Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan CarrAllan Carr was Hollywoods premier party-thrower during the towns most hedonistic era the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the Tommy/New York City subway premiere, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producer the ultimate outsider who first brought movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together. From the stunning success of Grease and La Cage aux Folles to the spectacular failure of the Village Peoples Cant Stop the Music, as a producer Carrs was a rollercoaster of a career punctuated by major hits and phenomenal flops none more disastrous than the Academy Awards show he produced featuring a tone-deaf Rob Lowe serenading Snow White, a fiasco that made Carr an outcast, and is still widely considered to be the worst Oscars ever. Tracing Carrs excess-laden rise and tragic fall and sparing no one along the way Party Animals provides a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywoods most infamous period. |
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PARTY ANIMALS: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll, Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr
User Review - KirkusVariety senior editor Hofler (The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson, 2005, etc.) presents the gaudy career of flamboyant Hollywood and Broadway producer ... Read full review
Contents
Ingrid Kim Allan | 1 |
Deaf Dumb and Blind Ambition | 27 |
ThreePieceSuit Negotiations | 43 |
Survival Techniques | 65 |
Bways Bastard Child | 80 |
Its PepsiCola Time | 106 |
Only Half the Phone Book | 123 |
Oscars First Consultant | 146 |
Spring Breakdown | 257 |
Mickey Judy Time | 287 |
Choreographed Chaos | 314 |
Goya Goya Gone | 336 |
What He Prayed For | 350 |
Proud Mary | 364 |
Snow Blight | 395 |
Death by Oscar | 416 |
Cant Stand the Music | 177 |
Mike Todd Jr | 200 |
The Queen and I | 218 |
Big Bway Babies | 236 |
No Second Acts | 439 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 453 |
Back Cover Material | 511 |
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| Title | Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr |
| Author | Robert Hofler |
| Edition | large print |
| Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com, 2010 |
| ISBN | 145960007X, 9781459600072 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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