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Hollywood Huckster Makes Big Impression

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

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From the Maggie Award winning C-Suite Quarterly Magazine:

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READING THE COVERAGE

 by Dale Beck

Q3 2014 Culture, Required Reading

The competitive edge means having the advantage to outperform the competition. The result is a “win,” be it in sports, entertainment, or brass-tacks business practice. This quarter we offer six variables, each leading to the same end, all detailing the slippery path to the top and how some individuals and companies successfully reached their goals by thinking both out of the box and within.

Hollywood Huckster: A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions  author: David Garber

Kevin Hartigan has been termed “the scourge of tinsel town dealmakers.” Author David Garber was his writing partner, and now vividly and accurately recalls the “anything goes” days of the ’70s and ’80s when he worked with Hartigan, a guy who would never take no for an answer. Among the anecdotes, read about how they stole a fighter jet from the Air Force, impersonated celebrities to get to a producer, or brought two full-grown lions to a meeting at MGM to show attendees how the cats really roared. Be prepared to laugh out loud.

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UNDER ONE ROOF

16 Sunday Jun 2013

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I will cut youDON’T MESS WITH HIM

The Hollywood Huckster was a master at vividly pitching shows in shorthand.  Here’s how he addressed a presentation for a family sitcom to NBC.  The hook was: two families living under one roof — one white, one black.  The network executive inquired how this would be different from their other family sitcoms.  Kevin grabbed the reins and said, “Think of this show as the difference between a white and a black fairy tale.  The white one begins, ‘Once upon a time…’ and the black one begins, ‘Y’all motherf*&kers ain’t gonna believe da shee-yit dat just went down!”

The exec chucked and inquired about the characters.

The Hucksters explained, “the southern white father would be so stupid you’d have to water him.  The only thing separating him from his trailer trash wife was a ride back to the trailer park! Their kids were home schooled.  They were made to watch Roots backwards, so it would have a happy ending.”

That went over like balls on a hen.  Want to know the rest of the story? They’re in the book.  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D19FJY4

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Relief At Last

15 Saturday Jun 2013

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I CAN’T HOLD IT ANY LONGER

Funny_ShowerANOTHER GREAT REVIEW ON AMAZON

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeding Expectations June 3, 2013

By Jennifer Walters
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The preface to Hollywood Huckster raised the bar, and my expectations, quite high. It’s why I bought the book in the first place. And quite honestly, this book delivered — Joker’s wild.

I immediately found the adventures of these two guys gripping and amazing. It made me want to be one of them. The funny Huckster, Kevin, really got away with murder and I was rooting for him each and every time he pulled his writing partner into another near catastrophe.

Just when I’d think something funny would happen, I was pleasantly surprised by some warm and gentle moments. This book has some strong emotion to it as well. It wasn’t just joke, joke, joke. I found welcomed sensitive elements which gave me some time to catch my breath from all the laughter. I really did laugh out loud a number of times.

I had planned on this book taking me a few weeks to read but instead, got so hooked on it that, I finished it in a few days. If you’re looking for fun, lots of famous people’s names and an unpredictable journey, this book is for you.

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Reviews? We Got Us Some Reviews!

14 Friday Jun 2013

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5.0 out of 5 stars LARGER THAN LIFE May 27, 2013
By marty
Format:Kindle Edition
“Hollywood Huckster” is a breath taking, page turning and brilliantly funny tale about one of the most notorious comedy writers in the history of Hollywood. In the late 70’s and 80’s, Kevin (he’ll burn that bridge when he gets to it) Hartigan was the scourge of tinseltown deal-makers. This collection of jaw-dropping studio and network tales comes from Hartigan’s writing partner and sometimes fall guy, David Garber. Through Garber we follow the rollarcoaster career arc of the writing team of HARTIGAN & GARBER – Although well aware that his larger than life writing partner is both a blessing and a curse, Garber is along for the ride. Hartigan’s outrageous mouth gets them a two picture deal in one minute and thrown out the door the next. The author also doesn’t pull any punches when discussing the plethora of drugs on hand in that infamous era of “hollywood high” – Like Don Draper and Scotch, Hartigan would seem to be forever geturing with a joint in hand.

I HIGHly recommend this book. It’s an amazing insight into both genious and self destruction. The era.. the stars… the little people… and the marijuana pizza joints… And you’ll be amazed at how the Holywood Hipsters of the late 70’s manipulated and beat the sysem… in really funny ways…

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Red Sox and Lesbians?

14 Friday Jun 2013

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The Huckster doesn’t hold back!

