Golden Couple: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Authors Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger talk about the famous relationship.
'Furious Love' Authors Take Us Inside the Taylor-Burton Love Story ...
Burton and Taylor left their existing marriages for each other in 1962, when such infidelity could have brought down their careers. "She did have this love enduring affair and it had all the problems that contemporary couples have, and many more tailored just for them -- the alcoholism and the substance abuse was a big part of it, the fact that they both had careers that took... And yet, despite all of that, it was a real, enduring love. The term "paparazzi" had only just been coined, and the couple were their first and greatest subjects. They were filming 'Cleopatra' in Rome at the time -- an epic whose conspicuous opulence and over-blown budget became a metaphor for their relationship....
(Courtesy "Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century" by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger Harper)
For nearly a quarter of a century, were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called "the marriage of the
book "Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century," by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger -- and excerpted in the
