Can I Go Now?

<b>To call Sue Mengers a 'character' is an understatement unless the word is written in all-caps followed by an exclamation point and modified by an expletive. And based on Brian Kellow's assessment in his thoroughly researched <i>Can I Go Now?</i> even that description may be playing down her personality a bit. <b>--Jen Chaney <i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/><b><b><i><b><b><b><b><b>- </b></b></b></b></b></i></b></b>A <i>NY Times</i> Culture Bestseller <b><b><b><b><b><b><b><i>- </i>An<i> Entertainment Weekly </i>Best Pop Culture Book of 2015<i> </i><b><b><b><i>- </i></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b>A <i>Booklist</i> Top Ten Arts Book of 2015 <b><b><i><b><b><b><b><b>-</b></b></b></b></b></i></b></b> <p/>A lively and colorful biography of Hollywood's first superagent--one of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s whose clients included Barbra Streisand Ryan O'Neal Faye Dunaway Michael Caine and Candice Bergen</b> <p/>Before Sue Mengers hit the scene in the mid-1960s talent agents remained quietly in the background. But staying in the background was not possible for Mengers. Irrepressible and loaded with chutzpah she became a driving force of Creative Management Associates (which later became ICM) handling the era's preeminent stars. <p/>A true original with a gift for making the biggest stars in Hollywood listen to hard truths about their careers and personal lives Mengers became a force to be reckoned with. Her salesmanship never stopped. In 1979 she was on a plane that was commandeered by a hijacker who wanted Charlton Heston to deliver a message on television. Mengers was incensed wondering why the hijacker wanted Heston when she could get him Barbra Streisand. <p/>Acclaimed biographer Brian Kellow spins an irresistible tale exhaustively researched and filled with anecdotes about and interviews more than two hundred show-business luminaries. A riveting biography of a powerful woman that charts show business as it evolved from New York City in the 1950s through Hollywood in the early 1980s <i>Can I Go Now?</i> will mesmerize anyone who loves cinema's most fruitful period.