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

from burningtodd

These men lived the way that I want to live. They played by nobody's rules and were still successful. They had fun and lived, really lived. This book about the lives of Richard Harris, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed is a fascinating romp through the lives of the original British ba...

from koharteh

It is just fluffy wonderful fun! Not the most well-written book, and many tales are a bit apocryphal but it doesn't matter. I enjoyed every bit of it, and have more affection for four actors I already loved.

from Othemts

This graphic biography tells the exploits of the Irish & British actors Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, and Peter O'Toole. I've long admired the work of Harris and O'Toole, and familiar with Burton by reputation, but Reed was new to me. What they have in common is that they were part...

from sanddancer

 The subtitle here pretty much says it all. Here the author has collected together anecdotes from the lives of these four famous actors, who are were also notorious boozers. The book is divided into chapters by decade from the 50s to the 90s, with a starting chapter giving some background informa...

from IrishHolger

An intriguing concept... reading about the hellraising times of four of the screens best known boozers: Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris and Richard Burton. Trouble is that after a while reading up about this endless stream of drunken fights and broken furniture, it becomes quite monoto...