Nov

16 2016

They Call Me Supermensch - Dallas Jewish Book Festival

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Aaron Family JCC 7900 Northaven Road
Dallas, TX 75230
2142397128 rweisscrane@jccdallas.org
http://www.jccdallas.org/books

Contact Rachelle Weiss Crane
214-239-7128
rweisscrane@jccdallas.org
http://www.jccdallas.org/books

$ Cost $ 10.00

Shep Gordon will appear in conversation with Michael Richman, Vice President of Marketing for the AT&T Performing Arts Center, as part of the Dallas Jewish Book Festival. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, from Alice Cooper to Bette Davis, Raquel Welch to Groucho Marx, Blondie to Jimi Hendrix, Sylvester Stallone to Salvador Dali, Luther Vandross to Teddy Pendergrass. He is also credited with inventing the "celebrity chef," and has worked with Nobu Matsuhisa, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck, Roger Vergé, and many others, including his holiness the Dalai Lama.

In this wonderfully engaging memoir, Gordon shares riotous anecdotes and outrageous accounts of his free-wheeling, globe-trotting experiences with some of the biggest celebrities of the past five decades, including his first meeting with Janice Joplin in 1968, when the raspy singer punched him in the face. Told with incomparable humor and heart, "They Call Me Supermensch" is a sincere, hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the worlds of music and entertainment from the consummate Hollywood insider.