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The Hollywood Huckster was appearing on the Good Morning, Boston television show to promote his upcoming movie. Knowing he was a Boston native, the show’s congenial hostess asked him “So, what do you think of the Sox this year?”
Kevin openly responded “They have too much in common with your everyday country possums. They both play dead at home and get killed on the road!”
But it was his next comment that made the station’s switchboard light up like a Christmas tree.
“Coming over here on the “T” (Boston’s Mass Transit subway train) I got to thinking what you’d get if you filled a Red Line car with the 40 Red Sox players and 40 lesbians? Eighty people, none of ‘em do dick!”
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And he get’s even more outrageous.  Read the book.

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HOLLYWOOD HUCKSTER WHO?

13 Thursday Jun 2013

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HOLLYWOOD HUCKSTER: A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions

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For those who don’t know, my book, HOLLYWOOD HUCKSTER –  A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions   was just released last week and in three days, climbed up the Amazon rankings to number one in the Biographies & Memoirs chart. It also landed at number eight on the Humor rankings.

I am hoping that  you might be interested in the outrageous tell-all content and the plethora of real celebrity names and their involvement in what, until now, has been purposefully swept under the carpet.  The president of Fox Family Films called it “Mad Men of the ’70s & ’80s in the entertainment industry.”

Among the amusing and exciting elements within the book, you’ll find out how the Huckster’s exploits included:
  
  • getting caught peeing on an Oscar winning Best Actress’s house; then becoming her close friend;
  • persuading MGM to pull The Wizard of Oz from CBS unless the network caved to his negotiation demands;
  • commandeering a t-38 fighter jet for a joy ride;
  • convincing Senator Ted Kennedy to give up the rights to his brother, JFK’s, personal letters.
  • outwitting Bill Cosby for the use of the Hilton yacht;
  • hosting Aaron Spelling, Robert Wagner and all three Charlie’s Angels in his jail cell;
  • conning the U.S. Secretary of State to pressure Warner Brothers to pick up his $5,000 bar tab;
  • having a gun pulled on him by “Sanford and Son” star, Demond Wilson;
  • eluding a “hit” put on him by the L.A. mob 
Plainly it’s not your ordinary memoir. It’s the Hollywood celebrity tell-all that picks up where all the other tell-all’s end.  All the juicy details can be found between the covers… 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D19FJY4

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SAMPLE CHAPTER – MERRY CHRISTNUKKAH

12 Wednesday Jun 2013

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MERRY CHRISTNUKKAH

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That brisk, windy cold night in ’75 I had met my future and his name was Kevin Hartigan.

Every L.A. radio station was saturated with the sounds of José Feliciano singing “Feliz Navidad.” It’s as if all of Hollywood had suddenly become un Mondo de los Latinos. We were white Chicanos sans the zoot suits.

A similar homogenization of two cultures – Jewish and gentile – was evident in the rapidly growing popularity of the Christnukkah party, the “traditional” Christmas tree decorating gathering at a Jewish person’s house. This was how young, up-and-coming, 20-somethings of Hollywood celebrated in the mid-1970s. No holiday left behind.

My wife, Hava, and I got to Richie Goldman’s duplex before the arrival of the evening’s most anticipated guest. Kevin and Helen Hartigan would arrive on schedule, just about a half hour late. There was always a fantastical reason for Kevin’s tardiness. He wore “misfortune’s target” on his back. What would it be this time? Was he held up by The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s posse galloping down Wilcox Avenue? Or would it be a meteor hit his car while backing out of his garage? He even tied his tardiness once on being detained because the coroner had to exhume his grandmother’s body for a police investigation. No matter. When he arrived, everyone would know it. Not because the front door blew in. Just because it was him.

I recognized Kevin the moment he stepped inside. Rumors and stories preceded his arrival. He was a salt and pepper version of Ernest Hemingway. Nothing so much to look at – moderate height, an unkempt beard, a bit overweight and donned in well-worn casual attire – yet your eyes immediately went to him and his statuesque, red-headed wife, Helen. She looked ten years his junior though they were the same age, around 30.

Suddenly, I was in Kevinland; not to be confused with Neverland. For one thing, in Neverland you never grew up. In Kevinland you aged rapidly and grew beyond your years in a finger snap. Anything and everything was possible save hearing him say the word, “never.” That was reserved for his bosses cursing after him, “F.U. Hartigan. You’ll never work in this town, again!”

We partiers assembled, drank, smoked and were entertained by our hostess, Karen Cohen and our host, Richard Goldman, on the piano. Richard is a greatly qualified talent – singer, songwriter, and satirist – sometimes all three at the same time. He made the ultimate host for the event, the Goldman – Cohen Christnukkah party.

It only took Kevin a few moments before the storyteller and raconteur extraordinaire became “herbed up.” He blazed a joint, took a seat and started explaining to us that he was late arriving because he had just been to his sister-in-law’s house. This was the first time he and Helen had seen Patsy since she had gotten married for the fourth time.

“Patsy wanted her sister Helen’s support when she broke some personal news to her new husband. How do I put this?” Kevin treaded, “She was still a virgin.”

A bizarre bit of information to share with a group of strangers, my wife and I thought.

