Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr

by Hofler, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780306816550
• ISBN10: 0306816555
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Allan Carr was known as Hollywood's premier party-thrower during the town's most hedonistic erathe cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s.With fetes that came to be known as the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party, the Truman Capote/Jail House Party, the Elton John/Horse Party, and the Roman Polanski/ Rolodex Party, not to mention the Tommy/New York City subway premiere and theCan't Stop the Music/Lincoln Center Party, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producerthe ultimate outsider who became the first catalyst to bring movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together.Tracing Carr's excess-laden rise and tragic fall as promoter and producer of both major hits and phenomenal flopsand sparing no one along the wayHofler provides a candid behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood's most infamous era.

Author Biography

Robert Hofler is a senior editor at Variety and author of The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson and Variety’s “The Movie that Changed My Life.” He was previously an editor at Buzz, Life, and Us magazines. He lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction: And the Phone Rang	p. vii
Ingrid, Kim, Allan	p. 1
Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Ambition	p. 16
Three-Piece-Suit Negotiations	p. 25
Sluts'Night Out	p. 28
Capote's Retreat	p. 32
Survival Techniques	p. 38
B'way's Bastard Child	p. 47
High School Confidential	p. 53
It's Pepsi-Cola Time	p. 63
Only Half the Phone Book	p. 73
Grease on Track	p. 78
Oscar's First Consultant	p. 87
His Second Biggest Mistake	p. 92
Can't Stand the Music	p. 105
Mike Todd Jr.,	p. 118
The Queen and I	p. 129
Why Grease Again?	p. 136
Big B'way Babies	p. 140
Diller's Curse	p. 144
Make It a Croissant	p. 148
Spring Breakdown	p. 154
Mickey & Judy Time	p. 161
Here Come the Cagelles!	p. 166
Choreographed Chaos	p. 177
Goya, Goya, Gone	p. 190
What He Prayed For	p. 198
Proud Mary	p. 206
Snow Blight	p. 224
Death by Oscar	p. 236
Epilogue: No Second Acts	p. 249
Acknowledgments	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 259
Notes	p. 265
Index	p. 293
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