Not content with merely producing movies such as “A Few Good Men” and “Deep Impact” and Broadway musicals like “The Sweet Smell of Success” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” 90-year-old David Brown has found time to write a book.

The famous wife is Helen Gurley Brown, who changed a lot of American women's minds with her 1960s best seller, “Sex and the Single Girl,” and as the editor who sexed up the sedate magazine, Cosmopolitan. At 84 she is still editing foreign editions of the magazine.

A graduate of Stanford University and Columbia University School of Journalism, Brown started his career as a reporter, wrote scores of short stories, rose to managing editor of Cosmopolitan (pre-Gurley Brown) and in 1953 moved to Hollywood as story editor at Twentieth Century-Fox.

The highest point of Brown's Hollywood career came when he and Zanuck were awarded the Irving G. Thalberg award in 1991 for consistent high quality production.

“The lowest point? When we were fired from Fox and had to dictate from the back of our cars because they wouldn't let us in our offices,” Brown said.

A native New Yorker, Brown sailed to California on a tourist liner at the age of 17. After a three-week voyage through the Caribbean islands and the Panama Canal, he enrolled at Stanford, graduating in three years.

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