Easy riders, raging bulls

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"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars; how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Warren Beatty may well have been the first man to kiss Jack Warner's feet, certainly the last.

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Other Editions

• Easy riders, raging bulls: how the sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll generation saved HollywoodSimon & Schuster1998-01-01
• Easy riders, raging bullsSimon & Schuster1998-01-01
• Easy Riders, Raging BullsBloomsbury Publishing Plc1998-01-01
• Easy Riders, Raging BullsHardcoverBloomsbury Publishing PLC1998-10-29
• Easy Riders, Raging BullsPaperbackSimon & Schuster1999-04-04
• Easy Riders, Raging BullsPaperbackBloomsbury Publishing PLC1999-09-27