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Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed: On screen they were stars. Off screen they were legends.
St. Martin's Press
December 2009
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Featuring: Richard Burton; Oliver Reed; Peter O'Toole
286 pages
ISBN: 0312553994
EAN: 9780312553999
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The Boozy Biography of the Four Greatest Actors to Ever
Walk--Or Stagger--Into a Pub. Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, and Oliver
Reed: On screen they were stars. Off screen they were legends! Hellraisers 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 you or I had perpetrated them we could
have ended up in jail. Their mercurial acting talent and
love from the press and the public allowed them to get away
with the kind of behaviour that today’s film stars could
scarcely dream of. They were truly the last of a breed, the
last of the movie hellraisers. This book traces the intertwining lives and
careers of Burton, Harris, O'Toole, and Reed, plus an
assortment of other movie boozers who crossed their path.
It's a celebratory catalogue of their miscreant deeds, a
greatest-hits package, as it were, of their most
breathtakingly outrageous behavior, told with humor and
affection. You can’t help but enjoy it—after all,
they bloody well did. "God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell."--Richard
Burton "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
that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the
grave."--Oliver Reed "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 drugs, which is why I chose
it."--Peter O'Toole "This book traces the
intertwining lives and careers of Burton, Harris, O'Toole,
and Reed. plus an assortment of other movie boozers who
crossed their path. It's a celebratory catalogue of their
miscreant deeds, a greatest-hits package, as it were, of
their most breathtakingly outrageous behavior, told with
humor and affection, lashings of political incorrectness,
and not an ounce of moralizing."--BOOK JACKET.
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