“Her husband, Martin, was shocked; stunned was more like it,” according to Kevin with slight affectation to his voice. “‘Patsy, how can that be? You’ve been married three times before?’”

“‘Well,” she confided, “‘my first husband, Eric, was an engineer: he understood the basic process but wanted some time to research, implement, and design a new state-of-the-art method of lovemaking. He wanted me to wait. I’m a good Catholic. I wanted kids. So I got the marriage annulled.’”

We chuckled and with an imposed seriousness of the situation, Kevin went on, though his wife, Helen, was giving him the “stink eye.”

“Patsy then shared that her second husband, Gerald, was in marketing: ‘although he had a nice product, he was never sure how to position it. Those are just some wrinkles, I kept telling him! He never could get it in, so I dumped him, too.’”

We were like fish and Kevin had caught us. He was about to set the hook.

“‘My last husband, Tommy, was a stamp collector: all he ever did was… God! I miss him! Death and my yeast infection took him too soon.’”

We roared. Yet Kevin wasn’t done. Now he’d reel us in.

“‘And so,’ my sister-in-law confided as she turned to her new hubby, ‘I’ve married you, Martin. Now, I’m really excited!’”

“Marty, wasn’t sure he could live up to her expectations. Noticing this, he remarked, ‘Good. But what makes you think I’ll be any different from the others?’”

“‘Because Martin, you’re a lawyer. For sure this time I know I’m gonna get screwed!’”

We had been landed on the deck of the laughing ship, the USS Hartigan.

For the better part of two hours, Kevin held court. His recounting of tales ranged from bar fights in the Merchant Marines to growing up poor in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He held us captive. He lived up to all the hype I had been told, and even more. His thick Boston accent and a little tweak of the Irish glint, instead of hindering actually added to the lilting refrains of his stories. They carried you to far off places, kept you smiling and even belly laughing at his observations.

In the ‘70s, everyone watched The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. One of his favorite guests, with over a hundred appearances was the buxom Carol Wayne, AKA the Matinee Lady – or as Kevin would say, the “ditz with the tits.”

He deftly segued into recently running into her on his way to an interview at NBC in Burbank. Someone asked Kevin if she looked that “big” in person.

“Let me put it to you this way. If she skipped rope without wearing a bra,” he crossed himself before continuing, “she’d lose an eye.”

Kevin soon asked the host for another bottle of brewski but Helen told him she thought he had imbibed enough. Most probably he had. Kevin deftly assured his wife he was going to be responsible tonight, as he had been a few nights before.

He turned to the group and proudly boasted, “A couple nights ago, and Helen knows this, I was out for a few pops with some friends. I had one too many beers and then chased it with a margarita. Not a good idea. So sensing I was at least slightly over the limit, I did something I’ve never done before: I took a taxi home.”

We could see that he was using sound judgment.

“Good thing, too. On the way I passed a police sobriety checkpoint. Being in a taxi, they just waved it through. I arrived home safely into my wife’s adoring arms, without incident, which, in a way, was a total surprise. I had never driven a taxi before and am not sure where I got it.”

He did it to us again.

“And can you imagine my further shock when I woke up the next morning and found out those adoring arms around me weren’t Helen’s?” He turned to her, “I love you, Dear.” She just slugged him.

So went my introduction to the man who would change my life forever. Now, it wasn’t always going to be a pleasant journey, but there were sure to be laughs attached, no matter how bumpy the ride.

For all of the story, get the book:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D19FJY4

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DARE TO CRITICIZE

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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The disappointed network executive looked over to the Hollywood Huckster, “All I asked for was a strong script and I got this.”  That didn’t faze the Huckster. “Let me tell you a little story”, he said. “When I was a kid, I asked God just before Christmas to give me a bike. But I knew God didn’t work that way. So, I stole a bike right out of my neighbor’s garage. Christmas Day I prayed to Him for forgiveness. THAT I knew he gave—and you know what? I got the bike AND His forgiveness. So, unless you think I’m God, don’t expect the same from me.”  From HOLLYWOOD HUCKSTER – A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions. http://www.hollywoodhuckster.wordpress.com

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HOLLYWOOD HUCKSTER WISDOM

10 Monday Jun 2013

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The Hollywood Huckster rarely ate in public.  Now you can see why.  BTW, if you’ve already read HOLLYWOOD HUCKSTER – A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions, please leave a review on the Amazon site:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D19FJY4

It would be greatly appreciated.

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Casting with the Huckster

09 Sunday Jun 2013

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The Hollywood Huckster could be tasteless at times… When asked the difference between the young woman star of his propose series and the old woman neighbor, Kevin replied, “Breasts.”  The production company exec looked at him quizzically.  Kevin continued, “Actually, it’s what’s between them.  Between the young woman’s? Nothing.  Between the old lady’s?  Her navel.”

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