Another Day in Showbiz: One Producer's Journey

Tamara Jones is a former production operations supervisor in the
Entertainment Department of Paramount Canada’s Wonderland.

Pierre Cossette has come a long way from his humble, small-town roots in
Valleyfield, Quebec. In this memoir, he shares his experiences over the
last 50-plus years as a major Hollywood producer.

Cossette illustrates how his moxie and entrepreneurial spirit propelled
him to great career heights. After booking shows for MCA on the college
circuit in the 1950s, he moved on to Las Vegas where he worked with many
future stars. In addition to becoming a personal agent, he went on to
produce shows and specials for television. He did some record producing
as well (starting up Dunhill Records).

Cossette made his mark starting or advancing the careers of
Ann-Margret, Don Rickles, and The Mamas and the Papas, to name a few.
His book—which he bills as “a parade of stars, celebrities, and
public figures”—could be seen as one big name-dropping exercise,
except that these people were his friends, colleagues, and associates.
One of Cossette’s greatest accomplishments was buying the rights to
produce the Grammy Awards live on television in 1969, a show he still
produces.

Despite the author’s achievements and big-name connections, Another
Day in Showbiz is a nostalgic but not necessarily engaging look at a man
who was “lucky enough to have found [his] true calling early in life
and smart enough to have pursued it relentlessly.”