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Sinossi
Kenneth Anger offre un "supplemento di chicche e chiacchericcio o, forse meglio, un supplemento di storia segreta del cinema". La passeggiata lungo la strada di Hollywood non potrà che partire dalla tomba di Rodolfo Valentino, fra Gloria Swanson e le torture inflitte da Hitchcock alle sue bionde preferite, fra Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard e un fastoso contorno di comparse. A mano a mano che si avvicina al presente ad Anger sfugge un sospiro: gli anni recenti danno un nutrimento meno sostanzioso a quel feticismo, senza il quale non c'è comprensione del cinema.
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- Pagine: 332
- Data di uscita: 06-09-2000
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This was a book I used to stealthily pick up and thumb through back in the 80s when it could be found in 'cult' bookstores, all shiny and new. Poverty struck as I was then, I never actually BOUGHT it, or indeed, READ it. I just gasped at the pictures - and there were plenty to gasp at. Now that the
What makes the subject mattter of old Hollywood is not the subject itself, but how Kenneth Anger tells the tales. Are they true? Is this history? Are they made up? Maybe a combination of all above, but who cares? It's Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" and in a sense it is a life-blood to an art fo Leggi tutto
Holly Baby II— more of the same, but different. Rather than writing a sequel that picks up where the first left off chronologically, Anger fills in gaps in roughly the middle of the same era, covering stories he missed the first time around, or that hadn’t yet been exposed, with some newer rumors mi Leggi tutto
The sequel to my 2013 naughty cruise read for my 2014 cruise :) More of the best in Old Hollywood gossip, in Anger's inimitable style. The concluding chapter on Ronald Reagan is a fittingly sobering end to the trajectory of the two volumes' tales. That should be required reading for anyone nostalgic Leggi tutto
Meh. After the excellent first book, this one comes off as a less interesting cash-in. Anger even re-tells some stories he mentioned or told in detail in the first book! There's still a lot of great information and awesome photos, but the meat of the book is considerably weaker than the original Hol Leggi tutto
Perhaps Anger need money. I did not see the interest to write a suite to Hollywood Babylone.I found this concentrate of gossip boring. Curiously, here, the choice of each history clarifies the brittleness of these artists. It is better than than I feared. But it is not upsetting. If you do not have
Bueno bueno bueno. Menudo viaje de libro(s). A ver, creo que entre libros y cómics, llevaba una temporada muy centrado en la fantasía, el terror y la ci-fi, y oye, aunque nunca es suficiente, llevaba ya tiempo queriendo leer estos libros (la edición no corresponde, no he encontrado la que se ha edita Leggi tutto
Tacky as hell but so fun; still want a copy.
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