UPDATE 8-26-2012:  Wow, it has been awhile since I posted this. Earlier this year, I read Jerry Weintraub’s book, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. I learned a little more about how the entertainment industry works from this book, and Jerry is responsible for all 3 Ocean’s movies, among other things.

From the publisher:  “In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW I’M DEAD, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman and Nashville, continuing with Oh, God!,The Karate Kid movies, and Diner, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen.

Along the way, we’ll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing-all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer . . .well, the list goes on forever.”

What a fun book! You can read my review of it here.

Seriously guys, if you need it, its yours. Just make one more.