Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir

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It was about feeding both sides’ needs, 'Taming the lion' if you will, both the press and the clients," he says. There’s a true story about him camping outside Mick Jagger’s hotel room all night once with Bob Hilburn (LA Times pop music critic) to hold Jagger to his word to do a sit-down with the reporter. When my dad was at the top of the recording charts with big contracts from companies like Coca Cola, Jim Mahoney was guiding his publicity. The baloney detector flashes occasionally, but you can’t have a good story without the fine sauce of embellishment.

With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. He learned the tricks of the trade fast and he's finally sharing some of his best stories in his new book, Get Mahoney! Todd Fisher; “My father Eddie Fisher, and my mother, Debbie Reynolds, were both represented by Jim Mahoney during some of the most important times in their lives. During that time our paths have crossed many times with him representing some of Hollywood’s elite and me being the publisher and editor of the Hollywood Reporter.Mahoney's tome takes us from his early years working directly for Clark Gable (at Gable’s request) and for studio chief, Louis B. Jim Mahoney – The first that comes to mind was an unpleasant episode while we were handling a very popular husband and wife musical duo who shared a meteoric recording career and later a hugely successful television show. Scott) and Lee (Marvin) sometimes don't want their names in the newspapers and you bury those articles late on Friday hoping they will blow over, but Jim, I'm like trying to get my name in the newspapers . Apart from entertainment Mahoney had life-long friendships with Barron Hilton (Hilton Hotels), and billionaire Las Vegas hotel and studio owner, Kirk Kerkorian, (he owned MGM three different times).

No matter how big the item, or how far the reach, he couldn’t see beyond the fact that Garner’s name was mentioned first. When Wes and Laurel get back to Philadelphia, Annalise pulls Wes into her office, in full knowledge of what he had been doing in Ohio, and told him, as a form of bombshell that Wallace Mahoney was his biological father. Jim Mahoney – When starting out at MGM, the most important break or “hit” you could get was for the names of your clients to appear in national columns like Hedda Hopper, Walter Winchell, Earl Wilson, Louella Parsons, and the Herald Express’ Harrison Carrol, who I worked for as a stringer for a couple years. Over thirty some odd years I ran a very successful entertainment public relations business, but I could not have done it without my associates, especially my late partner Paul Wasserman.He was fired by golfing buddy Jim Garner for sending his wife (Garner’s) the wrong color shoes in Paris. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Jim is from the old school that you that you go to the grave with your stories, so we’re lucky that he’s decided to let us in on what he’s kept close to the vest for all these years.

Of course, it didn't take much effort to get someone like Frank Sinatra or Judy Garland a front-page cover story, but it was quite another thing to convince newspaper and magazine editors to bury a story or alter scandalous facts that might have otherwise proven detrimental. I also spent a fair amount of time sanitizing some very successful television series like “Happy Days,” “Cheers,” “Dallas” and “Dynasty,” as well as mini-series like “Shogun” and “The Winds of War. This energetic memoir is bursting with other celebrity anecdotes, as when he describes the MGM commissary: “There were Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Lawford and Van Johnson at one table…Marilyn Monroe, Jane Powell, and Ann Miller sat behind them. But the remake would feature James Garner, another client of mine, and McQueen, and would be produced by Marty.Jesus) and snacks to the cast and crew of “Gone With The Wind” as they filmed the burning of Atlanta down the street from his childhood home in Culver City. A short time later, he was handling some of the biggest movies and documentaries ever ( Star Wars and The Last Waltz) and the biggest recording artists in the industry, Neil Diamond, Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, and eventually U2 and dozens more. Over lunch with Marty one day, I came up with a column item that complimented three of my clients all at once.