Includes index

Silver frames -- Velvet and lace -- Paradise lost -- Opportunity knocks -- The "demotion" -- Big stars and the small screen -- Marilyn and Norman eat dinner -- Kim Novak's big brother -- The man they called the Colonel -- Monkey business -- Behind closed doors -- Exclamation points! -- Hillcrest -- Son of a gun -- Welcome to the big leagues -- Mailroom melodrama -- Vick place -- Secrets -- A dog's good judgment -- The agent they let into the Oval Office -- The prism -- Speechless -- The high wire act -- "The coach" becomes "the hornet" -- Don't touch the hair -- Genius loves company -- The changing of the guard -- The Rolodex

"A biography of Norman Brokaw's remarkable life and influence on Hollywood, where he was CEO and chairman of the William Morris Agency from 1989 to 1997 and agent for some of Hollywood's most iconic figures of the twentieth century"--