Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind - Where have all the passionate crazies gone?

Not only is Peter Biskinds Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-70s film, it is beyond question the best book well ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.

Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, Dont leave me!; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanskis face while filming Chinatown; Michael ODonoghues LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppolas mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethes Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal Captain Wacky Ashby gave up when he couldnt find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.

When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the sharks mechanical mouth, and closed the sharks mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucass head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskinds scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo

Where have all the passionate crazies gone?
I inhaled this book like a drug. This is one funny, exhilarating, gossip filled, info-packed, extravaganza. Biskind tells the tale of how a handful of talented filmmakers spiraled out of control thanks to ego, excess, and talent.

Biskind's book makes one wonder where are the crazies of today? Where are the adventurous, passionate, filmmakers of today? Everyone seems to play it safe.

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