Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed

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Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed

Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed

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This is a fast and funny read, and a fascinating look at the lives of some of our most famous Actors. The lives of some incredibly talented (and incredibly stupid) people chronicled here-all the carousing and comparatively uncivilized things rich drunken sots can get up to are chronicled here. Robert Sellers, the author, initially set out with the idea of a reference book of hell-raisers, only to discover that it would have been too episodic. I was reminded of reading Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison's study of artists and bipolar disease. There’s very little analysis of why these people were the way they were, or how - just as remarkably - they survived that long when contemporaries like Robert Newton did the same stuff and perished.

Sometimes the form of a piece so perfectly fits its content you can actually hear the angels of accordance purr. Sadly at the time of the writing, the only one still alive was Peter O'Toole (sadly also now passed), and after going on the adventure with them throughout the pages, I admit sadness at their premature ends detailed here. I didn’t even have the joy of remembering my own exploits,” he said, after realizing that alcohol had wiped out much of his memory. Still, what can you say about a guy who, momentarily sober, asks to see his wife and is informed that she’d left him some years before. They'll Drink To That: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor celebrate Taylor's Best Actress Oscar win for 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Since each of them behaved like a tabloid reporter’s dream and did his best carousing in public, Mr. If you’ve ever wondered what sort of drunk nonsense the likes of Burton, Harris, O’Toole and Reed got up to in their heyday then you could do worse than read Hellraisers. Most of the stories are outrageously funny, although, like the ones you’re likely to hear from the guy on the next stool at your local, they may be a bit manicured. If you're a fan of old movies or in the acting business and appreciate this era of greats, I would still recommend it, though.

If you know anything about the history of these four they were, to put in a mild form, drinkers of phenomenal stamina. I dunno; it seems like there’s more to be said here than oft told, suspiciously-punchlined tales of piss ups. Like the rejuvenating martinis and blurry haze of cigarettes in 'Mad Men, ' Robert Sellers's nostalgic Hellraisers. We meet “affluent worker” Arthur Seaton as he necks 13 pints of beer before spewing up over a couple of other pub-goers.

Richard Harris, who played Burton's King Arthur role opposite Vanessa Redgrave when Camelot was turned into a film, "probably was the darkest," Sellers says. Perhaps that was possible because his drinking was simply an adjunct to a far deeper and more pervasive eccentricity: “I will not be a common man,” he wrote in a notebook while a teenager. Oliver ReedThis is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set into a pub. The book itself tells us that yes, these men had one or two extraordinary performances but the rest of the films they made essentially were garbage. Robert Sellers is the author of Hellraisers, Bad Boy Drive, Hollywood Hellraisers and An A-Z of Hellraisers.

Sellers's outrageously entertaining history proves that today's celebrities don't have much on Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, and Oliver Reed.

These extraordinary characters and ultimately charming men continued to grab life by the horns even when the partying slowed. It reels off riotous tales about Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed without giving a moment’s thought to what those tales might mean. If you come away from reading ‘Hellraisers’ thinking the Four Lushketeers are excellent role models, you, my friend, have a friggin’ problem.



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