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Hollywood Babylon Revisited: v. 1 by Darwin Porter
Category: Film & Tv
The hottest compendium of inter-generational scandal in the history of Hollywood. An overview of exhibitionism, sexuality, and sin as filtered through 85 years of Hollywood indiscretion. As they were unfolding, the events described within this book were known only within Hollywood's most decadent clique ...Show more
Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again: Volume 2 by Darwin Porter
Category: Film & Tv
Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one--especially not the dead...and Volume One is only the tip of the iceberg. (NY DAILY NEWS) This monumentally exhaustive collection of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures is the ultimate guilty pleasure. (BOOKS TO WATCH OUT FOR) Many of Hollywood's ...Show more
Howard Hughes - Hell's Angel by Darwin Porter
Category: Biography Memoir
From his reckless pursuit of love as a rich teenager to his final days as a demented fossil, Howard Hughes changed the worlds of aviation and entertainment forever. This biography reveals inside details about his destructive and usually scandalous associations with other Hollywood players. Set amid desc ...Show more
Humphrey Bogart: The Making of a Legend by Darwin Porter
Category: Film & Tv
Except for what's within this book, very little is known about how Humphrey Bogart clawed his way from Broadway to Hollywood during the Jazz Age and Prohibition. Based on dusty unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and personal interviews, this unapologetic expose lays Bogie's life bare in a style you' ...Show more
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams by Darwin Porter
Category: Biography
God had a talent for creating exceptional women--Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon who changed America's beliefs abo ...Show more
James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes by Darwin Porter
Category: Performing Arts
America s most enduring and legendary symbol of young rebellion, James Dean continues into the 21st Century to capture the imagination of the world. In recognition of his enduring appeal as Hollywood's most visible symbol of unrequited male rage, bars from California to Nigeria and Patagonia are named i ...Show more
Kirk Douglas More Is Never Enough - Oozing Masculinity, a Young Horndog Sets Out to Conquer Hollywood and to Bed Its Leading Ladies by Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Blood Moon's Babylon Ser.
Of all the male stars of Golden Age Hollywood, Kirk Douglas became the final survivor, the last icon of a fabled era that the world will never see again. When he celebrated his birthday in 2016, a headline read--LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD HORNDOG TURNS 100. He was both a charismatic actor and a man of uncommon ...Show more
Lana Turner : Hearts & Diamonds Take All by Danforth Darwin; Prince Porter
Category: Film & TV Biographies | Series: Blood Moon's Babylon Ser.
After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, America's penchant for popcorn blondes focused on LANA, the "ultimate movie star." She had it all: Looks to die for, money to burn, the romantic adulation of the world, and lovers who included the world's most desirable men. In her 1937 film, They Won't ...Show more
Love Triangle: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, and Nancy Davis -- All the Gossip Unfit to Print by Darwin Porter
Category: Film & Tv
Most of the world remembers Ronald Reagan and Nancy (Davis) Reagan as geriatric figures in the White House in the 1980s. And it remembers Jane Wyman as the fierce empress, Angela Channing, in the decade's hit TV series, Falcon Crest. But long before that, two young wannabee stars, Ronald Reagan and Jane ...Show more
Paris 2010 Frommer's by Darwin Porter
Category: Travel | Series: Frommer's Colour Complete Guides
Presented with a foldout map and hundreds of color photos, this title includes exact prices, directions, opening hours, and other practical information. It also includes reviews of hotels and restaurants, and sights, shopping, and nightlife, Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas as well as ...Show more
Peter O'Toole: Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel by Darwin Porter
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Blood Moon's Babylon Series
Born to a vagabond bookie working the U.K's racetracks, Peter O'Toole became "the most notorious sailor in Her Majesty's Royal Navy" and then worked as a street vendor, a paparazzo, a newsman, and a steeplejack before drifting into the London theatre. After his spectacular success in David Lean's four-h ...Show more
Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages by Darwin Porter
Category: Biography
One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle was on the dawn of world fame-Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire; Gore Vidal for his notorious homosexual ...Show more