I offer this selection as the first choice for the Arcadia Book Club;
HELLRAISERS
The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed
By Robert Sellers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/books/26book.html?_r=1&ref=books
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I gather this would be a kind of anti-Oprah book club in that the books that we would read would celebrate and not denigrate excess?
If so, count me in.
Now that Oprah's going we could fill the void. Only books that celebrate excess. Here is a clip of the wonderful Oliver Reed plastered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMXIxIQmPw
Next up the bio's of Keith Moon,Orson Welles,and Keith Floyd.
Some additional Oliver Reed info, with a Keith Moon connection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CbYpK473s0&feature=related
What a way to go...
"He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira, almost £450."
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