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July 17<\/em><\/p>\n Wrote to Brando to let him know that Playboy<\/em>\u2019s given me a researcher to investigate the issue of Indian sterilizations, an issue he wanted me to write about. Told him about the tribe in Claremore, Oklahoma, where, supposedly, 85 percent of the women have been sterilized. Wanted his help to reach Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri, an Indian activist, who has a lot of information about this, and also Jimmie Durham at the UN. I went to see Durham when I was in NY, but he never showed up.<\/p>\n July 20<\/em><\/p>\n This morning, Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri called. She\u2019s been to Wounded Knee, shot at, bullet grazed her hairline, addressed congressional hearings. She told me about a tribe in Oklahoma where, she thinks, 100 percent of the women were sterilized, but they fear for their lives and it\u2019s hard to get them to talk about this because they don\u2019t want their husbands to know. White women will make decisions about their bodies on their own, but Indian women like to talk with their men, and since most have been sterilized without their own knowledge, they\u2019re ashamed. It\u2019s hard to document. Women don\u2019t trust the system. What can you promise them that hasn\u2019t already, in some way, been broken? Indians have no faith in the justice system. Two suits about sterilization were brought in Oklahoma and California, and the one in Oklahoma took only 20 minutes for the jury to find the doctor not guilty.<\/p>\n July 25<\/em><\/p>\n Al Pacino wants me to see a screening of And Justice for All<\/em> in Levittown on Saturday night and meet with him at his 68th Street apartment on Sunday afternoon. The studio will send a limo. Spent all day at the Academy Library yesterday, wrote 300 questions.<\/p>\n August 16<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a few weeks since I wrote in this journal, because of all the time I spent with Pacino in New York. He was nervous when we met, but we got along like brothers. Got 37 hours on tape. Since I returned, he\u2019s been calling, concerned that he said too much. Can\u2019t write much now because I\u2019m on a deadline. Have to get this done in four days, and I\u2019ve only finished indexing the 2,000 pages of transcript.<\/p>\n August 18<\/em><\/p>\n Pacino called. Said he hopes that this part of our relationship is over and that we can now enter a new phase, that of friends. I did 31 pages of the interview yesterday, 14 the day before, and hope to get another 25 pages done today. He said he moved his bed to the window. \u201cI\u2019ve been living here for six years with the bed in the wrong place. I\u2019ve also moved the building onto Fifth Avenue, from Madison,\u201d he joked. Then he said, \u201cEven if this is the greatest interview in the world, if I had a choice, I\u2019d rather it not be printed.\u201d<\/p>\n August 20<\/em><\/p>\n Finished Pacino: Four 12-hour days, 108 pages. I think it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n August 23<\/em><\/p>\n Al was so worried about what he might have said that he went to the Playboy<\/em> office and spent four hours with my editor Barry, who let him read it. When he got home, Al called to say how amazed and pleased he was. \u201cThat human thing came out. Nobody knows this about me. I\u2019m a very simple kind of person. It\u2019s not sensational. I saw our relationship. It\u2019s not glib, it\u2019s just these two crazy guys talking. You\u2019re not stroking me. It\u2019s not like movie star talk. It doesn\u2019t make me sound like a jerk or like the smartest person in the world, which is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n