“He has the Anger touch,” says Ebner of the right-wing Drudge Report‘s entertainment coverage (Breitbart worked for Drudge for years). Mark Ebner, author of the Babylon-esque Hollywood, Interrupted with late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, observes that Anger’s singular blend of besotted fascination and moralism is on display in another media and culture provocateur, Matt Drudge. Hollywood has always been, in Anger’s words, a “synonym for sin,” a paradisiacal place where glamour lives and ethics don’t. Revisiting the Babylon books in the current climate is a reminder that while the entertainment industry has grown to see itself as something of a moral force over the past century, the rest of the country never subscribed. (Anger, who directed LaVey in Invocation of My Demon Brother, has a tattoo reading “LUCIFER” on his chest.) “Hollywood is very good for producing scandals it’s been producing them since the very beginning,” says Anger over a burger and Coca-Cola at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel before speaking at a nearby event in honor of his late friend Anton LaVey, the Church of Satan founder. After all, aside from his noted contributions to avant garde film (hailed by everyone from Scorsese to Sontag), Anger also is the industry’s oldest living scandalmonger, the author of the 1970s best- seller Hollywood Babylon and its sequel - salacious and much disputed histories of Golden Age cinema. But for 90-year-old Hollywood enfant terrible Kenneth Anger - the pioneering gay underground filmmaker - the news since Harvey Weinstein’s fall collectively elicits a shrug. Tomorrow, Brett Ratner’s and Dustin Hoffman’s predacious behavior will make headlines. Two evenings have passed since Anthony Rapp went public with Kevin Spacey’s alleged pedophilic advances. They have money, an unaccustomed toy, and they spend it in bizarre ways.It’s Halloween. “When people spring from poverty to affluence within a few weeks, their mental equipment is not always equal to the strain. Assembled tabloid style, it is fun and explosive, and includes as many pages of photos as it does text. This book exposes all the sex and morals scandals the studios had successfully buried. In real life, the actors did as they pleased and were protected by the studio’s PR men.

In films, he could guarantee that the story did not end happily for the fallen woman, no matter how kind-hearted or reformed. Hays presided over the morals of Hollywood both on and off-screen as head of the MPAA. Former Republican National Committee chairman Will H. We forget how powerful and conservative Hollywood studios once were.

Laid in is the cover from a softcover edition of the book, which Anger has boldly inscribed in his typical purple felt marker, “For Robert, Here’s looking at you! Kenneth Anger, Portland Nov. Book is in very good minus condition dust jacket is in very good condition-a few pages are wavy.

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