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Furious Love: The Marriage Of The Century by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger JR Books Pounds 20 Pounds 15 inc p&p ***
To call it the marriage of the Tcentury - and not just that, but the greatest love affair of all time - is surely overdoing it. It was only the marriage of the century in the sense that the Sinclair C5 was the vehicle of the century. And, like the Sinclair C5, the marriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor always had a precarious, chug-chug-crash feel to it. Married, divorced, remarried, redivorced: and it seems the sequence only ended there because one of them died. Apparently, they were just getting going. Taylor now reflects that: 'In my heart, I will always believe we would have been married a third and final time.'See the full content of this document
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An Eternal Love ... For the Bottle
After 500-odd pages of drinks, rows, and shopping followed by drinks, rows and shopping, all but the most intoxicated readers will breathe a sigh of relief that this most glittering of groundhog days has at last come to an end. The sad truth is that it is less a story about love or glamour than about alcoholism. Above all else, Burton and Taylor were married not to each other ...
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