Author : Les Grossman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481158978
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (589 download)
Book Synopsis A True Hollywood Legend by : Les Grossman
Download or read book A True Hollywood Legend written by Les Grossman and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Grossman's Life History DescriptionMaster of all media long before Howard Stern, the real Les Grossman's life coincides with great events in U.S. history. As a high school kid, working part time in downtown Washington, he parked his car on the same cobblestoned alley that John Wilkes Booth parked his horse prior to doing his dastardly deed at Ford's Theater. LG sold marching shoes within one mile of MLK when he made the infamous “I Have a Dream” speech. Les witnessed integration of the Virginia school system literally one black student at a time. The decade after asking Jack Ford if his Dad was going to run for VP, he saw President Nixon pull up to the neighboring Ford home and quietly go in. While some of his concerts were staging grounds for civil disobedience, he still helped provide music for protests with his ground breaking country rock band Tractor who composed the soundtrack for David Lynch's pre Eraserhead movie Grandmother. Albeit, not a peacenik, Les Grossman was against sacrificing our troops as they heroically won every battle only for useless politicians to lose the war! That included massive Washington Monument demonstrations where Abby Hoffman and later stock broker Jerry Rubin welcomed everyone to the “World's greatest hard on!” LG even provided truckloads of food on a donation basis. Earlier, as a kindergarten student next door to the last working farm in Alexandria, VA, Les was right across the street from the newly transferred Episcopal High School junior, later to be war hero Senator John McCain. LG delivered newspapers with the huge Bay of Pigs headline. In eighth grade science class, he sat next to lifetime friend musician Ron Culbertson while they watched on TV our first American shot into Space and back. Then eight years later Les was backstage at the July 9, 1969 Blind Faith concert watching a small TV as Neil Armstrong took man's first steps on the moon while the lanky pale Ginger Baker simultaneously strolled in front of him to get to his drum set! As LG helped make the first smoothies on the planet, he opened GaZang Organic Groceries before anybody dreamed of Whole Foods! He produced an FM radio underground music show when FM radio effectively meant find me! Les discovered and lived in the World famous Negril, Jamaica resort Rick's Café when it was nothing more than a $100 a month over-run play boy pad! He observed Jimmy Page and Robert Plant being interviewed by Time Magazine back- stage at his onetime only in US concert history, Led Zeppelin/Who gig. The interview stopped as everyone wondered who the kid was leaning against the wall. They found out when Les Grossman told them he was the producer as in the guy paying them to perform and they could go on with their interview! Decades later, for whatever reason, Tom Cruise, Ben Stiller, and writer Justin Theroux did a Hollywood portrayal of the real Les Grossman in a Tropic Thunder cameo role. While Tom Cruise as LG not only reignited his then faltering career when LG stole the show, the character developed a life of his own with a huge global fan base. Sure enough, a couple years later Les Grossman was invited to produce the MTV awards with a killer Jennifer Lopez dance skit. Upon that performance taking Hollywood by storm plus of course going viral, Paramount Films “committed” $100,000,000 to make the Les Grossman movie. “Not so fast” says the real Les Grossman as he co-writes his own screenplay or he'll have to tell the powers to be to take a big step back and etc. etc. This is where we are now folks. So read on for details!TheRealLesGrossman.com
