Salacious Biographies
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- Matt
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- Lino
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I haven't read it, but surely it's got to be the Kitty Kelley book. Of course, that was published in 1981, so you'd be missing a whole quarter-century worth of gossip on Michael Jackson, Rock Hudson, and Larry Fortenski (for starters). Then again, it would be untempered by attempts at hagiography for her tireless AIDS charity work and declining health.Lino wrote:Ok, what's the best book (salaciously speaking) on Liz?
- Michael
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I'm looking for the best biography of Judy Garland to spend the rest of the summer. Years ago I read one called Get Happy which I found dull but from that book, I learned that Tom Drake was gay and to come to think of it, all the young guys in Meet Me in St. Louis are HOT and how fantastic it must be playing one of the Smith sisters.
Recommendations please?
Recommendations please?
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Ever seen his early Fox Film The Blue Eagle, or at least what remains of it? I clearly remember a slightly gratuitous scene of sweaty (dripping with) bare chested seamen working in the bowels of a ship and wondering myself whether Ford may have found the whole scene ... alluring.tryavna wrote:Maureen O'Hara's autobiography is pretty salacious -- and perhaps a little bitter, too. Anyway, she talks about accidentally seeing John Ford and a famous male star (whom she doesn't name) kissing.
Then, of course, there's Ford's notorious sex hygiene "documentary" he made for the army.
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- tryavna
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In the footnote at the bottom, DVD Savant gives a pretty good description of the more grotesque elements of the film, except that he fails to mention all the shots of soldiers washing their genitals.SheriffAmbrose wrote:Can someone please elaborate on exactly what goes on in this hygiene film?
What is particularly telling, as Joseph MacBride points out in his biography of Ford, is that the only Ford film that deals explicitly with sex "makes the subject seem thoroughly revolting."
EDIT: Why don't you just watch it for yourself. It should be the first video at the top of this Google Video page. (Don't watch it near any meal times.)
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Cool thanks!tryavna wrote:Why don't you just watch it for yourself. It should be the first video at the top of this Google Video page. (Don't watch it near any meal times.)
- Fletch F. Fletch
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Not a salacious biography, more like a salacious autobiography by Kathleen Turner entitled Send Yourself Roses. New York Times has an interview with her.
An excerpt:
An excerpt:
meow!Burt Reynolds? “Burt was just nasty,†she writes.
- Michael
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Has anyone read Under the Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson and My Life in Old Hollywood by John Carlyle?
Judy and Rock are among my favorite people but I have never heard of John Carlyle. Any comments?
Judy and Rock are among my favorite people but I have never heard of John Carlyle. Any comments?