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What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers (Paperback, 2014)
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What Fresh Lunacy is This?. With never-heard-before anecdotes and new interviews with family, friends and peers, What Fresh Lunacy Is This?. is a revealing examination of his mould-breaking personality - Sight and Sound.
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Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons. For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself. The result is a fascinating new insight into a man seen by many as merely a brawling, boozing hellraiser. And yet he was so much more than this. For behind that image, which all too often he played up to in public, was a vastly complex individual, a man of deep passions and loyalty but also deep-rooted vulnerability and insecurities. Why was a proud, patriotic, intelligent, successful and erudite man so obsessed about proving himself to others, time and time again? Although the Reed myth is of Homeric proportions, he remains a national treasure and somewhat peculiar icon. Praise for other books by Robert Sellers: Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed: 'So wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both binging and stardom you almost feel the guys themselves are telling the tales.' GQ. Vic Armstrong: The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: 'This is the best and most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years, gripping and revealing.' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail. Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down: '...a rollicking good read... Sellers has done well to capture a vivid snapshot of this exciting time.' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781472112637
eBay Product ID (ePID)201854793
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat Fresh Lunacy Is This?: the Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed
AuthorRobert Sellers
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height164mm
Item Width202mm
Item Weight385g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRobert Sellers
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 08 Mar, 2017
Can't help but love him
He was my heroVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 23 Jul, 2023
Well written and insightful
In decent nick and delivered v quickly. A super insight into a v colourful character.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 May, 2024
Good thanks
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- 27 Jul, 2016
Exceptional biography
A fantastic read which makes me wish good old Ollie Read was still alive today as he was a fab actor and a real English character.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 May, 2024
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- 12 Jun, 2024
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