Hello, my name's Justin the Cluard. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to the Important Cinema Club. It's summertime. It's hot. So it's time to talk about Kenneth Anger.

That's right. We are in burning hell right now, talking about one of the great Satanists of all time, although he claims he was not a Satanist. Really? He was an occultist. He was a pagan. Yeah, there's a term for the kind of religion that Alistair Crowley started. And I believe that he said he was part of that group. So listen, I have that term in these notes somewhere. I don't want to say it, though, because maybe the devil will show up.

Here are some bullet points for Kenneth Anger, who passed away on May 11th of this year.

I'm putting on my $888-Lusifer Golden Jacket in his memory.

Maker of the first narrative queer film in American film history, fireworks from 1947, the first person to score a movie using only pop music with his Scorpio Rising, which would inspire Martin Scorsese to do the same.

Close friend of the likes of Alfred Kinsey, Anas Ninn, Tennessee Williams, and the Rolling Stones.

The man who inspired John de Godd and Frasartoufautoufaut to take up a camera, right, Will?

That's 100% true fact, isn't it?

Well, yeah, it starts, too, with his self-mythologizing get a little murky.

But he was the, you know, flim-flam artist, bullshit artist.

He is the primary source for some of the most popular and widely debunked gossip about Hollywood's silent era.

So let's get this out of the way right away, which is that Kenneth Anger wrote a book called Hollywood Babylon because he needed money.

And he just brought together all the photos that he could find,

the grosser the better, and every rumor, gossip, and just falsehood that he could about Hollywood.

So did Clara Bow, the famous Hollywood It Girl, have sex with an entire football team, including

John Wayne? A young John Wayne. Did she?

No. Well, we don't know. Yeah, you know what? Maybe. She didn't. But according to him,

according to him, she did. Did Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle do what is claimed he did with a glass bottle. Well, that rumor comes from Kenneth

Anger. Really? That rumor never came up at Fatty Arbuckle's trial. That came from Hollywood

Babylon. Fatty Arbuckle innocent Will Sloan yells. I mean, he was. Yeah. Well, Fatty Arbuckle

episode coming soon. Was Walt Disney addicted to opiates, which inspired the character of Goofy?

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