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Phillips, Stevie, 1936-
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Phillips, Stevie, 1936-
Garland, Judy -- Friends and associates.
Minnelli, Liza -- Friends and associates.
Theatrical agents -- United States -- Biography.
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Phillips, Stevie, 1936-
Phillips, Stevie, 1936-
Garland, Judy -- Friends and associates.
Minnelli, Liza -- Friends and associates.
Theatrical agents -- United States -- Biography.
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Judy
& Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & me ... : a memoir / Stevie Phillips.
by
Phillips, Stevie, 1936-
St. Martin's Press, c2015.
Call #:
792.0232 P563j
Subjects
Phillips, Stevie, 1936-
Garland
,
Judy
--
Friends
and
associates
.
Minnelli, Liza
--
Friends
and
associates
.
Theatrical agents
--
United States
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781250065773 (hc)
1250065771 (hc)
Alternate title:
Judy
and Liza and Robert and Freddie and David and Sue and me... : a memoir
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 278 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
--
Introduction
--
Part 1 Beginnings
--
1. Who the Hell Is Stevie Phillips?
--
2. What Do You Do with a Jewish Princess?
--
3. Girl on the Bottom
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4. Can I Tell You About "Menial"?
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5. The New Kids on the Block
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6. How Good Is Real?
--
7. Have You Heard of Haddonfield?
--
8. Boston
--
9. Reality Checks
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10. Love--or Something Like It
--
11. Vegas
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12. Back in New York
--
13. A Vacation
--
14. One Kind of Husband
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15. Endings, Beginnings, and Endings
--
16. A Very Sad Day
--
17. Sometimes
--
Part 2 Success
--
18. The Liza Start-up
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19. Flying Solo
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20. Starring Liza
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21. What Is an Agent?
--
22. Moving On
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23. Crazy
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24. Fun in the Sun
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25. The Success Effect
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26. Betrayal
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Part 3 Maturity
--
27. A Different Kind of Whorehouse
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28. Broadway Gets a Whorehouse
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29. Hollywood Gets Another Whorehouse
--
30. My Last Marriage
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31. The Pieces
--
32. TGIF (Thank God It's Finished)!
--
33. Climbing the Mountain.
Summary:
"No star burned more ferociously than
Judy
Garland
. And nobody witnessed
Garland
's fierce talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the Mad Men era, Stevie Philips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan's glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she began working for Freddie Fields and David Begelman at Music Corporation of America (MCA) under the glare of legendary ©ơber-agent Lew Wasserman. When MCA blew apart, Fields and Begelman created Creative Management
Associates
(CMA), and Stevie went along. Fields convinced
Garland
to come on board, and Stevie became, as she puts it, "
Garland
's shadow," putting out fires-figurative and literal-in order to get her to the next concert in the next down-and-out town. Philips paints a portrait of
Garland
at the bitter end and although it was at times a nightmare, Philips says, "She became my teacher," showing her "how to" and "how not to" live. Stevie also represented
Garland
's fiercely talented daughter, Liza Minnelli, as well as Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, George Roy Hill, Bob Fosse, Cat Stevens, and David Bowie. She produced both films and Broadway shows and counted her colleague, the legendary agent Sue Mengers, among her closest confidantes. Now Stevie Phillips reveals all in
Judy
& Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me ..., a tough-talking memoir by a woman who worked with some of the biggest names in show business. It's a helluva ride"--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Autobiographies.
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