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| Preface | xiii | |
| Acknowledgments | xvii | |
| Martinis and Quaker Oats with Bill Frawley | 1 | |
| Thanks for the Job, Dad!-Barbara Stanwyck and George Sanders | 3 | |
| New York Moves West-Dickie Widmark and Charles Bronson | 5 | |
| Katy Jurado Needs a Job and Tommy Kirk Gets His Start | 8 | |
| The Great Gildersleeve-Unchained and Hall Bartlett | 11 | |
| I Ruin a Preview | 13 | |
| "Why Did You Bring That Bum in Here?" | 16 | |
| Aaron Spelling, Chuck Connors, and Angie Dickinson | 19 | |
| Encounters with Betty White and Tallulah Bankhead | 22 | |
| Keenan Wynn, the Actor and the Writer | 26 | |
| Good Days and Bad Nights on The Millionaire | 28 | |
| Las Vegas with Bob Altman | 33 | |
| How We Filmed My Three Sons | 36 | |
| Casting My Three Sons | 40 | |
| Fred's Frugality | 44 | |
| From Bill Frawley to Bill Demarest | 48 | |
| Three Sons Directors | 51 | |
| Jimmy Stewart at Scale | 55 | |
| My Toughest Show: Family Affair | 57 | |
| Sebastian Cabot and Trailer Sizes | 61 | |
| Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, and Zsa Zsa | 64 | |
| Henry Fonda and Ron Howard: Bullets and Brownies | 68 | |
| John Forsythe and Walter Brennan in Rome | 73 | |
| Lunch with Ray Walston-I Make a Few Mistakes | 75 | |
| Twenty-Five Girls with Beautiful Whats? | 78 | |
| Don Fedderson | 81 | |
| Fred Henry-Brian Keith to the Rescue | 84 | |
| "Garry Marshall's Italian, Brian" | 87 | |
| I Produce TV's Worst Ninety-Minute Movie of the Week | 89 | |
| If the Script Is Bad, Filming It Doesn't Make It Better | 92 | |
| Premier Sadat-Gunsmoke's Last Season | 95 | |
| I Help to Put 60 Minutes into Prime Time | 97 | |
| Jim Arness and How the West Was Won | 100 | |
| Season Two of West | 106 | |
| Season Three-Burgess Meredith Needs Toilet Paper | 110 | |
| Marciano and Working with Boxers | 113 | |
| Meeting with Brandon Tartikoff | 115 | |
| Elizabeth Montgomery as Dorian Gray?-I Enter the 25th Century | 118 | |
| The Start of Simon & Simon | 122 | |
| Simon Season Two: Where the Cheapest Become the Best | 125 | |
| The Stars Become STARS | 127 | |
| The Enquirer Catches Up with Simon & Simon | 130 | |
| The Stars Strike Back | 132 | |
| A Good Script to Start the Season | 136 | |
| Universal's Suits-the Simon "Bible" | 138 | |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy of Locations | 141 | |
| Lucky Luciano: "A True American Hero" | 144 | |
| Gangster Chronicles Goes Down | 148 | |
| Computers, Corey, and Max Gail's Ponytail | 150 | |
| Don Bellisario: A Complicated Genius | 154 | |
| The Nonunion Experience | 157 | |
| I Finally Sell a Show: Major Dad | 160 | |
| The Sitcom World of Today: Not Desi's or Lucy's | 163 | |
| I Become a Pitchman and Strike Out | 166 | |
| My Swan Song | 169 | |
| In Conclusion | 171 | |
| Index | 173 | |
| About the Author | 181 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
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Lloyd Braswell
reviewed From My Three Sons To Major Dad on March 07, 2015
From My Three Sons To Major Dad
I like Soledad O'Brien as a reporter, but part of this book makes me wish she stuck to only being on TV. The descriptions of her childhood and education is hard to step into because her use of staccato sentences are devoid of any personality as an author. That's a pretty difficult thing to accomplish when writing about yourself. The memoir picks up when she describes Hurricane Katrina and reporting from Haiti. The book does have some interesting vignettes about interviewees who have had a profound affect on her personal life and view of race. Overall, O'Brien's writing is disjointed.
This book really deserves a 2.5, but for the sake of Goodreads, I'll bump it up to a 3. If you're looking for a book about race relations in the media, it's worth a read.
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