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I wish I had bought a copy after I read it almost two decades ago… if you can’t find it some other way, my recommendation is interlibrary loan, which is how I read it for free.
Yavar
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Jim,
I do have a copy of the hardbound book. It's a bound volume of one-sided photocopies (some of which are a little crooked and all of which are on the "light" side, contrast-wise) of the original, hand-typed, double-spaced transcription of the 16 hours of taped conversations between March 13, 1974 and April 29, 1974.
Each page would have to be copied one-at-a-time, holding the heavy book open and steady on the copier. So making a photocopy for you, while possible, will be an rather onerous chore, which I will be happy to do for you if you need me to. But it will take some time (and swearing). So if you're in no hurry, and if Yavar's suggestion of an inter-library loan, where you yourself can do the copying at your own pace, is successful, now you have two options to consider.
Yavar didn't mention what library he borrowed the book from. I searched the www.worldcat.org website just now and only one copy shows up at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Nothing shows up at www.bookfinder.com.
Here's the link for Brigham Young. When I want to do an inter-library loan, I find it best to go to my local Public Library branch with my library card (Do you have one?) and photo ID and have the pros (the media person) handle it. They know how to make it happen...and fast...if it's possible at all.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/1096437075
If you want to work directly with me, my e-mail in in my FSM profile.
Ron Burbella
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I checked it out from the main LA library while I was living there. To be honest I did a lot of interlibrary loans there but it’s possible I checked out their own copy.
Yavar
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The library loan idea is a good one and one that I will pursue. I had an appointmen to visit the BYU collection in 2020 but that was cancelled when COVID broke out - perhaps I can get a copy in connection with that. Yes, thanks for the reference to Ms. Danly's book, which I have. It has many portions of those converations but not all unfortunately.
I have in my care a couple of dozen letters and postcards to/from Hugo - all of which i expect will someday make it to the BYU collection. As a thanks for all of your information and interest in this thread, I'll quote you a particularly funny birthday greeting I have. I cannot exactly pinpoint the author, so I will reproduce it as written with no comment:
"Happy Birthday to You"
or
"Just What I Always Needed!"A One-Act Play
by
Michael & Tony
Zanuck
ACT I
SCENEI
From stage left enters, HUGO FRIEDHOFER, age sixteen. He is rather large for his age, and carries jauntily under one arm his cello-- under the other, a priceless oboe, from the double reed of which (still playing) hangs Mitch Miller.
At this point a sixteen piece choral group (all named Andre Previn) serenades young Friedhofer with the "Happy Birthday Obligatto" by Moe Zart, head of the local Wolf Gang.
Jumping into the frenzy, (parked luckily by the procenium) young Friedhofer drives savagely through the backdrop, screaming insanely, ""Fine birthday! Bah! A Dimitri Tiomkin on all your house!"
The lights dim slowly as the choral group (now all named Sir Cyril Mockridge) chants feverishly: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
noisily the curtain falls.......
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