Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel

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Notes 355 Unless otherwise noted, all letters and other primary source documents are held at the Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles. Prologue 1. American Film Institute (AFI) Seminar with Hal Ashby, March 12, 1975, interview by Rochelle Reed. 2. Hal Ashby, “Breaking Out of the Cutting Room,” Action 5, no. 5 (September /October 1970): 10. 1. Enter Hal Epigraph: Ashby, “Breaking Out of the Cutting Room,” 7. 1. “Salt Lake News,” Ogden Standard, March 19, 1901. 2. “Diary of Important Days,” October 9, 1916. Courtesy Jack Ashby. 3. Ibid., September 8, 1917. 4. Ibid., April 19, 1919. 5. Diane Jacobs, “Coming Home—It’s Hal Ashby at His Best,” Minneapolis Star, May 12, 1978, C2. 6. Letter from Eileen Ashby to Hal Ashby, August 22, 1960. 7. Letter from Ardith Ashby, ca. September 2, 1932. Courtesy Mary Myers. 8. Jack and Beth Ashby, interview with the author, Fresno, CA, October 29, 2004. 9. Ibid. 10. Letter from Hal Ashby to Eileen Ashby, September 17, 1962. Courtesy Jack Ashby. 11. Jack Ashby, telephone interview with the author, November 19, 2003. 12. E-mail from Jack and Beth Ashby to the author, July 2, 2008. 13. Ibid. 14. Jack and Beth Ashby, telephone interview with the author, February 6, 2004. 15. Aljean Harmetz, “Gambling on a Film about the Great Depression,” New York Times, December 5, 1976, 2-13. 16. Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (London: Bloomsbury, 1998), 170. 17. “Dairy Official Succumbs from Gunshot Wound,” Ogden Standard Examiner , March 23, 1942, 12. 18. Jack and Beth Ashby, interview with the author, Fresno, CA, October 28, 2004. 19. Harmetz, “Gambling on a Film,” 2-13. 20. Letter from Hal Ashby to Richard Avedon, March 25, 1974. 21. Ashby, “Breaking Out of the Cutting Room,” 7. 2. The Artist as a Young Man Epigraph: Letter from Hal Ashby to Eileen Ashby, October 4, 1963. Courtesy Jack Ashby. 1. Bob Ballantyne, email to the author, February 13, 2006. 2. Bob Busico, telephone interview with the author, February 23, 2006. 3. Nancy Frizzelle, “Hip Rip,” Women’s Wear Daily, February 3, 1972. 4. Jack and Beth Ashby, interview with the author, Fresno, CA, October 29, 2004. 5. Puget Sound Naval Academy Web page, http://www.interisland.net/ cwlindenberg/psna.htm. 6. Jack Swanson, telephone interview with the author, August 5, 2004. 7. Gus Cooper, telephone interview with the author, July 29, 2004. 8. Jack Swanson, telephone interview with the author, August 5, 2004. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 12. Gus Cooper, telephone interview with the author, July 29, 2004. 13. Jack Swanson, telephone interview with the author, August 5, 2004. 14. Bob Ballantyne, telephone interview with the author, February 27, 2006. 15. Jack and Beth Ashby, interview with the author, Fresno, CA, October 28, 2004. 16. Ibid. 17. Letter from Hal and Lavon Ashby to Eileen Ashby, ca. March 1, 1947. Courtesy Jack Ashby. 18. Jack and Beth Ashby, interview with the author, Fresno, CA, October 28, 2004. 19. Jack and Beth Ashby, telephone interview with the author, December 18, 2003. 20. Jack Ashby, telephone interview with the author, November 19, 2003. 21. “Biography of Hal Ashby,” Harold and Maude Paramount production notes, 1971. 3. Los Angeles Epigraph: John Fante, Ask the Dust (1939; repr., Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow, 1980), 13. 356 Notes to Pages 13–26 1. William Avery, “Hal Ashby: Getting the Right Drift,” Soho Weekly News, February 23, 1978, 18–19. 2. Janice Lindquist, telephone interview with the author, July 1, 2008. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Haskell Wexler, interview with the author, Santa Monica, CA, December 5, 2006. 6. Max Grow, telephone interview with the author, January 14, 2006. 7. Jacobs, “Hal Ashby at His Best,” C2. 8. Harmetz, “Gambling on a Film,” 2-13. 9. Ralph Appelbaum, “Positive Thinking: Hal Ashby in an Interview with Ralph Appelbaum,” Films and Filming, July 1978, 13. 10. Sylviane Gold, “Hal Ashby’s Climb to Glory,” New York Post, December 2, 1976, 26. 11. Jacobs, “Hal Ashby at His Best,” C2. 12. Letter from Hal Ashby to Eileen Ashby, October 22, 1948. Courtesy Jack Ashby. 13. Letter from Janice Grow to the author, December 30, 2005. 14. Harmetz, “Gambling on a Film,” 2-13. 15. Jack and Beth Ashby, email to the author, July 2, 2008. 16. Dale Pollock, “Whatever Happened to Hal Ashby?” Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1982, Calendar section, 23. 17. Janice Lindquist, telephone interview with...