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American Dreamer - My Story of Survival, Adventure, and Success (Hardcover)
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American Dreamer - My Story of Survival, Adventure, and Success (Hardcover)
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On July 30, 2014, shortly after completing this autobiography,
Robert Halmi, the prolific producer of television movies and
miniseries, died at the age of 90. Hailed by Variety as "A Gulliver
Among TV Movie Producers," he had a hand in more than 200 long-form
narrative television projects from 1989's Lonesome Dove, starring
Robert Duvall, to 2000's "Don Quixote" starring John Lithgow.
Filled with so much of the marquee talent of the past century, his
life story-from fighting against the Nazis to becoming a
photographer for Life and Sports Illustrated to his television
work-is truly amazing. Robert Halmi was born in Hungary to a father
who served as official photographer to the Vatican and the last
Habsburg court. When the Nazis invaded, he fought in the
resistance, and like many of his countrymen he was captured and
condemned to death. But the advancing Red Army freed him before the
Germans could carry out the execution. Seeing the dangers of the
expanding Soviet empire, which also took hold of his homeland in a
military dictatorship, he turned heel and joined the OSS to fight
the fall of the Iron Curtain. In 1951, with $5 in his pocket and a
Leica around his neck, he made his way to America. As a
photographer for Life and Sports Illustrated, he again showcased
his Bond-like talents for chasing adventure and cheating death by
dangling from helicopters, hunting big game in Africa with
dictators, blowing himself up, marooning himself on a glacier for
three weeks, and even painting Marilyn Monroe's naked body for a
photo shoot. In the third act of his rollicking life, as a TV
mogul, he received an astonishing 448 Emmy nods while befriending a
Who's Who of Hollywood and working with the great boldface actors
of our time: Jimmy Cagney gave him his last performance. He chased
George C. Scott (on a bender) through a hotel. Omar Sharif did the
Twist for him. He watched Patrick Stewart nearly drown on the back
of an animatronic whale, and Isabella Rossellini braved a herd of
rampaging elephants for him. He has lived the American dream to the
hilt. A fast-paced look back at a life always in progress, his
extraordinary story reveals nearly a century of daring and
boundless optimism even in the face of terrible odds. It's a story
of war, love, and ambition, the quintessential American tale of a
life lived large.
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