Counterculture Filmmaker and Author Kenneth Anger Passes Away at 96
Kenneth Anger, a pioneering filmmaker and author known for his underground movies and fascination with the occult, has died at the age of 96. Anger, who got his start in Hollywood as a child actor, directed a short gay art film in 1947 that got him arrested for obscenity. He went on to make counterculture classics and write the bestselling book "Hollywood Babylon," which exposed scandalous secrets of dead movie stars. Anger was a visionary inheritor of an international avant-garde scene and a legendary Hollywood character.