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{PDF EPUB} Vamps a Lesbian Anthology with Teeth by Lorna Hinson Vamps: a Lesbian Anthology with Teeth by Lorna Hinson Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Vamps a lesbian anthology with teeth by Lorna Hinson Vamps: a lesbian anthology with teeth by Lorna Hinson. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #d03c4690-d059-11eb-b1c7-1ff9047ad3b9 VID: #(null) IP: 116.202.236.252 Date and time: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:22:52 GMT. Vamps: a lesbian anthology with teeth by Lorna Hinson. ISBN: 978-1-936003-71-6 Price: $39.95 Trim: 6" x 9" Page Count: 530 with photos Available now worldwide through internet purveyers INGRAM LIGHTNING SOURCE, and Amazon. The most famous woman in the history of TV wasn't exactly what she appeared to be on I Love Lucy. Gritty, feisty, abrasive, intelligent, and edgy, Lucille Ball ("Love!" she said. "I was always falling in love!") lived through the heady years of 1930s show business as a chorus girl. But her wild run-away years as a starlet have been kept largely concealed from her adoring public. Here--with its triumphs, frustrations, and tragedies--is the ultimate close-up of this extraordinary redhead. Print & emedia links for Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz. In the late 1950s, Darwin Porter, student body president at the University of Miami, arranged “Lucy & Desi” Day at the school, a celebration of the country’s most popular entertainers and favorite couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. But when he arrived to take them to the event, the snide and bickering couple he found resembled anything but America’s sweethearts. “She shouted denunciations at him, at one point calling him [an ethnic slur]. She accused him of having sex with two prostitutes the night before,” writes Porter in his new book with Danforth Price, “Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz: They Weren’t Lucy & Ricky Ricardo,” (Blood Moon Productions, out now). The Seductive Sapphic Exploits of Mercedes de Acosta: Hollywood's Greatest Lover. Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. ISBN: 978-1936003-75-4 Price: $39.95 Trim: 6" x 9" Page Count: 474 Available October, 2020 through internet purveyers that include INGRAM SPARK, and Amazon. " From Garbo to Dietrich, from Eleanora Duse to Isadora Duncan, from Eva Le Gallienne to Tallulah Bankhead to Katharine Cornell-- even to Valentino's two wives--star seducer Mercedes de Acosta was the Perfect Sapphic Lover" Mercedes de Acosta's love affairs were with women, each a figurehead in art, the theater, and the filmmaking and literary scenes. They included Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Nazimova, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Eva Le Gallienne, Tallulah Bankhead, Jeanne Eagels, Katharine Cornell, Eleanora Duse, Isadora Duncan, and both of Valentino's wives. This is probably the best portrait of lesbian and avant-garde Broadway and early 20th-century filmmaking ever published. Read all about it in the next installment of Blood Moon's MAGNOLIA HOUSE SERIES. Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli: Too Many Damn Rainbows. Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. ISBN: 978-1936003-69-3 Price: $39.95 Trim: 6" x 9" Page Count: 734 with 110 B&W photos Available July 14, 2020 through internet purveyers that include INGRAM SPARK, and Amazon. " You've got only one life to live, so make it a hell of a ride." (Judy) " What good is sitting alone in your room?" (Liza) Judy Garland, an icon whose memory is permanently etched into the American psyche, continues to thrive as a cult goddess. Revered by thousands of die-hard fans, she's the most poignant example of both the manic and depressive (some say "schizophrenic") sides of the Hollywood myth. Ferociously loyal but fiercely competitive, they live, laugh, and weep again in the tear-soaked pages of this remarkable biography from the entertainment industry's most prolific archivists, Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince. Glamour, Glitz, & Gossip at Magnolia House: Magnolia House Series Volume Two. Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. ISBN: 978-1-936003-73-0 Price: $34.95 Trim: 6" x 9" Page Count: 325 with 200 photos. Built in stages between 1830 and 1870, Magnolia House is an award-winning AirBnb and a historic landmark on Staten Island, the least-visited Outer Borough of New York City. Set within a 10-minute walk from the (free) Staten Island ferry that accesses Manhattan, it's also the home of the widely distributed independent press, BLOOD MOON PRODUCTIONS, a feisty wordsmith noted for celebrity biographies that have been reviewed in THE DAILY MAIL, the New York DAILY NEWS, show-biz news reports, and literary journals across the country. Before that, it was the editorial and research headquarters for many editions of THE FROMMER GUIDES, the most widely-read travel guidebook series in publishing history. Some visitors liken Magnolia House to a grande dame with a