(Anger, who directed LaVey in Invocation of My Demon Brother, has a tattoo reading “LUCIFER” on his chest.) “Hollywood is very good for producing scandals it’s been producing them since the very beginning,” says Anger over a burger and Coca-Cola at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel before speaking at a nearby event in honor of his late friend Anton LaVey, the Church of Satan founder. After all, aside from his noted contributions to avant garde film (hailed by everyone from Scorsese to Sontag), Anger also is the industry’s oldest living scandalmonger, the author of the 1970s best- seller Hollywood Babylon and its sequel - salacious and much disputed histories of Golden Age cinema. But for 90-year-old Hollywood enfant terrible Kenneth Anger - the pioneering gay underground filmmaker - the news since Harvey Weinstein’s fall collectively elicits a shrug. Tomorrow, Brett Ratner’s and Dustin Hoffman’s predacious behavior will make headlines. Two evenings have passed since Anthony Rapp went public with Kevin Spacey’s alleged pedophilic advances.
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