The man behind films ranging from “Nashville” through the recent “Ocean’s Eleven” series – not to mention countless Broadway shows and concerts, including a history-making nationwide tour by Elvis Presley – Jerry Weintraub fit the bill of “producer” in the most classically recognized sense. He was silver-haired, lightly tanned, and perennially optimistic, yet incredibly superstitious, carefully avoiding talking too much about the past or the future – a lamentable choice considering the stories he could have told. Perhaps knowing all too well how easily the best assembled plans could suddenly
