This book wore me out. Just reading about the frenetic pace at which these men lived their lives was exhausting.

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Most amazing to me, even as a drinker, was the sheer volume of what these arch pissheads were putting away in their prime - northwards of two bottle of spirits a day - and working! Tales of wretched excess: these actors spent most of their days drunk as skunks getting into all kinds of mischief--much of which they couldn't remember. But they all made indelible marks during the 50's, 60's, and 70's when they were in their heyday. A lot of what went on with these guys (Richard Burton, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris and lone survivor, Peter O'Toole)off stage caused bruises on my chin from my jaw dropping so often (and I felt a bit woozy from all the vicarious boozing)--but after a while, the legacy of their excesses and their attempts to stay on various wagons was wrenching; doctors operating on Richard Burton, towards the end of his life, discovered that his spinal column was coated with crystalized alcohol; marriages were shattered; careers evaporated. In the end, all of them are and will be remembered fondly for the brief shining moments of their acting lives--and that they had a hell of a time. Hellraisers wants only to be a rowdy collection of greatest hits, and it lives up to that fun-loving ambition."

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Violent, vainglorious … Robert Carlyle as Begbie in the 1996 film of Trainspotting. Photograph: Polygram Filmed Entertainment/Sportsphoto/Allstar

This highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio. All these men played up to their boozy, brawling, madcap image; some resented the press label of hellraiser, others wallowed in it, turning it almost into a badge of honour and a second career. ‘What that group of actors had was a fine madness, a lyrical madness,’ said Harris. ‘We lived our life with that madness and it was transmitted into our work. We had smiles on our faces and a sense that the world was mad. We weren’t afraid to be different. So we were always dangerous. Dangerous to meet in the street, in a restaurant, and dangerous to see on stage or in a film.’ McNary, Dave (2019-05-06). " 'Hellraiser' Revival in the Works With 'Dark Knight' Writer David S. Goyer". Variety . Retrieved 2019-10-11.

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There was an undercurrent of violence to his drinking, too. At his hellraising peak the gossip columns were filled with accounts of booze-fuelled antics: a brawl with paparazzi on the Via Veneto in Rome, a fistfight with a French count in a restaurant, his fleeing Italy on the eve of being arrested, even the beating up of a policeman. O’Toole’s social life often was in danger of eclipsing his talent. ‘I was silly and young and drunken and making a complete clown of myself. But I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one’s local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.’ An incredibly entertaining series of anecdotes, interspersed with unpretentious and conversational interviews—all about drinking."Hellraiser" is Getting an Anthology Series…in Comic Form". Bloody Disgusting. 24 March 2017 . Retrieved 2017-09-24. Hellraisers : The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed