THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Scandals just aren’t what they used to be. Not that there aren’t millions (thousands, anyway) of bucks to be made in the field, but the cutting edge has been blunted, the bloom is off the rose. To wit: when Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger’s original collection of scandalous outrages, tragedies, and oddities was published 20-some years ago it was considered a too-hot-to-handle, under-the-counter piece of ultra-sleaze—a bit of a scandal itself.