Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684857081 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. --Tim Appelo. Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled
After Easy Rider, it was everywhere." GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS: "I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push all the way to the very very end, and see if I could die." DENNIS HOPPER ON EASY RIDER: "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault.". Easy Riders, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s -- an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both onscreen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Based on hundre
The patients and the asylum ilprofessore In the 1970s not only did the patients get to run the asylum known as Hollywood, most were children, if not in age certainly in temperament. The youth of America got to make the movies they wanted to make and see. Some of these young people were genuinely talented, others not quite, but they forever destroyed the old studio system and cleared the fetid air. This is a p. Jeremy Papp said Great read for anyone interested in films and those involved in them. This book was a fast and enjoyable read. Peter Biskind is able to shed light on the personal lives of the stars that were involved in the cinematic upheaval that was the New Hollywood movement. The book focuses on those directors and producers that helped usher in a new era of Hollywood films that were considered rebellious and daring in their production and subject ma. "Film History and Gossip in the Last Golden Age of Hollywood - More of the former, less of the latter please!" according to MXI. First, a huge congratulations to the author, Peter Biskind, whose passion and detail-orientation was so evident and in the end gave a rich and insightful look at the transition (rise) of Hollywood from the 60's to 70's and transition (fall) from the '70's to 80's. Biskind, while trying to make the book as salacious as possible (hence the sub-title) indeed intimates tha