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Photo Coverage: Joan Rivers Hosts Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine's 'Double Life: A Love Story' Book Release Party

Last night, Joan Rivers hosted the book release party for Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine's "Double Life" at 21 Club. On hand to celebrate were A Little Night Music's Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Charles Busch, Larry Kramer and more.

"Double Life: A Love Story, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a 50 plus year relationship. With high profiles in the entertainment, advertising and art communities, the authors offer a virtual timeline of how gay relationships have gained acceptance in the last half-century. At the same time, they share inside stories from film, television and media featuring the likes of Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Barbra Streisand, Laurence Olivier, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Robert Redford, Lee Radziwill and Frances Lear."

Alan Shayne retired as President of Warner Brothers Television in 1986, following a career that included Broadway and spanned forty years. As a leading casting director, he worked on such films as Catch 22 and All the President's Men. At Warner Brothers, he shepherded such long-running television series as Alice, Night Court and The Dukes of Hazard.

Norman Sunshine was a successful magazine illustrator in New York who went on to be a painter and sculptor whose works are in museums and in important collections. In the early years of his career, he was vice president, creative director of an advertising agency, and coined the phrase, "What Becomes a Legend Most?" as well as "Danskins are not just for Dancing.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.


Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine Book


Joan Rivers


Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine


Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine with Joan Rivers


Joan Rivers


Larry Kramer


Larry Kramer & Joan Rivers


Hunter Ryan Herdlicka & Joan Rivers


Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine with Joan Rivers


Joan Rivers


Joan Rivers


Norman Sunshine with Joan Rivers attending the Joan Rivers


Alan Shayne with Norman Sunshine & Joan Rivers


Hunter Ryan Herdlicka & Charles Busch


Polly Bergen & Charles Busch


Eileen Fulton, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Polly Bergen & Charles Busch


Eileen Fulton, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Polly Bergen


Eileen Fulton


Christine Baranski


Eileen Fulton


Hoda Kotb


Jane Hanson & Hoda Kotb


Charles Busch & Joan Rivers


Hoda Kotb, Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine with Joan Rivers


Norman Sunshine & Alan Shayne

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Walter McBrideAs a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of 'GREASE'. His Journey to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. Walter moved to Manhattan and for a leading role as a Photographer & Photo Researcher. Currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and family members Dali (Jack Russell) & Gala (Schnoodle). Recently he made his Broadway debut sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman in 'Hugh Jackman on Broadway' as well as receiving the Actors' Equity Association Gypsy Spirit Award. Walter McBride Photography is syndicated worldwide by Corbis/AP.
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