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  <title><![CDATA[Hollywood Babylon]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ulysses and 100 Years of Solitude were killing me, so I just needed some well-written trash; something that I could actually FINISH.<br/>So, yeah I'd known about this book for 30 years and ran across it many times with mild curiosity, but a couple years ago a slightly musty first edition hardcover ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52027138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many years ago I lived in the courtyard apartments Charlie Chaplin built for his crew across the street from his studio on La Brea Avenue.  One night I read “Hollywood Babylon” while guzzling an entire bottle of red Zinfandel and eventually fell asleep with the book by my bed.  I proceeded to ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22253662">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 23 19:16:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sex, drugs, murder, scandal, old movies and glamourous lives.  The story of Hollywood gossip and depravity begins at the turn of the century in this book - and continues through the excess of the 20s, through to the 60's, although most of the stories focus on the 20s to 40s.  I love James Ellroy and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33661906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14750574">
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    <body><![CDATA[This classic of Hollywood scandal lore is a must read for anyone who loves movie star gossip and relishes dirty doings. It's one sorry tale after another, stories of murder, suicide, debauchery, and all sorts of other fun things, some of them true, others a little more fantastical. Written by Kennet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14750574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10079603">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no rating this book.  It's the ultimate trash, but it's perfect trash.  It's 400 pages of snide, gossip column-style writing about the first fifty years of Hollywoodland.  You read about Fatty Arbuckle, Lana Turner, Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn and many more.<br/><br/>An excellent plus is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10079603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5063317">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Experimental filmmaker, Kenneth Anger details the sordid rumors of old Hollywood in a convoluted mess of glamorization and finger pointing.<br/><br/>To be honest, I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading this. It is pretty obvious that most of the stories Anger relates are based on rumor and specula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5063317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48207727">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[People are going to start to think I only read macabre books. It's not true! I read Steve Martin's autobiography within the last year. Be forewarned, however, this book is not about happy times in Tinseltown.<br/><br/>It is, however, a pictorial history of the first half of the 20th century Hollyw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48207727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8584322">
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    <body><![CDATA[It really doesn't matter if the stories here are true or not - and some people get upset about this.  But then they are missing the point.  It's &quot;Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon.&quot;   And it's the way he tells the stories which makes this book and Volume Two priceless.<br/><br/>The mixtu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8584322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39419277">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the granddaddy of books dealing with Hollywood's dark side.<br/><br/>Drawing as much from gossip as he does from known facts, author Kenneth Anger dishes all the &quot;inside dope&quot; about the glamourous stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.<br/><br/>From the Fatty Arbuckle murder trial to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39419277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40064100">
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    <body><![CDATA[Kenneth Anger paints a sinister, evil picture of a Hollywood that chews its &quot;stars&quot; up and spits them out. How can you not feel sorry for Frances Farmer and Fatty Arbuckle? I believe you judge a tree by its fruits, from the mindwashing destructive propaganda that Hollywood spews out to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40064100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am really obsessed with old sordid Hollywood tales.  And this is your one and only stop right here.  Kenneth Anger was a brilliant and influential filmmaker in the 40's who made the classic, &quot;Lucifer Rising&quot;  His films have inspired David Lynch and Martin Scorsese among others.  He grew ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43838860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertainingly awful, even if some of it has been debunked.]]></body>
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    <review id="29418968">
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    <body><![CDATA[Impeccably researched and replete with many of the most revealing photographs you have never seen, <em>Hollywood Babylon</em> is part picture book and part compendium of  low-down dirt on some of the most infamous Hollywood scandals from its beginnings to the 1960s.    All of the big names are here, includin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29418968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71407334">
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    <body><![CDATA[A gossipy hidden history of Hollywood's transgressions from the nineteen-teens to the jaded sixties with tales of alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity and scandal, woe and suicide, indebtedness, crime, murder and sometimes, magic.  Tales are told of Peg Entwistle, a starlet who committed suicide b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71407334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27321571">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The ultimate sleazy beach read. I bought the paperback version at Virgin in LA. In high school, a gay friend LOVED this book, and was always sharing juicy sex scandals of the stars with my friend and I. These are stars from the 1920s to 1960s who we tend to think of as innocent and glamorous, but th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27321571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15658136">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Movie lovers. Real ones, not &quot;Matrix&quot; fans.]]></recommended_for>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the greatest books ever written about Hollywood. <br/>And I can't say I find the allegations that most of the photos were &quot;faked&quot; to have much merit. Anything that looked fake was obviously intentional. I had no intuition that any were &quot;doctored&quot;. Not like those p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15658136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleah . . . I couldn't even read the whole thing (ended up skimming bits and pieces) and still found it a colossal waste of the brief time I spent on it. I'm not a fan of gossip lit anyway, but this was so poorly written it was worse than most. Don't waste your time. Yuck.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Hollywood Babylon&quot; is full of gossip, crime,rumors, drug abuse and sexual shenanigans from the early days of Hollywood. As such, it is an irresistable read; Kenneth Anger is a top-notch writer and his subject matter is interesting, to say the least. There are nude photos of Jean Harlow an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7779448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this when i was 13 and loved it. it made everything more interesting and i didn't really understand everything they were talking about until just the last couple of months...those guys were fun.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I literally had insomnia while reading this book. It is that gross and awesome at the same time. Read it if you want to feel filthy and have all your Hollywood ideals crushed!]]></body>
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