Wendy and the Lost Boys (49 page)

INDEX

Aaron, Caroline

Adler, Felix

Agee, William

AIDS

Albee, Edward

Alfred A. Knopf

Allen, Joan

Altabef, Douglas

American Academy in Rome

American Ballet Theatre

American Daughter, An
(Wasserstein)

TV movie of

American Express

Amherst College

André’s Mother
(McNally)

And Tango Makes Three
(Parnell and Richardson)

Angels in America
(Kushner)

Aniston, Jennifer

anti-Semitism

Any Woman Can!
(Reuben)

Any Woman Can’t
(Wasserstein)

Aranoff, Gaya

Architectural Digest

Arena Stage

Aristophanes

As Is
(Hoffman)

Atheneum Publishers

Augustine, John

Avon Books

Baby Boomers

“Baby Boomers” (Wasserstein)

Bachelor Girls
(Wasserstein)

Bader, Jenny Lyn

Baird, Zoë

Baraka, Amiri

Barakiva, Michael

Barbarians at the Gate
(Burrough and Helyar)

Barrie, J. M.

Barth, Belle

Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The
(Rabe)

Beatty, John Lee

Bell’s palsy

Bendix Corporation

Bennett, Michael

Berkman, Leonard

Bernstein, Lewis

Better Dead Than Sorry
(Durang)

Betteridge, Annie

Beyond Therapy
(Durang)

Bianco, Anthony

Big Deal
(B. Wasserstein)

Bishop, André

background of

daughter adopted by

Heidi Chronicles
and

at Lincoln Center Theater

Manning and

marriage to WW contemplated by

at Playwrights Horizons

Sisters Rosensweig
and

WW’s relationship with

black-power movement

Blatt, Susan

Blazing Saddles
(film)

Blount, Roy, Jr.

Blumberg, Baruch

“Body Minimal” (Wasserstein)

Bolotin, Susan

Bonfire of the Vanities, The
(Wolfe)

Boston Globe

Brantley, Ben

Brearley School

Bright Lights, Big City
(McInerney)

Brightman, Rebecca

Brokaw, Mark

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Brooks, Mel

Brooks, Rhoda

Brown, Helen Gurley

Brustein, Robert

Buatta, Mario

Café des Artistes

Calhounder

Calhoun School

Cambridge University

Campath treatments

Caramoor

Carnival
(Merrill and Stewart)

Carousel
(Rogers and Hammerstein)

Carter, Betsy

Casamassino, Emmy

Cassillo, Ken

Catch

Cavanaugh, Jim

Cazale, John

Central Park
(opera)

Charlie Rose Show

Cheever, John

Chekhov, Anton

Cherry Orchard, The
(Chekhov)

Choragos

Chorus Line, A
(Hamlisch, Kleban, Kirkwood and Dante)

Ciechocinek, Poland

Citicorp

City College of New York

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Clark Center for the Performing Arts

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Close, Glenn

Clueless
(film)

Cohn, Sam

Coleman, Cy

Collins, Billy

Collins, Gail

Columbia, David Patrick

Columbia Law School

Comedy Zone, The
(TV show)

Coming Attractions
(Tally)

“Complications” (Wasserstein)

Cooperstown, N.Y.

Cosmey, Beatrice

Couser, William

Coward, Noël

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Cuervo, Alma

Cunningham, Mary

Curtis, Jamie Lee

Daley, Richard

Dalton

Darling, Wendy (char.)

Dartmouth College

Das Lusitania Songspiel
(Durang and Weaver)

Day, Doris

Deer Hunter, The
(film)

Democratic National Convention (1968)

De Niro, Robert

Design for Living
(Coward)

Devereaux School

Diary of a Lost Boy
(Kondoleon)

Dickinson, Emily

D’Lugoff, Art

Donovan, Arlene

“Don’t Tell Mother” (Wasserstein)

Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award

Drattell, Deborah

Dresdner Bank

Durang, Christopher

WW’s relationship with

at Yale Drama School

Durning, Charles

Eder, Richard

Edward John Noble Foundation

Eikenberry, Jill

Elements of Style
(Wasserstein)

Elliott, John “Jock,”

Ellsberg, Daniel

Esquire

Ethical Culture School

Ettinger, Heidi

Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center

Evans, Peter

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
(Reuben)

Experiment in International Living

“Family Wasserstein, The” (Hoban)

Feder, Gwen

Feldman, Jack

Female Eunuch, The
(Greer)

Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan)

feminist movement

Festival of Regrets
(Drattell and Wasserstein)

Fiddler on the Roof
(Bock, Stein and Harnick)

Finn, William

First Boston Corporation

Ford, Gerald

Foreman, James

42nd Street Development Corporation

42nd Street Gang

“Fragile City, The” (Wasserstein)

Francis, Felice “Fay” Harriman

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
(McNally)

Franny and Zooey
(Salinger)

Fraser, Antonia

Fraser, Flora

French Connection, The
(film)

Freudenberger, Daniel

Friedan, Betty

Friends
(TV show)

Gable, Kay

Garn, Aimee

Garnett, Lorraine

Geller, Phyllis

Gemini
(Innaurato)

General Foods

Geniuses
(Reynolds)

Georgy Girl
(film)

Gersten, Bernard

Getty Oil Company

Ghosts of 42nd Street
(Bianco)

Gillman, Richard

Girl from Fargo, The
(McNally and Wasserstein)

Glimmerglass Opera

Godfather, The
(Puzo)

Godfrey, Arthur

Goldsmith, Ilene

Goldstein, Laurie

Goold, Philippa

Graham, Cathy

Graham, Donald

Graham, Katharine

Graham, Stephen

Grand Central Station

Grass, Günter

Green, Mark J.

