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Hollywood Babylon inconnu 03/17/16 (Thu) 07:26:36 No.6898

I've been reading Kenneth Anger's infamous book on the lurid history of Hollywood. What do people here think of it?

I don't know Anger's own biography. But I'm surprised an experimental filmmaker would be so obsessed by celebrity culture. Granted he's gay...

As for the book itself, it's more a collection of popular folklore than a rigorous investigation of facts. Fresh-faced starlets are said to live dark private lives of drugs, sex, and death. Often the stories do not ring true, but IMHO they still resonate because of peoples' desire to project cinematic fantasy into reality.

Anyway here's a couple links if you want to take a look. The book is pretty cheap on Amazon too.

Original book: https://1fichier.com/?6agrfb533n

Part II: http://monoskop.org/File:Anger_Kenneth_Hollywood_Babylon_II.pdf

(Post your obscure scandals, rumors, any other strange tidbits)

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inconnu 03/20/16 (Sun) 15:20:05 No.6919

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>>6898

> Post your obscure scandals, rumors, any other strange tidbits

here's a weird one -

> Grahame's fourth and final marriage was to actor Anthony "Tony" Ray, the son of her second husband Nicholas Ray and his first wife Jean Evans; Anthony Ray was her former stepson. Their relationship reportedly began when Tony Ray was 13 years old and Grahame was still married to his father (which effectively ended the marriage when Nicholas Ray caught the two in bed together).

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inconnu 11/11/17 (Sat) 00:03:35 No.10966

Babylon isn't doing so well these days

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inconnu 05/30/18 (Wed) 18:11:42 No.12379

>>6898

link is dead, but here's a high quality scan from archive.org

https://archive.org/details/KennethAngerHollywoodBabylonI1975_201605

and iirc he was a child actor in pedowood so I'm sure some of his insight is genuine

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inconnu 05/31/18 (Thu) 01:34:37 No.12383

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>>6898

>>12379

Thanks guys, I heard about this book but never read it. Our old pal Nick Bougas was interested in this type of stuff.

There was a bad TV series based on this book. I'd never seen it before but I just noticed one episode is on youtube. The episode features stories about Junkie John Belushi, Nympho Vivian Leigh, Faggot Charles Laughton. Hosted by Tony Curtis.

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