Hollywood Babylon
Anyone who takes Hollywood Babylon (and Hollywood Babylon II) seriously is clearly a dumbass. "Well just take it with a grain of salt!" YEAH DUH DOI IDIOT. But I also don't really think Anger deserves credit for I don't know making a statement on our fascination with celebrity, I think he was just salty that he wasn't a part of the crew. An outsider who desperately wanted attention and was willing to fabricate juicy and lurid lies to make himself relevant. Sure, Lupe Velez commits suicide but Kenneth?? Did Juanita the chambermaid really trace "the vomit trail from the bed over to the orchid-tiled bathroom" and find the Senorita's "head jammed down in the toilet bowl, drowned." Nah. I love this gossipy bitch.
I like some of Anger's films a lot. Scorpio Rising and Kustom Kar Kommandos are the tits. Most of his other work is pretty mid range. He's just so self absorbed and a little too snotty and it's kinda grating. I will say placing a curse on the authors (unaffiliated to Anger in any way) of Hollywood Babylon: It's Back! was a top notch expanded brain alpha move.
Wind Up Doll is my fave sequence
But in any case the books are funny and they flow really well! They're structured so each person he dedicates a chapter to has already been introduced in some way in a preceding chapter. That weird, incestuous web of Hollywood. Formatting it in this way is really helpful because I don't actually know who a lot of these people are by name and in the end, his writing is really bright and silly and I'm such a slut for sordid details, that I'm willing to sit down for the ride anyways. SEX AND MURDER AND SUICIDE what more could you ask for? PLUS it's filled with great nudes 😏 -- Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo to name a few.
It's not all scandal! Sometimes it's just petty.
So SURE! I don't really believe that silent film star Marie Prevost's body was partially eaten by her dachshund after she died in her Hollywood apartment in 1937 but GOD isn't that a funny thing to say?? If you're gonna go to the lengths to sensationalize Hollywood gossip, at least have the balls to do some truly off the rails shitposting.
GOOD:
BETTER:
BEST:
And a few more for the road:
Damn am I goin down this road quick..
The Marihuana Man! Only served two months, popularity unaffected upon his release. Nice.
Deep.
How do I get my hands on more prints of stag films...for research.
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