:48:00
Quicker than a junior agent
at the William Morris Agency...
:48:03
...within 10 minutes,
Kissinger's on the phone.
:48:05
"Bob, Bob, what's the urgency?"
The Godfather.
:48:08
"What?"
:48:10
Tonight's the premiere. Win or lose, it would
be worth it if I could walk in with you.
:48:15
"I have a 7:30 breakfast I can't get out of,
Bob. I'm leaving the country tomorrow."
:48:19
Henry, you didn't hear me.
I said I need you tonight.
:48:22
Only later did I learn that his leaving the
country was a secret mission to Moscow.
:48:27
And the breakfast was
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
:48:29
...to resolve the mining of Haiphong Harbor.
:48:32
I hung up, quickly called Bluhdorn.
Charlie, Kissinger's coming.
:48:36
"Kissinger? Kissinger?
Evans, I love you. I love you!"
:48:39
That was Charlie Bluhdorn.
Not easy. But not bad, either.
:48:56
The doors opened.
:48:58
Enough flashbulbs went off to light
up the entire state of New Jersey.
:49:02
On one arm, Ali MacGraw,
the ravishing Mrs. Evans.
:49:05
On the other, the most charismatic
statesman in the world.
:49:08
Is this really happening to me?
:49:35
It was a blast.
:49:38
I played master of ceremonies,
introducing anyone and everyone.
:49:41
The screaming, the fights, the threats...
:49:43
...that never let up since day one
of filming, were worth it.
:49:47
Even Coppola, whom I had hired
over Paramount's objections...
:49:50
...and then personally fired, four
different times, came over to hug me...
:49:54
...closing the book
on two years of terrible battles.