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Hey folks, it's Mike White coming to you with a special episode of the projection booth.

On this episode, I am talking to author Patty Farmer.

She is the author of such books as Playboy Laughs and Starring the Plaza, which are both now available.

You can go on over to Amazon or maybe special order them at your special local bookstore.

And I highly recommend both of those books.

Ms. Farmer has been doing a great job of kind of capturing some behind-the-scenes stuff of show business that I was pretty unfamiliar with.

And you might be too.

Let's go ahead and roll that interview

and be sure to check out her and her stuff over at

patty-farmor.com.

Music I'm very curious about your background and how you decided to become a writer.

I think everything happens for a reason.

Right about the mid-century, 2005, 2006, everything was going great, and I had more business than I could handle. You know, I come from a business background. My partners and I, we

were doing deals left and right and just fat and happy.

And then 2007 and 2008 hit and the brakes all of a sudden were put on.

Nobody was doing anything.

The world was falling apart.

The economy was going to heck.

And I am not used to being bored and not used to having something to do.

So the plaza has always fascinated me. And I found out there used to be a nightclub there called the Persian Room. And I thought it was just fascinating. It had opened in 1934, had been there until 1975, and I really didn't know anything about it,

and a lot of the other people there didn't know anything about it.

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