- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Preface Publishing (29 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184809017X
- ISBN-13: 978-1848090170
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 277,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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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'A jaw-dropping account of their twisted, tortured and politically incorrect lives' Daily Record
'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
Hellraisers is the story of four of the greatest boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set and into a pub: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. It's a tale of drunken binges, parties, orgies, broken marriages, riots and wanton sexual conquests. Robert Sellers traces the intertwining lives and careers of these four actors in a celebratory catalogue of their miscreant deeds, told with humour and affection and not an ounce of moralising. Enjoy it. They bloody well did.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed (Hardcover)
This book is definitley for you if like me, you're underwhelmed by the sheer blandness of many of the film stars from the modern era...Yes Jude Law, Orlando Bloom, stand up!...In the era of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed, those guys would have been playing the screaming, helpless victim role, dead by the first quarter of the film!
This book is largely all about the drunken escapades of the four Hellraisers, and is guaranteed to have you laughing out loud more than once. It's worth remembering though, just how talented and unique these men were though and it's that talent/charisma/uniqueness/last of a dying breed, call it what you will, that makes them truly worth remembering.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mine's a large one,
By Hector Parkinson (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed (Hardcover)
If you used this book as a drinking game, matching drink for drink, you would be dead by page 7.
This entertaining read brings together the four legendary actors, Burton, O'Toole, Harris and Reed. This is not a serious study of their craft, but a drink by drink account of their lives and more outrageous binges. If you have ever felt guilty about drinking too much, then take solace in this. If I have two tiny criticisms (hence 4 stars instead of 5), you don't quite get the sense of their talent (and sometimes wasted talent). Is it just the force of their personalities that set them apart as actors? What is clear that they all made some very bad movies as well, and the book is nicely balanced in this respect. The other is that the author's style occasionally strays into the `blokey' - when his subjects' anecdotes hardly need any additional commentary. How do you add superlatives to four lives of total boozy surfeit? But these are two small flies in a quadruple vodka of a read. Thoroughly recommended to all out there. Hic!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
REAL actors,
By stagehand (Northants) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed (Hardcover)
Love this book - instantly readable, full of information, these were real actors living hellishly wonderful lives - not like today's talentless soap stars. Highly recommended.
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