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| Authors: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 23266
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 408
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0974811882
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780974811888
ASIN: 0974811882
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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 Gossip June 26, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Honestly didnt like this book too much, almost sent it back. Just flipped through it, bit too gory for me.
Made-Up Piece of Trash June 20, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I would like to apologize to the trees who gave their lives for this piece of trash. The pictures are either dark, blurry or worse, obviously photoshopped. There are items written as fact, which were proved to be false years before this piece of trash was thrown together. Some stories are so completely made up it's embarrassingly obvious no thought was given to making them even appear to be honest or true. This "book" is quite simply, nothing but trash. Save your money and buy Globe Magazine or the National Enquirer. You'll get alot more honesty in journalism from either of these supermarket rags. I was looking for reliable, well researched, entertainment history. Instead I received a book with obvious mistakes, pictures clearly "put together" and essenitally stories without any credible references at all. Hollywood Babylon -- It's Back is a long and nasty tabloid, in the worst sense of the word. What a waste of money!
 Hollywood Babylon It's Back June 19, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I enloyed this book because I could relate to all of the people discussed. I have been a movie fan (films of the 20', 30's and 40's) for over 60 years I was shocked to read how most of my favorite stars acted. Hollywood, during that peroid, was nothing but a glamorized whorehouse. Stars, no matter how famous or unknown, had to sleep with director, producers or anyone else connected with the making of a film, to get parts.
The most shocking, to me anyway, was how Lucille Ball said "She never met a man she didn't sleep with. And her husband Desie Arnes was no better. I enjoyed the many photographs, nudes included, of the stars and other people involved in the picture business. I really couldn't put the book down.............
HOLLYWOOD BUNK June 17, 2008
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
I definitely enjoyed KENNETH ANGER's two books that this book is riding the coattails of. I also enjoy gossipy tell-alls, and have no problem with a tall tale. However, HOLLYWOOD BABYLON IT'S BACK is dubious trashy tidbits, obsessed with celebrity endowments, apparently written over many years, and poorly cobbled together with no real editor's discerning eye. Stars of yesteryear are "quoted" amusingly and then the same "quotes" are retooled with the essential tidbits changed to suit another chapter. NICK ADAMS' reputation is mercilessly trashed, and inaccurately (uhm... how could he have been servicing ELVIS when THE KING was watching the moon landing? ADAMS had been dead nearly a year and a half, as the book itself reports!!) Every stupid, groundless rumor you've ever heard about dead stars is offered as fact, though not a single principal is left to defend themselves. Half of Hollywood is gay and the other half bisexual, and the authors enjoy pointing out who did NOT have an affair with who as if that is intended to lend credibility to the incredible. Over 350 pages, by page 126, I was appalled! Here's a quote: "In 1951 (HARRY) COHN offered (LUCILLE BALL) a trashy part in The Magic Carpet...With her commitments at Columbia finished, LUCILLE landed at RKO in 1935." So LUCILLE BALL finished up at Columbia in the early 1950s and "landed" at RKO in 1935...? Huh? I don't think these authors or their editor went over this book very well to at least cleanup the contradictions and obvious errors. This could have been better, but instead, HOLLYWOOD BABYLON IT'S BACK makes BOZE HADLEIGH appear reliable.
 GREAT June 16, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book! It was a great follow-up to Hollywood Babylon. There are lots of secrets revealed. I recommend it to everyone.
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