Hellraisers : the life and inebriated times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed / Robert Seller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sellers, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--Great Britain--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.

Summary:

Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed: On screen they were stars, off screen they were legends. This is the story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, riots, and wanton sexual conquests--indeed, acts so outrageous that if ordinary mortals had perpetrated them they would have ended up in jail. They got away with the kind of behavior that today's film stars could scarcely dream of, because of their mercurial acting talent and because the press and public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed. This is a celebratory catalogue of their miscreant deeds, a greatest-hits package of their most breathtakingly outrageous behavior, told with humor and affection. You can't help but enjoy it--after all, they certainly did.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Spitting image television sketch

Introduction

An aperitif

Legends are born

The plastered fifties

The soused sixties

The sozzled seventies

The blotto eighties

The pickled nineties

Last man standing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780312553999

0312553994

OCLC:

317928624