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Contents
Acknowledgments (p. xi)
At the Beginning (p. xiii)
1956 - Filming Three Violent People . . . summer stock . . . New
York's City Center with Mr. Roberts . . . The Ten Commandments premieres.
(p. 1)
1957 - Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) . . . The Big Country (William
Wyler) . . . live television . . . The Buccaneer . . . a ridge site for
a home. (p. 21)
1958 - The title role in Ben-Hur . . . much chariot racing . . .
residence in Rome. (p. 51)
1959 - The Wreck of the Mary Deare (with Gary Cooper) . . . summer
stock with Lydia . . . building a house . . . a lunch with Olivier.
(p. 81)
1960 - The Tumbler on Broadway (directed by Olivier) is a bust .
. . the Oscar or Ben-Hur . . . an Oriental junket . . . to Spain for El
Cid. (p. 107)
1961 - Playing opposite Sophia Loren in El Cid . . . Rome again
for The Pigeon That Took Rome . . . a new family arrival, Holly Ann.
(p. 137)
1962 - 55 Days at Peking, in Spain . . . John the Baptist in The
Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens) . . . developing a film from
The Lovers, a play. (p. 173)
1963 - Marching in Washington . . . several offers, little filming
. . . in the offing: Major Dundee with Sam Peckinpah.
(p. 211)
1964 - To Mexico for Major Dundee . . . to Rome for The Agony and
the Ecstasy . . . finally, The War Lord emerges from The Lovers.
(p. 245)
1965 - Vietnam . . . touring with A Man for All Seasons . . . New
Zealand and Australia . . . a conductor's role in Counterpoint.
(p. 329)
1967 - Will Penny . . . sailing the Greek Islands . . . Planet of
the Apes . . . revisiting Vietnam . . . working for the Screen Actors Guild
and the National Endowment for the Arts. (p. 357)
1968 - Tennis doings . . . quarterbacking in Number One . . . Planet
of the Apes is a smash. (p. 387)
1969 - A rising tide of public service appearances . . . an Apes
sequel . . . Julius Caesar in London and Spain . . . The Hawaiians . .
. an offer to run for the Senate. (p. 413)
1970 - More work for SAG and the National Endowment for the Arts
. . . The Omega Man . . . testing for Antony and Cleopatra.
(p. 441)
1971 - Directing Antony and Cleopatra in Spain . . . a seminar at
Cambridge . . . elected chairman of The American Film Institute.
(p. 469)
1972 - The Call of the Wild in Norway . . . Skyjacked does well,
Antony poorly . . . on to Soylent Green . . . The Crucible at the Ahmanson
Theater. (p. 501)
1973 - Richelieu for Lester's The Three Musketeers . . . a run down
the river . . . Washington doings. (p. 529)
1974 - Earthquake, reluctantly . . . then Airport '75 . . . Macbeth
at the Ahmanson, with Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Macbeth.
(p. 559)
1975 - A trip to South Africa . . . Earthquake, a successful disaster
. . . aboard the U.S.S. Lexington for Midway . . . then, The Last Hard
Man. (p. 583)
1976 - Henry VIII in London . . . A Far East tour for Midway . .
. submarining in Gray Lady Down . . . the Ahmanson again for Long Day's
Journey into Night.