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Hollywood Babylon

by Kenneth Anger

Series: Hollywood Babylon (1)

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If you're into movie trivia and the lurid details of some Hollywood lives, this is for you. I'm not sure I trust his "facts" however, based as they often are on innuendo and rumor. I wish I could make the kind of money this trash makes with my own books, but I couldn't lower myself to do it, so read my books (which are not about Hollywood) if you're interested in real people and how and why they behave the way they do, all based on careful investigations. Well, I thought I'd put in a little plug for me while I'm at it. ( )
  echaika | Sep 21, 2009 |
A book which recounts the scandals that surrounded some Hollywood screen stars - with pictures ( )
  GlenRalph | Jul 21, 2009 |
Perez Hilton's precursor - early Hollywood scandal proving that the more things change the more they stay the same. ( )
  kraaivrouw | Apr 7, 2009 |
Anger writes with such lurid aplomb. Hollywood Babylon is a delightful book. ( )
  rossryanross | Jan 18, 2009 |
Anecdotas sobre cine ( )
  jorcasvelez | Dec 19, 2008 |
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HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood, Hollywood...
Fabulous Hollywood...
Celluloid Babylon,
Glorious, glamorous...
City delirious,
Frivolous, serious...
Bold and ambitious,
And vicious and glamorous.
Drama - a city-full,
Tragic and pitiful...
Bunk, junk, and genius
Amazingly blended...
Tawdry, tremendous,
Absurd, stupendous;
Shoddy and cheap,
And astonishingly splendid...
HOLLYWOOD!!
- Don Blanding
As recited by Leo Carillo in the 1935 MGM Colortone Musical, Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
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To the Scarlet Woman
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WHITE ELEPHANTS - the God of Hollywood wanted white elephants, and white elephants he got - eight of 'em, plaster mammoths perched on mega-mushroom pedestals, lording it over the colossal court of Belshazzar, the pasteboard Babylon built beside the dusty tin-lizzie trail called Sunset Boulevard.
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Every man and every women is a star. -- Aleister Crowley
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