- Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reissue edition (1 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440153255
- ISBN-13: 978-0440153252
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 2.4 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 205,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Recalls the tragic fates of many movie stars who believed in the dream factory called Hollywood.
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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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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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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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.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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a fasinating insight to the seedy side of old hollywood, you get to read about the real hollywood the stars and the movie moguls. the wild parties held in secret and the damage they caused. A must for the curious hollywood fan and a truely indepth view of the stars and their sordid lives.
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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 8 months ago by arthur
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 20 months ago by Mark Cheshire
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
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
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
Read it in a tabloid frame of mind.
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... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 1998
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
intriguing
always liked the book from the first time i read it many years ago. i'm just curious where the author got his information from. (rumors, inside information, etc...? Read more
Published on 20 May 1998
Utter Balderdash
How anyone could be gullible enough to believe the easily-disprovable "facts" in this book is beyond me. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 1997
Insight!
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon is a legendary piece of writing. But just like Bret Easton Ellis's novels, it is not for everyone. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 1997
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