Greer, Germaine

Gregory, Dick

Grody, Kathryn

Guare, John

Guillain-Barré syndrome

Gunton, Bob

Gurney, A. R.

Gussow, Mel

Gutierrez, Gerald

cancer of

death of

as director

WW’s relationship with

Gutierrez, Obdulia “Julie,”

Hackett, Peter

Hair
(MacDermott, Ragni and Rado)

Hamlisch, Marvin

Hammond, Edward Crowninshield

Harper’s Bazaar

Harris, Roy

Harvard Business School

Harvard Law School

Hathaway, Anne

Haun, Harry

Heidi
(Spyri)

Heidi Chronicles, The
(Wasserstein)

Playwrights Horizons production of

Seattle Rep workshop of

TV movie of

Helena Rubinstein Charm School

Heller, Joseph

Hellman, Lillian

Herman, Susan

Hiss, Alger

History of the American Film, A
(Durang)

Hoban, Phoebe

Hoffman, William

Hollander, David

Holocaust

Hornig, George R.

Horovitz, Israel

Houseman, John

House of Blue Leaves
(Guare)

House of Husbands
(unproduced film)

“How I Spent My Forties” (Wasserstein)

“Husbands” (McGrath)

Hytner, Nicholas

Idiots Karamazov, The
(Durang and Innaurato)

Imbrie, Ann E.

Indian Wants the Bronx, The
(Horovitz)

Innaurato, Albert

International Creative Management

in vitro fertilization

Isabell, Robert

Isn’t It Romantic
(Wasserstein)

Phoenix Theatre production of

Playwrights Horizons production of

“Itch to Hitch, The” (Wasserstein)

Jacobs, Bernard

Jamaica

James, Charles

Janovsky, Adele

Javits, Jacob K.

Jewishness:

as theme in
Sisters Rosensweig

in WW’s identity

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Joskow, Margaret

Judge, Julia

June Taylor School of Dance

Kahn, Madeline

Kakutani, Michiko

Kandel, Eric

Kaplan, James

at Columbia Law

in McCarthy campaign

at 1968 Democratic Convention

WW’s relationship with

at Yale

Kaplan, Muriel

Karl, Ruth

Uncommon Women
and

WW’s correspondence with

Kaufman, Barry

Kaufman, Gucci (Gertrude) Schleifer

Kaufman, Max

Kaufman, Mitchell

Kenilworth hotel

Kennedy, John F., assassination of

Kent State massacre

Kernochan, Sarah

Kerr, Walter

Kershaw, Andrew G.

Key West Literary Seminar

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kinsley, Michael

Kissel, Howard

Kiss of the Spider Woman
(Kander, Ebb and McNally)

Kleban, Edward

Kleban Foundation

Kondoleon, Harry

Kramer, Larry

Kramer, Mimi

Krementz, Jill

Kurtz, Swoosie

Kushner, Tony

Lahti, Christine

Landesman, Rocco

Lapine, James

Lazard Frères

League of Professional Theatre Women

Lee, Ming Cho

Lehrer, Scott

Lepage, Lucy

Lesser, Ann-Ellen

Levine, Herbert

Levis, Albert

Levis, Georgette Wasserstein

Abner’s reunion with

childhood and adolescence of

family secrets and

“Gorgeous” nickname of

marriage of Albert Levis and

and Sandra’s death

Sisters Rosensweig
and

Uncommon Women
and

Levis, Melissa

Levis, Tajlei

Lewinsky, Monica

Life in the Theatre, A
(Mamet)

Lincoln Center Theater

Lips Together, Teeth Apart
(McNally)

Long, Laura

Long, William Ivey

and Lucy Jane’s birth

WW’s relationship with

Long Beach, Calif.

Lowell Hotel

Lyon, Mary

Lyons, John

Lysistrata
(Aristophanes)

McBurney School

McCarthy, Eugene

McCauley, Stephen

MacDowell Colony

McGovern, George

McGrath, Charles

McInerney, Jay

McKenzie, Kevin

McNally, Terrence

WW’s relationship with

MacVey, Alan

Mademoiselle

Maidman, Irving

Making Scences
(Brustein)

Mamet, David

Manhattan Theater Club

Manning, Peter

March of the Falsettos
(Finn)

Marjorie Morningstar
(Wouk)

Marriage of Bette & Boo
(Durang)

Martin, Mary

Mayo Clinic

Meadow, Lynne

“Meaning of Life, The” (Wasserstein; column)

Medea
(Durang and Wasserstein)

Mehta, Sonny

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Merry Widow, The
(Lehár), WW’s libretto for

Meyer, Richard

Meyer, Sandra Wasserstein

Andrew Kershaw and

cancer of

childhood and adolescence of

corporate career of

death of

in London

marriage of Peter Schweitzer and

marriage of Richard Meyer and

memorial service for

musicals as love of

Polish trip of WW and

Sisters Rosensweig
and

WW’s relationship with

WW told about Lola and George by

Miami
(Feldman, Sussman and Wasserstein)

Michigan, University of

Miramax Films

Montgomery Fellowship

Montpelier Pa-zazz
(Wasserstein)

Moore, Honor

Morgan, Marabel

Mosher, Gregory

Moss, Robert

Mossman, Merrily

Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly

Mount Holyoke College

black-power movement at

drug use at

Lysistrata
production at

sexual revolution and

student handbook of

Uncommon Women
and

WW’s honorary degree from

Ms.

“My Life in the Theater” (Wasserstein)

Nader, Ralph

Nader’s Raiders

Nantucket

Nation

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

National Playwrights Conference

Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The
(Durang)

Nazis, Nazism