Read Natasha Online

Authors: Suzanne Finstad

Natasha (75 page)

CHAPTER 21

ANGLOPHILE
: Tony Costello to SF

CRUSH ON FINNEY; SOMEONE TO LOVE HER
: Sugar Bates to SF

BRICUSSE COMMENTS
: Leslie Bricusse to SF

COSTELLO COMMENTS
: Tony Costello to SF

THAT WAS IT
: “Natalie Wood - From Pampered Star,” Peer J. Oppenheimer,
Family Weekly
, 10/19/69

MADE A LIST; SOMETHING ABOUT R.J
.: Lana Wood to SF

READY TO MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN
: 2/67
Motion Picture;
11/9/66
Daily Variety;
Olga Viripaeff to SF

STRONG MAN; FEAR OF FLYING
: 7/71
Pageant

WORKED ON
ROSE GARDEN
: Sydney Pollack to SF; Tony Costello to SF

JUST LIVING
: 10/30/69
New York Times

DRESSED LIKE A STAR FOR FLIGHTS
: Diane Wells to SF, December 2000

NATALIE HIS FIRST BIG CHALLENGE
: 8/72
Photoplay

BOTH HAVE TEMPERS
: 7/71
Pageant

DIDN’T SEE WARMTH
: David Niven, Jr., to SF

REDFORD COMMENTS
: Robert Redford to SF

FAINTLY TRAGIC
: 11/68
Cosmopolitan

LIKE
BOB
SCRIPT
: 3/9/69
New York Times;
1/70 unsourced U.K. article from British Film Institute Natalie Wood collection; 9/69
Movie World

KNEW IN 10 SECONDS
: Paul Mazursky,
E True Hollywood Story

INSECURE; WOULDN’T DO NUDE
: 10/30/69
Los Angeles Times
; Lana Wood to SF

GOULD COMMENTS
: Elliott Gould to SF, 10/16/99

HAPPY WITH GREGSON
: Sugar Bates to SF

NO STAR CRAP
: Mazursky, “The Final Days”

MOCKED STAR IMAGE
: 3/9/69
New York Times

EMBARRASSED AS HELL
: Natalie Wood,
Tomorrow
, 2/14/80

SCARED TO SKI
: 10/30/69
Los Angeles Times

MAY WEDDINGS
: Olga Viripaeff to SF

RADIATED HAPPINESS, DELAYED CHILDHOOD
: 10/18/69
Family Weekly

FIRST TIME PREGNANT
: Natalie Wood, excerpt, AMC’s
Hollywood Real to Reel

JUNE ’70 DINNER PARTY
: Linda Foreman to SF, 9/16/99;
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star;
“Natalie Wood’s Real-Life Romantic Comedy,” Judy Klemesrud,
New York Times
, 2/10/80; “Happily Ever After,” Jon Land,
Saturday Evening Post
, March 1979; 12/76
People;
11/74
Photoplay;
3/86
GQ
; 11/85
Parade;
12/76
Donahue;
8/75
Cosmopolitan
; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

NATASHA’S BIRTH HAPPIEST MOMENT
: 10/79
Orange Coast

ANOTHER CHANCE AT CHILDHOOD; UPSET AT MUD: Lana Wood to SF

NATASHINKA
: Natalie Wood’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin

THOUGHTS ON MOTHERHOOD
: 9/72
Modern Screen

AFFAIR WITH SECRETARY, RESTRAINING ORDER
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Leslie Bricusse to SF; Lana Wood to SF; “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 4/79
Look;
11/71
Modern Screen
; 11/71
Motion Picture
; 8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 11/71
Photoplay;
Peggy Griffin to SF; Bob Jiras to SF

CHAPTER 22

ISOLATED SELF, TRANQUILIZERS
: Lana Wood to SF; 8/17/71
Daily Variety;
“Natalie Wood Tells,” Renee Haverhill,
Photoplay
, April 1972

UPSET, STOPPED EATING, SARDINIA, OLGA COMMENTS
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; 4/72
Photoplay;
Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood” 334, 336 CALL FROM R.J.; CALLS AGAIN: Natalie Wood, 12/76
Donahue;
Olga Viripaeff to SF; Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn; Robert Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”; 8/11/71
Daily Variety
(R.J. in town); “New Rules For A Second Marriage,” Vernon Scott,
Photoplay
, November 1974; 2/10/80
New York Times
; 12/76
People; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
; 11/85
Parade

TINA CRUSH ON R.J
.: 9/70
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood

NOT WHEN; FRANCE
: 10/19/71
Hollywood Reporter;
10/18/71
Hollywood Reporter
(villa)

