OTHER PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS One Man’s Starry-Eyed Quest for The American Dream A Showbiz Odyssey ~ Chapter 5
The World’s First Video-Enhanced Audio Book Memoir
Dear Substack reader:
As I mentioned a few months back, while trying to report on the harsh realities of today’s troubling world, I wrote a memoir recalling my two decades of intense problem-solving for some of the most famous people on earth: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, and a boatload of other icons of film, music, theater, television, dance, literature, art, fashion, and pop culture, coupled with sharp-edge commentary on 50 years of American history, government, politics, economics, journalism, food, finance, the cosmos, and more.
Unsuccessful at attracting the attention of a literary agent (those I once knew either long retired or pushing daisies), I devised a uniquely different approach— the results of which are the world’s first video-enhanced audio book, Chapter 1 of which I published a few months ago on YouTube.
If you’ve enjoyed my commentaries here-- please check out (Chapter 5) of my groundbreaking, on-camera rendition of OTHER PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS One’s Man’s Starry-Eyed Quest for the American Dream A Showbiz Odyssey at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjVXk4YsWkyfFKLa5qbiqkw/videos
Along with my own triumphs and travail, you’ll witness the virtues and foibles of the famous and infamous, including: the humor, charm, and sadness of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; the gritty genius of Alvin Ailey, Melvin Van Peebles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Dunn, Sid Caesar, Joseph Heller, A.J. Antoon, John Dexter, John Wood, Jeremy Brett, Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack), Eddie Brigati, Roger Grimsby, and Ralph Lauren; the basic decency of Ramsey Clark, Henry Fonda, Robert Redford, Roger Vadim, and Jerry Lewis; the vivacity of Tammy Grimes, Sybil Christopher, Lynn Redgrave, Ruth Ford, Claire Bloom, Kathleen Quinlan, and Diana Ross; the dourness of Andy Warhol and Huntington Hartford; the pain and pathos of Phil Ochs and Truman Capote; the cynicism of Tom Hayden and J. Edgar Hoover; and the callous indifference to the Rule of Law from those sworn to uphold and enforce it, whose actions tragically foretold the wholesale erosion of ethics and values that plagues the world today.