The lawsuit Marty O'Brien had filed against Artists Unlimited (or AU as we called it) and his former partner Chuck Tyler looked to be a nightmare. Chuck now ran AU but before they spilt their interests, they used East Coast Image for all their photo work. East Coast was founded by my close friend Chris, who'd generously, made me a partner. We'd been consider...
The perks of a business like mine still surprised me sometimes. I was accompanying Jackie Morrison and key members of her staff to New York City for a quarterly board meeting. I had been to a couple of these when I was with Artists Unlimited, but for low-level employees like me, they seemed more an excuse to steal cigars or bottles of booze out of the bosses...
Authors note-Thanks for your patience everyone, new stories and adventures are coming soon for Hollywood Jim * The beach was so beautiful on this morning. The fog was slowly rolling in and I loved the feel of the sand between my toes as I walked the beach. In the distance I could see a solitary figure casting a huge fishing pole into the surf. He stuck the...
Up to now my only contact with the hierarchy at Artists Unlimited had been confined to my boss Jeff Murphy and his boss Chuck Tyler. The last few days Chuck had been in meetings with the legal department over the pending lawsuit filed by his former partner Marty O'Brien. As a result, Jeff was taking on more than his usual workload. And I was about to find ou...
The ocean sounded like the beautiful soft breaths of a sleeping woman as it awakened me that morning. My eyes and ears told me I was still in Hawaii. And the previous night was still a little hazy in parts but the ending I remember quite well. I turned slightly and could see my naked companions were still here, still asleep, and still beautiful. One was a...
There are some events that people plan for all year. That one day of the year when they long for no distractions of any kind from jobs or phones or nagging family members. For some, it's the Super Bowl, the World Series, Academy Awards, the NCAA Basketball Championship or the Army-Navy football game. For me, it's a tossup between the Daytona 500 auto race an...
Bridget treated me to driving her Porsche and a scrumptious breakfast before driving me back to the Palms. She dropped me off as she had her appearance at the Expo that day. Immediately I was poolside just as the Vegas sun hit its peak. Chris was already out there with 2 bikini beauties when I showed up. "Hey! There he is girls, the man I've been telling yo...
The company jet landed on time and taxied to a part of the tarmac where private jets usually jockeyed for space, only now it was nearly deserted. Its only passenger got off and walked alone, carrying only a well-traveled messenger bag, to a small office to sign some arrival papers and then went to his car. But leaving as if nothing had happened was not on hi...
While we still in the midst of filming “Days of Rage” in London, Marty O’Brien called with a hastily organized photo gig. The Triple Threat Tour we’d worked on was doing a special gig at the O2 Arena for the BBC and HBO in the states. And we’d be doing all the photos again. Beyonce`, Rihanna and Tigress would be on the bill again and there was a promise of “...
Before he was "Hollywood Jim" in Los Angeles, he was a geeky kid with a funny nickname in the Connecticut suburbs. And before he had numerous starlets as friends, he had various girlfriends. Here then are the "Adventures of Hollywood Jim-The Early Years" I was still trying to comprehend what happened with Maria that afternoon. I'd gone up to her house to ma...