THOUGHT WORLD; SEPARATE DIRECTIONS; ZIFFREN FINANCES
: Peggy Griffin to SF

DATED MCQUEEN
: Peggy Griffin to SF; Neile Adams to SF; Dennis Roberts to SF (sunglasses); Lana Wood to SF; 10/29 & 12/27/71
Hollywood Reporter;
“How Steve McQueen Ended Her Heartache,” Carol Welles,
Photoplay
, 2/72; “Ali Crushed,” June Thayer,
Movie World
, 4/73; “All About Those Dates Between Natalie Wood And Steve McQueen,”
Movieland
, 2/72

DATED JERRY BROWN
: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; 2/72
Photoplay

SMEDLEY NOTICED
: “How Bob Makes Natalie Feel Like a Bride Every Night,” Marcia Borie,
Photoplay
, 11/72

NATASHA PROTECTED HER; R.J. LIKE ROMEO
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

PERFECT LOVE
: 4/72
Photoplay

NURSERY RHYMES
: “A World of Her Own,” Tim de Lisle,
Daily
Telegraph Weekend Magazine
, 12/12/98

FAVOR FOR REDFORD, LAST CONTACT
: Robert Redford to SF

MINK AND JEANS, PLAYED LAST SCENE
:
Filming “The Candidate
,” Bruce Bahrenburg, Warner Books Inc., New York, 1972

PLAINTIVE CALL
: Edie Adams to SF

HOLIDAY PLANS
: 12/28/71 & 1/4/72
Daily Variety

RECONNECTED AT CHRISTMAS: Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; 11/74
Photoplay
(stopped by with gifts; “instant attraction”); 8/72
Photoplay
(R.J. felt nostalgic, Natalie like a girl again); 12/72
People
(went on 1/26); “Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner’s Baby Girl,” Henry Gris,
Photoplay
, 6/74 (together from Palm Springs on); 3/86
GQ
(secretly in Palm Springs); 8/75
Cosmopolitan
(understanding they’d remarry)

BAILED R.J. OUT
: 3/86
GQ

LANA WORRIED; DEVIL YOU KNOW; GOT WHAT WANTED
: Lana Wood to SF; Robert Hyatt to SF; “My Sister, Natalie Wood,” Sally Ogle Davis,
Ladies Home Journal
, 11/82

R.J. NICE; NATALIE WENT OUT OF HER WAY
: Sugar Bates to SF

TOWNHOUSE FOR GURDINS
: “We’d Be Crazy Not to Remarry,” Lee Alexander,
Silver Screen
, 8/72

NEEDED BODYGUARDS
: 4/14/72
Hollywood Reporter

ZEITENSPRUNG
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan;
Mickey Ziffren,
The Movies
, 10/83

R.J. SELDOM ON WATER, WANTED BACK; HUNTING “OUR BOAT”
:9/27/81
San Antonio Light

WORST STORMS
: “We Almost Died Together,” Polly Terry,
Photoplay
, 1/74; 4/24/72
New York Daily News
(made headlines)

TOOK PHOTOGRAPHER ALONG
: Michael Childers, “The Final Days”

NEITHER RELIGIOUS
: Lana Wood to SF; Peggy Griffin to SF; Faye Nuell Mayo to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF (used astrologer Carroll Righter); “Pregnant Natalie Wood Cries,”
Movie Life
, 1/74 (used Righter)

WEDDING
: 11/74
Photoplay;
“Natalie Gives Us Her Wedding Album!” Marcia Borie,
Silver
Screen, October 1972; 10/72
Modern Screen
; 11/72
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood

SEASICK
: 1/76
TV Radio Mirror;
Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn

GRIFFIN COMMENTS
: Peggy Griffin to SF

TOUGH FOR NATALIE
: Lana Wood to SF

RETREAT FROM
GATSBY
: Natalie Wood, 10/76 San Francisco Film Festival; 6/74
Photoplay

TV LESS PRESTIGE
: 11/78 Hollywood Reporter

CATES COMMENTS
: Gilbert Cates to SF, 12/22/99

LETTER FROM NATALIE TO RUTH GORDON
: courtesy of Barry Redmond

GLASS HOUSE, KNIT BLANKET
: 1/74
Photoplay

INTRIGUED WITH IDEA
: 6/20/74
Daily Variety

MOST WANTED BABY
: 8/74
Modern Screen

CRANE’S DEATH
: Scott Marlowe to SF

SCARED DURING CHILDBIRTH
: “Natalie Wood: Save My Baby,”
Motion Picture
, 7/74

INFERNO
BORING; CONVINCED R.J. TO MOVE; LOST 50 POUNDS
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan
; 6/20/74
Daily Variety
(800-calorie diet)

A BIT MUCH; NAPOLEON: 8/79
McCall’s
; 4/79
Look

TOLD TOM SNYDER
: 2/14/80
Tomorrow

MADE A PACT
: numerous published interviews with Wood and Wagner

RATH COMMENTS
: Earl Rath, Jr., to SF, 1/4/00

APPEALING WAIF
: “Michael Caine Is a ‘Peeper,’ ”Richard Cuskelly,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 12/3/75

