Boze Hadleigh

musings on an American icon by the stars of yesterday and today

Marilyn forever

This book of quotes explores the many sides of the one-and-only Elizabeth Taylor. In her time, she was perceived as a celebrity, an actress, a siren, and a champion for causes. She became a popular and prominent female figure in the twentieth century, and her legacy continues to thrive today. In this book she is described in the words of others, from the stars of yesterday to the celebrities of today. Illustrated with over 80 rare photographs, this book will prove to be a fitting memento of a true film legend.

Tribute to a Legend

Elizabeth Taylor

Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network’s Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim’s Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences made the transition from radio to television in the late 1940s and was so popular that a town in New Mexico was named for the show. Television proved to be the perfect platform for game shows since they were very popular and cheap to produce. Even in reruns today, the older shows still draw huge audiences. This book describes the evolution of the game show, its larger-than-life producers and hosts, as well as the scandals that have rocked it from time to time, including bloopers from such “adult” oriented shows as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and Hollywood Squares. This is an entertaining and lively look at an American phenomenon whose popularity doesn’t seem to be going away.

The Story of an American Obsession

Game Show Confidential

Interviews Sandy Dennis, Barbara Stanwyck, Marjorie Main, Nancy Kulp, Patsy Kelly, Agnes Moorehead, Edith Head, Judith Anderson, and others about life as a lesbian in the film industry during the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood.

Hollywood Lesbians

Bette Davis

Bette Davis Speaks is the first interview book with the late legend. Unlike a spate of prior biographies, here the leading lady and woman-ahead-of-her-time speaks for herself in more than a dozen interviews with journalist and confidant Boze Hadleigh from the mid-1970s on.

Bette Davis Speaks

The first interview book with the late legend.

In this book the leading lady and woman ahead of her time speaks for herself in more than a dozen interviews conducted by journalist and author Boze Hadleigh.

"Fans of Hollywood's golden age will find this collection of interviews conducted over many years revealing...an enlightening picture emerges of Tinseltown, different from that presented in the fanzines." ¬Publishers Weekly "The book is more than it seems because these women are great talkers." ¬Booklist "I was curious about 'Hollywood Lesbians.' I have now read the book. I am still stunned." ¬ Bea Arthur of "The Golden Girls" "Riveting!...an eye opener!!" ¬Ellen DeGeneres Hollywood Lesbians: From Garbo to Foster is the companion volume to Boze Hadleigh’s classic Hollywood Gays. In this rare and no-holds-barred collection of exclusive interviews with Hollywood icons from the Golden Age of movies and TV—Dame Judith Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck, Capucine, Ann B. Davis, Nancy Kulp, Sandy Dennis, Agnes Moorehead, Edith Head, Patsy Kelly — among others—renowned entertainment journalist and historian Boze Hadleigh goes straight to the source and opens the film world’s closet door into the past, and brings this volume full circle to the present with new material.

From Garbo to Foster

In a collection of interviews with the author, conducted from the mid-1970s until her death, the legendary actress shares her candid views on her four husbands and various lovers, her costars and rivals, her films, and the difficulties of aging

Is Elvis the most charismatic star ever? What else accounts for his continuing global appeal and media presence, his allure to music lovers of all ages and to fans whose pilgrimages to Graceland make it the most-visited private residence in the USA? Presley's estate now earns more annually than when Elvis was alive. He died at 42, close on half a century ago, but new generations keep discovering him. He rocks and rolls on and on, not necessarily as a movie star—he was the first to dismiss his 31-film output—but as the top-selling singer in history, a pop-culture icon, an ageless sex symbol and a mythic figure who inspires intense, even fanatical devotion (e.g., the First Presbyterian Church of Elvis the Divine). When Elvis died there were some 170 Elvis imitators. A quarter-century later there were an estimated 85,000 Elvis "tribute artists," including a popular Chinese Elvis in London and a gay Mexican American, El Vez, whose re-tooled song performances include "You Ain't Nothin' But a Chihuahua." There are even Elvis performances in "heaven"—some years ago two groups of skydiving impersonators, the Flying Elvises and the Flying Elvis, sued each other in federal court. Elvis Forever offers possibly the most revealing and rounded close-up look yet at the King. The frank, often bold, sometimes shocking or surprising quotes from insiders and outsiders, peers, costars, friends, employees and famous fans took over two decades to collect and cover every phase of the life and legacy of the magnetic man from Memphis.

Looking Back on the Legacy of the King

Elvis Forever

Documents the musical contributions of gay and lesbian singers, composers, musicians, and dancers, including Liberace, Beethoven, k.d. lang, and Little Richard

Gays and Lesbians in the Music World

Sing Out!

The first book of theater celebrity gossip, can you believe it? Here's the book that airs Broadway's dirty laundry! Inspired by the classic Hollywood Babylon (in print for more than forty years, more than 100,000 copies sold), Broadway Babylon presents a hyper-entertaining look at the Great White Way's biggest scandals, best-kept secrets, and most over-the-top feuds. Author Boze Hadleigh, the preeminent disher of celebrity dish, serves up 400 pages of tasty, never-before-told stories about such show-biz icons as Ethel Merman, Tennessee Williams, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, and many, many others. Get it while it's hot!

Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way

Broadway Babylon

Join legendary Hollywood scribe Boze Hadleigh in this journey back in time as he examines what it was like to be gay in Hollywood during Tinseltown’s heyday, as well as how things have changed and what the future of gay Hollywood looks like. Today. Hadleigh examines both the obvious and hidden costs of being queer I Hollywood from both the inside looking out, and the outside looking in. Hadleigh brings us quotes and statements from such stars as Rock Hudson, Truman Capote, Cary Grant, Neil Patrick Harris, kd Lang, Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster, Queen Latifah, Little Naz, Oscar Wilde, Sammy Davis Jr., Ellen Page, Rosie O’Donnell, Ian McKellan, Bea Arthur, Buttlerfy McQueen, Chaz Bono, Elton John, Remi Malek, Wanda Sykes, among others.

Inside the Hollywood Closet--A Book of Quotes

Dit boek is een vervolg op een eerdere gesprekkenreeks met homo's uit de wereld van film en theater. Enkele namen: Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Stanwyck en Marjorie Main. De gesprekken gaan natuurlijk vooral over film en de respectievelijke carrières van de geïnterviewden, maar er is ook plaats en tijd voor uitweidingen zoals bijvoorbeeld over vrouwen en politiek.

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