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

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I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one’s local in Paris and wake up in Corsica,” Mr. And if it occasionally feels repetitive, in a "then he made this movie, and drank this, and wrecked this bar/hotel/etc. On the surface it’s a roughly chronological group biography, but really it’s an anthology of anecdotes. In Hellraisers, biographer Robert Sellers tells tales from the intersection of talent and wretched excess. Robert Sellers is the author of Hellraisers, Bad Boy Drive, Hollywood Hellraisers and An A-Z of Hellraisers.

He has slapped together a string of outlandish stories about four of the British Isles’ most stylish drunken actors, and he doesn’t even pretend to have turned those stories into a coherent book. Like the rejuvenating martinis and blurry haze of cigarettes in 'Mad Men, ' Robert Sellers's nostalgic Hellraisers. I’m sure the subjects of this book would think me a terrible joyless bore, but ultimately I found this book rather sad. The Plastered Fifties", "The Soused Sixties", "The Sozzled Seventies", "The Blotto Eighties", and "The Pickled Nineties".Sellers’s other subjects, he perfected a cavalier panache that allowed him to glide through life delivering boozy bon mots, thus eclipsing certain unpleasant realities. Women were treated like shagging material and casually cast aside in their scores when they had served their brief purpose. The stories collected in it make you wonder how they made any art at all between drinking binges, pub crawls and pub brawls, public scenes of ribaldry and all-around boorishness.

Like the rejuvenating martinis and blurry haze of cigarettes in 'Mad Men, ' Robert Sellers's nostalgic Hellraisers . On May 2, 1999 while filming Gladiator in Malta, Oliver Reed was leaving a pub when he spotted a group of Royal Navy sailors.While these four men were world class drunks they were much much more than that also but reading this book you don't really get a sense of that.