* This text explores the rise and camaraderie of the generation of hard-living, boozing actors who ripped apart the staid British theatre and film industry in a trail-blazing 10-year period from the mid-50s to the mid-60s. It features actors like Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Tom Courtney, Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole and Michael Caine.
* This text explores the rise and camaraderie of the generation of hard-living, boozing actors who ripped apart the staid British theatre and film ind...
The highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much-loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio. "God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell." Richard Burton "I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties." Richard Harris "Booze is the most outrageous of all drugs, which is why I chose it." Peter O'Toole "I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into...
The highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much-loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio.
'Hollywood Hellraisers' is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehaviour of an Olympic standard, all-out excess and genuine madness.
'Hollywood Hellraisers' is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehaviour of an Olympic standard, all-out excess and genuine madnes...
A quirky and anecdote-driven A Z compendium celebrating the most outrageous, depraved, tortured, and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen, from Wild Bill Hickok to Ozzy, Francis Bacon to Belushi, Dean Martin to Courtney LoveThe miscreant mob in this whopper of a book the last word on inebriated misbehavior constitute the most amazing grouping to see inprint: from Alexander the Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an entire city; to W. C. Fields, who passed critical judgement on a brass band by urinating over them from a hotel balcony; Dylan Thomas, who...
A quirky and anecdote-driven A Z compendium celebrating the most outrageous, depraved, tortured, and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen, fr...
Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons. For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself. The result is a fascinating new insight into a man seen by many as merely a brawling, boozing hellraiser. And yet he was so much more than...
Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as...
