Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is a book written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster in 1998. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is about the 1970s Hollywood, a stand-alone period of American film which brought about films such as The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Star Wars, The Exorcist and The Last Picture Show. It follows Hollywood on the brink of the Vietnam War with a group of Hollywood film directors known as the "movie brats", beginning in the 1960s and ending in the 1980s.
The book was the basis of a 2003 eponymous documentary film directed by Kenneth Bowser and narrated by actor William H. Macy.
[edit] People profiled or discussed in the book
- Robert Altman
- Hal Ashby
- Luke Askew
- Warren Beatty
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Brian DePalma
- Robert Evans
- Peter Fonda
- Francis Ford Coppola
- William Friedkin
- Dennis Hopper
- Amy Irving
- George Lucas
- Marcia Lucas
- John Milius
- Jack Nicholson
- Polly Platt
- Bob Rafelson
- Bert Schneider
- Paul Schrader
- Martin Scorsese
- Steven Spielberg
- Robert Towne
- Cybill Shepherd
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