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Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed - Cliff Goodwin

Description: ISBN 0753505193 / Author: Cliff Goodwin / Genre: Biography / In May 1999, after a 40-year acting career, Oliver Reed succeeded in ... more

Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed - Cliff Goodwin ... destroying himself. He died, as he had invariably lived, drinking with friends in Malta while making yet another film - Ridley Scott's Gladiator, which was completed after his death using a computer-generated Oliver Reed. Oliver Reed's acting breakthrough came in 1968 as Bill Sykes in the musical Oliver! which one six oscars and made Reed an international star.

Newest Review: ... contemporary critics thought. Because Reed managed to make so few good films - aside from 'Gladiator', his only real ... more

... successes lay his first movies with Michael Winner (the only decent films Winner ever made were in the sixties, featuring Reed), and those he made for Ken Russell (most notably 'Women in Love' and 'The Devils'). But Godwin isn't really able to analyse what kind of an impact Reed had, or why his post-60s choices were so dismal. But the reader has probably bought the book to learn more about the offscreen antics, knowing the actor more for his appearances on chat-shows than his acting talents. This ...more

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Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed - Cliff Goodwin: Fancy a pint? (724 words)
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For some men, the life of Oliver Reed was probably the complete male life. He was famous, he shagged an inordinate number of women, he drank like a fish, and he died in a pub. What more could you want? Reading Cliff Godwin's 'Evil Spirits', you don't actually get any contradiction of that; Reed did live a life of debauchery, drinking games, affairs and drinking. But nevertheless, every time I put the book down, I did so with the same thought in my head: thank God I was not born Oliver Reed. There is a significant flaw with this book which from a film-lover's perpective, it never quite recovers. Though he is writing about a film actor (unlike ... Read the complete review