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

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The best parts of the book were the segments on Richard Harris, a mean-spirited, violent, and cruel drunk who managed to transform himself into an occasional tippler of Guinness, and more importantly, Albus Dumbledore. The anecdotes pretty much follow one basic form: Person X got really drunk, did something stupid, doesn't remember it, doesn't regret it.

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Second, sensibility: Some of these books contain what are now unacceptable attitudes to race, while misogyny goes with the territory. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.Epic Comics, a more adult imprint of Marvel Comics, began publishing series of comic book spin-offs for the Hellraiser franchise in a prestige format. In March 2017, the filmmaker stated that the "script was written and delivered to Dimension years ago". Sadly at the time of the writing, the only one still alive was Peter O'Toole (sadly also now passed), and after going on the adventure with them throughout the pages, I admit sadness at their premature ends detailed here. 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. And God bless Richard Harris for giving us his son Jared, who was so great as Lane Pryce on "Mad Men.

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A feature-length documentary, Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II, was originally due for release in 2015, and comprises interviews with the cast and crew. This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. And yet … Foreman’s book is strongly feminist; on every other page is evidence of the ludicrous power imbalance between men and women. Set in Edinburgh at the fag end of the Thatcher era, the anomie and despair of the central characters, though never preached, is clear.But not in dancing, drinking and gambling all night, followed by an opiate chaser, where Georgiana held her own among the Foxite Whig caucus. It roll out story after story - and when I say story after story I'm talking hundreds of anecdotes and tales - about the four. I normally shy away from such nonfiction books, but three of the men covered (Burton, Harris, O’Toole) I found the press coverage of their alcohol shenanigans to be amusing when I was in my teens during the 1970s. Robert Sellers's book on the drunken exploits of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed often reads like a series of jokes and punchlines--probably because of Sellers's past as a standup comic.

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The book served it's purpose well - to tell us about the Hellraisers - but after a while I felt like I was just reading about the same drunken brawl, over and over and over, looping into eternity. 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.The final two victims ultimately realize that most of the events of the movie have been a hallucination, after the host—the father of their deceased friend, who blames his son's fellow players for not breaking his addiction to the game—drugged them and buried them alive. If you come away from reading ‘Hellraisers’ thinking the Four Lushketeers are excellent role models, you, my friend, have a friggin’ problem.