When my dad was at the top of the recording charts with big contracts from companies like Coca Cola, Jim Mahoney was guiding his publicity. Scott) and Lee (Marvin) sometimes don't want their names in the newspapers and you bury those articles late on Friday hoping they will blow over, but Jim, I'm like trying to get my name in the newspapers . At the time, I was press (working for the Herald Express) and could have written about it in my column, but Cooper was an All-American leading man. Highly recommended if you love old Hollywood dirt and the way things worked when the studio system went down and all the superstars had to fend for themselves when it came to publicity. Mahoney even touched my sister Carrie’s professional life when he was asked by then Fox Studios boss Alan Ladd Jr.

Eventually he manages to get to talk to Wallace but just as Wes began to talk, Wallace was shot, dead on the spot. Over thirty some odd years I ran a very successful entertainment public relations business, but I could not have done it without my associates, especially my late partner Paul Wasserman.On January 14, 2016, it was announced that Wilson Bethel, Adam Arkin and Roxanne Hart would be joining the show to play the Mahoney family. He went to several meetings every day and helped a lot of people get off drugs themselves after he’d finally gotten himself clean. Apart from entertainment Mahoney had life-long friendships with Barron Hilton (Hilton Hotels), and billionaire Las Vegas hotel and studio owner, Kirk Kerkorian, (he owned MGM three different times). Bob Dowling (former Hollywood Reporter Publisher/Editor); “Jim has been a personal friend and colleague of mine for over thirty years.

Friends and colleagues have extolled Mahoney for his accomplishments, including, Robert Wagner; “Jim is a class act… one of my closest friends. Jim Mahoney became my publicist around the time I was doing comedy albums in the mid-60’s, and that union lasted for over 30 years. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. chronicles a career that few in the entertainment industry can compare with and only a handful ever experienced. Complemented by an array of revealing personal photographs, the narrative alternates between heartfelt nostalgia about the seedier side of Manhattan’s go-go scene and funny quips about her unconventional stage performances.In fact, I never conducted an Oscar campaign that we didn't win - from Shirley Jones and George Chakiris to Andre Previn and Franklin Schaffner. Many of the people that worked for me over the years went on to very successful careers in the agency, studio, and network businesses.