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A-Z of Hellraisers: A Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 448 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 197x130x29 mm, kaal: 318 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2011
  • Kirjastus: Arrow Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1848092466
  • ISBN-13: 9781848092464
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 448 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 197x130x29 mm, kaal: 318 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2011
  • Kirjastus: Arrow Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1848092466
  • ISBN-13: 9781848092464
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From Winston Churchill to Keith Moon, George Best to Ernest Hemingway, Wild Bill Hickok to Sam Peckinpah, Ozzy Osbourne to Errol Flynn, this title scrutinises and salutes these glorious individuals.

This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.
 
An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print: from Alexander the Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an entire city; to W. C. Fields, who passed critical judgement on a brass band by urinating over them from a hotel balcony; Dylan Thomas, who drove a sports car onto Charlie Chaplin's private tennis court; to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, suffocating on his own vomit after consuming forty measures of vodka -- what a night out that was!
 
This hilarious volume makes for an ideal bedside companion or pub reading fodder, as it scrutinises and salutes these glorious individuals, from Winston Churchill to Keith Moon, George Best to Ernest Hemingway, Wild Bill Hickok to Sam Peckinpah, Ozzy Osbourne to Errol Flynn. Just thank God we didn't have to live next door to any of them.

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Contains some hair-raising anecdotes and some priceless one-liners * Daily Mail Book of the Week *

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This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.
Introduction viii
Art Acord
1(2)
Alexander the Great
3(3)
Kingsley Amis
6(4)
Andre the Giant
10(4)
Francis Bacon
14(4)
Tallulah Bankhead
18(5)
John Barrymore
23(5)
Roy Bean
28(3)
Brendan Behan
31(4)
Bix Beiderbecke
35(3)
John Belushi
38(4)
Robert Benchley
42(2)
Jeffrey Bernard
44(5)
George Best
49(6)
Humphrey Bogart
55(6)
John Bonham
61(4)
Junius Booth
65(3)
Louise Brooks
68(4)
George Brown
72(3)
Charles Bukowski
75(4)
Richard Burton
79(5)
Calamity Jane
84(3)
Graham Chapman
87(4)
Winston Churchill
91(3)
Eric Clapton
94(4)
Montgomery Clift
98(4)
Peter Cook
102(6)
Alice Cooper
108(4)
Russell Crowe
112(5)
Sir Francis Dashwood
117(3)
Frances Farmer
120(3)
W C Fields
123(5)
F Scott Fitzgerald
128(4)
Keith Floyd
132(4)
Errol Flynn
136(5)
Frederick William I
141(4)
Serge Gainsbourg
145(4)
Ava Gardner
149(5)
Paul Gascoigne
154(5)
George IV
159(3)
John Gilbert
162(4)
Jackie Gleason
166(5)
Richard Harris
171(4)
Charles Hawtrey
175(3)
Ernest Hemingway
178(4)
`Wild Bill' Hickok
182(4)
Alex `Hurricane' Higgins
186(5)
Billie Holiday
191(4)
Dennis Hopper
195(4)
Trevor Howard
199(5)
John Huston
204(4)
George Jones
208(3)
Edmund Kean
211(6)
Peter Langan
217(4)
Peter Lawford
221(4)
Wilfrid Lawson
225(4)
Jack London
229(3)
Courtney Love
232(4)
Shane MacGowan
236(4)
Dean Martin
240(4)
Lee Marvin
244(5)
Edna St Vincent Millay
249(3)
Robert Mitchum
252(6)
Keith Moon
258(7)
Jim Morrison
265(5)
Robert Newton
270(7)
Peter O'Toole
277(4)
Ozzy Osbourne
281(6)
Dorothy Parker
287(2)
Sam Peckinpah
289(5)
Edgar Allan Poe
294(3)
Poker Alice
297(3)
Dennis Price
300(4)
Oliver Reed
304(4)
Wallace Reid
308(3)
Keith Richards
311(5)
Rachel Roberts
316(4)
Second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot
320(4)
Mickey Rourke
324(4)
`Babe' Ruth
328(5)
Bon Scott
333(3)
George C Scott
336(4)
Robert Shaw
340(5)
Frank Sinatra
345(5)
Nikki Sixx
350(6)
Captain Edward Teach
356(3)
Dylan Thomas
359(5)
Hunter S Thompson
364(6)
Rip Torn
370(3)
Spencer Tracy
373(4)
Maurice Utrillo
377(3)
John Wayne
380(4)
Hank Williams
384(4)
John Wodehouse
388(3)
Boris Yeltsin
391(4)
Select Bibliography 395(4)
Picture Credits 399(2)
Index 401
Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed and Hollywood Hellraisers. He has also written biographies on Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film company HandMade, and the controversial Battle for Bond, which for a time was banned by the family of Ian Fleming. He was a regular contributor to Empire, Total Film, Independent, SFX and Cinema Retro and has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including Channel 4's The 100 Best Family Films.