Hollywood Babylon

Type: Book

As of November 2026, Hollywood Babylon has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Oct 2025). Hussein AA recommended it: Hussein recommends 'Hollywood Babylon' for comic relief.

Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. The book was banned shortly after it was first published in the U.S. in 1965, and remained unavailable until reprinted ten years later. Upon its second release in 1975, The New York Times said of it, "If a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the fact that here is a book without one single redeeming merit." The Daily