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

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

When the low-budget biker movie <I>Easy Rider</I> shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as <I>The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver,</I> and <I>Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls</I> follows the wild ride that was 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. <br> <B>MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS:</B> "I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push all the way to the very very end, and see if I could die." <br> <B>DENNIS HOPPER ON <I>EASY RIDER:</I></B> "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before <I>Easy Rider</I> on the street. After <I>Easy Rider,</I> it was everywhere." <br> <B>GEORGE LUCAS ON <I>STAR WARS:</I></B> "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault."