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1. One Hundred Naked Girls
   A consistent multi-tasker, Romanian born of Austrian and Hungarian parents, now a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, Andy Halmay (originally Tibor Andris Halmai) has lived several lives on two continents and in three countries while enjoying that many more careers - a farmer, stevedore, actor, writer, director, producer in theater, radio, TV and motion pictures. A meteoric career on Madison Avenue took him from copywriter to Vice President, Creative on America's biggest TV spot account. Here he won five awards for creative excellence and created out of stock conditions for previously ailing products. Starting in radio before TV arrived he did his first radio commercial with Monty Hall and his first Network radio drama with the late Leslie Nielsen. In his spare time, during his advertising days he became active as a lyricist-composer and records producer, racking up over 30 record releases on major labels such as Columbia, RCA Victor, London, Brunswick, Colpix, Sunbeam with artists such as Paul Simon, Carl Perkins, Lillian Briggs, Fred Neil, Eddie Fontaine, etc. He has worked with legendary names such as Jackie Gleason and Lorne Greene. He once directed the famous Zsa Zsa Gabor in a winning TV commercial and formed a partnership with her for a cosmetics company. As an actor he worked with name directors such as John Huston and Arthur Hiller. As voice artist he has worked in New York, Toronto, Memphis and Los Angeles and once introduced the Pope on CBS TV network. He developed the original concept for the vacation time-share and the grandfather of the music video. While seldom thinking of himself as a writer, over the years he has more consistently paid the mortgage with income from his writing. "Out of compulsion," he states, "I write screenplays for films I want to direct and produce." One of these screenplays was seen by a publisher who wanted to publish its book adaptation. It was an emetic experience for Andy that decided him to write a book, publish it himself, and do it right for a change. He settled on writing his own biography which has grown so long it will come out in six volumes. In the interim, he dashed off a collection of some of his lyrics under the title IT AIN'T FINE IF IT DON'T RHYME published by Veni Vici Books, a division of his Veni Vici Entertainment; and now the book adaptation of his screenplay ONE HUNDRED NAKED GIRLS.