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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

By: Peter Biskind
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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About this listen

 When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented filmmakers such as Scorcese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including DeNiro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Jaws.

Easy Rider, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both on screen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme.

©1999 Peter Biskind (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Direction & Production Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV History & Criticism Screenwriting

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Critic reviews

"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.'" ( Entertainment Weekly)
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If you love cinema and want to know more about the evolution of film and the people behind it in the 60’s and 70’s then this is a great read.

They seized the power from the studios then blew it all in a blaze of ego, Cocaine and overspending....

Great read if you love film!

Great film history of the era...

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love all the classic old 70's movies. really great to hear how some of the firm's you know and love got made.

it jumps around in time and you get lost in the bobs and Roberts as names and nicknames and events blur into each other. if I didn't love movies so much I'm not sure I'd of got to the end.

interesting for lovers of classic cinema

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A great listen. Exhaustively researched movie geekdom interwoven with remarkable anecdotes that depict the characters involved.

An unflinching account of 1970s cinema

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I've never really 'got' the 60s. The counter-culture that produced this generation of movie makers holds even less appeal after listening to this book. It's very good on the darker side of their natures, less good in celebrating their artistic successes. But I listened to it all - it was oddly compelling.

The narrators halting delivery and demotic turns of phrase took a while to get used to. But he did enunciate clearly, and cynically, as befitted the authors view of those involved.

Sex and Drugs and Raging Bull

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This is great value for money, its a long and interesting listen.



A friend recommended this book years ago and I couldn't get into it. But it really works as an audio book.

No one really comes out of this book well apart from perhaps Jack Nicholson. These great women and men are reduced to ego-maniac, childish bullies and nerds. Biskind's style is very sensationalist,scurrilous and yet compelling.



The narrator is superb and his delivery is measured, waspish and hilarious.



A great listen.

Bitchy and Sensationalist intrigue from Hollywood

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