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Don't let that tanned, handsome, charming surface
fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade
mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton
doesn't miss a thing. With a front row seat for
classic Hollywood's biggest secrets and scandals,
George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable
spirit to tell his story, and the story of
Tinseltown's heyday, with great good humor and
delicious candor -- as only he can. From Where the
Boys Are to Dancing with the Stars; from Mary
Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor; from smalltown
Arkansas to the capitals of Europe -- it's all here
in his memoir, Don't Mind If I Do
(Touchstone), and George has lived to tell and to
laugh about it.
As the child of a Dartmouth-educated bandleader
father and a glamorous Southern debutante mother
whose marriage crumbled early on, George had a
childhood filled with misadventures and challenges
that his mother always seemed able to turn from
tragedy to comedy. Her idea of changing the family's
fortunes involved a trip cross-country with three
sons and a poodle in a Lincoln Continental, making
stops along the way to search for husband/father
number three. And she was quick to recognize that
George's potential success lay in Hollywood.
George starved nobly for his art in the late 1950s,
but was soon starring in major motion pictures
directed by the likes of Vincente Minnelli and Louis
Malle. In Don't Mind If I Do, he shares
intimate and hugely entertaining stories of his
friendships with Cary Grant; Brigitte Bardot; Robert
Mitchum; Merle Oberon; Mae West; Sammy Davis, Jr.;
and Judy Garland -- not to mention Lyndon B. Johnson
and Elvis's Colonel Tom Parker as well as the King
himself -- among others. The world is Hamilton's
oyster, and this ultimate insider is ready to share
it with us.
Don't Mind If I Do is available at most major bookstores and on-line book distributors.
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