Oliver Reed What Fresh Lunacy Is This

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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 & Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, & 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. & 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 & loyalty but also deep-rooted vulnerability & insecurities. Why was a proud, patriotic, intelligent, successful & erudite man so obsessed about proving himself to others, time & time again? Although the Reed myth is of Homeric proportions, he remains a national treasure & somewhat peculiar icon.