GAVE IT THEIR ALL
: 3/76
TV Star Parade
345, 348 DIDN’T WORK; GREGSON’S KIDS SPENT SUMMERS: Peggy Griffin to SF

SEMI-RETIREMENT
: 3/76
Movie World

HOUSE LESS SHOWY; ANALYST FOR GIRLS
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF

ZEST FOR LIFE
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

ENJOYING THEIR CHILDHOOD
: “Natalie Wood: Our Sexual Conscience on the Silver Screen?”
L’Officiel/USA
, August 1980

SPOILED ROTTEN
: “Out Of The Woods,” Claire Lovat,
The Sunday Times
, 12/6/98

FACTS OF LIFE AT 4
: “Revealing Talent,” Jamie Painter,
Back Stage West Drama-Logue
, 1/21/99 (talked about sex); 8/80
L’Officiel
(not proper)

NOT AN OPTION
: “Whatever: Natasha Gregson Wagner,” Steve Hochman,
Los Angeles Times
, 1/3/99

SNIFFED BRANCHES; GUEST COTTAGE WITH SIGNS
: Rex Reed, “Remembering Natalie,” “Ovation,” USA, a Cerberns Production

CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
: 10/77
Bon Appetit;
Peggy Griffin to SF; Lana Wood to SF; Gil Cates to SF

HOLLYWOOD COUPLE
: Karl Malden to SF

PUT NATALIE ON STAGE
: Roderick Mann to SF; Lana Wood to SF

NORMALCY HAS MYSTIQUE
: 10/26/76
San Francisco Chronicle

GREGSON’S LIFE CHANGED; IRON BUTTERFLY
: Leslie Bricusse to SF

FOUND
SPLENDOUR
: 9/27/81
San Antonio Light

WHY DID THEY
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn

THIS LITTLE THING
: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

MOORING AT EMERALD BAY
: Doug Bombard to SF, 10/10/99

REMEMBERS MOMMY AS SOLID
: 12/12/98
Daily Telegraph

DON’T MAKE IT SOUND
: 8/75
Cosmopolitan

CHAPTER 23

GRIFFIN COMMENTS
: Peggy Griffin to SF

LANA COMMENTS
: Lana Wood to SF

INSTABILITY NEVER FAR; USED KNIFE AS MIRROR
: Leslie Bricusse to SF

GIFT THAT FELL
: “Raising the Curtain on ‘Cat,’ ” Cecil Smith,
TV
Times;
12/5/76

SPENT TIME WITH WILLIAMS
: unsourced 7/76 U.K. interview, BFI file on Natalie Wood

LISTENED TO FRIENDS: Natalie Wood, 12/76
Donahue

COMPARED OLIVIER TO DEAN
: 10/26/76
San Francisco Chronicle

STAPLETON COMMENTS
: Maureen Stapleton to SF, 2/7/00

TINY LITTLE THING
: 3/77
Photoplay

MIXED REVIEWS
: “This Tribute Smacks of Exploitation,” John J. O’Connor,
The New York Times
, 12/5/76

MIDDLE-AGED SQUARES
: 10/77
Los Angeles Times Home Magazine

PARTIES
: 10/77
Bon Appetit;
Lana Wood to SF

NEAME COMMENTS
: Ronald Neame to SF, 1/9/99

CHOSE IT FOR RUSSIAN ACCENT
: 10/79
Orange Coast

TAPED MUD’S VOICE
: 2/79
New York Daily News;
12/77
Motion Picture

CHARACTERIZATION
: Natalie Wood interview,
Meteor
magazine, Warren Publishing, 1979

BATES COMMENTS
: Sugar Bates to SF

NEAME COMPLAINED ABOUT MAKEUP
: “Film Casting,” Jerry Cohen and Ronald L. Soble,
Los Angeles Times
, 7/4/78

LOOKED HARD
: Robert Werden to SF, 9/20/99

MASON COMMENTS; EVIL-LOOKING
: Ginger Mason to SF, 8/24/99

SYLBERTS’ COMMENTS
: Richard and Sharmagne Sylbert to SF, 6/17/99

ADORED EACH OTHER; ALWAYS DOING THINGS
: Roselle Gordon to SF

MALDEN COMMENTS
: Karl Malden to SF

INTERVIEW DURING
METEOR
: 10/78
Preview

REQUESTED TRAIN
: 10/21/79
Washington Post

Other books

Evil Eyes by Corey Mitchell
In the Break by Jack Lopez
El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The View From the Tower by Charles Lambert
Time for Love by Kaye, Emma
Sarah's Surrender by Lynda Chance
Mistress to the Prince by Elizabeth Lennox
Evolution Impossible by Dr John Ashton


readsbookonline.com Copyright 2016 - 2024