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Levy, Shawn Anthony was born on October 22, 1961 in New York City. Son of Jerome Sanford and Agnes Madeline (Shand) Levy.
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(The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa ) Author: Shawn Levy Nov-2006
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Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party
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The Last Playboy : the High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
( At one gilded moment, his fame was so great that he was...)
At one gilded moment, his fame was so great that he was recognized all over the world simply by his nickname: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. The gigantic peppermills brandished in Parisian restaurants became known, for reasons people at the time could only hint at, as "Rubirosas." Porfirio Rubirosa was the last great playboy: the roué par excellence, a symbol of powerful masculinity, ubiquity, and easy-come-easy-go money. "Work?" he shot back at an interviewer, scandalized at being asked what he did with his days. "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have the time." His natural habitat was the polo field, the nightclub, the Formula One racecourse, the bedroom. He had an eye for beautiful women, particularly when they came with great wealth: He managed to marry in turn two of the richest women on the planet. Rumor had him bedding hundreds of famous and infamous women, including Christina Onassis, Eva Perón, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, who gleefully posed for paparazzi after he had blacked her eye in a fit of jealousy on the eve of his marriage to another woman. But he was a man's man, too, a notable polo player and race-car driver with a gift for friendship, chumming around with the likes of Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King Farouk. When above-board, heiress-type income was scarce, he diverted himself with jewel-thievery, shadowy diplomatic errands, and any other illicit scam that came his way. Whatever legitimate power he wielded came to him from the hands of Rafael Trujillo, one of the most bloodthirstily power-mad dictators the New World has ever seen. A nation quivered at Trujillo's name for decades, yet Rubi flouted his strictures without concern, as if Trujillo's iron grip could never crush him. And he was right. When Rubi died at the age of fifty-six, wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de Boulogne, an era went with him -- of white dinner jackets at El Morocco; of celebrity for its own sake when this was still a novelty; of glamour before it was available to the masses. In The Last Playboy, Shawn Levy brings Rubi's giddy, hedonistic story to Technicolor life.
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King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis by Levy, Shawn (1997) Hardcover
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Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party Paperback 1999 Shawn Levy
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Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party by Levy, Shawn (1999) Paperback
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King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis Paperback - September 1, 1997
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King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
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The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
( At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great ...)
At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great that he was known the world over by his nickname alone: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. He had an eye for feminine beauty, particularly when it came with great wealth: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Eva Perón, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But he was a man's man as well, polo player and race-car driver, chumming around with the likes of Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King Farouk. He was also a jewel thief, and an intimate of one of the world's most bloodthirsty dictators. And when he died at the age of fifty-six—wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de Boulogne—a glamorous era of white dinner jackets at El Morocco and celebrity for its own sake died along with him. He was one of a kind, the last of his breed. And in The Last Playboy, author Shawn Levy brings the giddy, hedonistic, and utterly remarkable story of Porfirio Rubirosa to glorious Technicolor life.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0007170602/?tag=2022091-20
The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Levy, Shawn (2006) Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011ME8MEI/?tag=2022091-20
Shawn Anthony Levy
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Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania, 1982; Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine, 1985; Master of Arts, University of California, Irvine, 1989.
Career
Associate editor Box Office Magazine, Los Angeles, 1989-1990. Senior editor American Film Magazine, 1990. Film critic Portland Oregonian.
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The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
( At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great ...)
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The Last Playboy : the High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
( At one gilded moment, his fame was so great that he was...)
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King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis by Levy, Shawn (1997) Hardcover
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- King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis Hardcover September, 1997
- (The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa ) Author: Shawn Levy Nov-2006
- Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party
- Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party Paperback 1999 Shawn Levy
- Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party by Levy, Shawn (1999) Paperback
- King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis Paperback - September 1, 1997
- King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
- The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Levy, Shawn (2006) Paperback
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The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
Connections
Married Mary Elizabeth Bartholemy, December 30, 1985. Children: Vincent Bartholemy Levy, Anthony Augustine Levy.
