Hollywood Babylon
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Published: October 1986
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780099497806
First sentence: WHITE ELEPHANTS-the God of Hollywood wanted white elephants, and white elephants he got-eight of 'em, plaster mammoths perched on mega-mushroom pedestals, lording it over the colossal court of Belshazzar, the pasteboard Babylon built beside the dusty tin-lizzie trail called Sunset Boulevard.