"For movie-buffs, the next best thing to a good movie (of which there are pitifully few these days) is the chance to sink their teeth into some juicy related reading. Atop the current heap is Kenneth Anger's HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, a chronicle of many of the sordid tales and scandals that rocked Glittertown-and the nation-from the Virginia Rappe murder to Judy Garland's death. Brimming with detail and decadence, Anger leaves few headstones unturned in unearthing the real stories behind the headlines that had Photoplay readers breathless with shock and macabre enthrallment. HOLLYWOOD BABYLON will have so many people spinning in their graves that the vibes might well touch off the menacing San Andreas fault to produce a fitting and inevitable postscript to the Twentieth Century Babylon known as Hollywood....
This book is a gossip gourmet's delight as the snarky innuendoes vie with the stark facts in competing for the reader's rapt attention...
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON stands as more than merely 'revealing.' It's a revelation."
