Allan Carr left his indelible mark!
Ann Margaret & Elvis!
I was taken aback when I caught sight of the thumb-nail portrait of Allan Carr staring back at me on the Twitter social hub earlier this afternoon.
The tweet read:
"Couldn't make it to the gym today"
OMG!
Why not?
Well, for starters, because Mr. Carr (who I knew personally) passed to spirit many years ago.
And, if I am not mistaken, good friend Ann Margaret can attest to the fact.
After all, true friend that she was, she fulfilled Allan's death bed wish to have his ashes cast out to sea.
The infamous Mr. Carr drove a creme-colored Rolls Royce, built a disco in his Beverly Hills Mansion on Benedict Canyon Road, and was known for tossing wild over-the-top one-of-a-kind party extravaganzas to die for.
Teen bill-of-fare (Grease) - starring the likes of Maxwell Caulfield & John Travolta - followed and cinched his stake in the Hollywood Dream Factory.
It began with an invite from producer extraordinaire - Robert Stigwood - to produce the ad campaign for Saturday Night Fever.
With a midas touch, Carr turned the star-studded television special into the event of the year.
Grease followed.
Carr not only helmed the ad campaign and produced the premiere party, but also wrote the screen adaptation for six million dollars.
The stellar cast was headed up by Olivia Newton-John.
When the dust settled, Grease was the highest grossing film of the year, the most popular movie musical of all time, and one of the highest grossing films in history.
The splashy big-budget musicial was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and won two People's Choice Awards (Best Picture & Best Musical Picture).
As I mentioned in an earlier post on Bruce Jenner, I was being considered for a role in the off-beat Village People music vehicle (Can't Stop the Music) but lost out to another Hollywood hopeful by the name of Steve Guttenberg.
Post: 02/14/10
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2010/02/bruce-jennerappears-in-hollywood-to.html
The film - directed by Nancy Walker (also starring Valerie Perrine & Jenner) - was a big ballsy in-your-face flop.
In the final analysis, I was spared association with one of the all-time feature-film turkeys!
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