Bøger af David Leddick

Explore the compositions, postures, and role-playing of the male nude genre from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels. Highlights include the Sicilian homoerotic scenes of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden and illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the mid-50s gay scene.

Although David Leddick has been a Naval officer at the hydrogen bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll, a dancer at the Metropolitan Opera, a novelist, an internationally noted compiler of art books highlighting the male nude in photography and other media, an actor, a travel writer and a cabaret artist, he was also for many years in the cosmetics business, focused on advertising as ultimately worldwide Creative Director for L'Oréal working through Grey Advertising. This book is a memoir of that part of his life when he was in advertising, and as such offers a rare insider glimpse into what advertising was really like from both the agency (Grey) side as well as the client (Revlon) side in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Whether working on print or TV advertising, Leddick traveled the world with the most in-demand models, the best photographers (like Avedon) and mixed and mingled with the glamoratti over a period of three decades. This is that story.Since he was under contract to Grey Advertising, he was not strictly an employee, and always negotiated a contract that permitted him to work 32 weeks per year, taking the remaining 20 weeks off to spend time at his flat in Paris and his country home in the Loire Valley. When in New York, he lived in Greenwich Village.He divides his time now trekking to homes in Montevideo, Miami Beach and France.

Muriel Hopewell is that new kind of woman: in the Boomer generation, living in a retirement community, still interested in romance. She lives in apartment 2A. She connects with the man living in 2C, who may not be quite who he seems. Between them is apartment 2B, whose occupants seem to die too rapidly, too mysteriously. What's going on? Muriel wants to find out. So will you.This is the Second Edition, updated.Praise for 2B OR NOT 2B --"Here's a super modern mystery in the hands of the mature generation. Brave and undaunted, they go where they have never gone before." --- David Vance, photographer."Miss Marple, get out of the way! This book tells the story of a women in 'upper middle age' who finds herself drawn into the mysterious disappearance of more than one of her neighbors in a semi-retirement community. What follows is truly original. Highly recommended."--- William Rankin, psychologist

"It was interesting to see Leddick's take on Paris in the 1960s. That's when air travel to Europe was just getting started." - Leanne Rylander, Liverpool"When the author went to a lot of these places, Americans were few and far between-a remarkable journey." -Jerry Adams, Atlanta "He certainly offers a fresh perspective on the exotic places he made it to. Places I can only hope I to visit-someday." - Philip Runmeade, Baltimore In another decade of travel well into the 21st Century David Leddick explored South America more fully, even establishing a residence In Montevideo, capital of the tiny country Uruguay wedged between Argentina to the south and widespread Brazil to the north. After renovating his 1890s house in the old quarter of Montevideo, he began to explore Brazil, beginning with Rio de Janeiro, following up with a voyage to Sao Paulo.He interspersed these visits with journeys to Naples in Italy, a favored city. He added to this several sidetrips to nearby glamorous Capri, the Isle where many international travelers go regularly. Returns to South America led to visits to Curacao, Cancun, and Lima. There were added several sidetrips to Panama, squarely between the north and south continents. He now lives very much midway between the North and South Americas in Miami Beach, Florida.

David Leddick made his first international trip from the United States in 1963. He went to London, Paris and the major cities of Italy. In the next two decades he branched out from Europe to cross the vastness of a Russia that had seen almost no outsiders. Then, with a Zen study group, he traveled for a month through a China that was so closed off by its insular Communist regime that the inhabitants had seen no tourists at all. This period of Leddick's travels finished with a deep plunge into the depths of Africa on an extended safari. His fascinating exploration of the Earth, this globe on which he was traveling through space, had begun in earnest.

"It was interesting to see Leddick's take on Paris in the 1960s. That's when air travel to Europe was just getting started." - Leanne Rylander, Liverpool"When the author went to a lot of these places, Americans were few and far between-a remarkable journey." -Jerry Adams, Atlanta "He certainly offers a fresh perspective on the exotic places he made it to. Places I can only hope I to visit-someday." - Philip Runmeade, BaltimoreDavid Leddick made his first international trip from the United States in 1963. He went to London, Paris and the major cities of Italy. In the next two decades he branched out from Europe to cross the vastness of a Russia that had seen almost no outsiders. Then, with a Zen study group, he traveled for a month through a China that was so closed off by its insular Communist regime that the inhabitants had seen no tourists at all. This period of Leddick's travels finished with a deep plunge into the depths of Africa on an extended safari. His fascinating exploration of the Earth, this globe on which he was traveling through space, had begun.

Writer David Leddick has lived multiple lives within his long lifespan. Beginning as an officer in the Navy, he moved on to careers as diverse as a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera, an advertising executive living in Paris, a novelist, a cabaret performer, and several others. Here are some of the things he's learned along his fascinating journey that you might find interesting and helpful as you make your way through life.

D.D. Abercrombie lives in a sixteenth-century house in a French village. When her visiting nephews discover bones buried in the wine cave under the house, D.D. is determined to identify the long-ago remains. She discovers her house was once an inn where visitors to the ancient abbey facing the house once stayed. She later uncovers some old letters that unwinds a 150-year-old story leading to the present day-a story that will affect her own life. A fascinating journey through time. David Leddick Reviews: "...fiction of a high order: insightful, funny, prickly, opinionated." -- Kirkus Review on "My Worst Date""...a dazzling and hypnotic read; sparkling with glamour, sophistication, and fun." - Steven Pressfield on "Intimate Companions""Very intoxicating - to be sipped - a page at a time" - Quentin Crisp, on "Never Eat In" "...the reader gets a great deal of insight into the general nature of attraction and love." -- Tom Bianchi on "The Handsomest Man in the World"

Author, actor and lyricist David Leddick is well past his 90th birthday, and has plenty of advice for those who want to remain f***able deep into their lives here on earth. He's not so much interested in offering tips on how to be sexually astute, but emphasizes all the other aspects of your life, from your physical attributes to your mental frame of mind, that combine to make you physically desirable not only as a bedmate, but as a social companion. "He really opened my eyes and showed me the right mental approach to have as I found myself getting older." ---Billy Borden, Memphis"I hope I'm in as good physical condition as he is when I'm 60, much less 90." ---Rebecca Lonsdale, Rio de Janeiro "David Leddick's many years spent living in Paris taught him a lot." -- Yvonne Mornay, Monte Carlo

The time is 1946, just after WW 2, and a teenager from the Midwest goes to New York to live with his aunt and uncle, both high-powered advertising executives. In no way can he envision the major theatrical career that he's destined for. He divides his time between the lavish apartment his relatives own in Manhattan and their country home in an exclusive community just outside town. It's here that he meets an Army veteran just returned from the war. Naturally, sparks fly. He meets many of the rich and famous, and finds himself pursued by an older man... it all adds up to a world the boy never expected to be a part of. But it gives him the impetus he needs to pursue his life as an actor-singer-dancer, which propels him to the top of the heap from Broadway to Las Vegas. As time passes, however, he yearns to reconnect with the man he met when he was much younger. And decides he must find him.The narrative jumps back and forth from the time when he was young to 50 years later when he's an established star... still dreaming of the man who meant so much to him all those years past.

This autobiography spans eight decades of the life of David Leddick, from the Great Depression to the Digital Age, from middle America to the eastern Pacific to Europe and down to South America. Leddick had many careers in his life, and one of them, as worldwide Creative Director of the cosmetics giant, L'Oreal, took him all over the world-and back again.He learned a lot about Life, Love and the value of Time during those decades and on those travels - if you can't make the same trips he did, you can most certainly learn from them.