<p><strong>Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II shares insightful tales of his remarkable four-decade career plotting and overseeing fame success crisis and spinning for seminal talents at the top of their game from Little Richard Bette Midler and the Bee Gees to Aaliyah Rick James and Vanessa Williams—a juicy and addictive retrospective that also traces the origins of fame and how social media is changing the rules.</strong></p><p>Superstar manager and PR guru Ramon Hervey II has been playing the “fame game” for more than four decades shaping protecting and sometimes rehabilitating the reputations of some of today’s biggest celebrities. Throughout his career Hervey has mined molded and managed mopped up messes and mounted major celebrity comebacks.</p><p><em>The Fame Game</em> is his uncensored behind-the-scenes look at rich and famous celebrities as they are rarely seen. Hervey shares the hilarious the absurd the disappointing and the surprising as he recalls how he became a trusted confidant to a Who’s Who in music comedy film to A-listers including Richard Pryor Bette Midler Quincy Jones Don Cornelius the Bee Gees Herb Alpert Andrae Crouch Vanessa Williams Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds Luther Vandross Rick James Paul McCartney Peter Frampton Andrae Crouch Nick Nolte James Caan and Muhammad Ali. Filled with never-before-told anecdotes cameos and unforgettable stories moving from the legendary disco era of the '70s and post-civil rights era to Hollywood soundstages and viewed through his acute and trained lens <em>The Fame Game </em>is an enlightening historical view of the origins of fame entertainment and media that examines our obsession with fame and the famous and how social media is cultivating is own fame—an irresistible addictive and utterly fascinating exploration of our insatiable obsession with celebrity culture.</p>
