When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003FX6INM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 501 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Interesting read. A very interesting read, and I liked it. Its something when you find you don't identify with someone nor feel inclined to like them very much, yet still take a profound interest in their story. Truly you'll either like Jerry or hate 'em, regardless th. One of the best stories on ground up development of a business and A. Hudson One of the best stories on ground up development of a business and networking empire that I've ever read. Jerry brings a candid and unselfish history of, what many of us know, his rise to becoming one of the most influential talent agents in the enter. Anonymously said This is a great book and I now consider Jerry a dear friend. This is a great book and I now consider Jerry a dear friend. Reading this autobiography is like watching a guy falling up the stairs of success and having a great time doing it. Jerry just starts talking and he doesn't know what he's going to say or w
From Publishers Weekly Hollywood power player Weintraub, now 72, is always in control and goes to great lengths to prove it: besides having managed musical legends like Presley, Sinatra and John Denver ("I cooked him from scratch"), Weintraub once closed a deal by faking a heart attack, and won the respect of one of Chicago's most powerful men, Arthur Wirtz, when he cursed Wirtz out for making him wait (Wirtz would go on to become one of Weintraub's mentors). As Weintraub repeatedly states, he is not a star, which perhaps that explains the disappointing omission of photos. Still, with a bold voice, a storied career, and a cast of superstars, his memoir makes a rousing insider tour of some five decades in the entertainment industry. Weintraub's also produced plays, TV shows, movies (from Nashville to the Ocean's 11 franchise), and more, summing up his talent simply: "When I believe in something, it's going to get done." Edgy and honest but refreshingly spare in his criticism of sta
"All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage," he writes. Along the way, we'll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing-all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood--he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. "I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: 'Jerry Weintraub Presents.'" In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU'LL KNOW I'M DEAD, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer,