BOZE HADLEIGH

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Lifes a Pooch is, pardon the expression, catnip for dog lovers. Its five riveting chapters comprise hundreds of celebrity quotes and anecdotes about everyones best friend. By turns funny, touching, surprising, and informative, it embraces every aspect of the human-dog bond and explores our furry companions sometimes baffling world and celebrates their impact on ours. Those quoted range from animal superheroes Betty White and Doris Day to Leonardos da Vinci and DiCaprio to dog trainers, Lassie costars, singers and actors, presidents, Walt Disney, and Martha Stewart--to name a few!Did you know that . . . Comparing canines with people, Marilyn Monroe once said, A dog will never tell you to shut up? Aldous Huxley explained the poochs popularity: To his dog, every man is Napoleon, while President Harry Truman advised, If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog? For Renee Zellweger, Finding exactly the right dog is a lot like falling in love? Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz felt, Happiness is a warm puppy? And singer Adele is happy to be my dogs best friend? Poignant, silly, and heart-warming, Lifes a Pooch is a must-have for every dog lover!

492 Great Things About Being Italian is fun, informative and catnip for 17 million Italian-Americans. It follows in the footsteps of other successful books aimed at this minority proud of its remarkableand ongoing!heritage. It comprises 492 (as in 1492) individual people, things, places and phenomena that make one proud to be Italian (or half-Italian, which adds millions more to the target market). But one doesnt have to be Italian to enjoy this book, any more than one has to be Jewish to love rye bread! Italy is Americans second-favorite travel destination outside North America, and Italian foods, celebrities, entertainment, etc., are popular with most everyone. Its also the kind of book that once you peek inside, you wont be able to read just one entry of the 492its like potato chips!

We love animals but insult humans by calling them everything from weasels or pigs to sheep, mice, chickens, sharks, snakes, and bird-brains. Animal epithets, words, and phrases are so widespread we often take them for granted or remain ignorant of the fascinating stories and facts behind them.Spanning the entire animal kingdom, Holy Cow! explains: Why hot dogs are named after canines. Why people talk turkey or go cold turkey. Why curiosity killed the cat, although dogs are more curious about us. Why letting the cat out of the bag originally referred to a duped shopper. What a horse of another color is, what horsefeathers politely alludes to, why a mule is a ladys slipper, and what horseradish has to do with horses. Why the combination of humans and cows probably led to capitalismits name from Latin for head, as in heads of cows. Why holy cow and sacred cow have almost opposite meanings. Whether people actually chewed the fat or ate crow (and why its a crowbar). How a hog became a motorcycle and a chick a young woman. What happens to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. What buck has to do with being naked. Why the birds and the bees. Why a piggy bank and why one feeds the kitty. What lame ducks have to do with U.S. presidents. How red herring came about via activists opposed to fox hunting. Where snake oil, popular in the 1800s and rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, came from. That the proverbial fly in the ointment goes back to the Bibles Ecclesiastes (10:1). How Swiss watchmakers created teensy-weensy coaches for fleas to pull in flea circuses. And muchmuch!more. Dont be a lame duck and get this book!

Behind the images and facades of stars whose fame and fascination continue to outlive them lies the naked truth. How Hollywood stars lived, worked and died is often more dramatic than their films. When we talk about movie stars we usually dwell not on their movies but their personalities or what happened to them or supposedly happened. Their lives interest us even more than their roles, especially, lets be honest, their mishaps and tragedies, including early deaths. Their scandals define several movie stars, and Hollywood secrets remain a true-gossip staple, particularly sexual secrets. Scandals, Secrets & Swansongs takes a close-up, no-holds-barred look at 101 starsat their surprising, often shocking, sometimes sordid but always entertaining real selves and lives.

From the beginning of her modeling career in 1944 as Norma Jeane Mortensen to her death as the voluptuous Hollywood icon in 1962, Marilyn Monroe posed for thousands of modeling and publicity photos, scores of which have long been forgotten or abandoned in neglected studio archives. This book collects 100 of the rarest of the rare, seldom previously seen images of her brief modeling career, early days on the 20th Century Fox lot, then in candids between scene takes and traveling as a public figure as the wife of Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio. For the Monroe fans who think that they have seen it all, this book will provide a new lens on a beloved American icon.

Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS networks 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 Jims 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 doesnt seem to be going away.

