Marlon Brando is only seen as the movie star, the hunk, the man of scandals. There was another Brando: the man who collected thousands of books - the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper - the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters. The author ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel �Rare and Commonplace Flowers�, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

Rupert Everett: Vanished Years

UK 2012, 326 pp., brochure, € 12.30
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Rupert Everett's first memoir �Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins� was an international bestseller. Rupert Everett is of one of a kind: Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, this new memoir �Vanished Years� is filled with brand-new stories, from childhood to the present. Astonishing encounters - tragedy and comedy - vivid portraits of friends and rivals - razor-sharp observations ... Weiterlesen

Beth Ditto: Coal to Diamonds

A Memoir. USA 2012, 155 pp., hardbound, € 18.39
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Spiegel and Grau

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas, tells her story. There, Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an 80s perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her siblings were often left to fend for ... Weiterlesen

Dyan Cannon: Dear Cary

My Life with Cary Grant. USA 2012, 344 pp. with photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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Harper Collins

He was the ultimate star - defining Hollywood glamour as well as cinematic achievement. She was a bright new actress, beautiful and funny, who would one day prove her talent by being the first woman to receive Academy Award nominations for her work on-screen and behind the camera. On his arm, she found herself traveling in the inner circles of ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Simon Sykes: David Hockney - A Rake's Progress

The Biography, 1937-1975. UK 2011, 364 pp. with numerous b/w + colour photographs, hardbound, € 29.95
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Doubleday

Drawing on unprecedented access to Hockney's extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, as well as on interviews with family, friends, and Hockney himself, the biographer provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born in 1937, Hockney grew up in a Northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the ... Weiterlesen

Ricky Martin: Me

USA 2011, 292 pp. with many color photos, brochure, € 10.99
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Throughout a career spanning nearly three decades, Ricky Martin drew a clear line between the person within and the one he shared with the world, choosing to keep his deepest emotions to himself. In �Me�, he shares defining memories of his early childhood, his family's sacrifices to support his dreams, and coming-of-age experiences in the famed boy band Menudo - ... Weiterlesen

Richard Dellamora: Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing. USA 2011, 319 pp., hardbound, € 28.59
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�The Well of Loneliness� is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well-known ... Weiterlesen

Brian J. Robb: Heath Ledger

Hollywood's Dark Star. UK 2008, 208 pp., brochure, € 17.90
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Heath Ledger was one the most charismatic and powerful screen presences of his generation. Having established a high-profile acting career by the age of 21 with the lead in �A Knight's Tale�, the young Australian went on to pursue a succession of increasingly diverse and often subversive roles that challenged the film industry's initial impression of him as a mere ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Nell Warren: The Lavender Locker Room

3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation Was Different. USA 2006, 345 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Wildcat

Some are legendary such as pilot Amelia Earhart and golf champion Babe Didrikson. Others are less familiar balloonist Alberto Santos-Dumont and javelin thrower Ana Maria Sagi. Some went public NFL running back David Kopay and downhill skier Erik Schinegger. Others, such as Wilhelm von Homburg, were known only to sport insiders. Some, like jockey John Damien, figured in milestone court ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson. USA 2005, 468 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Minnesota Press

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors ... Weiterlesen

David Lancaster: Montgomery Clift

UK 2005, 106 pp., brochure, € 15.79
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David Lancaster's �Outline� is a significant re-examination of the life and work of one of Hollywood's most provocative and tragic stars, the first for almost thirty years. Drawing on biographies, critical studies and gay and film histories, it sheds new light on the actor's turbulent life and unique contribution to Hollywood films. In particular, it questions previously held assumptions about ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Citron: Noel & Cole

USA 2005, 360 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity. �Anything Goes�, �It's De-Lovely�, �Bitter Sweet�, �Night and Day�, and �Kiss Me, Kate� are but a few of the imperishable plays, musicals, and songs they created. Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts, lyrics, scores, and letters, plus some interviews, this double biography presents an ... Weiterlesen

William Naphy: Born to Be Gay

UK 2004, 288 pp., hardback, € 29.95
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This global history of the lives of gay men and lesbian women from the earliest civilizations to the present day takes us on a radical journey from Bacchanalian orgies to Gay Pride and shows that homosexuality has always been present in society. This book dramatically highlights the positive attitudes of bygone generations and cultures, as opposed to 19th-century views of ... Weiterlesen

Richard Chamberlain: Shattered Love

USA 2004, 247 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Through decades of performances on TV and in film, Richard Chamberlain has epitomized the ideal leading man. But despite his worldwide acclaim in �The Thorn Birds� and �Shogun�, the actor himself has never led a life of easy confidence but lived in constant fear that the �real� Richard would one day be discovered. Richard Chamberlain recounts his journey as an ... Weiterlesen

James Curtis: James Whale

A New World of Gods and Monsters. USA 2003, 457 pp., brochure, € 24.59
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James Whale directed some of the most stylish movies of the 1930s, but he was most successful in a genre he virtually invented. Most famously in �Frankenstein�, Whale created a new type of horror film - sophisticated, tragic, and morbidly humorous. Whale made grim war dramas, light comedy, adventures, mysteries, and even a movie version of the musical �Show Boat�. ... Weiterlesen

Carmen L. Oliveira: Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares

UK 2002, 2018 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography ? brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style ? follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil. ... Weiterlesen