Hellraisers

the life and inebriated times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed

1st U.S. ed.
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Hellraisers

the life and inebriated times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed

1st U.S. ed.
  • 2 Want to read

An extremely entertaining biography of four charismatic and much-loved actors: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. Robert Sellers follows their stories 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. 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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St. Martin's Press
Language
English

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Hellraisers: the life and inebriated times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed
2009, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
An aperitif
Legends are born
The plastered fifties
The soused sixties
The sozzled seventies
The blotto eighties
The pickled nineties
Last man standing.

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New York
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.4302/8092241, B
Library of Congress
PN1998.2 .S45 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23622600M
ISBN 13
9780312553999
LCCN
2009029092
OCLC/WorldCat
317928624
Library Thing
6602903
Goodreads
6848091

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