Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

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This book about the earlier stars and studios was originally published, long ago, in French in Paris. En Hollywood Babilonia el autor se encarga de ofrecernos una visión más aguda de ese mundo desconocido a través de un despliegue morboso de los más jugosos rumores de las estrellas de comienzos del siglo XX. On the eve of his death, he had attended a gay party in Malibu, and his gay friends accused him of dating women for publicity purposes.

He aparcado temporalmente a Sanderson, Howard y Carey y me he lanzado a una lectura frívola e imposible a día de hoy, y he devorado los dos libros en una semana. Anger begins here to establish his theme, that of a phony Babylon, sex and violence amid plaster and Potemkin villages. Also: A good companion piece to this is Otto Friedrich's excellent overview of noirish behind-the-scenes LA of the '40s: "City of Nets.A longing for the "good old days", even though defining its goodness seemed quite the task for most. First edition of Hollywood Babylon in the original French language, printed in Paris six years before the American edition.

In those “halcyon” days, even if you were one of the few lucky ones picked out for a life of shameless luxury, hedonism and blind adoration, chances were good you’d eventually do yourself in (accidental or not), be done in, or ended your life as an unhappy has-been, firmly clenching the bottle or drugged out of your mind by uppers, downers or screamers. It's film history filtered through his sensibility via his film work and the Hollywood Bablylon series. Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. There's the touch of queenly snarkyness, but also -- as it was in Anger's homoerotic underground home movies -- a great affection and homage to the sad glamor of it all. Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc.Described by The Daily Beast as 'essentially a work of fiction There is no doubt that many-if not all- of the stories Anger shares in his slim bible have no merit". I needed to finally dive into this after listening to You Must Remember this a few years ago and hearing all of the true stories behind Angers’ tabloid stories. But don’t worry, ghoulish gossipmongering still abounds, especially in an encyclopedic stretch of about 60 pages wherein Anger lists every celebrity he can find who ended their own life (and how). I guess I read this for the same reason one cranes one's head to see the details of a traffic accident.