01863cam a2200265 4500 275658080 TxAuBib 20131203120000.0 091208s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009049494 9780446548151 0446548154 TxAuBib Weintraub, Jerry. When I stop talking, you'll know I'm dead : useful stories from a persuasive man / Jerry Weintraub, with Rich Cohen. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, 2010. xii, 291 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes index. Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood, with Elvis or Sinatra, Robert Altman or George Clooney--he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage," he writes. "I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: 'Jerry Weintraub Presents.'" With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Jerry chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists--everyone.--From publisher description. 20131203. Weintraub, Jerry. Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography. Cohen, Rich.