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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)791.430280922The arts Recreational and performing arts Public performances Film, Radio, and Television Film Techniques, procedures, apparatus... Acting and performance ActorsRatingAverage:
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Baffling, acute, digressive, undisciplined, thoughtful, selfish, observant, laconic, opiniated, well wriiten, vulgar, knowledgeable, insensitive. This book is all of these things and more. And despite myself, I have to say mostly brilliant. ( )