Jay says there will be no movie of the book, but if you buy one of his Gold Crown tables, he will come to your house and act out a couple of chapters for you. Trust me, it's worth the price.
The Gold Crowns are gone! The last one was sold this week. But if you invite me for dinner, I'll tell you the "back story" behind any story that was in the book. Many of the stories you read are the "condensed" version. Not all, but many. For instance if I told you the entire story about my travels with Fats (in his limo) that would take a whole book in itself to tell. He was one funny (and amazing) cat.
And the guy who christened me Toupee Jay was best friends with Don Johnson (still is as far as I know). His name was Sean Walsh and they called him Arizona Slim. He was the Straight Pool champion of Arizona at 15. Sean was another unforgettable character. Warren Beatty's stand-in and look alike. Sean did many of the more acrobatic stunts for Warren in movies like Shampoo and Bonnie & Clyde. He also moonlighted as a high end cat burglar (to the stars of course). He even wrote a script or two for Miami Vice. Together Sean and I wrote the opening scene (a pool scene in a bar) for Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man. I humbly feel that was the best scene in an otherwise horrible movie. Sean also did a stretch in the big house, but got away with millions. Sometime I'll tell you the story about when he borrowed my Ford Mustang and pulled a job.
And Leon, the guy who protected me moonlighted as a bank robber from coast to coast. He came to an inglorious end after pulling a daring daytime robbery in Hollywood, gunned down by the cops on someone's front lawn. True story! Front page news in the L.A. Times a long, long time ago.
