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It is next to the grave of Johnny Ramone, which is marked by a spectacularly ugly bust of The Ramones’ guitarist, truncated just above the knee.

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Nearby is the vacant patch of ground that the actor Vincent Gallo, a friend, has told Anger he has purchased for Anger’s own grave.

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And there, beside the path where we are walking, lies Virginia Rappe, the young starlet who died in the riotous orgy of drink and debauchery that led to the comedian Fatty Arbuckle standing trial for rape and murder. Rudolph Valentino, whom Anger considers the quintessential Hollywood star (“he had a short, tragic life and left a big legend”) is interred in a crypt in the Cathedral Mausoleum. He is the author of two volumes of Hollywood Babylon, the classic account of Tinseltown’s most infamous scandals, from the silent era up to the Fifties.Ī number of the cast are buried here. It is the resting place of a number of famous Hollywood stars and stands behind the original Paramount lot in fact, the studios were built on a part of the old cemetery.Īnger is an authority on old Hollywood. “They’d better be.” And Hollywood Forever, formerly the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, has a personal significance. He is also the elemental spirit whose life draws a connecting line between some of the most intriguing figures of 20th century arts and Bohemia: the occultist Aleister Crowley, Jean Cocteau, the sexologist Alfred Kinsey, Anaïs Nin, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.Īnger has always liked visiting cemeteries. Anger, 86, is the US’s most celebrated underground film-maker, named as a major influence by directors as disparate as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters. On a recent warm afternoon in Los Angeles, Kenneth Anger was taking a walk in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In tribute to one of most revolutionary figures in the American counterculture, we're revisiting writer Mick Brown's interview from the June 2014 issue of Esquire. On, underground experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger passed away at the age of 96. Kenneth Anger in 1955 Estate of Edmund Teske // Getty Images