Hollywood Babylon

version

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George Hodel's come up in relation to The Black Dahlia in a few threads, but thought it might be an idea to have a general Hollywood underbelly thread for this sort of thing,



Apparently this is from one of that Jasun Horsley guy that @catalog likes' books,

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version

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I didn't know Hodel was friends with John Huston.

Something about Huston's always unsettled me. I dunno whether it's that I first saw him in Chinatown so I've always seen him as Noah Cross or whether there was just something off about him in general.
 

IdleRich

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Good idea for a thread, I really liked Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger although I think it's generally accepted that a lot of it is made up sadly. I've not read the sequel though, I remember reading a review when it came out and it was really scathing, sounded like he really pushed the boat out and just made up whatever the fuck he wanted - Douglas Fairbanks was born a woman, Bette Davis was the Zodiac Killer and her insult to Joan Crawford "She's fucked every male star in the studio except Lassie" was apparently wrong in the latter part etc etc
 

william_kent

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I had to suppress a smile when I was in a car with my parents and we passed by a 'diner' which went by the the name of "Fatty Arbuckles" - couldn't help thinking of the bottle anecdote in the original Anger volume... bad..bad..bad...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Acquitted in a court of law, that's good enough for me. And anyway, I much prefer that restaurant chain called Dahmers, lots of good meat options.
 

william_kent

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Good idea for a thread, I really liked Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger although I think it's generally accepted that a lot of it is made up sadly. I've not read the sequel though, I remember reading a review when it came out and it was really scathing, sounded like he really pushed the boat out and just made up whatever the fuck he wanted - Douglas Fairbanks was born a woman, Bette Davis was the Zodiac Killer and her insult to Joan Crawford "She's fucked every male star in the studio except Lassie" was apparently wrong in the latter part etc etc

I have to admit I was reminded of the Anger books by your choice of moniker in the poker cheats thread as I initially thought that Ken claimed that James Dean was known as the "human urinal", but then remembered that the actual nickname for Dean was "the human ashtray"
 
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catalog

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I'm reading (actually listening to the audio book) 16 maps of hell at the moment.

He's got a really odd style has horsley, but I'm in a bit of a rabbit hole of him at the moment, there's this weird way he spins the yarns out which make them very compulsive to listen to, or read. Or at least they do for me.

But yes there's stuff about hodel, also the phillipses, a whole lot about polanski.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Anger's just died. RIP.
Keep archivist it's in the RiP thread... though fair enough it's better here.

I'm not sure he was a nonce. Never heard any rumours... however I reckon that Laurel Canyon blog guy fingered him for the death of a child. I think the son of someone featured in the blog died in mysterious circumstances and the blogger was kinda implying Anger sacrificed him to Satan or something.
 

catalog

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I've just read the jasun horsley book on kubrick and it says he was a nonce. I'll find the quote and put it in.
 

version

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One of the reasons some people think he might have been a nonce is his involvement with Alfred Kinsey.
 
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