Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Oh, my God, that woman, if we ever jump- dumped out the skeletons in her closet, who knows what we would find.

She just, she even gets mentioned in that Peter Biskind's book, that Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and they are just casually a director or someone that he's interviewing about these directors mentions going to her house for a dinner party one night, and her taking everyone upstairs to see two of the kids tied to their beds so that they couldn't get, uh, g- get away from them far enough to make a mess in their bedrooms, and her bragging about it, like, "Look what a good parent I am.

I've tied my children to their beds." So yeah, it's, uh, this woman, uh, just dark, dark, dark.

I think pornography would be, like, the best thing we would find about her.

Five men in total would go to trial for the crime, and one of the men, Harvey Ruby, would get an additional charge for sexually attacking, AKA raping, a 16-year-old girl while in one of these homes.

As horrible as the story is, it's not the only one that you find if you dig around long enough.

In Peter Biskind's book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, he details another series of party houses that became a central part of the Hollywood elite crowd in the 1960s and '70s, the home of Sue Mengers, homes of Sue Mengers.

Sue Mengers was one of Hollywood's most successful and fearsome agents.

I mean, this is part of what's sometimes called New Hollywood, New Hollywood era.

My friend Scott and I, who do a lot of film reviews, we call it the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls era, because there's a book of that name by Peter Biskind.

Basically, there's a period that goes from roughly The Graduate or Bonnie and Clyde, just before Easy Rider, to about Raging Bull or Heaven's Gate.

It's about 67 to 80. where it seemed like all the previous rules kind of went out the window, and suddenly we've got all these guys coming out of film schools, including Francis Ford Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese, De Palma, etc., etc.

Had a tough 80s.

If you want to read Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind, you'll see all about it.

It was kind of struggling.

And this was one of them.