The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson
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The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson
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Author : Robert Hofler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson written by Robert Hofler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
Originally published: New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.
All That Heaven Allows
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Author : Mark Griffin
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-12-04
All That Heaven Allows written by Mark Griffin and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The inspiration for the HBO® Original Documentary, Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed, airing June 28! The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age. “Mark Griffin paints a vivid portrait of a man who lived a double life in order to maintain his status as a movie star. Griffin’s sources are candid but credible, which makes the book a real page-turner. I came away admiring Hudson all the more, and feeling sad for the secret existence that Hollywood demanded of its leading men in the 1950s and 60s.” — Leonard Maltin, author of Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom Devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, he reigned supreme as the king of Hollywood. As an Oscar-nominated leading man, Hudson won acclaim for his performances in glossy melodramas (Magnificent Obsession), western epics (Giant) and blockbuster bedroom farces (Pillow Talk). In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Hudson successfully transitioned to television; his long-running series McMillan & Wife and a recurring role on Dynasty introduced him to a whole new generation of fans. The icon worshipped by moviegoers and beloved by his colleagues appeared to have it all. Yet beneath the suave and commanding star persona, there was an insecure, deeply conflicted, and all too vulnerable human being. Growing up poor in Winnetka, Illinois, Hudson was abandoned by his biological father, abused by an alcoholic stepfather, and controlled by his domineering mother. Despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hudson was determined to become an actor at all costs. After signing with the powerful but predatory agent Henry Willson, the young hopeful was transformed from a clumsy, tongue-tied truck driver into Universal Studio’s resident Adonis. In a more conservative era, Hudson’s wholesome, straight arrow screen image was at odds with his closeted homosexuality. As a result of his gay relationships and clandestine affairs, Hudson was continually threatened with public exposure, not only by scandal sheets like Confidential but by a number of his own partners. For years, Hudson dodged questions concerning his private life, but in 1985 the public learned that the actor was battling AIDS. The disclosure that such a revered public figure had contracted the illness focused worldwide attention on the epidemic. Drawing on more than 100 interviews with co-stars, family members and former companions, All That Heaven Allows delivers a complete and nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating stars in cinema history. Griffin provides new details concerning Hudson’s troubled relationships with wife Phyllis Gates and boyfriend Marc Christian. And here, for the first time, is an in-depth exploration of Hudson’s classic films, including Written on the Wind, A Farewell to Arms, and the cult favorite Seconds. With unprecedented access to private journals, personal correspondence, and production files, Griffin pays homage to the idol whose life and death had a lasting impact on American culture.
Party Animals
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Author : Robert Hofler
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-10-08
Party Animals written by Robert Hofler and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Allan Carr was Hollywoods premier party-thrower during the towns most hedonistic era the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the Tommy/New York City subway premiere, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producer the ultimate outsider who first brought movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together. From the stunning success of Grease and La Cage aux Folles to the spectacular failure of the Village Peoples Cant Stop the Music, as a producer Carrs was a rollercoaster of a career punctuated by major hits and phenomenal flops none more disastrous than the Academy Awards show he produced featuring a tone-deaf Rob Lowe serenading Snow White, a fiasco that made Carr an outcast, and is still widely considered to be the worst Oscars ever. Tracing Carrs excess-laden rise and tragic fall and sparing no one along the way Party Animals provides a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywoods most infamous period.
Rock Hudson
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Author : Tom Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Rock Hudson written by Tom Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true story of Rock Hudson's life as told by his closest friend and lover of twenty years, this book is filled with wonderful reminiscences--some funny, some sad, all revealing--about the great stars and directors Rock Hudson worked with in his many films. 16 pages of photographs.
Sexplosion
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Author : Robert Hofler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Sexplosion written by Robert Hofler and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Social Science categories.
After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosion The six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before. Film, literature, and theater simultaneously broke through barriers previously unimagined, giving birth to what we still consider to be the height of sexual expression in our pop culture: Portnoy's Complaint, Myra Breckinridge, Hair, The Boys in the Band, Midnight Cowboy, Last Tango in Paris, and Deep Throat. In Sexplosion, Robert Hofler weaves a lively narrative linking many of the writers, producers, and actors responsible for creating these and other controversial works, placing them within their cultural and social frameworks. During the time the Stonewall Riots were shaking Greenwich Village and Roe v. Wade was making its way to the Supreme Court, a group of daring artists was challenging the status quo and defining the country's concept of sexual liberation. Hofler follows the creation of and reaction to these groundbreaking works, tracing their connections and influences upon one another and the rest of entertainment. Always colorful and often unexpected, Sexplosion is an illuminating account of a generation of sexual provocateurs and the power their works continue to hold decades later.
