![]() ![]() How were you able to get Hollywood Babylon on the shelves? I know the French were involved. Speaking a few years ago with Vice’s Rocco Castoro, Anger elaborated on the genesis of the book: ![]() It was famously described by the New York Times with the memorable sentence, “If a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the fact that here is a book without one single redeeming merit.” A rich document of Hollywood gossip-much of it largely or entirely unsubstantiated, and much of it exhilaratingly lurid-it addressed such events as the murder of actor William Desmond Taylor, the killing of Virginia Rappe by Fatty Arbuckle, and the rise of the blacklist. A full decade later, in 1975, Straight Arrow Press brought it back into print. In 1965, it made its American debut, only to be banned almost immediately. There’s a lot of weird stuff going on in the world today something to be really happy about is the ninetieth birthday of Kenneth Anger, author, filmmaker, and occultist.īorn in California in 1927, Anger is the author, most prominently, of Hollywood Babylon, a book of film-world gossip that was first published in France in 1959. ![]()
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