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Product Identifiers

PublisherTouchstone

ISBN-101416545026

ISBN-139781416545026

eBay Product ID (ePID)65697587

Product Key Features

Book TitleDon't Mind if I Do

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRich & Famous, Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorGeorge Hamilton, William Stadiem

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-022459

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Hamilton is a witty raconteur, and has...a genuine sense of humor about himself." --Publishers Weekly, "[Hamilton] is smarter, edgier and sexier than one might expect. And he lives to entertain you!"-- Liz Smith,New York Post, "[T]he reigning mood of this book...is self-deprecating good humor. And its stories are star-studded and wild..."-- Janet Maslin,The New York Times

Dewey Decimal791.4302/8092 B

SynopsisSpend a few hours with George Hamilton?Don't Mind If I DoDon't let that tanned, handsome, charming surface fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton doesn't miss a thing. With a front row seat for classic Hollywood's biggest secrets and scandals, George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown's heyday, with great good humor and delicious candor -- as only he can. FromWhere the Boys AretoDancing with the Stars; from Mary Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor; from smalltown Arkansas to the capitals of Europe -- it's all here, and George has lived to tell and to laugh about it.As the child of a Dartmouth-educated bandleader father and a glamorous Southern debutante mother whose marriage crumbled early on, George had a childhood filled with misadventures and challenges that his mother always seemed able to turn from tragedy to comedy. Her idea of changing the family's fortunes involved a trip cross-country with three sons and a poodle in a Lincoln Continental, making stops along the way to search for husband/father number three. And she was quick to recognize that George's potential success lay in Hollywood.George starved nobly for his art in the late 1950s, but was soon starring in major motion pictures directed by the likes of Vincente Minnelli and Louis Malle. He has forgotten more about Hollywood than most movie experts will ever know and shares intimate and hugely entertaining stories of his friendships with Cary Grant; Brigitte Bardot; Robert Mitchum; Merle Oberon; Mae West; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Judy Garland -- not to mention Lyndon B. Johnson and Elvis's Colonel Tom Parker as well as the King himself -- among others. The world is Hamilton's oyster, and this ultimate insider is ready to share it with us. So fasten your seat belt. We'll tell you when it's safe to move about the cabin again.

LC Classification NumberPN2287.H178A3 2008