Biography: An octogenarian with excellent memory looks back at the comical and absurd aspects of the sex life of his youth.
Kirkus Reviews was far more laudatory than even the author’s lack of modesty would allow:
“This is a mildly provocative, gloriously eccentric autobiography told through the eyes of a man who unapologetically adores the charms and wonders of women.”
“Halmay emerges as a palpably passionate raconteur, showing an endless fascination with human nature and reliably interjecting a surplus of side banter into the erotic encounters that tickled much of his youth.”
“The author’s infectious charm and nonchalant sense of humor shine most when he sticks to the absurdities of sex…”
“Consistently frank…Suffused with sage wisdom and quirks galore, Halmay implores readers to simply yield to life’s ebb and flow because ‘taking seriously the insanity of life tends to destroy us bit by bit’.” – Kirkus Reviews
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Biography: An octogenarian with excellent memory looks back at the comical and absurd aspects of the sex life of his youth.
Kirkus Reviews was far more laudatory than even the author’s lack of modesty would allow:
“This is a mildly provocative, gloriously eccentric autobiography told through the eyes of a man who unapologetically adores the charms and wonders of women.”
“Halmay emerges as a palpably passionate raconteur, showing an endless fascination with human nature and reliably interjecting a surplus of side banter into the erotic encounters that tickled much of his youth.”
“The author’s infectious charm and nonchalant sense of humor shine most when he sticks to the absurdities of sex…”
“Consistently frank…Suffused with sage wisdom and quirks galore, Halmay implores readers to simply yield to life’s ebb and flow because ‘taking seriously the insanity of life tends to destroy us bit by bit’.” – Kirkus Reviews
FREE ON APRIL 15, 16 & 17. THEN BACK TO $9.99.
Bio
Andy Halmay has packed 250 years of eclectic experience into his 88 years of life which he has lived out in a former province of Austria in Romania, on a farm in Canada, and in Toronto, as well as in half a dozen additional cities in Canada while working as a radio DJ and free-lance actor and writer. Later he lives in New York, Boston, L.A. & Chicago; as a multi-award-winning ad man and later still, as screenwriter-producer.
During his Madison Avenue days he became active on an avocational basis as lyricist-composer-records-producer with 30 releases on Columbia, RCA Victor and most other major labels with artists such as Paul Simon, Carl Perkins, Fred Neil, Lillian Briggs to name a few.
He really started his working life as an actor in theater, then radio, TV and films. He did his first network radio drama with Leslie Nielsen and recorded his first radio commercial with Monty Hall of “Let’s Make a Deal” fame. Subsequently Andy worked with legendary names such as director, John Huston, Jackie Gleason and Zsa Zsa Gabor. After writing a screenplay for the late Howard Minsky, who had produced Love Story, which saved Paramount from Bankruptcy, Andy partnered with him on a major project, The American Healys
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Labeled an “idea man” on Madison Avenue, after retiring from the Mad Men world, he functioned as entrepreneur, launching a number of ventures which included a tropical island development which led him to develop the original concept for the vacation time-share which quickly became a multi-billion dollar industry.
To outgun the record promotion strength of Dick Clark and his American Bandstand on ABC-TV Network, Andy launched Guest Star Films creating a syndication network, two and a half times bigger than American Bandstand, which signed 250 TV DJs with local bandstand shows that served as the great grandfather of today’s music videos, without which BET and MTV could never have come into existence.
All this experience, and a good memory, inspired him to write and publish a number of biographical books. Rather than self-publish, he registered Veni Vici Books, in 2013 as a division of his Veni Vici Entertainment company.
“The First 85 Years Are the Hardest,” covers his childhood in Europe and into his twenties, including marriage, the first two children and his first two careers in Canada and America.
“It Ain’t Fine if it Don’t Rhyme,” offers a collection of his lyrics and music written over a period of 60 years, plus notes on the music industry of the 1950s.
“One Hundred Naked Girls,” is a book adaptation of Andy’s original screenplay; a comedy about sex, soccer & skulduggery. He added to the book a postscript nearly as long as the story which traces over 50 years the development of the idea for the story.
“Ghost Town” is a fiction novelette inspired by a coast-to-coast drive during which he began to run out of gas in Utah and, while looking for gas in the hinterland, stumbled onto a scary ghost town.
“The Zsa Zsa Affair,” covers two of Andy’s more dramatic years on Madison Avenue during which he went from getting by on pennies while unemployed to landing one of the best jobs in the industry as V.P. Creative on America’s biggest TV spot account. In this job he produced a TV commercial with the indomitable Zsa Zsa Gabor, developed a great relationship with her, and even partnered with her in a cosmetics company which introduced him to some colorful characters on Wall Street.
The latest title, “My Hilarious Sex Life,” find him looking back with chuckles over comical and absurd sexual experiences in his youth and after ending a 30 year marriage.
“Lucca’s Stories” is Veni Vici Books’ first title by an outsider; a collection of Yiddish-flavored short gems by Lucca Ginsburg who died before the books came out. Andy had labeled her “The Grandma Moses of Jewish Lit” and had great hopes for her future output but her cancer won out.
Andy has three more books still to be edited. He refuses hire editors. He feels that this is the publisher’s and author’s responsibility and he is both. Right now he is juggling these edits with the development of a record album, and a major effort for co-productions of feature films with China.
It keeps him active 70 hours per week and he keeps ducking whenever it looks like the Grim Reaper knocks on the door. He likes to shock strangers by saying, “I suffer from a terminal condition. It is called ‘life expectancy statistics.’
A sixty year old documentary which he hosted during his performing days and just before settling in New York to become one of the Mad Men, has cropped up on YouTube. (The HMCS MAGNIFICENT).
Also on YouTube you can catch his latest musical offering, “The Hellion of Hades,” which Andy performs as Ol’ Mac, the Mountain Man in a gravely Nashville accent.
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