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What Fresh Craziness is This?: The Legitimate Biography hark back to Oliver Reed
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What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed
The authorised biography of Oliver Reed, one of Britain's best loved actors.
Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons.
For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself. The result is a fascinating new insight into a man seen by many as merely a brawling, boozing hellraiser. And yet he was so much more than this. For behind that image, which all too often he played up to in public, was a vastly complex individual, a man of deep passions and loyalty but also deep-rooted vulnerability and insecurities. Why was a proud, patriotic, intelligent, successful and erudite man so obsessed about proving himself to others, time and time again?
Although the Reed myth is of Homeric proportions, he remains a national treasure and somewhat peculiar icon.
Praise for other books by Robert Sellers:
Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard
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What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers
For rather more of his career than he, his family and closest friends might have liked, the name Oliver Reed was a byword for booze, brawls and all types of laddish behaviour. As Sellers’ very full and remarkably objective biography reveals, it was a funny yet sad life all at once. For although he repeatedly played up to the image of the lovable rogue which he had created, underneath the bad boy of popular legend he was at heart a professional actor who could always deliver a first-rate performance on the film set when required.
Born in 1938, he was the grandson of the Victorian actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and he was also allegedly a descendant, through an illegitimate line, of Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia. It was a connection, albeit disputed, of which he was very proud, and seemed determined to live up to. He had a difficult childhood, born to parents who separated not long after he was born, dyslexic in an age when the condition was not properly recognised and sufferers were written off as 'thick', a secretive, insecure and solitary youngster embarrassed about his poor education, yet good at athletics and on occasion something of an exhibitionist. After a brief stint in th