Reply #7: Big time Hollywood producer in the 70s [View All]

[Susang]

He produced Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, Paper Moon, Black Sunday, Urban Cowboy, The Two Jakes, and Marathon Man. He was also married to Ali McGraw, who left him for Steve McQueen.

He started out as an actor and became the most successful producer in the seventies. Then he kind of flipped out on drugs, alcohol, etc in the eighties and almost went bankrupt. He recently wrote his autobiography "The Kid Stays in the Picture", that detailed all the excesses and weirdness that surrounded his life. He's got the biggest ego I've ever seen, but I think he's hysterically funny. He seems to be able to talk his way into or out of anything (which is probably why he was such a successful producer. I think he really does see himself the way he is in the cartoon.