"get beneath the roots": New York Post, August 11, 2009.
[>] "too much pride," "Four home runs": Playboy, November 1970.
Lucille was the offspring: 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census.
"didn"t understand one another": NYT, March 4, 1973.
"Be careful, don"t trust": Playboy, November 1970.
[>] "in terror of conflict": San Francisco Chronicle, October 26, 1987.
"Mr. and Mrs. Captain Marvel": Playboy, November 1970.
"You won"t ever have": Esquire, September 22, 2009.
"done out of love": Time, September 7, 1970.
"fat a.s.s": Playboy, November 1970.
"creations of Hollywood": Life, December 12, 1969.
[>] "looking to buy a kid": Playboy, November 1970.
"very withdrawn": Interview with Elliott Gould at www.aish.com.
"parenthesis-shaped legs": New York magazine, December 31, 1979.
"Fix up his diction," "Whoever got any": Time, September 7, 1970.
"Mary had a little lamb": Playboy, November 1970.
[>] "has-been": Time, September 7, 1970.
[>] "got sick on the bus": Playboy, November 1970.
"Telegram for Bill Callahan!": Playboy, November 1970.
high-waisted dancer"s pants: Playboy, November 1970.
[>] "From the Deli Lama": Esquire, September 22, 2009.
[>] "ferocity," "scared of women": Village Voice, September 8, 1987. Although in various interviews, Gould sometimes implied he had lost his virginity earlier, in a proposal for an autobiography that made the rounds of New York publishers, he claimed he had "surrendered" his virginity to Streisand in Philadelphia. See Spada, Streisand: Her Life.
"terribly green": Playboy, November 1970.
[>] "I bat from just one": NYT, March 4, 1973.
"trying to become a man": Spada, Streisand: Her Life.
the man didn"t "necessarily": Playboy, October 1977.
[>] the first commandment: Laurents, Original Story By.
"sweeten" and "explain": Stephen Sondheim to Roddy McDowall, March 5, 1962, McDowall Collection, Boston University.
"approach New York with": Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1962.
[>] "persevered ... despite the usual": Bedford Gazette, February 16, 1962.
"were sprayed with sweat": Laurents, Original Story By.
[>] "stage newcomer": Boston Globe, February 18, 1962.
"a.s.sertive young woman": Riese, Her Name Is Barbra.
[>] "generally entertaining": Boston Herald, February 28, 1962.
"What, indeed, are they doing": Boston Globe, February 28, 1962.
"the piece of blubber": Laurents, Original Story By.
[>] "Barbra is striking": "My Life with Barbra," unpublished ma.n.u.script by Donald G. Softness, courtesy Softness.
"by the name of Barbara": Pittsburgh Press, Radio-TV Editor supplement, January 8, 1962.
[>] "Who does that girl": Kissel, David Merrick: The Abominable Showman.
Sam Zolotow had announced: NYT, December 4, 1961.
[>] "a likeable newcomer": NYT, March 23, 1962.
"give affection or admiration": New York Daily News, March 23, 1962.
"How to Almost Succeed": New York Journal-American, March 23, 1962.
[>] "something of a find": Wall Street Journal, March 26, 1962.
[>] "like a little orphan": Life, May 22, 1964.
9. Spring 1962