Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson - Robert Sellers Audiobook

Written by Robert Sellers
Read by Jim Frangione
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

In his follow-up to the acclaimed Hellraisers, Robert Sellers traces the intertwining lives and careers of four outrageous Hollywood movie mavericks: Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson. They are men to whom rules did not apply; normal standards of behavior were simply too wearisome to worry about. These are men who brawled, boozed, snorted, and screwed their way into legend - but along the way they changed acting and the way movies were made forever.

Sellers gives gossipy, second-hand accounts of the more sordid aspects of the lives of Brando, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, and Warren Beatty, shuttling through stories of sexual conquests, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, and general bad behavior. None of the four legends were interviewed by Sellers, but as a kind of survey course in actors acting out, Hollywood Hellraisers will raise listeners’ eyebrows, and Jim Frangione’s clear, even-handed narration provides a nice counterpoint to these salacious Hollywood tales.

Hollywood Hellraisers is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehavior of an Olympic standard, all-out excess, and genuine madness. It’s a wonder Hollywood survived.

Date of release: 2010 (book), 2013 (audio)
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes