Mike Crosby

Life Magazine November 4, 1957 -- Cover: Elizabeth Taylor and Daughter Liza Todd, NYC Time, Inc. 1957 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
Very Good

Articles include: Photo of Army Signal Corps trainees in the 'pole orchard'; U.S. tries to catch up in Space Race, launches Thor, Jupiter, Vanguard; Bing Crosby weds Kathryn Grant (photo); Soviet mischeif-making in Syria; Governor Race in New Jersey -- Robert Meyner vs. Malcom Forbes; A Feast of Fairytales on TV -- Van Johnson in 'Pied Piper', Mickey Rooney in 'Pinocchio' -- Shirley Temple is mistress of ceremonies; Liz and Mike's Tiny Cover Girl; Look of the West Inspires artists Douglas Snow, Richard Diebenkorn, Enrique Montenegro, Louis Bunce; Desloge, Mo. high-school students study in train cars after tornado destroys their school; San Marino's un-bloody civil war; Elegant sweater girls -- European aristocrats (Consuelo Crespi, Vicomtesse de Ribes, others) model fashions; The Coming Out of the 1958 Cars -- Chevy and Pontiac ignore fins as Chrysler keeps them and Lincoln goes for bigness; Carl Sandburg writes new poem about Chicago -- delivers it as a speech; The historic skull of Shanidar Cave; Two slapstick war movies 'Operation Mad Ball' with Mickey Rooney and 'Don't Go Near the Water' with Glenn Ford; A Southern Challenge and Epitaph for Dixie -- Faubus' foe Harry Ashmore says integration is inevitable; Lavish Ball for Queen Elizabeth II at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York. Mailing label on front cover, edgewear. Magazine

[SW: Mike Todd, Attilio Giannini, Federico Bigi, Ralph Solecki]

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Life Magazine October 29, 1945 - Cover: Autumn, Chicago Time, Inc. 1945
Very Good

Articles include: Caricatures of Truman Administration by Oscar Berger; New York's Campaign for Mayor; Allies Indict 24 Top Nazis for War Crimes; The Atomic Scientists Speak Out - Nuclear Physicists say there is no secrecy in atomic bomb and no defense against it; Japan's Zaibatsu; Weight Lifting; Autumn - color pages; Mr. Piper of Cub-Haven; Teen-Age Magazine - New "Junior Bazaar" is published by junior misses; Boll Weevil's Birth; Movie of the Week: "And Then There Were None"; English Country Houses - They were homes of ruling class in Britain's great past (color pages); Army is using dramatic treatment called narco-synthesis to help psychiatric casualties; Fashion - Scarf tricks; Two English evacuees go home; Electronic rat trap; New Folk Singer Susie Reed; Life Goes to Mike Romanoff's Restaurant; Berlin's Broken Statues. Movie ad: "The Bells of St. Mary's" with Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman. Edgewear. Magazine

[SW: World War II, 1945, William O'Dwyer, Fiorello LaGuardia, Nazi War Criminals, Ryozo Asano, Weight Lifting, Piper Cub airplanes, William Thomas Piper, Junior Bazaar, Wollaton Hall, Cranborne Lodge, Sutton Place, Hardwick Hall, Hatfield Hall, Knole, Narco-Synthesis, Cornelius M. Stanton, Susie Reed, Mike Romanoff, Harry S. Truman, Oscar Berger, Atomic bomb, Zaibatsu, Boll Weevils]

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Brillstein, Bernie: WHERE DID I GO RIGHT? : YOU'RE NO ONE IN HOLLYWOOD UNLESS SOMEONE WANTS YOU DEAD, Boston Little Brown & Co 1999
ISBN: 0-316-11885-0 As New Condition

"My wink is binding," Bernie Brillstein writes in the middle part of his memoir of a career in showbiz. At this point the movie-star manager has already admitted that he wanted power and prestige as soon as he started in the William Morris agency mailroom. And that he chased after a Don Corleone-ish kind of respect afterward. But even when he became a clout-carrying manager and near-mogul he kept his people-first credo. You suspect he loves it too for the way it echoes the Borscht Belt, since that's the kind of verbal energy he draws on throughout this anecdote-crammed autobiography. He calls himself "show," but in four decades he had to be "business" too, tough enough to tell clients, as he says he did, when to start their career over from scratch. The book begins with a graphically honest memory of his visit to the proctologist with his family when he was 24--something he guffaws off, but it's probably not far from the sort of reality check he regularly gave clients like Jim Henson, Norm Crosby, Lorne Michaels, John Belushi, and Brad Pitt. He cops to a gambling addiction, a love of "high class call girls," and to the way he stole from Laugh-Into invent Hee Haw. But he also brokered Lorne Michael's big break with SNL, produced Dangerous Liaisons, and eventually got News Radio and The Sopranos on the air. He candidly assesses professional pains too, including Michael Ovitz's pathology, Garry Shandling's riddling neuroses, and the loss of Belushi and Henson. "I care," he writes finally, "because that's who I am." It's easy to smile at that, but by the end of the book it's also easy to believe he means it. --Lyall Bush From Publishers Weekly In a 45-year career as an agent, producer, studio head and personal manager, Brillstein may have swum with the Hollywood sharks, but he doesn't consider himself one. While Brillstein understandably brims with pride when recounting how he built his impressive stable of clientsAincluding Muppets creator Jim Henson and Saturday Night Live's John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and Lorne MichaelsAhe is often self-deprecating in this engaging memoir. With a bemused tone similar to Robert Evans's in The Kid Stays in the Picture, Brillstein 'fesses up to various sins: getting into the business to meet women, booking business for a dead client early in his career at the William Morris Agency, and being the New York Jew responsible for launching the ultimate in TV cornpone: Hee-Haw. But there are glimpses of pathos, too: in his admissions of ambivalence about having sold his share of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment to partner Brad Grey; in his memories of a famous comedian uncle who torpedoed his own career, of a mother who seldom got out of bed and Brillstein's own succession of wives; and in his account of the tragic early deaths of Henson and Belushi. Perhaps most interesting to Hollywood insiders and media junkies will be Brillstein's assessment of the TV biz (he suggests doing away with pilots and having the guts to commit to shows) and his rivalry with CAA co-founder Mike Ovitz, a former friend. "When a bully is left on his own, he gets stupid," writes Brillstein, proving that even if he's not exactly a shark, he still has biteInc. Hardcover 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches

[SW: leadership, self improvement, personal development, time management, business, menopause, success, inspirational, psychology, self-help, personal mba]

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Seminara, George: Mug Shots: Celebrities Under Arrest, NY St. Martin's Griffin 1996 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0312143745
0312143745 Very Good+

Tight/BRight Copy, light edgewear, unmarked text. A Unique Collection of Celebrity Mug Dhots Catching the Stars at their Worst. Includes the Detailed and Embarassing Incident Report, Location, Arrest Date, Charges along with 1 or 2 Booking Photo's for each of these unlucky Celebs. Features: Jane Fonda, Tim Allen, Larry King, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Paul Pee-wee Herman Ruebens, Charles Barkley, Calvin Broadus aka Snoop Doggy Dog, Danny Bonaduce, James Brown, Lenny Bruce, Brett Butler, Rory Calhoun, Luther Campbell, Jose Canseco, Jennifer Capriati, George Carlin, David Crosby, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hugh Grant & Hooker Divine Marie Brown, Tonya Harding, O. J. Simpson, Janis Joplin, Jack Kevorkian, Don King, Evel Knievel, Jerry Lee Lewis Al Pacino, Axl rose, Mike Tyson and many others. Later Printing Trade Paperback 5.5" Wide x 8.5" Tall Out-of-Print; Later Printing

[SW: Celebritty, Hollywood, Stars, Mug Shots, Crime, Arrests, Biography, Drugs, Cocaine, Prostitution, Abuse, Pee-wee Herman, Justice, Criminal, Drunkeness, DUI, Assult, Cannabis, Felony, Misdemeanor, Murder, Sports, Music, Cinema, Television, Radio, Hollywood::Celebrities Movie and Film Books]

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