{"id":1945,"date":"2016-10-23T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freepublicitygroup.com\/news\/?page_id=1945"},"modified":"2016-10-27T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:13:40","slug":"release-barry-zevan-weatherman-new-memoir-release-oct2316","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.freepublicitygroup.com\/news\/release-barry-zevan-weatherman-new-memoir-release-oct2316\/","title":{"rendered":"release-barry-zevan-the-weatherman-author-new-memoir-release-oct2316"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1945\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1945-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style-full-width panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-1945-0\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-1945-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1945-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 32px;\">Barry ZeVan, The Weatherman, Pioneer In Radio And Television, Releases Extraordinary Memoir, \u201cMy Life Among The Giants\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Subtitled \"Thank you, Jerry Stiller, for urging me to write this book\", ZeVan's long-awaited memoir is a treasure-trove of celebrity stories and anecdotes covering a career spanning seven decades<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1946\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1946\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1946\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freepublicitygroup.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Barry-Zevan-Headshot.jpg?resize=200%2C122\" alt=\"Barry ZeVan\" width=\"200\" height=\"122\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry ZeVan<\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">[Wilmington, NC, October 27, 2016] <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barry ZeVan has announced the release of\u00a0 'Barry ZeVan - My Life Among The Giants, A Memoir'. ZeVan's memoir is a mind-boggling chronicle of a career in show business and media that has spanned seven decades. It is filled with delightful stories and anecdotes detailing personal relationships with hundreds upon hundreds of celebrities whose names we would all recognize - everybody from politicians to movie stars, radio and television personalities and political figures. There are over 370 iconic names in the acknowledgment pages alone.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Frankly, it would probably be far easier to make a list of people he hasn't known. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sam Donaldson, ABC-TV White House correspondent, is quoted on the back cover as saying, \"How can Barry ZeVan know so many famous people? Beats me, but he does and the stories he tells about them make fascinating reading.\" That is an understatement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p><div id=\"attachment_1947\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1947\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1947\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freepublicitygroup.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Barry-Zevan-Cover.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Barry ZeVan My Life Among The Giants cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry ZeVan My Life Among The Giants cover<\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The book is much more than a collection of revealing stories, however. It is a memoir that details a life filled with bright lights, tempered with an undercurrent of darkness. Ultimately the book is inspiring in many ways and is, in the final analysis, a tale about survival.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The book is the result of encouragement from Barry\u2019s longtime friend, Jerry Stiller, to recount the very rich experiences of his life. As Jerry Stiller wrote to Barry: \u201cYou\u2019re an express train that hasn\u2019t reached its destination . . .You should be more recognized.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barry says: \u201cWhat I\u2019ve written involves a lifetime of being welcomed into literally dozens of circles of the world\u2019s most powerful individuals, globally, with vivid memories of how they were as \u2018people\u2019 Rather than 'name-dropping', the memories I\u2019m sharing are related in awe and gratitude of my privilege to have had their private selves be shared with mine, and vice-versa, personally and professionally.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"I wrote this book because dear Jerry Stiller told me my life story had to be told and seen by not only people in broadcasting, show business and politics, but anyone from any walk of life who has the ability to read! My memoir covers every facet of life, from poverty to survival to comfort to longtime anxious times, but including being taken under the wings of some of the world's most iconic people, becoming part of their lives in very personal and warm ways and the stories surrounding each of those elements. I've been told my book should be made into a movie. It's flattering, but the movie would be 17 hours long! This book is definitely NOT predictable. I'm honored former Vice President Mondale, former ABC-TV anchor Sam Donaldson and APT's Rudy Maxa, among others, have stated that fact in their kind endorsements on the back cover. MY consensus? At age 79 and a cancer survivor, I've been a very blessed 'boy' and still have the mind and energy of a four year old, happy to have fulfilled Jerry Stiller's admonition I write the book.\"<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reviewers and readers have praised 'My Life Among The Giants'. One said, \"Barry is a master storyteller, able to capture the essence of some of the biggest names we grew up with, shedding new light on who they were, what motivated them, what made them tick.\" Another stated, \"Barry ZeVan's book is amazing. A word of warning: You won't be able to put it down.\"<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barry ZeVan is available for media interviews and can be reached using the information below or by email at BNZ1@aol.com. 'Barry ZeVan - My Life Among The Giants, A Memoir', is available at Amazon.com. More information is available at his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barryzevan.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.barryzevan.com<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About Barry ZeVan:<\/span><\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barry ZeVan, the Weatherman, has been a radio and television icon for over 73 years. He is an actor, writer and award-winning producer, known for, among others, 'The Best of Hollywood' (1998), 'Television: The First Fifty Years' (1999) and 'Hiding Victoria' (2006). He was known as Barry ZeVan, The Weatherman, on Channel 5 in Minneapolis-St. Paul in the early 1970s, Channel 7 in Washington, D.C. in the mid-1970s, Channels 2 and 4 in Detroit in the early 1980s and later on Channel 11 in Minneapolis-St. Paul during the mid-1980s. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barry ZeVan<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BNZ1@aol.com<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barryzevan.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/www.barryzevan.com<\/span><\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-1945-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style-full-width panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-1945-1\" data-stretch-type=\"full-stretched\" ><div id=\"pgc-1945-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1945-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-1945-1-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-button panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-button so-widget-sow-button-atom-4372693b3015-1945\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"ow-button-base ow-button-align-center\"\n>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\thref=\"mailto:bnz1@aol.com\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"sowb-button ow-icon-placement-left ow-button-hover\" \t>\n\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sow-icon-fontawesome sow-far\" data-sow-icon=\"&#xf0e0;\"\n\t\tstyle=\"color: #ffffff\" \n\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\tContact\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1945-1-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-1945-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1945-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry ZeVan, The Weatherman, Pioneer In Radio And Television, Releases Extraordinary Memoir, \u201cMy Life Among The Giants\u201dSubtitled &#8220;Thank you, Jerry Stiller, for urging me to write this book&#8221;, ZeVan&#8217;s long-awaited memoir is a treasure-trove of celebrity stories and anecdotes covering a career spanning seven decades\u00a0[Wilmington, NC, October 27, 2016] Barry ZeVan has announced the release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-notitle.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barry ZeVan, The Weatherman, Pioneer In Radio And Television, Releases Extraordinary Memoir, \u201cMy Life Among The Giants\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Subtitled &quot;Thank you. 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