Let Me Entertain You

This is a self-portrait, in selective memory, of a man who has led many lives, all of them full of risk, accomplishment, and above all humanity. There is David Brown of the powerful producing team Zanuck/Brown (The Sting, Jaws). There is David Brown, raconteur extraordinaire, relating astonishing stories of his encounters with the famous, notorious, and all-powerful-including Mafia chieftains, Presidents, the reclusive Howard Hughes, the super-rich J. Paul Getty, William Randolph Hearst, superstar Marilyn Monroe, Robert Kennedy, Irving Berlin, Paul Newman, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Darryl Zanuck, David, O. Selznick, John O'Hara, Carl Sandburg, Nikita Khrushchev, Frank Sinatra, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dali, Irving Lazar, John Belushi and scores of others. There is David Brown, journalist, author, film mogul, veteran of the corporate jungle, and -yes-onetime astrologer. There is David Brown, husband and intellectual companion to a publishing phenomenon, an event in human form, the former Helen Gurley.