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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind
ISBN: 0684809966
ISBN-13: 9780684809960
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
An account of the Hollywood filmmaking scene of the 1970s. In the era before blockbusters like "Jaws" and "Star Wars" made Hollywood studios focus on making huge movies with wide appeal, directors were treated like superstars, and given free reign to indulge themselves, creatively and otherwise. Directors like Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, and Hal Ashby thrived during this era, but their careers suffered greatly due to an excess of drugs, sex, money, and hubris. Only Martin Scorcese and Francis Ford Coppola were able to continue their success in subsequent decades.
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"...thoughtful, gossipy and altogether mesmerizing." -- Janet Maslin
-- New York Times
"...there is an enormous amount of new material here, and the book's value lies in its comprehensive picture of hubris and Schadenfreude, of adulation and addiction, of talented men absolutely corrupted by absolute freedom."
-- Washington Post
"Told in the rambling style of some half-drunk after-dinner raconteur, the book has a heady tone and a wandering, sometimes sloppy structure. Weaving together hundreds of firsthand accounts, Biskind, a former editor at Premiere and American Film magazines, is a magician at prying revealing yarns and juicy quotes out of his subjects." -- Brian M. Gunn
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1998
Size: 7 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.85 pounds
Pages: 506
Publisher's Notes
By turns hilarious and shocking, "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play.
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-'N'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Biskind, Peter
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0684809966 Used remainder mark, 8vo, 506pp.. Keywords: MOTION, PICTURES, HISTORY, PICTURE, INDUSTRY. ( more information)
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Biskind, Peter
Simon & Schuster. 1998. 0684809966 Hardcover, very good in very good dustjacket, illustrated.. ISBN: 0684809966. ( more information)
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and- Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Biskind, Peter
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998 GOOD IN GOOD UNCLIPPED JACKET. No names or markings, Illustrated w/photos on coated stock, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Selected Filmography of Directors (1967-1982), Notes, Index, Photo Credits, 506 crisp, clean & solid pp. Excellent Personal Reference Copy. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Biskind, Peter
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998 506 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. First half-dozen pages & and front flap of dust jacket have a corner crease, else fine, in a mylar book cover. "In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars; how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an 'anything goes' experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off. After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film stars -- Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunaway -- seemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. By turns hilarious and shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play. / Peter Biskind is the former executive editor of Premiere and former editor in chief of American Film. He is the author of two previous books, Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties and The Godfather Companion. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. He lives in New York City." - Publisher.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Biskind, Peter
NY: Simon and Schuster. VG+/VG. ©1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-684-80996-6 . With photographs. Sixties- Seventies U. S. Cinema this is your book. . . Selected Filmography of Directors (1967-1982) . Notes, Index. Account of the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver and Jaws. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors, producers, stars, agents, writers, ... ; Illustrated; 8vo; 506 pages . ( more information)
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: The Generation that Transformed Hollywood
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Peter Biskind
New York, US: Simon & Schuster. Fine. 1998. First. Hardback copy. "A compelling cruise through sixties and seventies Hollywood...not only is this book superbly written, it is also a fascinating piece of cultural history, and one that just happens to be brimming with snippets of very juicy gossip" «The Times» ~~~ Author(s): Peter Biskind; Binding material: Paper boards; Binding state: Original binding; Class: Hardback copy; Condition: Fine; Edition: First; Illustrated; Jacket condition: Fine; Language: English; Pages: 506; Publication year: 1998; Size: Octavo. . ( more information)
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