If you are a celebrity and have ever visited Acapulco (and who hasn't?), then you have undoubtedly been interviewed by Mike Oliver. Mike got you going and coming. If you did not appear in the pages of the Acapulco News under his byline: "Mike Oliver's Acapulco," you surely appeared in a press release in every newspaper, world wide, serviced by United Press International...usually in both.
Oliver's stories in this book are offbeat. Mike not only paints a historical picture of an Acapulco that few people ever knew, but also sketches a personality side of the famous (and infamous) visitors to this world-famous resort that few fans may have suspected. Visitors such as Joan Crawford, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller and Frank Sinatra. Sketches that are vivid, uninhibited and unknown, until now...
"Frank Sinatra had a knack for getting in trouble in Mexico. It's hard to understand why. He loved Mexico. He especially loved Acapulco; enough so that he purchased a two-bedroom home in the Las Brisas residential area. But Sinatra, who divorced Ava Gardner here, seemed to find himself in hot water quite often. For example..."
