As a team of veteran travel writers, Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince have produced numerous titles for Frommer’s, including guides to Italy, France, the Caribbean, England, Germany, and Spain. A film critic, newspaper columnist, and radio broadcaster, Porter is also a Hollywood biographer, author of at least four critically acclaimed overviews of little-known aspects of, among others, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and Howard Hughes. Porter’s 2006 biography of Marlon Brando (Brando Unzipped) was cited by London’s Sunday Times as “one of the best show-biz biographies of the year.” Prince was formerly employed by the Paris bureau of the New York Times, and is today the president of Blood Moon Productions and other media-related firms. Porter and Prince’s latest project, Hollywood Babylon—IT’S BACK!!, released in 2008, presents a “brainy but prurient” overview of celebrity excess, as filtered through 75 years of Hollywood scandal.
