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Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole & Oliver Reed - Softcover
Synopsis
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 grave.” Oliver Reed
This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. It’s a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. And yet these piss-artists were seemingly immune from the law. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.
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About the Author
Robert Sellers is a former stand-up comedian and the author of biographies of Sting, Tom Cruise, two appreciations of the work of Sean Connery, and the definitive book on the Pythons: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
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Review
"A rollicking read" * Sunday Express * "Sellers' biography is a jaw-dropping account of their twisted, tortured, politically incorrect lives" * Daily Record * "Robert Sellers gleefully follows the seedy lives of the four liver-abusing actors as they drink, brawl and shag their way through the decades into eventual oblivion" * Metro * "The best book we've ever read involving binge drinking, botched stage entrances, Hollywood floozies and British movie stars . . . Sometimes the form of a piece so perfectly fits its content you can actually hear the angels of accordance purr. Such is the case with Hellraisers . . . The sprightly smash 'n dash of the prose so wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both bingeing and stardom you almost feel the guys themselves are telling the tales" * GQ * "Unputdownable ... Sports book of the half-century, you might even say" -- Frank Keating * Guardian *
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- PublisherPreface Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1848090188
- ISBN 13 9781848090187
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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