Darwin Porter - Peter OToole: Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel

HELLRAISER

SEXUAL OUTLAW

IRISH REBEL

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Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no oneespecially not the dead.

The New York Post

If you love smutty celebrity dirt as much as I do (and if you dont, whats wrong with you?) then have I got a book for you!

The Hollywood Offender

These monumentally exhaustive collections of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures are the ultimate guilty pleasure.

Books to Watch Out For

The grittiest, most unvarnished, and most comprehensive biography of the dashing, charismatic movie star and rou ever written.

Celebrity Dish

There are guilty pleasures. Then there is the master of guilty pleasures, Darwin Porter. There is nothing like reading him for passing the hours. He is the Nietzsche of Naughtiness, the Goethe of Gossip, the Proust of Pop Culture. Porter knows all the nasty buzz anyone has ever heard whispered in dark bars, dim alleys, and confessional booths. And lovingly, precisely, and in as straightforward a manner as an oncoming train, his prose whacks you between the eyes with the greatest gossip since Kenneth Anger. Some would say better than Anger.

Alan W. Petrucelli

The Entertainment Report Stage and Screen Examiner

Examiner.com

Insouciant, offensive, brilliant, promiscuous, and brash, Peter OToole was said to have matched Don Juans legendary total of 1,033 seductions. Its all here in this latest blockbuster biography from those blokes at Blood Moon, no doubt hellraisers themselves when it comes to stirring up scandal.

Fab

Theres a revelation on every page in this lurid saga of an actor whose life has not been equaled since the days of John Barrymore and Errol Flynn. Let there be no doubt as to what this book reveals: Peter OToole was once a great beauty who became one of the most charismatic, unpredictable, eccentric, and individualistic players of his generationmaybe the most. Among his final words was the prediction, Im leaving this world to be delivered directly to the Gates of Hell.

What a read! Expertly written and gripping in a tabloid style and riddled with marquee names. A lean and mean page-turner.

Ethan Wilson

As depicted in this riveting biography, Peter OToole could be ridiculous, but he was never dull. He battled alcoholism and came to look like his own ghost near the end of his life. We are unlikely to see such an original actor in this generation. This book is a mesmerizing evocation of a time gone by.

X-Tra!

The son of a bookmaker from County Galway in Ireland, Peter OToole became the greatest actor since Laurence Olivier. He reached the zenith of his career early in life when he starred in flowing white robes in Lawrence of Arabia, one of the great films of all time.

Off-screen, he was a hellraiser, sexual outlaw, and Irish rebel, as Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince so vividly prove in their explosive new biography. They bring to life the debauched nights, the heavy boozing, the outrageous escapades with dollybirds, but sometimes with the most famous women on the planet, notably Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Princess Margaret.

While swilling down shots of vodka, tear yourself away from the TV and prepare yourself for a roller-coaster ride.

Florence Gavin,Dirty Laundry

A Word About Phraseologies

Since we at Blood Moon werent privy to long-ago conversations as they were unfolding, we have relied on the memories of our sources for the conversational tone and phraseologies of what weve recorded within the pages of this book.

This writing technique, as it applies to modern biography, has been defined as conversational storytelling by The New York Times, which labeled it as an acceptable literary device for engaging reading.

Blood Moon is not alone in replicating, as remembered dialogues from dead sources. Truman Capote and Norman Mailer were pioneers of direct quotes, and today, they appear in countless other memoirs, ranging from those of Eddie Fisher to those of the long-time mistress (Verita Thompson) of Humphrey Bogart.

Some people have expressed displeasure in the fact that direct quotes and as remembered dialogue have become a standardsome would say mandatoryfixture in pop culture biographies today.

If that is the case with anyone whos reading this now, they should perhaps turn to other, more traditional and self-consciously scholastic works instead.

Best wishes to all of you, with thanks for your interest in our work.

Danforth Prince

President and Founder

Blood Moon Productions

PETER OTOOLE

Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel

Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

Copyright 2015, Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Manufactured in the United States of America

ISBN 978-1-936003-45-7

Special thanks to the Stanley Mills Haggart Collection, the Woodrow Parrish-Martin Collection, the H. Lee Phillips Collection, the Fredric and Grace Smithey Collection, and Elsa Maxwell Caf Society.

Cover designs by Richard Leeds (Bigwigdesign.com)

Videography and Publicity Trailers by Piotr Kajstura

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