Book description
'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.
Robert Sellers is a former stand-up comedian and the author of
biographies of Sting, Tom Cruise, two appreciations of the work of Sean
Connery and the definitive book on The Pythons:
Always Look on the
Bright Side of Life.
Robert was a regular contributor to
Empire, Total Film
,
The Independent, SFX
and
Cinema Retro
and
has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including
Channel 4's
The 100 Best Family Films
.
