Goldie Hawn: Goldie - A Lotus Grows in the Mud

USA 2006, 447 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father's spontaneity, her mother's courage, and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in 1960s New York City, her Oscar-winning debut in »Cactus Flower«, and Hollywood stardom. She writes intimately about the challenges of love, anger, and fear, and the importance of compassion and integrity. She speaks about her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children, her curiosity for that which she doesn't yet know. What she really wants to share with readers is her attitude toward life, which boils down to flower power minus the drugs.

Robin Bernstein (ed.): Cast Out

USA 2006, 234 pp., brochure, € 21.99
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»Cast Out« is a collection of memoirs and interviews by leading performers, playwrights, technicians, producers, critics, educators, and spectators. The book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most influential theater artists of the past 50 years. Edward Albee discusses the homophobic critical attacks he endured in the 50s and 60s. Cherry Jones talks about her decision to come out when she accepted her Tony Award. Peggy Shaw speaks of the drag queen who first inspired her stage career. Craig Lucas issues a call for theater practitioners and other artists to unite for the sake of creativity and social change. Also included are interviews with Kate Bornstein and Tim Miller. The cliché of theater as a »safe haven« is being dispelled.

Gary M. Kramer: Independent Queer Cinema

USA 2006, 255 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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»Independent Queer Cinema« collects 100 of film critic Kramer's reviews and interviews that celebrate the latest »queer wave« of actors, writers and directors. From the US-hit »Kissing Jessica Stein« and the provocative gem »Come Undone«, to tantalising insights from Stephen Fry and Tilda Swinton - the book is a valuable reference guide as well as an entertaining compilation of Kramer's astute reviews and interviews. »Independent Queer Cinema« is a guide to the films and personalities that deserve more attention, more respect and more success, with a special focus on the foreign and low-budget movies that can slip past without a second look. Kramer also talks with filmmakers and actors who aren't afraid to explore gay male sexuality on screen.

James Smalls: The Homoerotic Photography of Carl van Vechten

USA 2006, 199 pp., hardback, € 33.20
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A white supporter of the Harlem Renaissance, Van Vechten was a portrait photographer as well as the author of popular novels and criticism, and is very much worthy of rediscovery today. The departure point for this incisive volume is a series of nude, interracial, homoerotic photographs that Van Vechten took in the '30s and '40s. In contextualizing them, the author explores the complex interplay of race, sexuality and masculinity in 20th-century art and culture, including the history of nude male photography, from the late 19th century work of Thomas Eakins to the more recent career of Robert Mapplethorpe. Drawing on a wide range of primary and critical sources, he not only uncovers a vital link in American cultural history but makes an important contribution to understanding contemporary culture.

Darwin Porter: Brando Unzipped

USA 2006, 644 pp., cloth, € 21.39
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This new biography about Marlon Brando claims to feature a photograph of the late actor having oral sex - with another man. The book also claims that the legendary star, who died in 2004 aged 80, was insatiable in the bedroom and slept his way through some of Hollywood's biggest stars, both male and female. The author also claims the actor seduced two of »America's First Ladies«. The publishers admit that the image of Brando engaging in a gay sex act may shock some readers, but insist the topic of the actor's sexuality be treated »tastefully« in the book. From the male sex symbol of the 1950s to an overweight slob and tabloid scandal, the self-admitted bisexual Brando seduced more women and the occasional man than any other Hollywood actor.

Darwin Porter: Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film

USA 2006, 400 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Here is a rundown of the year's most intriguing gay, lesbian, and transgendered films. A defiant challenge to films today, it gets sweaty with gay cowboys, gay Nazis, nude marines, ballsy detectives, hit men, porn stars, and women in love with each other. You'll get the scent of lavender, the smell of testosterone, and the aroma of velvet. Descriptions and reviews of 130 feature-length gay films and 72 shorts, with commentary, special features, and hundreds of photos. What the critics said about each film, replicated from published sources worldwide.

William Bast: Surviving James Dean

USA 2006, 304 pp., hardback, € 21.20
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Bast, a TV writer and journalist, was infatuated with James Dean from the moment they met at UCLA. A closeted gay man, Bast had a crush on the brooding, unknown actor and had a brief fling with him. This work records their close friendship, Dean's rise to stardom and the years following his premature death at age 24. Dean's troubled life is well documented, and Bast isn't interested in repeating his previous biography, written one year after Dean's death. At the time, Bast was loathe to reveal his homosexuality or Dean's affairs with men. He now hopes to make up for his »youthful shortcomings and omissions«. The hook is Dean's sexuality, which Bast explores in detail, discounting his relationships with women and focusing on those with men, including a stint with a notorious »chicken hawk«, an older man who fancies younger guys.

Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

USA 2006, 449 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Paramount groomed him to replace James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest hertthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's »Psycho« killed that - and spawned an image of Anthony »Tony« Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life. These performances overwhelmed Perkins's career - increasingly during the decades leading up to his death from AIDS at the age of 60 in 1992, his performances were pastiche unto parody. His private life was also a series of frustrations: his father died when Anthony was 5. His mother was distant and cutting. Although he was married to Berry Berenson and became the father of two sons, Perkins remained actively homosexual while struggling with his own homosexuality and looking for acceptance at the same time. We find him related to Tab Hunter and Rudolph Nureyev.