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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

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When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was once born. This was once an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, in conjunction with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was once Hollywood in the ’70s — an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll (both onscreen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood’s last golden age.

MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS: “I did a large number of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push the entire way to the very very end, and see if I could die.”

DENNIS HOPPER ON EASY RIDER: “The cocaine problem in the USA is actually as a result of me. There was once no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy Rider, it was once in all places.”

GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: “Popcorn pictures have at all times ruled. Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That is not my fault.”

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