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Furious Love
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal letters and journals, and he and Schoenberger have also interviewed the Burton family at length, including Burton's actress daughter Kate. This is truly an authorized and singularly informed biography of these two larger-than-life stars, and of their glamorous, volatile, and audacious relationship.
"Life outdoes movie melodrama in this raucous, intimate, dual biography of Hollywood's ultimate It Couple. . . . a reminder . . . of what a feast celebrity can be." —Publishers Weekly
"Furious Love rises above mere celebrity gossip by humanizing the mythic couple, taking readers deep into their A-list world of conspicuous consumption and private pain." —Bookmarks magazine
"A mesmerizing tale." —Booklist
"Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger provide dramatic historical insights into Hollywood's stormiest, up-and-down relationship." —Douglas Brinkley, Presidential historian and New York Times–bestselling author of American Moonshot
"Where this book breaks ground is in its ability to humanize these colossal celebs. . . . Reads like a Shakespearean drama." —USA Today
"[A] powerful portrait of the ecstasies and travails of overreaching passion and crippled psyches . . . " —Boston Globe
"[A] five-alarm blaze of a biography that enthralls like an Olympian epic." —Philadelphia Inquirer
"An indulgent, plenty-of-fun book . . . the authors make shrewd observations . . . a good beach book." —New York Times Book Review
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Publisher's Weekly
April 5, 2010
Life outdoes movie melodrama in this raucous, intimate, dual biography of Hollywood's ultimate “It Couple.” As told by journalist Kashner (Sinatraland
) and biographer Schoenberger (Dangerous Muse: The Life of Caroline Blackwood
), the romance between the glittering Tinseltown diva and the sonorous, self-loathing Shakespearean reprises their co-starring movie roles: it has the passion of Cleopatra
(the Vatican condemned their on-set adultery as “erotic vagrancy”), the riotous merriment of The Taming of the Shrew
, the poisonous marital fights of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
and a cast of thousands of paparazzi and shrieking fans. The well-researched narrative—the authors make good use of Burton's engaging love letters and diary entries—offers juicy details of his epic alcoholism and her towering tantrums, and is fascinated with the jewelry pieces, like the Taj Mahal diamond that Taylor famously extracted from Burton as tribute or penance. But from the binges and bling emerges a revealing portrait of the magnetic qualities—her vulgar warmth, his soulful virility—that glued the couple together. Here is that rare love story that holds one's interest beyond the wedding—and a reminder, after the thin gruel of Brangelina, of what a feast celebrity can be. Photos.
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