Peter O'Toole
Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel
Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince
“There are guilty pleasures. Then there is the master of guilty pleasures, Darwin Porter. There is nothing like reading him for passing the hours. He is the Nietzsche of Naughtiness, the Goethe of Gossip, the Proust of Pop Culture. Porter knows all the nasty buzz anyone has ever heard whispered in dark bars, dim alleys, and confessional booths. And lovingly, precisely, and in as straightforward a manner as an oncoming train, his prose whacks you between the eyes with the greatest gossip since Kenneth Anger. Some would say better than Anger.”
—Alan W. Petrucelli
The Entertainment Report
Stage and Screen Examiner
Examiner.com
“There’s a revelation on every page in this lurid saga of an actor whose life has not been equaled since the days of John Barrymore and Errol Flynn. Let there be no doubt as to what this book reveals: Peter O’Toole was once a great beauty who became one of the most charismatic, unpredictable, eccentric, and individualistic players of his generation—maybe the most. Among his final words was the prediction, “I’m leaving this world to be delivered directly to the Gates of Hell.” What a read! Expertly written and gripping in a tabloid style and riddled with marquee names. A lean and mean page-turner.”
—Ethan Wilson
“The son of a bookmaker from County Galway in Ireland, Peter O’Toole became the greatest actor since Laurence Olivier. He reached the zenith of his career early in life when he starred in flowing white robes in Lawrence of Arabia, one of the great films of all time. Off-screen, he was a hellraiser, sexual outlaw, and Irish rebel, as Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince so vividly prove in their explosive new biography. They bring to life the debauched nights, the heavy boozing, the outrageous escapades with dollybirds, but sometimes with the most famous women on the planet, notably Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Princess Margaret.
While swilling down shots of vodka, tear yourself away from the TV and prepare yourself for a roller-coaster ride.”
—Florence Gavin, Dirty Laundry
“Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one—especially not the dead.”
—The New York Post
“If you love smutty celebrity dirt as much as I do (and if you don’t, what’s wrong with you?) then have I got a book for you!”
—The Hollywood Offender
“These monumentally exhaustive collections of sins, foibles, failings, and sexual adventures are the ultimate guilty pleasure.”
—Books to Watch Out For
“The grittiest, most unvarnished, and most comprehensive biography of the dashing, charismatic movie star and roué ever written.”
—Celebrity Dish
“Insouciant, offensive, brilliant, promiscuous, and brash, Peter O’Toole was said to have matched Don Juan’s legendary total of 1,033 seductions. It’s all here in this latest blockbuster biography from those blokes at Blood Moon, no doubt hellraisers themselves when it comes to stirring up scandal.”
—Fab
“As depicted in this riveting biography, Peter O’Toole could be ridiculous, but he was never dull. He battled alcoholism and came to look like his own ghost near the end of his life. We are unlikely to see such an original actor in this generation. This book is a mesmerizing evocation of a time gone by.”
—X-Tra!
KNEWS, Southern California’s News and Talk Radio, discusses the status of Peter O’Toole as Hollywood's most enigmatic Hellraiser. Bill Feingold interviews Danforth Prince about a stage and screen legend whose first and last names EACH had phallic implications.
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Paperback 0-978-936003-45-7
Trim size 6x9 Page Count 623.
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Something decidedly odd is going on at Blood Moon Productions. The aforementioned Peter O'Toole is treated with something alarmingly akin to respect.
About the Author:
“Darwin Porter is the master of guilty pleasures. There is nothing like reading him for passing the hours. He is the Nietzsche of Naughtiness, the Goethe of Gossip, the Proust of Pop Culture. Porter knows all the nasty buzz anyone has ever heard whispered in dark bars, dim alleys, and confessional booths. And lovingly, precisely, and in as straightforward a manner as an oncoming train, his prose whacks you between the eyes with the greatest gossip since Kenneth Anger. Some would say better than Anger.” (as quoted from Alan W. Petrucelli’s THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT at Examiner.com).
Porter began his career writing about politics and the entertainment industry for Knight Newspapers and The Miami Herald. Today, he’s one of the most prolific biographers in the world. His portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Howard Hughes, John and Jackie Kennedy, Paul Newman, Merv Griffin, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and Michael Jackson have generated widespread reviews and animated radio and blogsite commentaries worldwide. Some of his biographies have been serialized to millions of readers in The Sunday Times of London and The Mail on Sunday.
Porter is also the well-known original author of many editions of The Frommer Guides, a respected travel guidebook series that’s among the most prominent and well-respected in the world.