Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir

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chronicles a career that few in the entertainment industry can compare with and only a handful ever experienced. He can frequently be found on his back patio overlooking the 18th fairway enjoying a cigar and regaling guests with stories you’d think were Hollywood fantasy but were in fact his every-day life for decades.

On the other hand if we’re talking about something other than the entertainment industry, I couldn’t have gone wrong following my father into his line of work. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters. He was never a problem, and he was always employed – from his breakout Number One/Grammy Award-winning comedy LP, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, to his Las Vegas stand-up engagements and multi-award-winning TV series (plural), he was a dream client. It taught me that even the icons have basic needs and get thirsty once in a while, and that initiation with Hollywood’s elite proved invaluable later on in life when I had to approach them on more serious business matters.From Gable to Garland, Sinatra to The Stones, Jim has helped some of the biggest names in Hollywood keep their image squeaky clean. Charles, from an idle taxi, sees simply Michaela looking like she had abandoned their plans and jumps on into the taxi, driving off from the others.

Mahoney was good at his job, and frequently referred to himself as a better “suppress” agent than press agent. I asked him if I could have a word with him privately and I subtly suggested he leave and find a quieter place to “dine.I now had two of the hottest restaurants in town as clients… Finally Frank invited Pat and I to dinner that night to celebrate. All I could muster was, “The ones you smoke…” He knew I was traveling with the tour group and then he very graciously turned to one of his handlers and told him to have a couple of boxes of his best for me to take with me when we left the following day. We later learned from our mother that when she first stepped foot on the MGM lot it was Jim Mahoney from the PR department that showed her around. is fun romp through old Hollywood, with names that you’ll recognize and untold stories that makes this book hard to put down.

DEADLINE: If you could go back and change a story that’s been oft-repeated and isn’t true, what would it be? he wisely takes a back seat to the stars while giving us enough background on himself so we understand the situations. He manned the front lines of Frank Sinatra Jr's kidnapping, hung with the Rat Pack in Las Vegas and was at the party at Peter Lawford's house the night Marilyn Monroe died.Highly recommended if you love old Hollywood dirt and the way things worked when the studio system went down and all the superstars had to fend for themselves when it came to publicity.

Regarding the Golden Globes, we literally created a show-stopper for client Pia Zadora when she won for New Star Of The Year. For some reason I decided to read all about how someone did public relations for movie stars, wanna-be stars and companies large and small. My Hollywood career began at the tender age of nine, when I sneaked under the fence of the old Selznick studios in Culver City and sold Cokes to the cast and crew on the set of “Gone With the Wind.The narrative gets off to a good start with Anderson’s nostalgic memories of her childhood in coastal Vancouver, raised by very young, very wild, and not very competent parents. What this book shares is what life of a Public Relations firm was like before the internet and social media as we have come to know it today. At one point in the ’60s I was invited to join Lou Adler and Pierre Cossette in a management arrangement (respectively, they were handling the Mamas and the Pap,as and Ann-Margret, not bad). Nancy SinatraFrom Gable to McQueen; from the Rolling Stones to U2; Jim Mahoney's job as a Hollywood press agent was to polish stars and make sure they continued to shine brightly.