Hellraisers
Subtitle: the life and inebriated times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed
By: Robert Seller
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780312553999
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Spitting image television sketch; title: Introduction; title: An aperitif; title: Legends are born; title: The plastered fifties; title: The soused sixties; title: The sozzled seventies; title: The blotto eighties; title: The pickled nineties; title: Last man standing.