Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

This is the story of how Shep Gordon met and eventually dated Sharon Stone: “I went to a party in Cannes with Mike Douglas, Mick Jagger and Roman Polanski, and the party was in the house Napoleon built for Josephine. It’s priceless.”

We’ll let slide that Shep knows Michael Douglas by a nickname, and that his trio of party guests would make the best and oddest #TrueDetectiveSeason2 assortment yet. I’m more impressed that he got to go to a party at a friggin’ castle owned and built by friggin’ Napoleon. And that’s just the setup to his story.

“Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon” tells the story of the life and career of the Hollywood manager and producer Shep Gordon, who has plenty more anecdotes like this in his back pocket. But what’s so amusing about it is not even the story but the humbled way in which Shep tells it. Continue reading “Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”