When Kubrick went to Los Angeles for the film, he met Curtis Harrington and Gavin Lambert, who "introduced him to what they regarded as its secret delights, like the home of so-called 'male witch' Samson DeBrier on Barton Avenue in Hollywood, a mecca for every oddball in the city." This included Ivor Stravinsky, James Dean, and Kenneth Anger, who shot Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome there. According to Baxter, DeBrier's home may have been “the model for Quilty's decaying mansion in Lolita" (ibid., p. 78). Anger was a Crowleyite whose involvement with the darker aspects of occultism—and ties to groups like the Process Church, the Manson family, and intelligence programs such as MKULTRA-are as striking as his influence on major filmmakers such as Kubrick, Scorsese, and David Lynch.