Praise for Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson
Great fun.
Guardian
[A] boisterous account of four of Hollywoods wildest leading men.
The Times
Entertaining.
The Skinny
[A]n entertaining if sometimes scurrilous portrait of an industry out of control and off its head.
The List
Old school, bad boy antics. Recommended.
Ottawa Citizen
A gleeful chronicle of movie star misbehavior.
Empire
Do you ever get the feeling that a book has been written especially for you? Thats how I felt when I first spied [Hollywood Hellraisers].
Kathy Charles, author of John Belushi Is Dead
[F]antastic book.
The Knutsford Times
Praise for Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter OToole, and Oliver Reed
Hellraisers is completely unapologetic about its party-hearty premise... a rowdy collection of greatest hits, and... a fun-loving celebration of drunkenness.
The New York Times
[A] tremendous amount of unapologetic, unselfconscious fun.
Los Angeles Times
A welcome surprise.... Like the rejuvenating martinis and blurry haze of cigarettes in Mad Men, Robert Sellers nostalgic Hellraisers... amounts to an unapologetic celebration of the plastered and the damned in our sanctimonious Oprah age of public confession and easy redemption.
The Wall Street Journal
Robert Sellers outrageously entertaining history proves that todays celebrities dont have much on Richard Burton, Peter OToole, Richard Harris, and Oliver Reed.
The Daily Beast , This Weeks Hot Reads
Colorful anecdotes.
Daily Post
[A] celebratory catalogue of their miscreant deeds, told with humor and affection and not an ounce of moralizing. Enjoy it.
Turner Classic Movies, Movie News
Astonishing.
Daily Mail
Wonderful tales.
Dallas News
A jaw-dropping account of their twisted, tortured, and politically incorrect lives.
Daily Record
Entertaining reading.
Metro , UK
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Hollywood Hellraisers
The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson
Robert Sellers
To Bradley, Doug, Keith, Marc, and Martin
Copyright 2010 by Robert Sellers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sellers, Robert.
Hollywood hellraisers : the wild lives and fast times of Marlon Brando,
Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson / Robert Sellers.
p. cm.
Includes index.
9781616080358
1. Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography. 2.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social life and customs. I. Title.
PN1998.2.S455 2010
791.43028092273--dc22
[B]
2010001985
Printed in the United States of America
I would like to thank the following who contributed to and agreed to be interviewed for this book:
Don Aly
Vic Armstrong
Alexandra Bastedo
Tony Bill
Richard Bradford
Kit Carson
Doug Claybourne
Roger Corman
Alex Cox
Clive Donner
Freddie Fields
David Foster
Gary Foster
William Fraker
James Frawley
Gray Frederickson
John Gilmore
John Glen
Trevor Griffiths
George Hickenlooper
Dwayne Hickman
Marty Ingels
Henry Jaglom
Shirley Jones
Michael Lake
Jon Landau
Charles Langston
Tom Mankiewicz
George Miller
Matthew Modine
Dan Paulson
Karyn Rachtman
Kevin Reynolds
Marion Rosenberg
Albert S Ruddy
Richard Rush
Robert H Solo
Richard Stanley
Leon Vitali
Michael Winner
Susannah York
Picture Credits
Marlon Brando wearing a white T-shirt John Engstead / Getty Images, also appears on cover; Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando Rex Features; Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks (Producer: Frank P. Rosenberg, Director: Marlon Brando), 1961 Everett Collection / Rex Features; Marlon Brando, circa 1970 Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images; Marlon Brando, The Godfather (Producer: Albert S. Ruddy, Director: Francis Ford Coppola), 1972 Paramount Pictures / Getty Images; Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now (Producer and Director: Francis Ford Coppola), 1979 Everett Collection / Rex Features; Marlon and Christian Brando, 1990 Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images; Dennis Hopper, 1955 John Kobal Foundation, Hulton Archive / Getty Images; Dennis Hopper, 1968 Susan Wood, Hulton Archive / Getty Images, also appears on cover; Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, Easy Rider (Producer: Peter Fonda, Director: Dennis Hopper), 1969 Silver Screen Collection, Hulton Archive / Getty Images; Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini, Blue Velvet (Producer: Fred Caruso, Director: David Lynch), 1986 Everett Collection / Getty Images; Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, 2004 Vince Bucci / Getty Images; Dennis Hopper Mug Shot Sipa Press / Rex Features; Dennis Hopper, 2008 Sipa Press / Rex Features; Natalie Wood with Warren Beatty, circa 1960 Everett Collection / Rex Features; Warren Beatty, 1961 Everett Collection / Rex Features, also appears on cover; Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde (Producer: Warren Beatty, Director: Arthur Penn), 1967 SNAP / Rex Features; Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, 1971 Ron Galella, Wire Image / Getty Images; Warren Beatty, Shampoo (Producer: Warren Beatty, Director Hal Ashby), 1975 SNAP / Rex Features; Warren Beatty and Madonna, Dick Tracy (Producer and Director: Warren Beatty), 1990 BuenaVista, Everett Collection / Rex Features; Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, 2000 Dan Callister / Getty Images; Jack Nicholson, Cry Baby Killer (Producer: Roger Corman, Director: Jus Addiss), 1958 Everett Collection / Rex Features; Jack Nicholson, Chinatown (Producer: Robert Evans, Director Roman Polanski), 1974 SNAP / Rex Features, also appears on cover; Jack Nicholson, The Shining (Producer and Director: Stanley Kubrick), 1979 SNAP / Rex Features; Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando, Missouri Breaks (Producer: Elliott Kastner, Director Arthur Penn), 1997 Stefanie Kong / Rex Features; Jack Nicholson, 1980 Brian Lanker, Sports Illustrated / Getty Images; Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson, 1986 Fotos International / Getty Images; Jack Nicholson, Anger Management, (Producer: Barry Bernardi, Director: Peter Segal), 2003 Columbia, Everett Collection / Rex Features