Babylon wasn’t published in the US until 1975, considered too seedy for Americans.
That one was printed first in France in 1960 with Jayne Mansfield as the bosomy cover girl falling out of her brief blouse. 26 years ago, Anger struck anew in 1984 with this sordid sequel to his original bad-taste, gross-out Hollywood Babylon. It’s a snapshot catching an Elizabeth Taylor so squat, so obese, so darned ugly that even Joan Rivers would have been struck speechless. The photo on the front cover of Kenneth Anger’s book Hollywood Babylon II is, even for shameless paparazzi member Ron Galella, extremely unkind. Hollywood Babylon II is almost as addictive, seductive, compulsively page-turning as its inglorious Hollywood Babylon predecessor.
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