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OverviewBorn to a vagabond bookie working the U.K.’s racetracks, O’Toole as a very young man “became the most notorious sailor in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy,” before working as a hawker of balloons, a paparazzo, a newsman, and a steeplejack. He drifted into the London Theatre and studied ballet. Reed thin, toweringly tall, and larger than life, with blue eyes as pale as an autumn morning, O’Toole brought his tormented personality to stage and screen, exhibiting a galvanizing mania with a booming speech pattern evocative of the most chauvinistic days of the British Empire. With drinking buddies like Richard Burton, O’Toole was the last of the dying breed of orgiastic hell-raisers in the tradition of Errol Flynn. Off screen, O’Toole starred in week-long binges and sex orgies of near biblical proportions. He equalled Don Juan’s legendary 1,003 seductions, bedding everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Princess Margaret, who relentlessly pursued him. This illusion-shattering overview of Peter O’Toole’s hell-raising (or at least very naughty) life is unique in publishing—there’s never before been a biography that’s anything like it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Darwin Porter , Danforth PrincePublisher: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd Imprint: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.048kg ISBN: 9781936003457ISBN 10: 1936003457 Pages: 632 Publication Date: 15 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationOne of the world's leading celebrity biographers, and a former entertainment columnist for THE MIAMI HERALD, Darwin Porter has specialized in illuminating the lives and careers of many of the most important players, theatrical and political, of the 20th century. He was assisted in this biography of Peter O'Toole by Danforth Prince, a former staff member of The New York Times and current president of Blood Moon Productions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |