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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Paperback – April 4, 1999
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MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS: "I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push all the way to the very very end, and see if I could die."
DENNIS HOPPER ON EASY RIDER: "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy Rider, it was everywhere."
GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault."
- Print length512 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 4, 1999
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.2 x 8.44 inches
- ISBN-100684857081
- ISBN-13978-0684857084
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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.
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.
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; Later Printing edition (April 4, 1999)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0684857081
- ISBN-13 : 978-0684857084
- Item Weight : 1.07 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.44 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #52,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #22 in Video Direction & Production (Books)
- #34 in Movie Direction & Production
- #69 in Movie History & Criticism
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Peter Biskind is the author of five previous books, including Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. He is a contributor to Vanity Fair and was formerly the executive editor of Premiere magazine. He lives with his family in Columbia County, New York.
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Biskind does much to certainly promote the cult of the most overrated generation in history. But he does so by articulating and defending his point in a fast paced entertaining manner. Filling his pages with gleefully geeky tidbits of juicy bad behavior, Biskind edifys his position by balancing praise with vicious criticism. He calls the players all on the carpet and takes them to task for burning out in their own pathetic yet arrogant fires of ego-centric excess while managing to celebrate their true works of ground breaking film art.
Biskind appropriately bookends his journey with the equally self centered and no less destructive Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's brilliant film "Raging Bull". Biskind makes a fascinating point that Wyatt and Jake form a symbollic summation of a decade that could have been.
"Easy Riders and Ragin Bulls" pulls few punches and makes for an excellent summer read for anyone interested in Hollywood History.
Some of the Hollywood tales are not tinsel town pretty, but all are interesting.
The narrative of the book charts the rise of the idea of the director as the author of films, supplanting the influence of studio executives, only to see the position of the director usurped at the end of the decade by the producer when smash hits like ‘Star Wars’ showed just how much money could be made by movies and high production and marketing costs along with product research displaced the influence of the artistry of the filmmakers. This book is an incredible story about film culture, business, and entertainment and every page of it is full of delicious information from a variety of perspectives.