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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Booze and tantrums

Booze, tantrums and ketchup - five more movie hell-raisers, from The Telegraph:

Scour the streets of Valletta in Malta, where Reed died shooting Gladiator, and you will find a sign saying "Ollie's Last Pub". This is where Reed spent his final hours notching up a bar tab of £440, having drunk three bottles of Captain Morgan rum, eight bottles of beer and a whole load of whisky doubles. He also beat five Royal Navy sailors arm-wrestling. Not a bad swan song for arguably the most infamous alcoholic in film history, who once threw up on Steve McQueen...

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