Book Details
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls |
| Author: |
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Peter Biskind |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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06.13.17 |
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Notes History
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| 06.13.17 | How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock'N'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. First off, what's up with the kindle version being fourteen bucks while the trade paperback is only eight? Bah! Anyway, I feel like I'm incredibly late in reading this book which is kind of why I picked it up. In reading it I feel like I'm finally getting the source of all these crazy anecdotes that I've heard over the years about 70s American filmmakers. So... the book itself is incredibly pessimistic and gossipy. I feel like at most I'm getting one half of the story, but that salacious half is a pretty fun read. I finally get a down and dirty account of Bogdanovich's romantic life and Scorsese's drug abuse and everyone's affairs, which is fun to read about (I bet not so fun to be the subject of). The book does all but dismiss any virtue or success though, choosing to dwell on scandal. But you know... sometimes you need the scandal rag to fill in the shadows that the key lights of the official biographies leave out. It does make me want to go back and watch a handful of movies that have similarly fallen through the cracks of my viewing habits, most notably Heavan's Gate, Reds, The Two Jakes, New York, New York, The Cotton Club, One from the Heart, and Personal Best. |
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