{"product_id":"book-ciwm","title":"Can I Go Now?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• A \u003cem\u003eNY Times\u003c\/em\u003e Culture Bestseller • An \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Best Pop Culture Book of 2015 • A \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e Top Ten Arts Book of 2015 •\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAcclaimed 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, \u003cem\u003eCan I Go Now?\u003c\/em\u003e will mesmerize anyone who loves cinema’s most fruitful period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“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 \u003c\/em\u003eCan I Go Now?\u003cem\u003e even that description may be playing down her personality a bit.”\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJen Chaney\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49386521657648,"sku":"BDciwm","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49386521723184,"sku":"ZEciwm","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49386521755952,"sku":"ZMciwm","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ciwm-cover.jpg?v=1758169988","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ciwm","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}