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The hottest compendium of inter-generational scandal in the history of Hollywood. An overview of exhibitionism, sexuality, and sin as filtered through 85 years of Hollywood indiscretion. As they were unfolding, the events described within this book were known only within Hollywood's most decadent cliques. All of that has changed with the release of this book.From bisexual Elvis to cover-ups of murder, from the scandals of Hollywood's Golden Age to the Hollywood of Here and Now. It's all here. Vivid, Candid, Sizzling. To those who love her, Hollywood was and is a gossipy, mendacious (Big Daddy's word), and whorish place that remains captivating despite the passage of time. In this, an updated new spin on Hollywood as Babylon, it's depicted at its sleaziest, most venal, and most deliciously unseemly. This monumentally exhaustive collection of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures is the ultimate guilty pleasure-and publisher Blood Moon pledges that it's merely Volume One. --Books To Watch Out For
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HOLLYWOOD BUNK
17. Juni 2008
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I definitely enjoyed KENNETH ANGER's two books that this book is riding the coattails of. I also enjoy gossipy tell-alls, and have no problem with a tall tale. However, HOLLYWOOD BABYLON IT'S BACK is dubious trashy tidbits, obsessed with celebrity endowments, apparently written over many years, and poorly cobbled together with no real editor's discerning eye. Stars of yesteryear are "quoted" amusingly and then the same "quotes" are retooled with the essential tidbits changed to suit another chapter. NICK ADAMS' reputation is mercilessly trashed, and inaccurately (uhm... how could he have been servicing ELVIS when THE KING was watching the moon landing? ADAMS had been dead nearly a year and a half, as the book itself reports!!) Every stupid, groundless rumor you've ever heard about dead stars is offered as fact, though not a single principal is left to defend themselves. Over 350 pages, by page 126, I was appalled! Here's a quote: "In 1951 (HARRY) COHN offered (LUCILLE BALL) a trashy part in The Magic Carpet...With her commitments at Columbia finished, LUCILLE landed at RKO in 1935." So LUCILLE BALL finished up at Columbia in the early 1950s and "landed" at RKO in 1935...? Huh? This could have been better, but instead, HOLLYWOOD BABYLON IT'S BACK makes BOZE HADLEIGH appear reliable.
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A Disappointment
28. Mai 2008
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I found this book to be a disappointment. The layout of the pages is very amateurish and ugly. The information tries to sound scandalous but after a while becomes repetetive and even dull. I found myself skipping page after page just to look at the photographs, many of which are of poor quality and seem to have been lifted from the internet, without credit (one of them is mine, that I took of Lucille Ball a few weeks before her death). Some photographs look like they were printed from poor washd-out photocopies. (In their defense, perhaps all they could find of certain rare photos were photocopies, and so decided to print poor versions instead of none at all.) As with the original Hollywood Babylon 1 and 2 by Kenneth Anger, don't rely on these books for facts or truth. What's in them is embellished, at the very least, for titillation. Whatever truth may be contained in these books is basically lost in the stew of rumors, half-truths and outright fiction. A shame, since it doesn't even result in a very good read.
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Too much (dubious) information
12. Februar 2009
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I enjoy trashy gossip more than most straight men, but Darwin Porter's shocking revelations are too outrageous to swallow. Disbelief is impossible for me to suspend.
Porter conjures gargantuan long-ago conversations that no living person could conceivably have witnessed, and only someone with a memory like Truman Capote could claim to remember in such detail even if the he or she had been on hand.
The stories have a suspicious sameness. Porter's standard scoops involve (a) everyone in the movies being gay, (b) endless slavering chitchat about the sizes of various famous men's equipment, and (c) allegations of numerous leading women having been prostitutes. There surely must be some fresher twists on these classic memes.
Finally, HB2 lacks the chain-saw wit that made Kanneth Anger's original Hollywood Babylon a classic. Porter's prose is just bitchy.
But should you buy it? If you treasure old-Hollywood gossip, sure. The only bad rumors are the boring ones. Triteness and repetition aside, the anecdotes are real page-burners. And maybe there is truth behind the legends.
Porter conjures gargantuan long-ago conversations that no living person could conceivably have witnessed, and only someone with a memory like Truman Capote could claim to remember in such detail even if the he or she had been on hand.
The stories have a suspicious sameness. Porter's standard scoops involve (a) everyone in the movies being gay, (b) endless slavering chitchat about the sizes of various famous men's equipment, and (c) allegations of numerous leading women having been prostitutes. There surely must be some fresher twists on these classic memes.
Finally, HB2 lacks the chain-saw wit that made Kanneth Anger's original Hollywood Babylon a classic. Porter's prose is just bitchy.
But should you buy it? If you treasure old-Hollywood gossip, sure. The only bad rumors are the boring ones. Triteness and repetition aside, the anecdotes are real page-burners. And maybe there is truth behind the legends.
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