![]() ![]() The most tantalising snapshots, with their accompanying barbed captions, suggest gob-smacking tales of disillusion and tragedy. The pictures promise SO much in 'Hollywood Babylon II' - a promise I had clung to since the 80s - but the text doesn't quite deliver. Kenneth Anger was a trail blazer in the 60s with his bitter brand of celebrity reportage - Perez Hilton owes a debt to him - but the truth is that Anger's photo library is the best thing about this book, his sequel to the original bestseller. Now that the subject of Old Hollywood is truly obsessing me, I finally purchased a copy. I just gasped at the pictures - and there were plenty to gasp at. Poverty struck as I was then, I never actually BOUGHT it, or indeed, READ it. This was a book I used to stealthily pick up and thumb through back in the 80s when it could be found in 'cult' bookstores, all shiny and new. ![]()
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