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

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	Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets Kenneth Anger Dell, 1981 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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The Granddaddy of Hollywood Scandal Books

Shadow Watcher
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This is the granddaddy of books dealing with Hollywood's dark side.

Drawing as much from gossip as he does from known facts, author Kenneth Anger dishes all the "inside dope" about the glamourous stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.

From the Fatty Arbuckle murder trial to the Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato affair, no scandal is left out of this book that continually pushes the envelope to the very edge and, possibly, over it.

For example, there's one drawing in the book of Cary Grant (circa 1930s) that bears the caption, "Who's a fairy?"

There are also some very unflattering photos of stars without clothes or make-up, being arrested and even dead.

If you are looking for something "in good taste," this book is definitely not for you.

On the other hand, if you're looking for an entertaining diversion, then HOLLYWOOD BABYLON might just be it. Just don't believe everything you read.

Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)

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If you are really into the sordid morbid details of Hollywood and its famous stars and how they died then this is the perfect book! Very disturbing some of the details but is definately captivating. You don't want to put it down!

Hollywood has always produced the Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smiths of the World

Kenneth Anger paints a sinister, evil picture of a Hollywood that chews its "stars" up and spits them out. How can you not feel sorry for Frances Farmer and Fatty Arbuckle? I believe you judge a tree by its fruits, from the mindwashing destructive propaganda that Hollywood spews out to the many screwed up people that work in the business as performers, some of whom deserve to be scorned, some deserve your pity. Either way its a poisonous fruit that this tree bares. Hollywood covers a time period from the 1920s to the 1950s so don't think that human catastrophes like Britney Spears or Anna Nicole Smith are anything but different versions of the same song.

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Like heroin. Only way more addictive.

Anger dishes out some absurdly titillating gossip on Hollywood celebs from the 1920s-1950s. While not all of it is terribly credible, Anger delivers his tidbits with the nasty exhilaration of a tabloid queen which makes for a fun read. But if you aren't interested in early American cinema, then there probably is little to interest you here.

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