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Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger also happened to be an Occultist who followed in the footsteps of Aleister Crowley, on top of being friends with Anton LaVey. Anger also happened to use Manson Family killer Bobby Beausoleil as an actor and songwriter for his films. Kenneth Anger also worked with Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and attempted a creative relationships with a very drugged out Jimmy Page. One ccould say that Kenneth Anger has managed to engulf himself in all the "Dark" areas of pop culture, but this comes as no surprise when finding out the personal details on Anger's angry life in "Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger."
Anger was so Angry with the unauthorized biography written about him that he put a Magick (emphasis on the Crowley spelling) curse on it's author Bill Landis. "Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger" is not so much a anti-Anger bio, but a honest objective (as objective as they get) biography that details both Anger's flaws and strengths. The biography makes it very clear that Kenneth Anger is a man known for burning many bridges, something he has done his whole life. This started with his family and continued with basically every other relationship Anger had throughout his life.
For those that cannot look past the
Anger. The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger by Bill Landis
Dust jacket for The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger, written by Bill Landis and published by HarperCollins in 1995. From the inner flap:
Known worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is an underground filmmaker whose tremendous influence has been acknowledged by by directors as diverse as Stephen Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Dennis Hopper. As the father and most highly regarded member of American cinema’s avant-garde, Anger made three films now considered masterpieces: Fireworks, Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising. More than forty years later his aesthetic ripple is still being felt in contemporary mediums such as rock videos.
Designer Chip Kidd spells out the artist’s pseudonym in crammed letters from Franklin Gothic – it’s either the Condensed, widened, or the regular width, squeezed. In combination with the color red, this adds up to a typographic visualization of the the word’s meaning. For the smaller text including the subtitle and the author’s name, Kidd opted for ITC Franklin Gothic, Victor Caruso’s 1980 revision and expansion of Benton’s classic, distinguished by a larger and higher ear in g, among other things. These lines are set with very loose letterspacing, further increasing the claustrophobic expression of “Anger”.
Kenneth Anger died earlier this month at the age of 96. See the obituaries by the New York Times and the Guardian. RIP.
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nown worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books,
Kenneth
Anger is an under-
ground filmmaker whose tremendous
influence has
been acknowledged by directors as diverse as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese,
the father and most American films now
cinema’s
and Dennis
highly regarded
Hopper. As
member
of
avant-garde, Anger made three
considered
masterpieces:
Fireworks,
Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising. More than forty years later his aesthetic ripple is still being felt in contemporary mediums such as rock videos.
Beginning with Anger’s life as a child actor in Hollywood (he was featured in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream with Mickey Rooney), Bill Landis’s biography takes the reader on a wild journey from the beginning of the underground
film movement
in the United
States and Europe through the equally underground
gay world of the ’40s and ’50s to the ’60s in London and San Francisco, when Anger was
fame, and up to the present.
at his peak of
It’s a trip filled with
drugs, sex, rock & roll, and more than the usual dose of occultism. On the way, we encounter characters as
diverse as Aleister Crowley, Anton LaVey, Dr. Alfred
Kinsey, Anais Nin, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Marianne Faithfull, and Bobby Beausoleil, the
Manson murderer who was Anger’s protégé and a star of Lucifer Rising.
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