Staten Island's Historic Magnolia House: Celebrity & the Ironies of Fame

Media gurus Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince are the owners and innkeepers of a wise and venerable Grande Dame, Magnolia House. Built in the 1830s and enlarged during Americas Civil War, its a NYC landmark in which at least fifty titles within the world-famous Frommer Travel Guides, and all of the show biz biographies of Americas feistiest pop-culture publisher, Blood Moon Productions, were conceived, researched, and written.This is the first in Blood Moons Magnolia House Series, chatty, ironic, and irreverent memoirs in which the authors (as filtered through the historic monument that sheltered them) review the icons and divas they encountered during their course of their work in travel and show-biz publishing. Its an overview of the seismic ironies associated with celebrity, fame and circumstance.This is an only in America story, a sophisticated, witty overview direct from the high-octane peak of The American Century. Loaded with gossip, some of it extracted from Blood Moons award-winning backlist of celebrity biographies, its about the famous or notorious players, some of them tragic, whose talents to amuse helped make America Great.