HOLLYWOOD BABYLON REVISITED: Vol 1

HOLLYWOOD BABYLON REVISITED: Vol 1

Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince

 

To those who love her, Hollywood was and is a gossipy, mendacious and whorish place that remains obsessively captivating, despite the passage of time. Porter and Prince have taken the idea of the Original Hollywood Babylon – which detailed the sordid scandals of Hollywood’s most famous denizens – and produced a new anthology of Hollywood indiscretion applying today’s tabloid standards to produce a book which makes the scandalous original look tame, polite and restrained in comparison.

 

Includes amusing, shocking and enthralling chapters on bordello-hopping with Ava Gardner; Judy Garland – fan worship and necrophilia; gay, holy and closeted – Pope Paul VI; Bette Davis – off-screen murderess?; James dean – a child molester?; and Tom Cruise and all the embarrassing things he’s gotten up to, with an all-star cast.

 

By same author: Hollywood’s Silent Closet, Jacko, His Rise & Fall

 

380 pages, hardback