Flirting with Fame - A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters (paperback)

 ISBN 9781629339597

"Celebrity publicist Dan Harary's life is anything but ordinary. As a veteran of the Hollywood scene, he can tell you stories about working and rubbing elbows with some of the best known actors, studio executives, and other public figures in the world. Dan has worked with a vice president of the United States, rock stars, porn stars, pop culture icons, TV and movie actors, two Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon, and many others. With tales about encounters with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Sid Caesar, Kirk Douglas, Jack Black, Dr. Ruth, Alice Cooper, Hugh Hefner, Brooke Shields, Bob Barker, Mel Brooks, Ann-Margret, Tom Hanks, Micky Dolenz and Brian Wilson, just to scratch the surface, many of his stories are funny, strange, off-beat or simply hard to believe, but they’re all part of 50 years of his true-life adventures, both along the East Coast and in Hollywood. If you want to know what these stars are really like, Flirting With Fame is a book you can't pass by."

- Dee Wallace, star of E.T., Cujo

About the Author

Born and raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Dan Harary has been working as an entertainment industry publicist in Hollywood for over 40 years. As the founder of The Asbury PR Agency in Beverly Hills, CA, Dan often found himself standing side-by-side with dozens of the 20th Century’s most famous movie, TV, pop and rock music stars. As a teenager between 1972-74, Dan was the stage manager and lighting director for The Sunshine Inn, where Bruce Springsteen began his career. After graduating from Boston University’s School of Communications, Dan’s career path included in-house positions with Columbia Pictures, the American Film Institute, the Playboy Channel, Columbia Pictures Television, and two of Hollywood’s most prominent entertainment PR agencies. Dan launched his own Asbury PR Agency in 1996. The father of two adult children, Dan lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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Village Voice article

"With the publication of Flirting with Fame: A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounter, Hollywood insider Dan Harary gives his readers absolutely fascinating anecdotes drawn from the five decades of his professional and personal experiences as a publicist in the film industry. In the pages of this extraordinary memoir are is encounters with well known celebrities of film, television, music, culture, politics, porn stars -- and two Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. Fun, fascinating and informative, Flirting with Fame: A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounter is especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library American Biography & Memoir collections."
- Midwest Book Review