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A New Book in Praise of Cinema's Hellraisers
Filed under: New Releases », Celebrities and Controversy », Fandom »
I loved the drinking and the waking up in the morning and finding I was in Mexico. It was part and parcel of being an idiot. -Peter O'TooleTodays "idiots," so to speak, lack a certain finesse. There are lots a tabloids that capture their every move, but they don't really create the stories we'd want to read about later. Some of the old-school rabble rousers, however... Reuters reports that Robert Sellers is releasing a book on May 29 called Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed.
In the description on Amazon, it says: "It's a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots, and wanton sexual conquests." Of course, I want to read it. It's funny how some talent and far-reaching charisma can make risque stories all the more intriguing. Perhaps that's the gauge of true talent -- will we still like them after they mess up? Again? And again?
Then again, the stories are also a little bit more interesting than racial slurs to cops or ladies showing their glory boxes to the world at large -- although the old tales are not all charming. But still, I can't resist a book full of My Favorite Year.
News from Slackerwood: Cinematexas, Raiders, and Heckler's Paradise
Filed under: Documentary », Foreign Language », Free Movies », News From Slackerwood », Other Festivals », Cinematical Indie »
This week's local film festival is Cinematexas, which focuses on short, experimental films. Celebrating its eleventh year, the festival hired its first-ever guest artistic director, Ed Halter. The Austin Chronicle recently ran a great interview with Halter about his work with Cinematexas; the festival runs from Wednesday through Sunday.
If you're not drawn to short films, Austin has other moviegoing options:
- The AFS@ Dobie collaboration is back, in which indie/foreign films that missed Austin finally get a regular week-long run. This week's selection is the 2005 surrealist Czech feature Lunacy, which opens today at Dobie.
- It may be the only theater in the country still showing the unpublicized Mike Judge film, but Alamo on South Lamar is keeping Idiocracy around for one more week, with regular showings every day until Thursday.
- Alamo Downtown is showing the documentary Tales of the Rat Fink throughout the week: It'll screen Saturday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. The film, which focuses on the life and work of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, premiered earlier this year at SXSW.
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