![]() It flourished, cementing Anger’s legacy as meta-fantasist deviant in history. Longworth calls the book a “Hollywood party game of telephone” with its inconsistencies, exaggerations and outright misinformation. ![]() ![]() Griffith, Fatty Arbuckle, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. Originally written as stories and essays for Cahiers du Cinéma, then published in Paris in 1959 to minimal fanfare, then published in the United States in 1965 during the height of the Hollywood New Wave, the book details and contrives versions of scandals and salacious Hollywood tales that indicted (or at least smudged) the names of people like Charlie Chaplin, D.W. He rubbed shoulders with Jean Cocteau and occultist Aleister Crowley, he made films that got him arrested on obscenity charges and he penned one of the most infamous collection of gossipy stories Hollywood ever saw.įilm historian Karina Longworth, the host and creator of You Must Remember This, has dedicated the latest season of her podcast to fact-checking Anger’s book, Hollywood Babylon. Incongruous and sex-filled music videos, calendars with sweaty working class guys, a majority of queer cinema: a lover of the occult, of leather, of the codes of masculinity, writer/filmmaker/actor Anger’s work used a dreamscape to deconstruct masculinity outside of its social confines. ![]() Kenneth Anger’s ghost haunts much of modern pop culture. ![]()
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