“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

"I guess the fascination is to see flaws in people - even if you attain huge stardom and wealth and fame, you're in trouble as much as we are," says Robert Sellers, author of Hellraisers."There's a reassurance about that. We don't want to read about people being rich and famous and having a great life."He believes Harris, Burton, O'Toole and Reed became legends partly because their antics were not plastered all over the papers every day."We look back with rose-tinted glasses because they were guilty of some very unpalatable behaviour yet they achieved mythical status."Not many people saw them paralytic and drunk like we do today with Amy Winehouse. The 24-hour media wasn't around in the 60s."

-BBC
June 6 2008