Tab Hunter Confidential
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Author : Tab Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2006-09-08
Tab Hunter Confidential written by Tab Hunter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Mesmerizing." —The New York Times Book Review Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets "discovered" by a big-time movie agent. Because when he takes his shirt off young hearts beat faster, because he is the picture of innocence and trust and need, he will become a star. It seems almost preordained. The open smile says, "You will love me," and soon the whole world does. The young boy's name was Tab Hunter—a made-up name, of course, a Hollywood name—and it was his time. Stardom didn't come overnight, although it seemed that way. In fact, the fame came first, when his face adorned hundreds of magazine covers; the movies, the studio contract, the name in lights—all that came later. For Tab Hunter was a true product of Hollywood, a movie star created from a stable boy, a shy kid made even more so by the way his schoolmates—both girls and boys—reacted to his beauty, by a mother who provided for him in every way except emotionally, and by a secret that both tormented him and propelled him forward. In Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, Hunter speaks out for the first time about what it was like to be a movie star at the end of the big studio era, to be treated like a commodity, to be told what to do, how to behave, whom to be seen with, what to wear. He speaks also about what it was like to be gay, at first confused by his own fears and misgivings, then as an actor trapped by an image of boy-next-door innocence. And when he dared to be difficult, to complain to the studio about the string of mostly mediocre movies that were assigned to him, he learned that just like any manufactured product, he was disposable—disposable and replaceable. Hunter's career as a bona fide movie star lasted a decade. But he persevered as an actor, working continuously at a profession he had come to love, seeking—and earning—the respect of his peers, and of the Hollywood community. And so, Tab Hunter Confidential is at heart a story of survival—of the giddy highs of stardom, and the soul-destroying lows when phone calls begin to go unreturned; of the need to be loved, and the fear of being consumed; of the hope of an innocent boy, and the rueful summation of a man who did it all, and who lived to tell it all.
My Husband Rock Hudson
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Author : Phyllis Gates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-07-14
My Husband Rock Hudson written by Phyllis Gates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-14 with Motion picture actors and actresses categories.
Screened Out
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Author : Richard Barrios
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-02-16
Screened Out written by Richard Barrios and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-16 with Social Science categories.
Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in The Dude Wrangler. Such iconoclastic images, Barrios argues, send powerful messages about tragedy and obsession, but also about freedom and compassion, even empowerment. Mining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world -- have made since Stonewall. Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, Screened Out is for all film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater and drawn strength and a sense of identity from what they saw on screen, no matter how fleeting or coded.
Wild Style
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Author : Robert Hofler
language : en
Publisher: Touchstone
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Wild Style written by Robert Hofler and has been published by Touchstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Costume design categories.
At Home With Rock Hudson Book 2
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Author : Martin Flaherty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-20
At Home With Rock Hudson Book 2 written by Martin Flaherty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-20 with categories.
He was tall and he was dark and he was movie-star handsome. His name was Rock Hudson and I was barely just born during the hey-day of his popularity. He was one of the most-loved and well-known actors of his time, but what did I know! I was fifteen years old and hadn't a clue as to who he was, when I started doing odd jobs up at his house. I was too busy being a California boy, surfing and raising a little hell. I knew nothing of his career, of the movies he'd made, awards he'd received, of his sex appeal with women and the pesky swirl of rumors which had followed him throughout his career. I worked for the actor for ten years, from 1975 until he drew his last breath, on October 2, 1985. In the course of those years I became his good friend, estate manager, confidant, and in the end, one of his caregivers. I knew just as much about him as anyone could know about another person---living and working alongside him in his home. Rock became more to me than just an employer, and he treated me like the son he'd never had. He told me things he didn't trust telling others. He knew he could trust me, and I knew most all his secrets. One might say I am Rock Hudson's long-lost son, closeted in the same way he was---not allowed to tell the truth due to a court ordered gag order. Well, I found the key---this book, and now I am using it to come out of that "closet" and finally set the record straight. Rock was such a great and positive influence on my life, and I'd like for these words to influence the memory people carry of him as well. All in the book are my own opinions, evaluations, observations, or quotes directly from Rock Hudson, or of those close around him. All the photographs are from Rock's private collection, many of them never before seen outside the gates of his house. They were the ones he would look at, the ones he cherished, the ones he held dear. ~ They were his.