ROBERT SELLERS is the author of eight books. He contributes regularly to "Empire, Total Film, Cinema Retro, "and "The Independent. "A former stand up comedian, he lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and daughter.
"Told in the free-ranging anecdotal style of the bar stool bard--and taken, presumably, with the requisite tumberful of tipple--these breezy tales of outcast British actors stumbling, bumbling and humping their way to stardom, offer up truly guffaw-worthy camp and idiocy. All the classic bits are there. . . . The sprightly smash 'n dash of the prose so wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both binging and stardom you almost feel the guys themselves are telling the tales (and moaning and toasting all the while.)""--GQ """A" book celebrating famously unrepentant drunks is a welcome surprise . . . Like the rejuvenating martinis and blurry haze of cigarettes in "Mad Men," Robert Sellers's 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 today's celebrities don't have much on Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and Oliver Reed.""--The Daily Beast"""Hellraisers" wants only to be a rowdy collection of greatest hits, and it lives up to that fun-loving ambition.""--The New York Times ""An incredibly entertaining series of anecdotes, interspersed with unpretentious and conversational interviews--all about drinking.""--The La Times ""As the colorful anecdotes collected in this book make clear, some stars are born rather than made.""--The New York Post ""Their names are included up there with the acting greats and these boys spent quite a bit of time behaving badly. From O'Toole getting arrested for wooing an insurance building, Reed dropping his pants in public to show off his "mighty mallet," Harris attacking cars in Italy, to Burton urinating onstage, it is laid out in hilarious detail by Sellers. The hijinks, happening in a time before real paparazzi we have now, did not come without a price, although
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