ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Research, over four decades, meant a lot of talking... I have to thank Robert Redford for a chance remark during his All The President's Men promotions that sparked off the whole idea of text and visuals - and the following for their time, anecdotes, support and extreme gentillesse...

Cindy Adams, Danny  Aiello,   Robert  Altman,  Jan-Olov Andersson, Michael Apted, Paul Auster, George Axelrod, Sean Axmaker, Stanley Baker, William  Baldwin, Martín Ulises Villafuerte Bazán (in far off Peru),  Jennifer  Beals,  Henry Behar,  James Belushi, Anne  Bennett,  Bruce Beresford,  Richard Berry, Martine Beswick, Karen Black,  Harris Boghossian, Claudio Bondi, John Boorman, Betty Box, Ray Bradbury, Tinto Brass, Albert R.  Broccoli,  Edward Burns, Mark Burns,  Steve Buscemi, Sir Michael Caine, Michael Feeney Callan,  Tom  Carlile,  David  Carradine, Helena  Bonham Carter, Seymour Cassel, Michael Caton-Jones, Valentina Cervi, Thierry Cheze, James Coburn, Kevin Collette, Sean Connery, Francis Coppola,  Harry H Corbett, Peter Coyote, Simon Crocker,  Tony Curtis, Timothy Dalton,  Barbara De Lord, Rebecca De Mornay, Bo Derek,  Gerard  Depardieu,  William  Devane, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Donner,  Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, Julius J  Epstein, Abel Ferrara, Mike Figgis, Richard Fleischer, Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford,  Carl Foreman, Robert Forster, John Frankenheimer, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Frears, David F  Friedman, Roger Fristoe, Vincent Gallo, Ross Gilfillan, John  Gay, Susan George, Whoopi Goldberg, Marianne Gray, Gene Hackman, Anthony Michael Hall, Philip Baker Hall, George Hamilton, Laurence Harvey, David Hemmings, Charlton Heston, George Roy Hill, Walter Hill, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Lauren Holly, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Howard, John Hurt, Anjelica Huston, John Huston, Joe  Hyams, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Francois Jouffa, Stacy Keach, Terry Keefe, Patsy Kensit, Dave Kent, Stephen King, John Kobal, Andrei Konchalovsky, Connie Kreski, Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, John Le Carré (for one  word: betweenwhiles), Spike Lee, Euan Lloyd, Sophia Loren, David Lynch, Ewan McGregor, Steve McQueen, John Malkovich, Louis Malle, Christian Marquand, Russ Meyer, Gerhard Midding, Robert Mitchum, Dominique Monroc, Yves Montand, Roger Moore, Anthony Newley, Peter Noble, Kim  Novak, Michael Oblowitz, Jay  Ogletree,  Ronan  O'Leary,  Reg Oliver, Jack  Palance, Anne Parillaud, Mary-Louise Parker, Gregory Peck, Wolfgang Petersen, Bernard Pivot, Parker Posey, Stefanie Powers, Otto Preminger, Dennis Quaid, Gunnar Rehlin, Anne Reid, Clément Reinberger, Rob Reiner, Fernando Rey, David Rider, Jason Robards, Nicolas Roeg,  Sydne  Rome,  Mickey Rourke, Barbara Rush, Ken Russell, Meg Ryan, Roy Scheider, Lawrence Schiller, Budd Schulberg, Joel Schumacher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Segal, Peter Sellers, Ron Shelton, Alain Silver, Alex Simon, Neil Simon, Tom Sizemore, Steven Soderbergh, Graham Spiers, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Steele, Meryl Streep, Rod Taylor, Peter Tonguette, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Peter Ustinov, Roger  Vadim, Joseph Wambaugh, David Warbeck, John Wayne, Michael Wechsler, Raquel Welch, Fred  Weintraub,  Dianne  Wiest,  Trevor Willsmer, Michael Winner, Robert Wise, John Woo, James Woods, Terence Young, Richard D Zanuck, etc.

Plus extra special thanks - for support beyond the call of nature! - to Nic Crawley, Daniel Bouteiller, Frederic Albert Levy, Graham Marsh and my tireless webmaster-general Cédric Joubert.

And finally, to my wife, Nicole. Without whom, none of this - none of me - would be possible!

Tony Crawley,

Marly-le-Roi, France

March 26, 2008