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Mass Market Paperback Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets Book

ISBN: B001UPBP4O

ISBN13: 9780440153252

Hollywood Babylon

(Book #1 in the Hollywood Babylon Series)

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Book Overview

"Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, Kenneth] Anger has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal."--The New York Times

Welcome to Hollywood. Take a walk down "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams," where starlets, sex goddesses, matinee idols, American aristocracy, and Mafia moguls meet. It's a town made manic in its heyday by "joy powder" and cocaine-crazed comedies, seduced by vamping heroin heroines, shaken by Fatty Arbuckle's orgiastic excesses and Errol Flynn's amoral extravagances, stunned by Marilyn Monroe's tragic suicide and Sharon Tate's brutal murder.

Here, as never revealed before, is the scalding reality behind the glittering fa ade: the true stories and darkest secrets behind the lurid headlines that have titillated the world and electrified the nation for decades.

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Rated 5 stars
What a Nostalgiapalooza!

A touching, nostalgic coming of age story about self-acceptance. Recommended. This book is set in a neighboring city to where I grew up, set during my teen years, and with characters close to the age I was at the time, so on that level alone, it was a complete blast as the author does not skimp on place and pop culture references. On the other hand, I can't say how it would read for people unfamiliar with the suburbs of...

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Dude, Band Fags! is great, like great-great!

I really thought that this book was outstanding. Not only does it fully emerse you in the 80's and suburban Detroit, but what is most incredible about this book is how real the characters are. At times, you want to reach into the book and strangle Jack, the main character. In fact, with about a fifth of the book left I started yelling at the book, for real, shaking and yelling. Anyway, the relationships and characters...

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Rated 5 stars
An engaging and thoroughly entertaining gay coming-of-age epic

First, a note to readers who may be turned off by the title: This book is not just about teens in high school band (for those not in the know, "band fags" has been used by kids in various cliques to describe all members of the high school band, not just gay ones). This novel includes a wide array of characters. As the old saying goes, "Never judge a book by its cover." That being said, "Band Fags" is a truly inspired title...

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Great book

This book was so evocative of my high school days as a band fag. It was a compelling story, with great characters who I wanted to learn more about. I highly recommend reading this one.

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Band Fags of the world unite!

Hilarious and angst-ridden, "Band Fags" is a wonderful trip down memory lane for those of us who came of age in the eighties, sort of a gay version of that fantastic television show Freaks and Geeks - The Complete Series. Especially if you came out and enjoyed / endured high school band - and the stigma that goes along with it, you'll love this. Am I, or am I not? All the intense soul-searching - Frank captures it in a...

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Hollywood Babylon Mentions in Our Blog

Hollywood Babylon in Give Us the Glam! 10 Books About Old Hollywood
Give Us the Glam! 10 Books About Old Hollywood
Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • May 29, 2020

From scandal to splendor, the Golden Age of Hollywood remains a popular cultural reference for many. The larger-than-life stars populating the scene remain figures of fascination and whimsy. Here we offer ten books that feature real and imagined stories about the stars.

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