Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood - Softcover

Biskind, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684857081 ISBN 13: 9780684857084

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1999

Synopsis

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Based on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the directors ruled. Full description

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Product Description:

This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg, Altman, and Beatty--and recreates an era that transformed American culture forever. 16-page photo insert.

Review:

Mark Harris Entertainment Weekly Peter Biskind's great, scathing, news-packed history...is one hell of an elixir -- salty with flavorsome gossip, sour with the aftertaste of misspent careers, intoxicating with one revelation after another, ...an "A."

Brian Gunn San Francisco Chronicle Biskind is a magician at prying revealing yarns and juicy quotes out of his subjects. And the resulting scenarios are deliciously tawdry...moments of real intelligence and grace.

Dennis Drabelle The Washington Post Book World Biskind's devourable book is that rarity, a Hollywood exposé that you can read mouth agape, slurping up scandal and titillation so fast you're in danger of choking -- without feeling ashamed of yourself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684857081
• ISBN 13: 9780684857084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512