Teen Star From the Original 'Mickey Mouse Club' Tells All in New Book 'King of the Sunset Strip: Hangin' With Mickey Cohen And the Hollywood Mob'

Teen Star From the Original 'Mickey Mouse Club' Tells All in New Book 'King of the Sunset Strip: Hangin' With Mickey Cohen And the Hollywood Mob'

Due Out in April 2006, True Crime Story Marks 30th Year Anniversary of Mickey Cohen's Death

LOS ANGELES, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Who would have thought that an acting career that began as a teenage star in the "Annette" series on "The Mickey Mouse Club," Walt Disney's "Zorro," "The Roy Rogers Show," and "That's My Mom" would lead to the role of confidante and assistant to Southern California crime-boss Mickey Cohen?

Steve Stevens has been in show business for more than fifty years. He has been an actor, producer, casting director, and for more than thirty years a Screen Actors Guild franchised talent agent. Now over 45 years later he tells all in his new book "King of the Sunset Strip: Hangin' With Mickey Cohen And the Hollywood Mob." Distributed through Cumberland House Publishing, this tattle-tale tome will hit shelves this April. The book is being released in 2006 marking the 30th year anniversary of Mickey Cohen's death.

"King of the Sunset Strip" is a pistol-to-the-side-of-your-head Hollywood story. Beginning with the parties, boozing, sex and the "good-time" macho whoring and gambling of the mob, the story covers the action of Sunset Boulevard penthouses, Beverly Hills mansions, Brentwood estates, and across state lines to Las Vegas.

Steve Stevens takes his readers down the palm-lined streets of Hollywood to meet film and entertainment giants like Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, Robert Mitchum, and many more.

Stevens' relationship with Cohen began as a friendship and deteriorated into witnessing bloody beatings by the king-pin, crime scene drive-bys, and much more. Peppered with familiar celebrity names and faces from film, TV, and organized crime, this classic Hollywood tale reads like a box-office script.

After Mickey Cohen was arrested on charges of income-tax evasion, gangsters hustled Stevens out of California to a remote ranch in Nevada and ordered him to stay in hiding. During Cohen's trial, Stevens remained quiet while Cohen was eventually sentenced to Alcatraz.

Beginning with the casting call that resulted in Stevens's association with Cohen, "King of the Sunset Strip" takes readers through the exciting story to the curtain call that eventually led him out of the life of crime.

ABOUT "KING OF THE SUNSET STRIP"
TRUE CRIME
6" X 9", 320 PAGES
$24.95, HARDCOVER
($34.95 CANADA)
ISBN: 978-1-58182-507-7
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL
SHIPPING DATE: MARCH
KING OF THE SUNSET STRIP
HANGIN' WITH MICKEY COHEN AND THE HOLLYWOOD MOB
by Steve Stevens Sr. and Craig Lockwood.
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