gus buttacavoli
19602008 |
My production of The Pictorial Kennedy, the campus-wide exhibit in honor of President Kennedy that was shown at the University of Arizona in 1965, was the catalyst that sent me to New York City where I worked for one of the best promotion houses in the country. From there I landed a job with NBC in Burbank where I produced on-air promotion and worked with all of the greats including Elvis Presley, Bobby Kennedy, Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and others. I left NBC to join the Wolper Organization, which was famous for producing the epic television mini-series, Roots. At Wolper I worked with David Seltzer who wrote The Omen and Alan Landsburg who became a top television producer. From Wolper I went to the Hollywood Reporter where I worked for the publisher, Tichi Wilkerson (her husband founded the paper and discovered Lana Turner). I was the Special Editions Editor and produced the special issue on the French film industry. I left The Reporter to become a full-time writer and have been writing scripts ever since. In the Sixties I was married and divorced (no children) and in the Seventies I founded a religious community called Apostles of Christ. You can read about us at 2ndcoming2022.com. Also, you can Google me under my current name AJ Buttacavoli. I am rarely called Gus these days. Currently, I am reading scripts for an agent in Hollywood who also represents me as a writer.
(Last Updated: 2009) |