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A lively and colorful biography of Hollywood's first superagent - one of the most outrageous showbiz heroes of the 1960s and 1970s, whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Faye Dunaway, Michael Caine, and Candice Bergen. Before Sue Mengers hit the world in the mid-1960s, talent brokers remained quietly in the background. But staying in the background had not been easy for Mengers. Irrepressible and packed with chutzpah, she became a driving a vehicle power of Creative Management Associates (which later became ICM), controlling the era's preeminent personalities. A true original with a gift idea for making the biggest personalities in Hollywood pay attention to hard truths about their careers and personal lives, Mengers became a power to be reckoned with. Her salesmanship never stopped. In 1979 she was over a planes that was commandeered by way of a hijacker who required Charlton Heston to provide a message on television. Mengers was incensed, questioning why the hijacker required Heston when she could get him Barbra Streisand. Acclaimed biographer Brian Kellow spins an irresistible tale, exhaustively explored and filled with anecdotes about and interviews more than 200 show-business luminaries. A riveting biography of a robust woman that charts show business as it developed from New York City in the 1950s through Hollywood in the first 1980s, Can I Go Now? will mesmerize anyone who enjoys cinema's most successful period.
