Too bad Moonves isn't like the late James T. Aubrey, who had "friends" like Keefe Brasselle, who in turn had mob connections.
Speaking of which, I am trying to get through Brasselle's thinly veiled novel about his tenure at CBS called The CanniBalS. It isn't very good, I will say that. I don't know if I will be able to get through the 400-page potboiler, as I don't read fiction as a rule. And then I am getting Brasselle's sequel, called The Barracudas, which like everything else he did flopped.
I may end up getting Triangle, a novel written by Brasselle's ex-wife (his second) Arlene DeMarco, who was once a member of the DeMarco Sisters, a popular vocal group in the 1950s. Unlike Brasselle, DeMarco actually had talent. Apparently her novel was much better than the two her ex-husband penned. Like his books, hers was thinly veiled "fiction." Furthermore, I have read that in her book, DeMarco claimed her ex-husband was not just best friends with Aubrey, who was the head of CBS from 1959-1965 before being dumped, but the two were actually lovers. I had read somewhere else Brasselle had come out of the closet sometime before his death before going back into the closet of well-deserved obscurity.
I found this article about Arlene DeMarco which was published a year before she died. DeMarco had numerous health issues. She was 79 when she died in 2013.
