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1) Steve McQueen, king of cool: tales of a lurid life

Author

Porter, Darwin

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

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The truth about Steve McQueen is spectacularly different from the legend projected by his screen persona and Hollywood's media machine. Lurid aspects of McQueen's early life include a gothic horror of a childhood and stints as both a porno performer and pay-for-play hustler to both men and women. Also revealed are sinister implications associated with his mysterious death. Years of research on the film industry's coolest player bring McQueen and his...

2) J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson: investigating the sexual secrets of America's most famous men and women

Author

Porter, Darwin

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

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Blood Moon's newest book examines the hidden sexual secrets of long-time companions, FBI Directors J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, and their decades-long obsession with the darkest indiscretions of famous Americans. This is history's first exposure of J. Edgar's obsession with voyeuristic sex and its links to the priorities of his law enforcement agency. It's the most detailed and most shocking insight into J. Edgar Hoover ever published, an unprecedented...

3) Frank Sinatra, the boudoir singer: all the gossip unfit to print from the glory days of Ol' Blue Eyes

Author

Porter, Darwin

Series

Blood Moon's Babylon

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

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Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage. Call me 'The Boudoir Singer,' or so claimed Frank Sinatra. The crooner's career spanned more than half a century, earning him millions of fans. His boudoir conquests involved some of the most stunning women of the 20th-century. But exactly, who was this mercurial, enigmatic man? Darwin Porter, America's leading chronicler of Golden Age Hollywood, turns over more than a few boulders in Sinatra's...

4) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: a life beyond her wildest dreams

Author

Porter, Darwin

Series

Blood Moon's Babylon

Pub. Date

Language

English

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Despite her unprecedented fame, most Americans know very few details about Jackie's emotional and romantic life in the aftermath of her marriages to a president and to one of the world's richest men. This book will change that, thanks to the years digging up indiscreet tales about the emotional entanglement of a woman whose romantic and sex life continued at full throttle through multiple menfolk and multiple partnersâ€”most of them rich, famous...

5) Katharine the great (1907-1950): secrets of a lifetime revealed

Author

Porter, Darwin

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

6) Brando unzipped

Author

Porter, Darwin

Pub. Date

[2006]

Edition

First edition 200511.

Language

English

7) Frommer's Portugal

Author

Porter, Darwin

Series

Frommer's travel guides

Pub. Date

2012.

Edition

22nd ed., 21st ed.

Language

English

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Offers information on sightseeing, accommodations, restaurants, geography, events, and shopping for Portugal and surrounding areas.

8) Hollywood Babylon, it's back!: [Vol. 1]

Author

Porter, Darwin

Pub. Date

2008.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

9) 50 years of queer cinema: 500 of the best gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer questioning films ever made

Author

Porter, Darwin

Pub. Date

2010.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Presents reviews of more than five hundred films along with a history of the way homosexuality was portrayed in motion pictures throughout the years.

10) Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps

Author

Porter, Darwin

Series

Frommer's

Pub. Date

2011.

Edition

Eighth edition.

Language

English

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Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. The inside scoop on the best beer halls, walking tours, mountain villages, and Bavarian alpine skiing and hiking trails.