centuries-old knack for nourishing high-functioning eccentrics. Many of them have lived or been entertained here since New York's State Senator Howard Bayne, a transplanted Southerner, moved in with his wife, the daughter of the Surgeon General of the Confederate States of America, in the aftermath of that bloodiest of wars on North American soil, the War Between the American States. Since then, many dozens of celebrities--some of them notorious--have whispered their secrets and rehearsed their ambitions within its walls. They've included movie vamps from the silent screen, MIDNIGHT COWBOYS, dancers from the dance, BUTTERFLIES IN HEAT, a heavyweight boxing champ, writers from every hue, faded film goddesses, playwrights who crafted blockbusters for both Marilyn (Monroe) and Elizabeth (Taylor), ultra-avant-garde diarists, every known variety of prima donna and diva, including some from the world of opera, and a world- class Olympic athlete. They've also included Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, who spent decades here renovating it and producing a stream of award-winning celebrity biographies. This book illuminates Magnolia House's contribution to the American Century, when dozens of celebrities--some of them sane and emotionally stable, others not--visited it or were subjected to intense scrutiny and tabloid exposés, from within its walls. Issued as a celebration of the the American definition of scandal and notoriety, this book reveals what Magnolia House's celebrities did and the secrets they revealed within its walls. Burt Reynolds: Put the Pedal to the Metal. Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. ISBN: 978-936003-1 Price: $34.95 Trim: 6" x 9" Page Count: 680 with 200 photos. Blood Moon Productions proudly announces the availability, this September, of first-ever tell-all biography of Burt Reynolds. His career spanned 65 years and 187 films for both the big screen and TV. Designed as the "Hollywood shock book of the year," Burt Reynolds: Put the Pedal to the Metal is the never-before-told saga of a tormented, lusty horndog who oozed masculinity. Macho, rebellious, and charming, and with a "loud and proud" footprint in country-western, rural America, he was a good old Southern boy who made hearts throb and audiences laugh. A former football hero, he was a guy you might have shared some jokes with in a redneck bar. Raised in Florida, with links to Georgia and other parts of the South, he became the number one box office champ of the "anything goes" 1970s. Like a merry-go-round, he set out to seduce the leading sex divas of his era: Tammy Wynette, Lorna Luft (Judy Garland's daughter), Catherine Deneuve, Farrah Fawcett, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor. He even had time to fall in love with "heartbreakers" Sally Field and Dinah Shore. He also had an obsession for the aging screen goddesses of yesterday—would you believe Bette Davis and Mae West? He aroused homoerotic desires in Hollywood's two most famous bisexuals—Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant. There were those boozy nights with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and John Wayne, followed by "wench hunts" with Johnny Carson. He even plotted the murder of his nemesis, Marlon Brando. Print & emedia links for Burt Reynolds. BURT REYNOLDS was a rake, a rogue, and a proudly defiant redneck. AND AMERICA LOVED HIM! Prime-time talk-radio interview with Danforth Prunce about Burt Reynold's status as one of moviemaking's most profitable (and most tragic) sex symbols. BURT REYNOLDS: How a nude centerold sex symbol seduced Hollywood. Listen to Danforth Prince describe Burt's experience as a nude centerfold sex symbol, and high (or low) points in a film career that lasted longer than almost anyone else's in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas: More Is Never Enough. Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince. ISBN: 978-1-936003-61-7 Price: $34.95 Trim: 6" x 9" Page Count: 680. Blood Moon Productions proudly announces the availability, in April, 2019 of the world's most comprehensive biography of Kirk Douglas, as penned by one of the film industry's most respected, prolific, and controversial authors, Darwin Porter. According to a spokesperson for Blood Moon, "Of the many male stars of Golden Age Hollywood, Kirk Douglas became the final survivor, the last icon of a fabled, optimistic era that the world will never see again. When he celebrated his birthday in 2016, headlines noted—LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD HORNDOG TURNS 100. He was both a charismatic actor and a man of uncommon force and vigor. His volcanic energy is reflected both in his films and through his many sexual conquests. Our newest book places him squarely in the center of the seismic changes roaring through America during his reign as one its most visible representatives at home and abroad." Douglas was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, his father a collector and seller of rags.
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