Year: 1977
Author: Bacon J / Bacon J
Publisher: Avon
ISBN: 0-380-01671-0
English language
Format: DjVu
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of Pages: 293
The author - a journalist who wrote about Hollywood for many years, he is well versed and loves
Cinema, he was familiar with all the outstanding artists of that time and talks about
They are sometimes funny things. But the author knows and the reader for whom he writes, so
The book is filled with vulgarity and information about who slept with whom. The author himself, according to his
Said, was the lover of Marelin Monroe. And of course, the author could not pass by
Such a landmark film as "Deep Throat." In the book appears and the hero
The movie "Aviator" by Howard Hughes.
Foreword vii
Part I The Fanny Men
1 You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man 3
2 And Away We Go! 12
3 The Comedians 20
4 My Gawd! That Crazy Comedian
Is at the Controls 45
5 Shecky Greene—the Comic, Not the Horse 47
6 Dean Martin: He Drinks Moderately—
Old Moderately 51
7 Jonathan Winters, Comedy’s Master
of Mayhem 54
8 Welcome to Naked City 60
9 Who Would Rather Be Henny Youngman? 64
10 Henny (A Guy goes into a psychiatrist’s
office) Youngman 67
Part II: The Tycoons
11 I Saw Too Much of Howard Hughes 73
12 Often Broke but Never Poor 91
13 How to Enjoy Paris on Only $10,000
a Night 94
14 The Romance That Gave Harry Cohn
a Heart Attack 100
15 Dore Isn’t Izzy Anymore 109
Part III: The Superstars
16 The Night I Made Love to Marilyn
Monroe and Joe Schenck Didn’t 123
17 The Time an Ulcer Won the
Academy Award 148
18 Marlon Brando—World’s
Highest-paid Geek 151
19 Cary Grant—Everybody’s Favorite but
but His Wives’ 156
20 Who Killed Johnny Stompanato? 160
21 Big Duke and the Big C 164
22 Hollywood’s Greatest Romance 171
23 Mae West, Still the Queen of Sex 176
24 Sinatra: Las Vegas’s Swinging Image 182
25 Elvis: He Made an Aircraft Carrier Rock 191
26 King Richard and Queen Elizabeth 194
27 Steve McQueen: Hollywood’s Most
Miserable Movie Star 215
28 The Day David Niven Lost His Sponsor 218
29 Sophia’s Language Teacher 219
Part IV: The Drinkers
30 Actors I Have Known above and under
the Table 225
31 What the Stars Do for That Hangover 249
Part V: The President (of the U.S.A.)
32 How in the Hell Do You Say “No
Comment” in French? 253
Part VI: The Biggest and the Brightest
33 Things People Talk About 265
34 Champagne Fire 268
35 But Will They Do a Movie about Them
in 1999? 273
36 How Time Flies 280
Index 285
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