Peter Wolf biography.....featuring FAYE

Faye Dunaway can be counted on to chew up the scenery in every acting role she has ever had and is even more wooden than Barbara Bain.

[quote]The more unexpected the detail, the better – like discovering upon meeting Fred Astaire that he was utterly entranced by the dancers on Soul Train.

Those dancers could be fucking amazing; it is cool that Astaire appreciated their talents. Wolf's book sounds interesting; thanks for sharing the review.

I will always remember the pic of them at some kind of an event and he was nodding out at the table. I can’t find it on line anymore.

I forget he was sort of hot at one time.

He's out and about in Boston, always dressed in black and sunglasses. He's like Stevie Tyler who is also small and withered.

He was Fayes' heroin romance and I bet he has some great stuff to tell.

He used to be sexy as hell! Great music, great memories.

He was married to Faye from ‘74 to ‘79, which would be prior to Eyes of Laura Mars or Mommie Dearest. Still I bet there’s some interesting stories in there.

He does have some good stories. I liked the J. Geils Band for a few years, but never knew much about Wolf. He writes well about his childhood in the Bronx, attending the High School of Music and Art in Harlem, immersing himself in the folk and jazz/blues scenes in Greenwich Village, and then moving to Boston and meeting Ed Hood, who introduced him to great poetry and literature. The rest of the book is mostly variations on tales of sex, drugs, and/or rock and roll, but he has some good ones. He reveals much more about Miss Dunaway than she did about him in her memoir. They were both pretty far gone on booze and "Bolivian marching powder," and her mood swings were always extreme, but they had some great times, mostly in Europe and Boston, before everything unraveled. Eventually she had the locks changed on their apartment at the El Dorado and holed up there with Terry O'Neill, which prompted a drunken Wolf to smash in the door and smash up some of O'Neill's camera equipment, then escape down the stairs before the cops arrived. He says they became friendly again many years later, after she divorced O'Neill. He started smoking at age 11 and was going through three packs of Gauloises a day at one point, so he's lucky to have made it to 79, still in Boston, singing and painting.

Lights Out, Uh huh!

I loved that song.

He seems like he knew a lot of stars and people in entertainment because he gets an oversized amount of publicity for being a singer with 2 big hits and not much else.

I've never understood it. Yes - 1981 was your year! Ray Parker Jr. had a lot of success around the same time, but I don't keep hearing his name brought up over and over.

Or for that matter - REO Speedwagon.

He seems like he's an attention-starved huge ego that sucks all the energy out of the room.

I've never heard of him, but he's very hot in OP's pic.