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Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me...
Stevie Phillips
St. Martin's Press
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
ISBN: 1250065771
EAN: 9781250065773
Kindle: B00PF7829O
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 über-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.
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