ELUDING FAME

TELEVISION WAS IN ITS INFANCY when Allen Morris was growing up, always in the background, reporting on world events. Its impact lasted a lifetime!

Imagine the guilt his mother laid on the author at the age of five, when she asked how he felt upon meeting Mickey Mantle and he confessed to her that he wanted to be famous someday, like Mantle was. She replied, “Maybe you will,” spoken in her always calm, quiet voice, “but there are more important things in life than being famous. You should aspire to be a good person. Fame is fleeting. Character lasts.”
"If I’ve learned anything from the celebrities I’ve worked with closely, it is this: they are almost always looking for someone with whom they can develop trust. They seem to cherish our friendship’s trust because it is rare in their lives.” -Allen Morris
We live during a time when celebrity is pervasive in American culture. Throughout fifty-plus years, the author developed expertise in writing and directing; guiding projects with people who were famous in their fields, enhancing their fame; but failing to achieve his long-desired fame. At its heart, this book demonstrates how fame eluded the author, but instead, he developed a fulfilling career in television and theatre working with people who did achieve fame. With mentoring from television professionals, the author learned to operate every piece of equipment needed to create television broadcasts. He studied for and passed the exam to obtain a First-Class FCC Broadcast Engineering license. By the time he graduated from college in 1975, he had four years of experience directing live newscasts, which helped him get a job in a major market television station. Within a year, he was given his first job as a producer. His work began winning awards, first a Clio for advertising, and eventually Emmy Awards, the highest honor in the television industry. Soon, the show he produced began to attract famous individuals as guests. At last, he was a peer among individuals who had achieved fame.

Who better to write about ELUDING FAME than one who regularly lived in the shadow of the famous without ever achieving the same level of fame?

ELUDING FAME differs from other books in that, rather than describing the life of one single person, it is about many famous people and organizations, framed amid a single event, that brought me and that celebrity together in a working relationship. I worked with prominent people in sports, business, medicine, politicians, and criminals (sometimes the same person). And with giants whose work defined the entertainment industry: Orson Welles, Mickey Rooney, Joan Rivers, Earl Campbell, Patrick Mahomes, Jodie Foster, Nancy Ames, Dr. Emil J Freireich, Larry Dierker, Ben Vereen, Joel Grey, Rita Rudner, and Larry Hagman, to name a few.
The result is a book filled with intimate and personal stories, providing a look inside the celebrity world from the perspective of unique situations and circumstances in which I was a participant and a leading player.
a few of allen's Awards
NATIONAL emmy awards
As writer, producer and director
2002-2004
Emmy Gold Circle
Inducted for Lifetime Achievement of fifty-years
2019
Telly Awards
More than forty for documentaries and commercials
1981-Present
American Marketing Awards
Awards for: Interactive; Training; Sales; Internet Site
2004-2009
Depth of Field International LA Independent Film AWARDS INDIE FEST
For AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY, a visual history of America from its founding to the election of President Barack Obama
2015

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