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Loaded with scandals from the golden age of beautiful bombshells, handsome hunks, and deliciously indecorous hotties, this is a new, enlarged, and improved edition of the gossipy, blockbusting classic, Hollywood Babylon, It's Back,

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REVIEWS You know, everyone thinks Hollywood is a cesspool of epic proportions today, but please! It's always been that way. And if you love smutty celebrity dirt as much as I do (and if you don't, what's wrong with you? Ya got morals or something?), then have I got a book for you! --The Hollywood Offender Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one--especially not the dead. Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Ronald Reagan. Marilyn also had a tryst with Joan Crawford but refused to make it an ongoing affair. James Dean showed a disconcerting interest in a 12-year old boy in the early 1950s. Lucille Ball launched herself into show business as a hooker, and her husband Desi Arnaz had a fling with Cesar Romero. Cary Grant had an incestuous relationship with his stepson, Lance Reventlow. And this, by the way, is only the tip of the iceberg. --Rush & Molloy, The NY Daily News Many of Hollywood's most outrageous secrets remained hidden. Until now. This book will set the graves of Hollywood's cemeteries spinning. --London's Daily Express This monumentally exhaustive collection of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures is the ultimate guilty pleasure--and publisher Blood Moon pledges that it's merely volume one. --Books to Watch Out For (www.QSyndicate.com) The American movie industry is always eager for the spotlight if the close-up is flattering and good for business. But Hollywood may get more than it bargained for with Hollywood Babylon's compendium of stories, rumors and myths. Virtually every page features one kind of train wreck or another, usually accompanied by spectacularly lurid photographs. Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince provide a hair-raising list of compromises and strategically granted sexual favors as proof that some stars will do anything for a part. Not even Grace Kelly and Lucille Ball escaped having to get down and dirty on the proverbial casting couch, according to Porter and Prince. Read these pages to learn what Robert Mitchum is said to have taught Marilyn Monroe on the set of The River of No Return that would prove useful during her rumored affair with J.F.K. Try as you might, you won't be able to stop turning the pages...In revealing so many facts previously under wraps, this book, in fact raises the question of how much more remains hidden. --Shelf Awareness / Bookselling News This is the best classic scandal bible on Hollywood ever published. And believe me, I've read hundreds...It's a must for anyone who's ever been to the movies or watched TV. --David Hartnell Despite Babylon's many explicit photos, the real meat (haha, you see what I did there?) of the book is the stories of old Hollywood that further prove the whole place needs to be wiped out by an act of God. How crazy and depraved was Hollywood back then? Hold onto your f****** hat. --From blogsite I Don't Like You in that Way (HOLLYWOOD IS INSANE)

"REVIEWS ""You know, everyone thinks Hollywood is a cesspool of epic proportions today, but please! It's always been that way. And if you love smutty celebrity dirt as much as I do (and if you don't, what's wrong with you? Ya got morals or something?), then have I got a book for you!"" --The Hollywood Offender ""Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one--especially not the dead. Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Ronald Reagan. Marilyn also had a tryst with Joan Crawford but refused to make it an ongoing affair. James Dean showed a disconcerting interest in a 12-year old boy in the early 1950s. Lucille Ball launched herself into show business as a hooker, and her husband Desi Arnaz had a fling with Cesar Romero. Cary Grant had an incestuous relationship with his stepson, Lance Reventlow. And this, by the way, is only the tip of the iceberg."" --Rush & Molloy, The NY Daily News ""Many of Hollywood's most outrageous secrets remained hidden. Until now. This book will set the graves of Hollywood's cemeteries spinning."" --London's Daily Express ""This monumentally exhaustive collection of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures is the ultimate guilty pleasure--and publisher Blood Moon pledges that it's merely volume one."" --Books to Watch Out For (www.QSyndicate.com) ""The American movie industry is always eager for the spotlight if the close-up is flattering and good for business. But Hollywood may get more than it bargained for with Hollywood Babylon's compendium of stories, rumors and myths. Virtually every page features one kind of train wreck or another, usually accompanied by spectacularly lurid photographs. Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince provide a hair-raising list of compromises and strategically granted sexual favors as proof that some stars will do anything for a part. Not even Grace Kelly and Lucille Ball escaped having to get down and dirty on the proverbial casting couch, according to Porter and Prince. Read these pages to learn what Robert Mitchum is said to have taught Marilyn Monroe on the set of The River of No Return that would prove useful during her rumored affair with J.F.K. Try as you might, you won't be able to stop turning the pages...In revealing so many facts previously under wraps, this book, in fact raises the question of how much more remains hidden."" --Shelf Awareness / Bookselling News ""This is the best classic scandal bible on Hollywood ever published. And believe me, I've read hundreds...It's a must for anyone who's ever been to the movies or watched TV."" --David Hartnell ""Despite Babylon's many explicit photos, the real meat (haha, you see what I did there?) of the book is the stories of old Hollywood that further prove the whole place needs to be wiped out by an act of God. How crazy and depraved was Hollywood back then? Hold onto your f****** hat."" --From blogsite I Don't Like You in that Way (HOLLYWOOD IS INSANE)"

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"A devoted sociologist, Darwin Porter is the best known and most prolific archivist of celebrity scandal in the world. Author of at least 60 biographies and show-biz commentaries, and winner of at least a dozen book awards, he's an interviewer familiar with the personal quirks of everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Tallulah Bankhead. Applauded and denounced, he's been reviewed as "" the Nietzsche of Naughtiness, the Goethe of Gossip, the Proust of Pop Culture, with as straightforward a manner as an oncoming train. His prose whacks you between the eyes with the greatest gossip since Kenneth Anger. Some would say better than Anger."" Danforth Prince is a graduate of Hamilton College, a former employee of The New York Times, a prolific publisher of celebrity biographies, and former co-author and director of research for dozens of FROMMER GUIDES. This book represents the 50th book he's published in his capacity as President of Blood Moon Productions."

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