after ⦔: Author interview with Bettina Bradbury.
Page 267: “Mr. Blackstone ⦔: RB, foreword, Blackstone Jr.,
The Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion
.
Page 268: “Ray was a terrific father and the girls just adored him ⦔: Author interview with Maggie Bradbury.
Page 268: “The slogan of the fair was ⦔: http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/ny64fair/.
Page 268: “I was just five ⦔: Author interview with Alexandra Bradbury.
Page 273: “On Thursday, January 13, 1966 ⦔: Weist,
An Illustrated Life
.
Page 273: “The French director had purchased ⦔: Jacob and de Givray,
François Truffaut: Correspondence 1945â1984
.
Page 273: “⦠Paul Newman had agreed ⦔: de Baecque and Toubiana,
Truffaut: A Biography
.
Page 274: “Truffaut had initially considered ⦔: Jacob and de Givray,
François Truffaut: Correspondence 1945â1984
.