{"product_id":"9780306818943","title":"Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr","description":"Allan Carr was Hollywood’s premier party-thrower during the town’s most hedonistic era—the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger\/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the \u003ci\u003eTommy\u003c\/i\u003e\/New York City subway premiere, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producer—the ultimate outsider—who first brought movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the stunning success of \u003ci\u003eGrease\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Cage aux Folles\u003c\/i\u003e to the spectacular failure of the Village People’s \u003ci\u003eCan’t Stop the Music\u003c\/i\u003e, as a producer Carr’s was a rollercoaster of a career punctuated by major hits and phenomenal flops—none more disastrous than the Academy Awards show he produced featuring a tone-deaf Rob Lowe serenading Snow White, a fiasco that made Carr an outcast, and is still widely considered to be the worst Oscars ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tracing Carr’s excess-laden rise and tragic fall—and sparing no one along the way—\u003ci\u003eParty Animals\u003c\/i\u003e provides a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood’s most infamous period.","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107916169456,"sku":"9780306818943","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780306818943_p0.jpg?v=1769887152","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780306818943","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}