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Hollywood Babylon

Authors: Kenneth Anger, Kenneth Anger
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

9 reviews
Sales Rank: 15155

Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 0440153255
Dewey Decimal Number: 791430280922
EAN: 9780440153252
ASIN: 0440153255

Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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4 out of 5 stars

DELICIOUSLY DIRTY April 16, 2008
This book is a delicous and dirty expose on old Hollywood; a must for any old Hollywood film buffs out there. Kenneth Anger writes in a lovely tongue in cheek somewhat ironic style, this makes the book an easy read. Sometimes shocking within the context that the likes of Louis B Mayer went to great lengths to portray a cheesecake and super moral image of their stars and sometimes a little sad to read of the tortured souls behind the glitz.

5 out of 5 stars

DIRT DOESN'T COME DISHED UP BETTER THAN THIS September 13, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

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.

4 out of 5 stars

a must read for old hollywood film buffs September 11, 2001
10 out of 12 found this review helpful

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.

3 out of 5 stars

a very unusual book October 20, 1998
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

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 popular stars sometimes backed up with up photographs this also has a number of shocking photographs such as the actual police photographs of the black dahlia murder victim her body was cut in half and hollowed out and dumped in a vacant lot in L.A. for all to see they never caughthim and it remains one of the most horrible murders in US history even in present time a full sixty years latera most unusual book.

4 out of 5 stars

Read it in a tabloid frame of mind. June 5, 1998
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

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.