Palm Springs Babylon: Sizzling Stories From The Desert Playground Of The Stars

Palm Springs Babylon: Sizzling Stories From The Desert Playground Of The Stars by Mungo, Ray. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312064389.

Something about the slow-burning sun and the easy lifestyle of Hollywoods notorious desert haven has nurtured a scrumptious history of cardinal sins, both public and private. From philanthropists to actors-in-waiting, Ray Mungos Palm Springs Babylon is the compilation of these burning secrets, complete with damning photographic evidence and merciless documentation. From Clara Bows sexual appetite and voracious Jim Bakkers denials of promiscuity, to the rich veins of gossip to be mined from the Betty Ford Center, any gossipmonger or film buff will thrill to this lurid social history of Hollywood arcana. Witness zaftig Fatty Arbuckle stand trial for the grisly murder of a starlet; the egos of the powerful, the famous, and the purely eccentric locking horns; and the flamboyance and controversy, past and present, surrounding this florid and flourishing community. Palm Springs Babylon is a secret history of this Hollywood playground at its best-its sleaziest, most corrupt, and most deliciously indecorous-in short, at its height of glamour.