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Furious Love (2010) (edit title/settings)

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century

by Sam Kashner (Author), Nancy Schoenberger (Author) (edit contributors)

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The definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton... read more

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  • “P.18: She was what is known as "a natural," and her greatest talent was that unknown quality that leaps through the camera and goes directly into the audience's heart.”
  • “P.49: Burton himself — when he was still known as Rich Jenkins — had fallen in love with the English tongue and the opportunities it offered a poor Welsh lad; he had practiced his diction as much as eight hours a day, reciting reams of poetry and speeches from Shakespeare's plays.”
  • “P.125: He <writer Frank Delaney> was impressed by Burton's memory for great literature — "not just Shakespeare and the Welsh poets, you'd expect that, but 'Tintern Abbey,' I remember, reams of it, and Joyce, the opening of "Ulysses," paragraph after paragraph, word-perfect."”
  • “P.128: "No one makes an entrance like Elizabeth Taylor," Sammy Davis Jr. once said, and she would prove that time and again.”
  • “P.175: One evening after sharing a peasant meal of cheese, kidney beans, and "vin du pays" in a trattoria near the Church of the Madonna of Divine Love, they heard the celestial strains of a boy's choir emanating from the church. Burton wrote tenderly in his diary: "It was one of those moments which are nostalgia before they're over."”
  • “P.199: <Roddy> McDowall long marvelled at Elizabeth's composure, which he considered a necessary element of true beauty. As someone who photographed her often, and had acted with her in front of the camera, McDowall saw her ability to be absolutely still as the secret to her iconic image.”
  • “P.370-371: "Elizabeth has always fancied Jews," Burton wrote. "She seems to have a rapport with them, which she doesn't have with the ordinary Anglo-Saxon."”
  • “P.391: Besides being a place where they could walk in public unmolested by gawkers and photographers, Africa is often the place, symbolically, as the psychiatrist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison has noted, where people go to refivify their lives — its vibrant beauty has the power to heal old wounds.”
  • “P.396: Still living with Elizabeth in Gstaad, in separate bedrooms, Burton walked through the snow around the chalet, reading Shaffer's play <Equus>, mesmerized by his beautiful speeches.”
  • “P.401-402: "Was it not Francis Bacon who said books make the best furniture?" Burton was fond of saying.”
  • “P.410-411: The republic of her fans had never been a burden to Elizabeth — she had always connected with them, and like true royalty, she reigned because of their devotion.”
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  • “It was one of those moments which are nostalgia before they’re over.”
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  • “I don’t want to be that much in love ever again,” she told a friend. “I don’t want to give as much of myself. It hurts. I didn’t reserve anything. I gave everything away…my soul, my being, everything.”
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  • Burton used the Welsh word hiraeth, which he translated as “a longing for unnamable things,” to describe his black moods.
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  • “She is a wildly exciting love-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and willful, she is clement and loving…she tolerates my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!…And I’ll love her till I die.”
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  • When you get aroused playing Scrabble, that’s love, baby.”
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  • But it is a hard thing to do, to run away from your fate. When you are in love and lust like that, you just grab it with both hands and ride out the storm.”
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  • “You should be more careful, love. One day you might harm more than yourself.”
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  • “The Welsh gift of language is a sad gift of God. He inclined us all towards poetry and then buried us in coal.”
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  • pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen…. Was she merely
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  1. Sam Kashner (Author)
  2. Nancy Schoenberger (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780061562846
Page Count: 512

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