title: Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
author:  Peter Biskind 
description: Not only is Peter Biskind's <i>Easy Riders, Raging Bulls</i> the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
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  Biskind’s devourable book is that rarity, a Hollywood exposé that you can read
  mouth agape, slurping up scandal and titillation so fast you’re in danger of
  choking-without feeling ashamed of yourself.”
  
  
  **—Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post Book World**
  
  
  When the low-budget biker movie _Easy Rider_ 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 _The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi
  Driver,_ and Jaws. _Easy Riders, Raging Bulls_ 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
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