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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies : Old Movie Star Biographies | | 20 | benohmart, February 24 |  |
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| The Green Dragon : Guilty Pleasures | | 69 | Jenson_AKA_DL, February 2007 | |
... thanks guys! Though, thea, I don't think I can, in good conscience, communicate with you anymore after learning of your Hollywood Babylon indiscretions. ... and might induce raised eyebrows from those, however few, congregate here..."
If it makes you feel any better, Hollywood Babylon sits in my library. And I've read it.
ETA: Terrific, heartfelt review, Enrique ... great.
If you are interested in the dramatic lives of stars of the silver screen, the classic of classics is, of course, Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. It's a really amazing collection of astounding stories about the film industry way back when. Without a doubt, your jaw will drop more ... Storeetllr, I read Sway last year and really liked it. I've had Ken Anger's deliciously trashy Hollywood Babylon for years, and knew he had to be a complete nutcase, but I really enjoyed the sections on the Stones the best. ... last month: Bill Bryan's zinger of a novel Keep It Real, and Kenneth Anger's celebrity death-porn masterpiece Hollywood Babylon.
... one of his movies. All the action in the novel ends in 1969, but later, in the real-life of 1975, Kenneth Anger published Hollywood Babylon, a luridly enthralling look at the scandal and debauchery of old Hollywood, and which I owned for many years, but later lost. Nevertheless, I'd been ... ... by Jared Diamond
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger
An Introduction to Ethics (University Paperbacks)
by William Lillie
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
... ... by Jared Diamond
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger
An Introduction to Ethics (University Paperbacks)
by William Lillie
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
... ... has confessed his love for Elvis books. I'll confess my love for books which "reveal" the sordid side of Hollyweird. Hollywood Babylon, by Kenneth Anger is one. The book closest to the spirit of film noir, by my lights, is Hollywood Babylon, I can imagine James Ellroy perusing it in his alcohol soaked days and plotting his route out of hell
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