Jerry Weintraub
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Twelve, 2010
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How to promote fearlessly: Jerry Weintraub explains his daring, star-filled career.
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Recommendation
Jerry Weintraub loves Jerry Weintraub and believes that Jerry Weintraub has led a fascinating life. As a result, Jerry Weintraub loves to tell stories about Jerry Weintraub. Here, Jerry Weintraub tells a lot of them, about promoting stars and making deals. Most are quite short. Many are compelling. Weintraub dispenses show business gossip, Mafia talk, family tales, accounts of rock music and movie excesses, and instructions for a successful career in promoting, agenting, managing and producing, all of which he carried out with astonishing success. getAbstract recommends Weintraub’s insider yarns and finds that mostly what Weintraub presents is his joy at being Weintraub. That this delight remains for the most part charming underscores a continuing theme: His charm allowed Weintraub to pull off career moves few others would have dared.
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About the Author
Jerry Weintraub is a producer, agent, manager and philanthropist. Rich Cohen is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.
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