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THE RAIN MAY PASS is a coming-of-age memoir from Alan Shayne-actor, casting director, producer, and former President of Warner Bros Television. Set in New England in the 1940s, a teenage boy falls in love with a man twice his age and soon learns more about himself than he ever imagined possible."Alan Shayne shares his life in such great visual style, with self-awareness, warmth, deep humor, and pain...a great read! Don't miss it." Linda Lavin, Broadway, film, and television star"I loved The Rain May Pass. I savored every page. I felt like it was so heartfelt and honest that it broke my heart.…mehr

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THE RAIN MAY PASS is a coming-of-age memoir from Alan Shayne-actor, casting director, producer, and former President of Warner Bros Television. Set in New England in the 1940s, a teenage boy falls in love with a man twice his age and soon learns more about himself than he ever imagined possible."Alan Shayne shares his life in such great visual style, with self-awareness, warmth, deep humor, and pain...a great read! Don't miss it." Linda Lavin, Broadway, film, and television star"I loved The Rain May Pass. I savored every page. I felt like it was so heartfelt and honest that it broke my heart. With truthfulness and dignity, it captured and explored ageless virtues, failures, self-doubts, anxieties and other challenges that add up the bricks that construct a life." Rex Reed, renowned film critic
Autorenporträt
ALAN SHAYNE was the President of Warner Brothers Television for many years, shepherding hit shows including Alice, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Wonder Woman, Growing Pains, and The Dukes of Hazard. He began his career as an actor on Broadway and became awell-known casting director of TV and films such as All the President's Men. He produced TV specials and, after leaving Warners, received an Emmy nomination for producing the mini-series The Bourne Identity.THE STAR DRESSING ROOM is his third memoir. Shayne's dual autobiography with his husband Norman Sunshine, DOUBLE LIFE: A LOVE STORY was published to great acclaim in 2011. Published in 2020, THE RAIN MUST PASS recounts his experiences as a teenager in New England. Alan connects on Cape Cod with a man twice his age in the summer of 1941 and learns more about himself than he ever imagined possible. Shayne and Sunshine also collaborated on the children's Christmas story, THE MINSTREL TREE in 2001. Shayne's mystery/romance novel, FINDING SYLVIA set in Hollywood, Connecticut and around the world, was published in October 2017. He now lives in Palm Beach.