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

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Maybe someday in the future people will see the comparable cultures of the Rake and the Rope and see - alcohol definitely leads to a path of self- and social-destruction. If you remember the bygone times when people had fun , without giving a s*** about what the rest of the world thought , then this is the book for you . If there was a Mount Rushmore for drunks, these guys would be on it, probably along with Liz Taylor. One by one, they take this disillusioned soul on a personal tour of their lives, their tumultuous childhoods, rise to stardom and chaotic personal lives. Anecdotes out the wazoo on the drinking lives of these guys, and a lot of it gets repetitive at times, especially with Oliver Reed's antics.

As old Akbar of Afghanistan said "the man on hashish will be laughing and joking with you at the end of the night- the drunkard on wine will maybe even end up trying to kill you.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. He also had the eagle’s claws tattooed on the part of his body that he most enjoyed exposing without warning. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. In the dead of night one evening, Oliver Reed came down and stole the fish from the ornamental pond," Sellers says. One, most of us could never hope to consume 2-3 bottles of vodka a day for six months (Harris, Burton) or drink 126 pints of beer in a 24 hour period (Reed).

Turns out that the actor Michael York — he played D'Artagnan in that movie, though younger audiences might know him as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers films — was one of the diners that morning, and he swears it happened just like that. Raise a glass to the story of four of the greatest actors-and boozers-of all time: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed.Numerous stories include John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin, Russel Crowe, Rex Harrison, Keith Moon and many, many others of stage and screen. Au contraire: “O’Toole, Burton and I all drank to excess not because we had problems, but because we loved it,” Harris said. Utterly insane tales of drunken debauchery from some of your favorite actors is what this book sets out to provide, and for the most part, succeeds in. Gonzo antiheroes … Benicio Del Toro and Johnny Depp in the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.