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

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

by Peter Biskind

Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom... (read more)

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ßeowulf
  • Rated 4 stars

reads like a pacy novel. exceptional research. mr. biskind seems to like iconoclasty. sometimes, a bit forced, i feel, painting the flip side so bleak. but very entertaining nonetheless. quite an expose of the rush of new hollywood. must read for anyone and everyone who loves films by scorsese, coppola and such.

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Noel W
  • Rated 2 stars

A bit tabloidy, but a fun romp through '70's Hollywood. Somewhat sad final reflection on what might have been.

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