Boze Hadleigh

From Goodreads: A book of conversations with six men, now deceased, from the world of film and entertainment, including Rock Hudson. All were remarkably candid with Boze Hadleigh about their lives, careers, and how their sexuality--they were all gay--affected both.

This book is unique in Peters' oeuvre for its irreverence. The tone recalls the nonsense verse of Edward Lear and Ogden Nash. The topics include the birth of angels, the nature of poetry, and innovative fairy tales

492 Great Things About Being Italian comprises 492 individual people, things, places and phenomena that make one proud to be Italian (or half-Italian). From L'Accademia di Belle Arte (the first art school in Florence, founded in 1563) to Zuppa Inglese (an Italian version of trifle), along with the famous such as Ferragamo, Michelangelo, and the Vatican, this is an A-Z of everything Italian.

Hadleigh, authority on celebrity gossip, turns to Broadway to examine its juiciest scandals, secrets, flops and feuds. Discerning fact from rumor, quoting hundreds of players, and revealing the stories behind over a century of major headlines. Personalities include Ethel Merman, Tennessee Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Jerry Herman, Jerome Robbins, Lucille Ball, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Bette Davis.--From publisher description.