What Fresh Lunacy Is This?

The Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed

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What Fresh Lunacy Is This?

By: Robert Sellers

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

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

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Never a fan of the spoilt rich KIDS,, I saw Ollie as an excursion into sheer insanity, however what I found was a man with an amazing heart and a stupid and dangerous idea of FUN,,
I have to say out of the many books I have listened too, I have laughed more to this than the comedian and funni people bio's.
He truly took life by the Balls and literally showed them to all who would look,, (See tattoo section) his love of life and his kindness were brilliant but his SHEER lunacy is how I see this sexist asshole/true gentleman,
His life was the greatest of all the LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL AND NEVER FORGET YOUR ROOTS stories,,
I am in awe of his kindness and disgusted by his shouvenist ways yet I feel that for much he can be forgiven, for every stupid sexist prank he then returned with many acts of pure kindness and love.
IF you want to laugh ,,, Try it,, I was very pleasantly surprised with Ollie and I am now watching and listening to his back catalogue as he inspires a little Madness in ME

AN unexpected GEM !! Laughed my Ass off,,