Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers.
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WHITE ELEPHANTS-the God of Hollywood wanted white elephants, and white elephants he got-eight of 'em, plaster mammoths perched on mega-mushroom pedestals, lording it over the colossal court of Belshazzar, the pasteboard Babylon built beside the dusty tin-lizzie trail called Sunset Boulevard. Read the first page
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WHITE ELEPHANTS-the God of Hollywood wanted white elephants, and white elephants he got-eight of 'em, plaster mammoths perched on mega-mushroom pedestals, lording it over the colossal court of Belshazzar, the pasteboard Babylon built beside the dusty tin-lizzie trail called Sunset Boulevard. Read the first page
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Kenneth Anger was the little changeling boy in the classic Midsummer Night's Dream with Jimmy Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney, etc., etc. He later went on to make some outrageous sado-masochistic gay movies which were about as far from Hollywood mainstream as you can get. But throughout his life, he continued his love-hate affair with the Tinsel Town hand that alternately fed him and smacked him. Hollywood Babylon is the wonderfully warped offspring of that relationship
This classic book veers like a drunk on Sunset from the shocking to the incredible to the uproariously funny as it dishes the dirt, all the dirt and nothing but the dirt on old-time Hollywood. From the days of the silents to the decline of the studio-system, here are all the scandals you may have heard of and many you haven't in their full gory detail. Anger's style is as racy and readable as any tabloid and the photographs that support his stories are often just as salacious.
Of course it's all gossip. Of course it's sordid. Of course you won't believe the half of it. Trouble is, you won't know which half. That's its joy.
This classic book veers like a drunk on Sunset from the shocking to the incredible to the uproariously funny as it dishes the dirt, all the dirt and nothing but the dirt on old-time Hollywood. From the days of the silents to the decline of the studio-system, here are all the scandals you may have heard of and many you haven't in their full gory detail. Anger's style is as racy and readable as any tabloid and the photographs that support his stories are often just as salacious.
Of course it's all gossip. Of course it's sordid. Of course you won't believe the half of it. Trouble is, you won't know which half. That's its joy.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Mb Davis
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Kenneth Angers books are the leaders in their particular field.If anything he manages to surpass himself with lurid descriptions of the sordid details of stars misdemeanours.There are some really great pictureswhich i have not seen anywhere else.He seems to take a particular interest in suicide as the chapter devoted to this is over 70 pages long.Maybe a trifle too long.He does utilise some material from his original book which i think is cheating.However if you are interested in the seamier side of the stars life then you will thoroughly enjoy this book.
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A fun book, as long as you're more firmly attached to rumor than truth. There's a lot more information out there about several of these scandals, but this book provides a quick survey and a good intruduction. Just remember it's ALL gossip, and should be taken as such -- that is, there's some grains of truth, but separating out the chaff of lies and speculation is impossible. And since the author only tells the most titillating side of every story, there's a heck of a lot of chaff. But it's great fun -- just don't take it seriously.
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boughtHotel Babylon for my older daughter she very happy with product has all you would expect in a book photographs and good stories about old hollywood
Published 4 months ago by gail pack
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Hollywood Babylon
It was very interesting but i did't know anyone they were very old stars.
Some of it is very sad .But i did enjoy the read thank you.
Some of it is very sad .But i did enjoy the read thank you.
Published 6 months ago by coco
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Loses Impact with Time-Pure Prurience + Nostalgia
I read this book when first published and thought it a vehicle for Anger to express his disgust at the industry that scorned him. Read more
Published 9 months ago by heretic666
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hollywood babylon
I read this years ago and it was great to read it again
All the sordid gossip from years gone by.
All the sordid gossip from years gone by.
Published 20 months ago by arthur
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The Anger is all mine
I had no idea about this book's reputation when I bought it, I had really just been hoping for a pocket sized lunch at work type of read. Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2010 by Mark Cheshire
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Nasty made up sewage masquerading as expose
This is a deeply dishonest book. It pretends to be some sort of counter cultural expose, but in reality it is on the side of the Hearsts and the moguls. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2009 by Colin Brown
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DELICIOUSLY DIRTY
This book is a delicous and dirty expose on old Hollywood; a must for any old Hollywood film buffs out there. Read more
Published on 16 April 2008 by M. Moore
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a must read for old hollywood film buffs
a fasinating insight to the seedy side of old hollywood, you get to read about the real hollywood the stars and the movie moguls. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2001
3.0 out of 5 stars
a very unusual book
Not for the faint hearted! this is THE classic book at what hollywood is at its core a very unusual book the Author, Kenneth Anger reveals alot of repulsive info about various... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 1998
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Yeah, it was great!
Ooh, it was marvellous. I just liked it. It's that sordid stuff about stars we all want to believe and there's good old Kenneth showing it's all true. Read more
Published on 22 May 1998
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