From the beginning of his career to his death as a cultural, icon Elvis Presley sang and enchanted millions of people. Publicity photos and behind-the-scenes shots from the Hollywood Photo Archives include scores of long- forgotten or abandoned images in neglected studio archives. This book collects 100 of the rarest of the rare, seldom previously seen images of his career. For the Elvis fans who think that they have seen it all, this book will provide a new lens on a beloved American superstar.

The first book of theater celebrity gossip, can you believe it? Heres the book that airs Broadways 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 Ways 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 its hot!

Celebrity Feuds! dishes the dirt with in-depth stories of every word uttered, letter written, or fist swung from the cantankerous stars first calamitous encounters to their deathbed declarations. Exposing the shocking tactics of the most bitter rivals in the entertainment industry and the vindictive, unseen ire of our favorite stars, this book reveals Hollywood with all its claws bared.

"Fans of Hollywoods 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 DeGeneresHollywood Lesbians: From Garbo to Foster is the companion volume to Boze Hadleighs classic Hollywood Gays. In this rare and no-holds-barred collection of exclusive interviews with Hollywood icons from the Golden Age of movies and TVDame Judith Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck, Capucine, Ann B. Davis, Nancy Kulp, Sandy Dennis, Agnes Moorehead, Edith Head, Patsy Kelly among othersrenowned entertainment journalist and historian Boze Hadleigh goes straight to the source and opens the film worlds closet door into the past, and brings this volume full circle to the present with new material.

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 Tinseltowns 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 ODonnell, Ian McKellan, Bea Arthur, Buttlerfy McQueen, Chaz Bono, Elton John, Remi Malek, Wanda Sykes, among others.PRAISE FOR INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD CLOSET"Hollywoods global influence is far too bigalso too far from being as realistic and fair-minded as it should be. Boze Hadleighs books spotlight this and other glaring, sometimes shocking, often juicy facts."Boy George"If you do an update or sequel or whatever to your wonderful book, feel free to ask for a blurb, dear. Homophobia makes no sense whatever, and Im always glad to speak out against it."Bea Arthur"Its important for the gay public and the general public to know how things have changed in the entertainment industryand how they havent."Congressman Barney Frank"Some people ask is there still a Hollywood closet? Are you kidding? Read on, Macduff!" Kathy Griffin

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?Presleys 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 starhe was the first to dismiss his 31-film outputbut 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 Aint 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.

"If all the worlds a stage according to Shakespeare, its all one big movie screen to Hadleigh, whos evidently taking up where the great gossip columnists of yesteryear left off. In this collection of interviewsthe author continues his probing of the ever-popular topic of the sexual proclivities of Hollywood actors."Publishers WeeklyIn this rare, no-holds-barred collection of interviews with Hollywood icons from the Golden Age of moviesCary Grant, Anthony Perkins, Liberace, Cesar Romero, among othersrenowned entertainment journalist and historian Boze Hadleigh goes straight to the source and opens the film worlds closet door onto another era. Secret love affairs, confessions, gossip about the personal lives of other closeted gay and lesbian stars, stories of surviving the relentless homophobia of the period, arrests, and more are all discussed at-length out in the open with Hadleigh on the condition that the interview not be published during the actors lifetime. Included in this new edition are two new interviews never before publishedone with Marilyn Monroes Seven Year Itch costar Tom Ewell and a second with Bewitched star Dick Sargent."Books like Vita Rusos The Celluloid Closet and Kenneth Angers Hollywood Babylon abound with rumors about the sexual appetites of Hollywood stars. Hadleigh on the other hand seeks to provide firsthand reports."Library JournalBoze Hadleigh, author of Celebrity Feuds! and Hollywood and Whine, has written more than 15 books. The author splits his time, when not traveling the world, between Beverly Hills and Sydney, Australia.

When Secretary of State, Pete Hegseth announced that the Trump Administration was considering renaming military vessels that have been christened after legendary LGBT, female, and minority officers, Harvey Milk s Navy vessel was one of those mentioned. Harvey Milk was assassinated almost 50 years ago, and while his status as a gay icon has increased over the years, there are many who do not really know who he was, what he stood for, and how unique he was in his time. We are fortunate that our RAB author Boze Hadleigh interviewed Milk twice just weeks before he was assassinated and shared those interviews with us. In these pages you will find the first interview which concentrates on Milks passionate belief in the power of community and politics. Two weeks later Hadleigh joined him for dinner where they talked about growing up gay in America in the 50s and gay imagery in popular culture. These side-by-side interviews give us a powerful insight into not only who Harvey Milk was as a politician but also as a gay man in his time. Milks passion and pride in these interviews shows us just how much we lost and makes us wonder what could have been!