Here is a news article: Hollywood producer and manager Jerry Weintraub, the driving force behind such films as Karate Kid, Nashville and Ocean’s Eleven, has died in California aged 77. 
  
 Weintraub, the former chairman and CEO of United Artists, who also promoted concerts for Elvis Presley and John Denver, died on Monday in Santa Barbara of cardiac arrest, his publicist confirmed. 
  
 The Brooklyn-born son of a gem trader, Weintraub rose from the mailroom of the William Morris talent agency to become a top concert promoter before shifting into a second career as a Hollywood producer. 
  
 Building a show business empire on a Rolodex and chutzpah, Weintraub worked with the famous stars of every era — from Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan to George Clooney and Brad Pitt. 
  
 “In the coming days there will be tributes about our friend Jerry Weintraub,” said Clooney, who starred in the Ocean’s movies, on Monday. “We’ll laugh at his great stories and applaud his accomplishments. And in the years to come, the stories and accomplishments will get better with age, just as Jerry would have wanted it.” 
  
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 One of the Republican party’s most loyal supporters in Hollywood, Weintraub was a close friend of President George Bush senior, for whom he threw a star-studded party at his Malibu home in 1981, and a golf buddy of President Ronald Reagan. 
  
 “Jerry was an American original who earned his success by the sheer force of his instinct, drive, and larger-than-life personality,” said Bush at news of Weintraub’s death. “He had a passion for life, and throughout the ups and downs of his prolific career, it was clear just how much he loved show-business.” 
  
 A self-made man, Weintraub fashioned himself in the mould of old Hollywood showman like Mike Todd, Cecil B DeMille and PT Barnum. He had his favourite LA lunch spots, a desert home in Palm Springs and moored his yacht off the French Riviera. 
  
 His career as a music promoter took a giant step in 1970 when, after a lengthy courtship, he persuaded Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to let him promote Presley’s concerts after the singer has been focusing on film work. 
  
 Weintraub titled his 2011 memoir, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead, and joked that he might write another with the title Dead, But Still Talking. 
  
 Weintraub’s most recent success was Behind The Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh’s 2013 drama about the life of flamboyant pianist, Liberace, played by Michael Douglas. After the big studios passed on the project, Weintraub took it to HBO, where it won 11 Emmys. Rob Lowe, who also starred in the film, called Weintraub “the ultimate producer” in a Twitter tribute. 
  
 — Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) So sad and shocked that a creative spirit like Jerry Weintraub's could EVER be silenced. He was the ultimate producer. #BehindTheCandelabra 
  
 Weintraub left numerous projects behind, including the recently debuted HBO series, The Brink, with Jack Black, and an upcoming big-budget remake of Tarzan. 
  
 “If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savour life, don’t press too hard, don’t worry too much. Or as the old-timers say, ‘Enjoy,’” he wrote in his book. 
  
 “[But] I never could live by this philosophy and was, in fact, out working, hustling, trading, scheming, and making a buck as soon as I was old enough to leave my parents’ house.” 
  
  
  
  ||||| Danny Moloshok / Reuters Producer Jerry Weintraub, pictured at the 26th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in 2015, is dead at the age of 77. 
  
 Jerry Weintraub, the high-powered producer whose name may not have graced any theater marquee but whose fingerprints were all over five decades worth of popular movies, died Monday. 
  
 He was 77. 
  
 The "Ocean’s Eleven" and "Karate Kid" producer, who had health problems in recent years, died with his family at his side in his Palm Springs home, according to TMZ, which first reported the news. 
  
 The Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised Weintraub started out as a music promoter and manager, most notably as the man credited with guiding country crooner John Denver's meteoric rise. 
  
 Handout Among Weintraub’s notable credits is the 2011 remake, ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney... Enlarge Columbia Pictures/Getty Images ...and the ‘Karate Kid’ movies, including the 1984 original starring Ralph Macchio. Enlarge 
  
 One of his first movie credits was Denver's 1975 comedy vehicle, "Oh God!," but the two reportedly parted on less than amicable terms. 
  
 Weintraub, though, found far greater success on the big- and small- screens anyway. 
  
 His dozens of credits include back-to-back Emmy winners, the 2013 Liberace biopic, "Behind the Candelabra," and the 2014 documentary "Years of Living Dangerously." 
  
 Less prestigious was Weintraub's run as United Artists chairman and chief executive, a position that lasted only six months from November 1985 to April 1986. 
  
 But Weintraub, though, had few misses on his resume, and in 2010 became one of the first independent producers to earn a walk on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. An HBO documentary, titled "His Way," appropriately enough because of Weintraub's long friendship with Frank Sinatra, aired on HBO in 2011. 
  
 He wielded his celebrity and enormous fortune — valued northwards of $200 million — for good causes. Among them: teaming up with his "Oceans 11" stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney to support the Darfur charity, Not on Our Watch. 
  
 NICK UT/ASSOCIATED PRESS Movie and concert producer Jerry Weintraub poses in his office in Los Angeles in 1983. 
  
 "I'm not afraid to go out there and put my neck out on the table," he told The Los Angeles Times in 2010. "If you are going to have celebrity like I do, I know this, you have to live with the consequences of it, the good and the bad." 
  
 Weintraub's last movie, the David Yates-directed "Tarzan," is set to hit theaters on July 1, 2016. 
  
 He is survived by long-time girlfriend Susan Ekins and four adult children. ||||| LOS ANGELES — Jerry Weintraub, a consummate showman whose up-and-down career touched musical entertainers as grandly diverse as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Led Zeppelin and screen artists who included Steven Soderbergh, Robert Altman and Michael Douglas, died on Monday in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 77. 
  
 The cause was cardiac arrest, his publicist said. 
  
 Once best known as a concert promoter and a music manager, Mr. Weintraub became a force in the film business with Mr. Altman’s “Nashville,” Barry Levinson’s “Diner” and Carl Reiner’s “Oh, God!” He joined in producing those movies in the 1970s and ’80s, before a crippling business failure temporarily halted his Hollywood career. 
  
 A longtime intimate of former President George H. W. Bush — initially a friend of Mr. Weintraub’s second wife, the torch singer Jane Morgan — Mr. Weintraub made himself into a myth by combining his three hallmarks: political access, Hollywood success and relentless charm. That persona was cemented both in a 2010 memoir, written with Rich Cohen, called “When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories From a Persuasive Man,” and “His Way,” a 2011 HBO documentary about his career. 
  
 “All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage,” Mr. Weintraub wrote in his memoir. “I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: ‘Jerry Weintraub Presents.’ ” |||||
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– Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub called his 2010 memoir "When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead"—and at the age of 77, he has stopped talking. Weintraub was behind huge hits like Karate Kid and Ocean's Eleven, but producing was actually his second career, following major success as a music promoter, reports the Guardian, which describes how he built "a show business empire on a Rolodex and chutzpah." Weintraub, who started out as an NBC page after serving in the Air Force, founded his own management company in the '60s and ended up promoting tours for established superstars like Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, as well as boosting the careers of up-and-comers like John Denver. Weintraub, who died of cardiac arrest, had his name on dozens of movies, though his firm's bankruptcy in 1990 after an attempt to build an independent studio was a major setback, the New York Times reports. Among the many people offering heartfelt tributes is close friend George HW Bush. "Jerry was an American original who earned his success by the sheer force of his instinct, drive, and larger-than-life personality," Bush says, per the Guardian. "He had a passion for life, and throughout the ups and downs of his prolific career, it was clear just how much he loved show business." His final movie, a remake of Tarzan directed by David Yates, will be out next summer, reports the New York Daily News.