Customer Reviews
King Of Bad Taste - By: Mb Davis, 14 Jun 2008 
Kenneth Angers books are the leaders in their particular field.If anything he manages to surpass himself with lurid descriptions of the sordid details of stars misdemeanours.There are some reallly great pictureswhich i have not seen anywhere else.He seems to take a particular interest in suicide as the chapter devoted to this is over 70 pages long.Maybe a trifle too long.He does utilise some material from his original book which i think is cheating.However if you are interested in the seamier side of the stars life then you will thoroughly enjoy this book.
DELICIOUSLY DIRTY - By: M. Moore, 16 Apr 2008 
This book is a delicous & dirty expose on old Hollywood; a must for any old Hollywood film buffs out there. Kenneth Anger writes in a lovely tongue in cheek somewhat ironic style, this makes the book an easy read. Sometimes shocking within the context that the likes of Louis B Mayer went to great lengths to portray a cheesecake & super moral image of their stars & sometimes a little sad to read of the tortured souls behind the glitz.
DIRT DOESN'T COME DISHED UP BETTER THAN THIS - By: Klingsor Tristan, 13 Sep 2006 Kenneth Anger was the little changeling boy in the classic Midsummer Night's Dream with Jimmy Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney, etc., etc. He later went on to make some outrageous sado-masochistic gay movies which were about as far from Hollywood mainstream as you can get. But throughout his life, he continued his love-hate affair with the Tinsel Town hand that alternately fed him & smacked him. Hollywood Babylon is the wonderfully warped offspring of that relationship
This classic book veers like a drunk on Sunset from the shocking to the incredible to the uproariously funny as it dishes the dirt, alll the dirt & nothing but the dirt on old-time Hollywood. From the days of the silents to the decline of the studio-system, here are alll the scandals you may have heard of & many you haven't in their full gory detail. Anger's style is as racy & readable as any tabloid & the photographs that support his stories are often just as salacious.
Of course it's alll gossip. Of course it's sordid. Of course you won't believe the half of it. Trouble is, you won't know which half. That's its joy.
a must read for old hollywood film buffs - By: , 11 Sep 2001 a fasinating insight to the seedy side of old hollywood, you get to read about the real hollywood the stars & the movie moguls. the wild parties held in secret & the damage they caused. A must for the curious hollywood fan & a truely indepth view of the stars & their sordid lives.
a very unusual book - By: , 20 Oct 1998 
Not for the faint hearted! this is THE classic book at what hollywood is at its core a very unusual book the Author, Kenneth Anger reveals alot of repulsive info about various popular stars sometimes backed up with up photographs this also has a number of shocking photographs such as the actual police photographs of the black dahlia murder victim her body was cut in half & hollowed out & dumped in a vacant lot in L.A. for alll to see they never caughthim & it remains one of the most horrible murders in US history even in present time a full sixty years latera most unusual book.
