Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabor transferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions from the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. This book demonstrates that wit, charm, ruthlessness, and beauty can indeed go a long way toward the realization of the American Dream.
A self-defined "seductress of beautiful women" and the by-product of an immense fortune, lesbian activist Mercedes de Acosta (born in 1892) was descended from Spain's Dukes of Alba and a beneficiary of the best education and best social skills that her parents' Gilded Age fortune could buy. From her perch within the aristocracy of the Belle ......
Throughout his forty-five year career, Henry Fonda-a stable, reassuring archetype of the American male-never gave a bad performance. Personal tragedies included five wives (two of whom committed suicide), and affairs which starred such mega-divas as Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis. This, Volume Two of Blood Moon's "Fonda" ......
This is an "only in America" tale about VINTAGE TRUMP: the greed, envy, and politics gone crazy within an American populace terrified of an uncertain future and sinking deeper into a media-driven maze of distortions. Here it is...fact-based and controversy-soaked, the story of how Donald Trump succeeded at seizing the world's most powerful ......
Celebrity & the Ironies of Fame: A Memoir About Travel Guides, Tabloid Exposes, and the Landmark Where They Were Produced
Media gurus Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince are the owners and innkeepers of a wise and venerable Grande Dame, Magnolia House. Built in the 1830s and enlarged during America's Civil War, it's a NYC landmark in which at least fifty titles within the world-famous Frommer Travel Guides, and all of the show biz biographies of America's feistiest ......
In the interim since Rock Hudson's tragic demise as one of the early (and perhaps most shocking, based on his celebrity) victims of AIDS, his legend has evolved into a nationwide cult. Loaded with details never set into print before, this unvarnished, uncensored, unexpurgated overview of his life and career explains why.
Hefner, the Playboy of the Western World, was a visionary publisher, an empire-builder, an avatar of pleasure, and a pajama-clad pipe-smoker with a pre-coital grin. In 1953, he published his first edition of Playboy, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover and her nude calendar inside. He obtained the rights for $500 with money borrowed from his ......
Born to a vagabond bookie working the U.K.'s racetracks, O'Toole as a very young man "became the most notorious sailor in Her Majesty's Royal Navy," before working as a hawker of balloons, a paparazzo, a newsman, and a steeplejack. He drifted into the London Theatre and studied ballet. Reed thin, toweringly tall, and larger than life, with blue ......
Set in the months that preceded the murder of megastar Marilyn Monroe. this investigative report challenges the myths and assumptions that have, for decades, been repeated repetitively and inconclusively within the canon of half-truths widely circulated about her career and death. In it, celebrity biographer Darwin Porter has compiled, with ......
