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. Praise for other books by Robert Sellers: Hellraisers: The Life & Inebriated Times of Richard Burton Richard Harris Peter O' Toole & Oliver Reed": " So wonderfully captures the wanton belligerence of both binging & stardom you almost feel the guys themselves are telling the tales". ("GQ"). " Vic Armstrong: The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman": " This is the best & most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years gripping & revealing". (Roger Lewis " Daily Mail"). " Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down": "...a rollicking good read... Sellers has done well to capture a vivid snapshot of this exciting time". (Lynn Barber " Sunday Times")."