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>> Good. Another queer is no longer stealing oxygen.
Filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger was a legendary Hollywood character, a
visionary inheritor of an international avant-garde scene. But he also
reveled in the vulgar and esoteric and essentially disappeared from the
public eye for nearly a decade before his death.
Anger's death was reported Wednesday by the Sprüth Magers gallery, which
has represented Anger's work since 2009. Spencer Glesby, who was Anger's
artist liasion, told NPR that the filmmaker died on May 11 in Yucca
Valley, California, of natural causes.
A child of sunny southern California, Anger achieved notoriety as an
irreverent chronicler of its shadows. He made pioneering underground
movies for decades, and claimed to have gotten his start in the industry
as a child actor in the 1935 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that
starred James Cagney and Mickey Rooney.
In 1947, when he was still a teenager, Anger directed a short gay art film
that got him arrested for obscenity. Fireworks, which has no dialogue,
shows men flexing for each other in a bar, unzipping their trousers,
lighting cigarettes with flaming bouquets of flowers, and a little surreal
sadomasochism. Fireworks and Anger's other experimental movie are now
revered as counterculture classics.
The director of Scorpio Rising was also notoriously fascinated by the
occult. Kenneth Anger was friends with the Rolling Stones, enemies with
Andy Warhol and author of a bestselling book, Hollywood Babylon, which
spawned a sequel, a short-lived TV series and a season of the popular
podcast You Must Remember This. Many of its since-debunked stories
purported to expose scandalous secrets of dead movie stars from the silent
and golden eras.
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