Hollywood Babilonia

Un Novella 2000 sotto acidi scritto da uno dei più importanti registi underground del cinema statunitense. Tra pura exploitationg e glitter, tra boa di struzzo e bagni nello champagne, tra "Cronaca vera" e splatter-pulp... un libro ADORABILE.

"Wasted lives make waste, not tragedy." (413) And yet, this really isn't so. The history of Hollywood in all its shady dealings & deaths--ending in the Manson Tate massacre--is sometimes too bloody a story to take in, but the viewer and fanboy is not heartless. That so many of these "wasted" silver s Leggi tutto

Many years ago I lived in the courtyard apartments Charlie Chaplin built for his crew across the street from his studio on La Brea Avenue. One night I read “Hollywood Babylon” while guzzling an entire bottle of red Zinfandel and eventually fell asleep with the book by my bed. I proceeded to have one Leggi tutto

I used to check this out regularly from my small-town public library back in middle and high school; I loved it because the library's innocuous cover meant my parents had no idea that I was reading something so (to use their word) sinful. Needless to say, it was an eye-opening experience, raising my Leggi tutto

It really doesn't matter if the stories here are true or not - and some people get upset about this. But then they are missing the point. It's "Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon." And it's the way he tells the stories which makes this book and Volume Two priceless. The mixture of images and Anger's t Leggi tutto

Glorious garbage. Some of it true. What isn't true is even better.

EASY SLEAZE “I walk along the street of sorrow The boulevard of broken dreams Where gigolo and gigalette Can take a kiss without regret So they forget their broken dreams You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow When you behold your shattered dreams And gigolo and gigalette Awake to find their eyes are

I read this so I could appreciate the new season Karina Longworth’s podcast: You Must Remember This. In each episode, she’s debunking basically everything Anger has claimed. But the book itself is recklessly trashy, poorly written, especially the segments after 1940, which feel nearly stream of cons Leggi tutto