Peter Biskind - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2008).pdf

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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.”
—Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post Book World
W
hen 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 young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg,
along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nichol-
son, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics
as
The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver,
and Jaws.
Easy Riders, Raging
Bulls
follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the ‘70s-an unabashed
celebration of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll (both onscreen and off) and a
climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme. 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.
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
Icould 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.”
GEORGEL UCAS 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.”
“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.”
—Brian Gunn, San Francisco Chronicle
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,
and
Rolling
Stone,
among other publications. He is a contributing editor at
Vanity Fair.
He lives in New York City.
COVER DESIGN BY MICHAEL ACCORDINO
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