Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr

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Overview

Allan Carr Was Hollywood's Premier Party-Thrower during the town's most hedonistic era-the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the Tommy/New York City subway premiere, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producer-the ultimate outsider-who first brought movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together.

From the stunning success of Grease and La Cage aux folles to the spectacular failure of the Village People's Can't Stop the Music, Carr's was a rollercoaster of a career punctuated by major hits and phenomenal flops-none more disastrous than the Academy Awards show he produced featuring a tone-deaf Rob Lowe serenading Snow White, a fiasco that made Carr an outcast, and is still widely considered to be the worst Oscars ever.

Tracing Carr's excess-laden rise and tragic fall-and sparing no one along the way-Party Animals provides a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood's most infamous period.

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Hofler, senior editor at Variety magazine, embarks on a sex- and camp-fueled romp through the outrageous life of Hollywood producer and impresario Allan Carr (1937–1999). Eschewing the conventional biography model, Hofler instead chronicles Carr’s lavish parties and equally audacious film work. Openly gay, Carr threw some of the entertainment industry’s most memorable shindigs in the 1970s—including the Rudolf Nureyev mattress party and the Truman Capote jail house party, held at the decommissioned Lincoln Heights Jail in L.A. A longtime theater fan, Carr, in his role as producer, brought the Who’s rock opera Tommy to the screen, as well as Grease, which became the top-grossing movie musical of all time. But for all his achievements, Carr had an equal number of disastrous flops: the Village People–inspired Can’t Stop the Music, Grease 2, and the much-reviled 1989 Oscar ceremony that saw Rob Lowe serenading Snow White in front of a replica of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Though Carr’s enthusiasm is infectious, Hofler never fully captures the man behind the glitz and glamour, leaving readers not wholly satisfied. B&w photos. (Mar.)
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Hofler (The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Wilson), a senior editor at Variety, revisits 1970s–80s Hollywood via Allan Carr, whose name was then synonymous with excess. He produced Grease and the musical La Cage aux Folles, in addition to promoting Tommy. Carr's parties were legendary—e.g., the circus-themed party to introduce the leather-clad heavy metal band the Cycle Sluts and one held in a jail, which Truman Capote attended—and they brought together movie stars and rock stars, gay and straight. But in the 1990s, Carr's star descended, and he became persona non grata in Hollywood. He produced what was considered the worst Oscar ceremony ever (remember Rob Lowe singing to Snow White?), and his Village People musical, Can't Stop the Music, was his downfall. VERDICT Despite Carr's flamboyant life, Hofler's delivery is too dry to broaden the appeal of this book beyond nostalgic baby boomers.—Rosellen Brewer, Sno-Isle Libs., Marysville, WA

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780306816550
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 3/2/2010
  • Pages: 344
  • Sales rank: 352,789
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Hofler is a senior editor at Variety and author of The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson and Variety’s “The Movie that Changed My Life.” He was previously an editor at Buzz, Life, and Us magazines. He lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction: And the Phone Rang vii

1 Ingrid, Kim, Allan 1

2 Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Ambition 16

3 Three-Piece-Suit Negotiations 25

4 Sluts'Night Out 28

5 Capote's Retreat 32

6 Survival Techniques 38

7 B'way's Bastard Child 47

8 High School Confidential 53

9 It's Pepsi-Cola Time 63

10 Only Half the Phone Book 73

11 Grease on Track 78

12 Oscar's First Consultant 87

13 His Second Biggest Mistake 92

14 Can't Stand the Music 105

15 Mike Todd Jr., 118

16 The Queen and I 129

17 Why Grease Again? 136

18 Big B'way Babies 140

19 Diller's Curse 144

20 Make It a Croissant 148

21 Spring Breakdown 154

22 Mickey & Judy Time 161

23 Here Come the Cagelles! 166

24 Choreographed Chaos 177

25 Goya, Goya, Gone 190

26 What He Prayed For 198

27 Proud Mary 206

28 Snow Blight 224

29 Death by Oscar 236

Epilogue: No Second Acts 249

Acknowledgments 257

Bibliography 259

Notes 265

Index 293

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