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I'm most of the way through Kenneth Anger's legendary Hollywood Babylon, a gossip page of ancient scandals from sober l silent era to WW2 Hollywood. The Fatty Arbuckle rape trial, William Randolph Hearst shooting a film producer on his yacht, various homosexual orgies, Conde Nast being a person rather than a company. It's amazing.
I can't recommend it enough. It's raising so many questions for me, despite the fact that I'm aware (from having previously listened to the You Must Remember This podcast series dismissing Anger as inaccurate) that it's wildly inflated. Anger writes in such a fun way, and the material is so fascinating, and I'm filled with new questions about morals and society. A masterpiece.
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