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When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Jerry Weintraub ID: B003FX6INM

Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary dealmaker, 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 – 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 says. “I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: ‘Jerry Weintraub Presents.'”In When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age 26 with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman and Nashville, continuing with Oh, God!, the Karate Kid movies, and Diner, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen.Along the way, we’ll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow, and the Great Palace in Beijing – all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer…the list goes on forever.And of course, the story is not yet over. As the old-timers say, “The best is yet to come.” And as Weintraub says, “When I stop talking, you’ll know I’m dead.”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.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 7 hours and 37 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Hachette AudioAudible.com Release Date: April 7, 2010Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B003FX6INM Best Sellers Rank: #9 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Movie Directors #21 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Business Leaders #23 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Arts & Entertainment > Performing Arts
Rich Cohen–I’ve been reading him for ten years–is one of the country’s best writers. Jerry Weintraub–film producer, musician manager, deal maker–is one of the nation’s best livers. (Mention an event, a celebrity, the man has a story.) Cohen can write anything; Weintraub has done nearly everything. Which is what makes this book such a perfect match. Weintraub is the real deal–came up without money or the helping hands than can do the work of money; produced the three "Ocean’s Eleven" pictures, also "Nashville" and "Diner" (two decades’ great classics), also managed Elvis, also Sinatra, also the chess-champion Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik. It’s an amazing story. Weintraub goes everywhere and does everything; he heads someplace, arrives, finds himself at the center. A gift, which he discovers in himself and develops. He found a way to take Elvis on the road at 26, to bring Sinatra’s career back at 35; when he’s watching the Fischer chess championship on TV, he just buys a ticket, flies to Iceland, and more or less enters the screen himself. (That’s one lesson Weintraub teaches from his kind of life. Find what you love, trust it. Then act.) The story is filled with advice, plus advice-by-example: hustling in the beginning, finding the angle, picking your allies–"If you work with people you love, which, of course, is not always possible, the hard times become an epic adventure"–then getting to a place where your own work functions as an ad, as the attraction: "I did not have to hustle quite as much. Once you’ve established yourself, you can, to some extent, let business find you. You become a beacon, a door into a better life.
Heard the CD version of WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW
I’M DEAD–written and read by Jerry Weintraub.

He’s the legendary Hollywood producer, deal maker, and friend of politicians
and stars . . . as he notes:

* All life was a theater, and I wanted to put it up on stage. I wanted to set
the world under a marquee that read: "Jerry Weintraub Presents."

And present he did, beginning at age 26 with Elvis Presley, whom he
took on the road with Colonel Tom Parker’s help . . . through his
days with Frank Sinatra when he was at the height of his career . . . and
including his role in such hits as OH, GOD!, THE KARATE KID, DINER, and
OCEAN’S ELEVEN, TWELVE AND THIRTEEN.

Along the way, the author shares his experience with such other personalities
as George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George W. Bush, Brad Pitt, Bob Dylan,
John Denver, Bobby Fischer and a whole host of others too numerous to
name . . . but you don’t get the feeling that he’s merely name-dropping; rather,
it almost feels like you are having a one-on-one conversation with Weintraub.

I also liked the advice that he shared throughout the book, including:

* People will pay you to make their lives easier.

* Never get paid one when you can get paid twice.

* Every 10 years, something new is coming . . . a big hand comes down
and pushes the dishes off the table.

* An idea is only crazy until somebody pulls it off.

* To be successful, you need to have a certain "screw ’em" attitude . . . in
politics, entertainment, sports, etc.

There were some great stories, too . . .
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