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Title: Hollywood Babylon : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets by Kenneth Anger ISBN: 0-440-15325-5 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 15 November, 1981 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (47 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dead Men Tell Many Tales!
Comment: OK, first of all, anyone who has anything bad to say about this book should be taught a lesson in fair criticism. This is a GREAT read! I couldn't put it down the first time I read it back around 1996, and I couldn't put it down any of the other times, either! It is simply that good! Everything in it, I believe to be true (and if it isn't, at least I am open enough to accept it as partially true, or good fun even if I know it is false), and the reasons why are simple. First, many of it's juicy tales were published before, during, and are still being revived to this day; meaning it is a consistency that proves the book to be at least partially true. Second, this is from a man who wined and dined with some of these people. Why shouldn't he have some factual tales to tell about the trashes of Tinseltown?
The entries in this sordid and scandalous soiree into Hollywood's elite past are genuinely juicy and intriguing to read. Who doesn't love to read about Hollywood sin? Included are some facts about the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, which followed closely behind the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. Also, you can learn about some suicides of silent stars when sound entered the picture, those stars (female) who died as a result of their drug addictions, and an immense amount of sex scandals, from older men and younger gals, to homosexuality. And, if that isn't enough, it is packed with many eye-opening photographs. I am telling you this is a WONDERFUL and powerfully charged book that every film buff should own. I love it so much that I would be buried with it (just as Bela Lugosi was buried with his Dracula cape, which is true)when I die! So if you are interested in classic film, or even more, in film stars of yesteryear, then this is definitely a book that you MUST read at least once (although reading it more than once is also very rewarding!). Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: It IS a box of poisoned bonbons!!!!
Comment: From some of the reviews I have read, it is either you'll love this book for its contents or hate it for its contents.
Well, infinitely sarcastic and tsk tsking in tone, Kenneth Anger compiled a fascinating, if not nauseating tome of Hollywood gossip, mysteries and scandals; accompanied by a generous helping of equally fascinating and nauseating photos.
Just when you think that people are so moral back in the good ole days...well, surprise surprised!!!! Here comes Hollywood, the "cemetery of virtue".
Hollywood Babylon "documented", with frenzied glee, the various scandals that rocked the film industry, and in turn the world. First we are introduced to the death of Olive Thomas, then the now infamous Fatty Arbuckle trial. These two stories basically set the tone for the rest of the book....rapes, sexual indiscretions, drug overdoses, nervous breakdowns, orgies, murders, creative suicides and so on and so forth.
The photos themselves are not for the faint of heart.... featuring death photos of extinguished luminaries such as Thelma Todd, Marie Prevost,Bugsy Siegel, Jayne Mansfield (and her dog!).
Overall, if you like gossip and scandal and loves laughing at the misfortunes of others and have a taste for the morbid, this book is a delight...a delectable "box of poisoned bon bons" through which you can choose and pick at your leisure...with every juicy morsel is as good as the next.
Otherwise....this book will probably make you nauseous.
A sequel, Hollywood Babylon II is not as good as THIS one. But the zinger in that tome is photos of the infamous Black Dahlia murder. But that is another poisoned bonbon for another day.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lies, lies and more lies
Comment: Kenneth Anger obviously hates Hollywood. So he writes this book based on gossip magazines that has little facts in truth. Did you know that Tyrone Power had an obsession for young boys? Did you know that Cary Grant and Randolph Scott shared the same bed? Did you know that Janet Gaynor and Mary Martin went alone to Brazil? Did you know that Errol Flynn was not only heterosexual but bisexual? Why did I ask these questions? Because these are questions that Anger WANTS you to get angry about. No good biographist has been able to prove these facts, and instead of relying on sound biographists, Anger instead dives into the yellow world of Confidential, a magazine notorious for lying and destroying careers almost mercilessly.
So avoid this piece of trash at any cost!!!
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Title: The Hollywood Book of Death : The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by James Robert Parish ISBN: 0809222272 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels by Paul Young, Paul Young ISBN: 0312206461 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lost Hollywood by David Wallace ISBN: 0312261950 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 07 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon II ISBN: 9994422308 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: May, 1990 |
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Title: California Babylon by Kristan Lawson, Anneli Rufus ISBN: 0312263856 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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