![]() Born in 1927 as Kenneth Anglemyer, Anger grew up in LA surrounded by the alluring glamour of Hollywood, dancing with Shirley Temple at the Santa Monica Cotillion, and gaining a small role in Max Reinhardt’s 1935 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Now pushing 100 and with an impressive “LUCIFER” chest tattoo, Kenneth Anger is an intriguing character in his own right. With La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s latest epic, Babylon, drawing incidents and inspiration from Hollywood Babylon, it’s worth diving into just what exactly has made this particular tome of hearsay and scandal still hold such fascination more than sixty years after it was written. Before E! True Hollywood Stories, before TMZ, and way before YouTube started recommending videos about the actress you hate getting some really terrible plastic surgery, there was a book: Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger’s gleefully vile encyclopaedia of Hollywood Golden Age gossip. ![]()
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