Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Peter Biskind

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Simon & Schuster, 1998

0684809966 / 9780684809960

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1st printing. 506pp. Inscribed & signed on title pages by Peter Biskind. Bright, clean & tight copy, gently read, in Fine condition. "In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. [] EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars; how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an 'anything goes' experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off. [] After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film stars--Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunaway--seemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation. [] Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. [] By turns hilarious and shocking, EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play." [jacket copy] "[a] calm, encyclopedic and compulsively readable dish on Hollywood heroes . . . This book plays like a bestseller, a perfect, gruesome sitcom in which Hollywood figures sit and ponder their reputations. If anything, I dare say that nervous libel lawyers have made Biskind take a moderate line. . . It is essential dish, and Biskind has done his job well."--David Thomson, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review. "His research is so scrupulous and instructive and his passion for movies so unquestionable that his clear contempt for the excesses of the men he writes about makes sense--after all, they trashed their own gifts. But the signal achievement of this archaeological dig of a book is that Biskind also cares about what went right--the movies."--Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly. Fine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright, intact, cool jacket.…

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Titre
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Auteur
Peter Biskind
Éditeur
Simon & Schuster
Année de publication
1998
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Fine
Signé
Inscribed by Author(s)
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0684809966
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780684809960
Édition
1st Edition

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