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Title:
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REED ALL ABOUT ME
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Author:
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Autobiography
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Published by:
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W. H. Allen & Co.
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Date:
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1979
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ISBN-10:
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0491020392
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ISBN-13:
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978-0491020398
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Out of step, out of time, Oliver Reed rollicks the world's headlines as a hell-raising
chauvinist who doesn't give a damn. 'Thank God,' said an awed Russell Harty on TV,
'there are people like you through whom we can live vicariously.'
Now, in Reed All About Me, the man who does it his way tells it his way in
a delightfully funny autobiography that is happily free of the usual show-business
genuflexions.
From the marvellous opening line - 'My father found me through a ration book' -
every page is a surprising revelation. His granny May gave his grandfather, Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, six love children - including Sir Carol Reed - and gave Oliver
a direct bastard descendance from Peter the Great.
But he ignored family influence, ran away from home, and made it to the top as an
international film star with successes such as Women in Love and The Devils.
Oliver Reed bows to no man, only to the ladies. And he writes about them with devastating
charm: 'I never cease to be fascinated by naked women or by a new kiss, a new romance
or a new flirtation,' he says. 'But I don't have many women as platonic friends.
I prefer my relationships to be far more direct than that.'
Read about how Oliver clashed with Bette Davis; the night Shelley Winters poured
a bottle of whisky over his head on a TV show; the antics which resulted in him
being barred from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Hollywood; and how he took away
Lee Marvin's drinking cloak.
What more can we Billy Walter Mitty Liars ask of a true man other than true grit
and a delicious sense of the absurd.
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Title:
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EVIL SPIRITS: THE LIFE OF OLIVER REED
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Author:
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Cliff Goodwin
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Published by:
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Virgin
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Date:
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2000
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ISBN-10:
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1852278846
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ISBN-13:
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978-1852278847
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Synopsis:
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'I'm the biggest star this country has got,' Oliver Reed once claimed. 'Destroy
me and you destroy the whole British film industry.'
But Oliver Reed did not need anyone to destroy him as, in May 1999, after a forty-year
acting career which included 100 films, he succeeded in destroying himself. He died,
as he had invariably lived, drinking with friends while making yet another film.
Born in Wimbledon, London, Reed rose to international stardom with his powerful
performance as Bill Sykes in the 1968 musical Oliver! He was seen as one
of the brightest prospects of the British film industry and, by the late 60s, he
was Britain's highest-paid star. However, his later career became overshadowed by
his reputation for drunken behaviour.
Reed's career was full of characteristic firsts: in 1969 he starred in Women in Love,
the first English-speaking commercial film to feature full-frontal male nudity;
in 1967 he starred in I'll Never Forget What's 'Is Name, the first film to
feature the word 'f**k'; and in 1972 he starred in Sitting Target, the first
British film to receive an X rating purely for its violent content.
Throughout his eventful and colourful career, Reed worked with some of the most
famous names in the film industry from Bette Davis to Raquel Welch. His opinions
were expressed bluntly, his exploits are legendary, but bestselling author Cliff
Goodwin also explores the other side to this complex character.
Unique, compelling and insightful, Evil Spirits contains material from first-hand
interviews with Reed's family, friends and colleagues, and features never-before-seen
photographs from the family album. This is the fascinating story of one of the UK's
most infamous stars.
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Title:
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OLIVER REED: TEN TOP MOVIES
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Author:
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Andy Black
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Published by:
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The Glitterbooks Of London
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Date:
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1999
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ISBN-10:
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1902588061
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ISBN:
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978-1902588063
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Synopsis:
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A TRIBUTE TO OLIVER REED
Glitter Books presents a collection of illustrated essays on ten top movies featuring
the late Oliver Reed, one of England's most famous film stars - and hell-raisers.
The book is a tribute to both Reed's acting skills and visual appeal, and also to
his status as a celebrity on the global drinking circuit.
Films featured include The Devils,The Brood, Women In Love, Curse Of The Werewolf,
Castaway, Sitting Target, The Damned, The Shuttered Room, Blue Blood, and
I'll Never Forget Whatsisname; a selection of diverse movies by acclaimed
directors such as Nic Roeg, David Cronenberg, Joesph Losey, Ken Russell, Michael
Winner, and Terence Fisher.
With an introduction detailing Reed's antics both onscreen and off, Oliver Reed:
Ten Top Movies is an indispensable asset for all his admirers, a guide to
the varied career and riotous life of a modern-day hero.
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Title:
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THE FILMS OF OLIVER REED
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Author:
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Susan d'Arcy
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Published by:
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Barnden Castell Williams
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Date:
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1974
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ISBN-10:
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0904159116
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ISBN-13:
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978-0904159110
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Title:
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HELLRAISERS
The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris,
Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed
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Author:
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Robert Sellers
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Published by:
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Preface
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Date:
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2008
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ISBN-10:
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1848090188
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ISBN-13:
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978-1848090187
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Hellraisers is the story of four of the greatest boozers that ever walked
- or staggered - into a pub; Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver
Reed. It's a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies,
broken marriages, riots and wanton sexual conquests. Indeed acts so outrageous that
if you or I had perpetrated them we could have ended up in jail. They got away with
the kind of behaviour that today's vapid bunch of film stars could scarcely dream
of, because of their mercurial acting talent and because the press and public loved
them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.
Hellraisers traces the intertwining lives and careers or Burton, Harris,
O'Toole and Reed, plus an assortment of other movies boozers that crossed their
path, or should that be crawled across their path. It's a celebratory catalogue
of their miscreant deeds, a greatest hits package, as it were, of their most breathtakingly
outrageous behaviour, told with humour and affection, lashings of political incorrectness
and not an ounce of moralising.
Enjoy it. They bloody well did.
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Title:
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An A-Z of Hellraisers:
A Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety
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Author:
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Robert Sellers
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Published by:
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Preface
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Date:
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May 2010
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ISBN-10:
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184809244X
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ISBN-13:
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978-1848092440
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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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Title:
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The Films Of Oliver Reed
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Author:
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Susan D. Cowie, Tom Johnson
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Published by:
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McFarland & Co Inc
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Date:
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October 2011
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ISBN-10:
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0786439068
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ISBN-13:
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978-0786439065
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From the obscure 1958 Sonja Henie vehicle Hello London to the 2000 Academy
Award winner Gladiator, the screen career of dynamic British actor Oliver
Reed (1937-1999) is thoroughly documented in this illustrated filmography. Following
a concise capsule biography, the authors chronologically list all 96 of Reed's films,
among them The Curse of the Werewolf, Oliver!, The Devils, The Three Musketeers
and Tommy. Each entry contains extensive cast and production credits, a synopsis,
critical commentary and contemporary reviews.
Included are forewords by actors Sir Christopher Lee and Ron Moody, and an afterword
by Oliver Reed's frequent director Michael Winner. Additional comments by Reed's
friends and coworkers Janette Scott, Catherine Feller, William Hobbs, Jennie Linden,
Jimmy Sangster and Samantha Eggar provide fascinating and insightful offscreen glimpses
of a major cinema icon.
To view a message from co-author Susan D. Cowie, click
here
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