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| '''''Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess''''', first published in 1989, is the personal ] of late author and ] manager ]. In the book, Sugerman recounts his life beginning with his privileged |
'''''Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess''''', first published in ], is the personal ] of late author and ] manager ]. In the book, Sugerman recounts his life beginning with his privileged childhood in ]. He asserts that his parents' divorce and an abusive ] set the stage for his later self-destructive ] and behavior. | ||
| ''Wonderland Avenue'' covers the first eight years of Sugerman's show business career, commencing with his first job at age twelve opening the Doors' fan mail, and concluding just beyond his 21st birthday, where the reader finds him a frail and severely drug-addicted mental patient who has been given less than a week to live. His exposure to the decadent music industry world of parties, groupies, and drugs at such a young age would facilitate a relentless ] addiction that very nearly killed him. Notable in the book is Sugerman's close personal friendship with late Doors frontman ], who served as a kind of mentor to the younger man, and his post-Doors activities in LA attempting to revive the flagging career (and supervise the behavior of) an increasingly unstable ]. | ''Wonderland Avenue'' covers the first eight years of Sugerman's show business career, commencing with his first job at age twelve opening the Doors' fan mail, and concluding just beyond his 21st birthday, where the reader finds him a frail and severely drug-addicted mental patient who has been given less than a week to live. His exposure to the decadent music industry world of parties, groupies, and drugs at such a young age would facilitate a relentless ] addiction that very nearly killed him. Notable in the book is Sugerman's close personal friendship with late Doors frontman ], who served as a kind of mentor to the younger man, and his post-Doors activities in LA attempting to revive the flagging career (and supervise the behavior of) an increasingly unstable ]. | ||
| The book chronicles, in graphic detail, the decadence of the LA rock and roll lifestyle, lived to its most degrading and shocking extremes, in the early-to-mid |
The book chronicles, in graphic detail, the decadence of the LA rock and roll lifestyle, lived to its most degrading and shocking extremes, in the early-to-mid 1970s. | ||
| Few of the sordid scenes in the book were reported by newspapers or magazines in the 1970s, but those few that were suggest that Sugerman's memory failed him occasionally. Describing his drug-fueled co-dependent friendship with actress ], he asserts that her publicized arrest on drug-related charges happened during the period of his life that constitutes the book, a period that ended with his hospitalization at age 21. He describes trying to help Phillips keep her job on the television sitcom '']'', aware that producer ] was planning to fire her if she were arrested a second time. Sugerman supposedly did Phillips a favor by carrying her when she was comatose from her house into the limousine that took her to ] for an early-morning call time. | |||
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| The publicized arrest to which he refers occurred, however, in November of 1977,<ref> "Actress Mackenzie Phillips, 18, Booked on Drug Charge." '']'', November 23, 1977, front page.</ref>, which was a month after Sugerman turned 23 and during the period he worked on the book '']'', which was published early in 1980. | |||
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Revision as of 15:49, 24 June 2008
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess, first published in 1989, is the personal memoir of late author and Doors manager Danny Sugerman. In the book, Sugerman recounts his life beginning with his privileged childhood in Beverly Hills. He asserts that his parents' divorce and an abusive stepfather set the stage for his later self-destructive addictions and behavior.
Wonderland Avenue covers the first eight years of Sugerman's show business career, commencing with his first job at age twelve opening the Doors' fan mail, and concluding just beyond his 21st birthday, where the reader finds him a frail and severely drug-addicted mental patient who has been given less than a week to live. His exposure to the decadent music industry world of parties, groupies, and drugs at such a young age would facilitate a relentless heroin addiction that very nearly killed him. Notable in the book is Sugerman's close personal friendship with late Doors frontman Jim Morrison, who served as a kind of mentor to the younger man, and his post-Doors activities in LA attempting to revive the flagging career (and supervise the behavior of) an increasingly unstable Iggy Pop.
The book chronicles, in graphic detail, the decadence of the LA rock and roll lifestyle, lived to its most degrading and shocking extremes, in the early-to-mid 1970s.
Few of the sordid scenes in the book were reported by newspapers or magazines in the 1970s, but those few that were suggest that Sugerman's memory failed him occasionally. Describing his drug-fueled co-dependent friendship with actress Mackenzie Phillips, he asserts that her publicized arrest on drug-related charges happened during the period of his life that constitutes the book, a period that ended with his hospitalization at age 21. He describes trying to help Phillips keep her job on the television sitcom One Day at a Time, aware that producer Norman Lear was planning to fire her if she were arrested a second time. Sugerman supposedly did Phillips a favor by carrying her when she was comatose from her house into the limousine that took her to Metromedia Square for an early-morning call time.
The publicized arrest to which he refers occurred, however, in November of 1977,, which was a month after Sugerman turned 23 and during the period he worked on the book No One Here Gets Out Alive, which was published early in 1980.
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- "Actress Mackenzie Phillips, 18, Booked on Drug Charge." Los Angeles Times, November 23, 1977, front page.