Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed

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It roll out story after story - and when I say story after story I'm talking hundreds of anecdotes and tales - about the four. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there?

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Other releases included the limited series Clive Barker's Book of the Damned and Pinhead, as well as the crossovers Hellraiser vs. How they really knew how to have a good time, while their wives stayed home looking after the kids, who according to one anecdote didn’t even recognise his own father because he was never there. It had a cover painted by Barker and included a reprint of "Wordsworth", a short comic by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean originally printed in Epic Comics' Hellraiser comic book. My life has been enriched now that I know that Peter O'Toole once smuggled a pair of valuable earrings out of Egypt in his foreskin.

As he begins to uncover evidence that he was having a series of affairs, he also comes under suspicion for orchestrating the crash that killed his wife. A toymaker named Philip Lemarchand ( Bruce Ramsay) is commissioned by the Duc de L'Isle (Mickey Cottrell), a wealthy Aristocrat and master of the dark arts, to create the box as a gateway to Hell so that de L'Isle can enslave a demon.

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It's slightly different for each man - with Richard Harris and Oliver Reed there is a fight of some kind, with Richard Burton there is also Elizabeth Taylor (who drank as much or more than he did), and with Peter O'Toole there is always a bon mot. Heavy on the Manichean good v evil and mind-body dualism, Stevenson’s famous tale from 1886 is a metaphor for addiction, as the drugs Jekyll uses to get straight stop working, and the devilish Id, Hyde, starts to take over. It’s a bit of a running theme, other actors going down in flames and that not registering with any of our foursome as like, I dunno, perhaps a sort of hint. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.The host discovers a real puzzle box inside, and upon opening it is killed by Pinhead and a pair of Cenobites. In the end, all of them are and will be remembered fondly for the brief shining moments of their acting lives--and that they had a hell of a time. While I enjoyed the tidbits of Hollywood stars gossip on some of my favorite actors (not just the main four on the cover but many others as well), for the most part this book was just "he got drunk, he did damage, he didn't learn his lesson, he drank again. While Spencer is trapped in limbo, Pinhead is trapped, along with the puzzle box, in the surface of an intricately carved pillar, a relic of the Cenobite realm. It starts to feel like an audience with Rowley Burkin, the muttering souse from The Fast Show who ends all his anecdotes with “I was very, very drunk.