Peter Biskind
Author of Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood
About the Author
Peter Biskind is the author of "The Godfather Companion" & "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls." A contributing editor at "Vanity Fair," he has written for "The New York Times," the "Los Angeles Times," "The Washington Post," & "Rolling Stone," among other publications. He lives in New York City. (Bowker show more Author Biography) show less
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Works by Peter Biskind
Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood (1998) 1,413 copies
Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (1983) 149 copies
The Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About All Three Godfather Films (1900) 65 copies
The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism (2018) 58 copies
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls [2003 film] 13 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1940-05-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- journalist
magazine editor
film director - Organizations
- Premiere
American Film
Vanity Fair
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drug… by Peter Biskind
Great book I read for Film class. Totally forgot about it.
This is a must read for lovers of cinema. It's a mixture of gossip which may/may not be true and realities. It reveals the inspirations and motivations of the likes of the likes of Spielberg, Beatty, Hal Ashby, Coppola and Scorcese. Many of these were troubled geniuses who invented a new brand of Hollywood in the process destroyed them.
It doesn't sugarcoat them and many of them are revealed as frankly awful. I think Spielberg and Lucas are the only ones who didn't really live destructive lives. It's a great read for it's blatant honesty and I'd highly recommend although I would take many of the stories with a grain of salt. But they're fascinating nonetheless.… (more)
It doesn't sugarcoat them and many of them are revealed as frankly awful. I think Spielberg and Lucas are the only ones who didn't really live destructive lives. It's a great read for it's blatant honesty and I'd highly recommend although I would take many of the stories with a grain of salt. But they're fascinating nonetheless.… (more)
A fascinating portrait of Welles in his last three years of life. The transcripts of conversations between Welles and Jaglom read almost like a podcast. Casual, problematic, and full of gossip.
Closer to 1.5 stars. Some mildly interesting anecdotes, but I couldn't tell you exactly how Biskind develops his thesis in the total mishmash of industry tall tales that make up this book (if it wasn't spelled out in the last chapter, I don't think I could tell you it at all). So much inside baseball it ought to be printed on cork.
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- Works
- 14
- Members
- 2,683
- Popularity
- #9,573
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 47
- ISBNs
- 84
- Languages
- 6
- Favorited
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