by Sam Kashner
“You remind me quite distinctly…Richard!”: Ibid., 206–07.
“Hey Lumps,…”: Burton letter to Taylor, B-T Archive.
“[Spencer] Tracy’s drunks…”: quoted in Alpert, 208.
“could see him getting older…”: Ibid.
“You’re so tough…” anecdote: Kate Burton’s interview in Palmer’s In from the Cold.
“She was stronger than Richard…”: quoted in Alpert, 207.
“I owe the public who pays…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, 174.
“My Darling, I think I’d better go…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“Dear Eddie, please believe…”: quoted in Alpert, 207.
“Get that woman…”: Ibid., 208.
“Dearest Child,…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“This is for Nathalie”: Alpert, 209.
“It’s a triumph of life…”: Authors’ conversation with Gabriel Byrne.
“I’m as thrilled by the English…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 267.
“She had this extraordinary…”: Authors’ interview with Waris Hussein, March 18, 2008.
“charming and sober…colonized by England”: Ibid.
“Now everybody is…” anecdote: Ibid.
“that blue nightie…lovely love”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“wonderfully nourishing sense…”: Hussein.
“pirates on the main…”: Bragg, 414.
“Continued with the same gifted…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“he hated it”: Hussein.
“astronomical…their every whim”: Authors’ interview with John Heyman.
“the critics were waiting…”: Hussein.
“a matched pair of thudding…an autopsy”: quoted in Kelley, 289.
“he’s never more than…”: all dialogue from Divorce His Divorce Hers, DVD.
“just went down…”: Hussein.
“Years later, I met with…”: Ibid.
“If there is one thing…”: Maddox, 229.
“spellbound by the couple…”: Dominick Dunne, “The Queen and I,” Vanity Fair, March 2007.
“at the peak of…on the screen”: Ibid.
“seethed on the sidelines…”: Ibid.
“drank champagne…”: Heymann, 313.
“I don’t like the thought…offend me”: Ferris, 230.
“Richard Jenkins, Richard Burton…”: Interview with Gianni Bozzacchi.
“they fell out of love”: Dunne.
“a mini-Cleopatra”: quoted in Heymann, 316.
“So My Lumps, You’re off…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“They were like brothers…”: Spoto, 351.
“Why did you ever…”: quoted in Bragg, 417.
“I am convinced it would be…”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 15: MASSACRE IN ROME
“…[I]f you leave me…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“I don’t want to be…”: quoted in Kelley, 295.
“The last day of March…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“Perhaps my indifference to…”: quoted in Kelley, 291–92.
“I love you, lovely woman…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“Can we get the hell…”: Ibid.
“affectionate rows…he didn’t love her”: quoted in Gerald Clarke, Capote (New York: Random House, 1988), 270–71.
“BELOVED IDIOT. MISS YOU…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“Elizabeth has always fancied…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 206.
“Going out was life…”: quoted in Spoto, 342.
“Well, first of all”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“Richard had so much…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, photo caption (no page number).
“I will not talk about…”: Caute, 296.
“I have never quite got over…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“You are too old a hand…”: Caute, 296.
“risotto, roasted Palumbo fish…”: Walker, 321.
“a Dior suit, matching handbag…”: Kelley, 300.
“The stone had been offered…”: quoted in Kelley, 300.
“[t]all and extraordinary…”: Burton, “My Friend Sophia,” Ladies’ Home Journal, 1973.
“I knew he was flirting…”: Taylor, My Love Affair with Jewelry, 118.
“Today is the second sad…”: quoted in Bragg, 418.
“I don’t want to be…”: quoted in Kelley, 295.
“Gee, she has everything…”: Ibid.
“Let’s face it, I was…”: quoted in Fleming, Vogue.
“You fuckin’ English!” anecdote: Interview with Gianni Bozzacchi.
“He came onto the set…”: quoted in Kelley, 299.
“Public pressure to be…. ‘drinking problem’”: Dorothy Cameron Disney, “Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton: Why This Marriage Can’t Be Saved,” Ladies’ Home Journal, October 1973.
“E. T. Burton. It may very well be…”: Letter from Richard Burton, B-T Archive.
“You asked me to write the truth…”: Ibid.
“If anybody hurts you…”: Ibid.
“Hello, Lumpy…”: Munn, 203.
“I’m the husband…”: Ibid.
“Elizabeth Taylor and Richard…”: quoted in Kelley, 299.
“It was a wonder…in fucking agony!”: quoted in Munn, 207.
“which was only at the end…”: Interview with Bozzacchi.
“Tell us about Dylan Thomas!…”: quoted in Alpert, 218.
“My father was a drinker…liquor helps”: quoted in Bragg, 420–21.
“I wouldn’t have survived…”: quoted in Munn, 207.
“was drinking not for…”: Ibid.
“get a single line…”: Ibid., 208.
“This man is dying”: Alpert, 219.
irreconcilable…“became intolerable”: Walker, 323.
“Do you think we’ve…”: Munn, 211.
“She was down to a secretary…”: Walker, 323.
“darling,” or “sweetnose,” etc.: Ibid., 325.
“pretty but impertinent”: quoted in Bragg, 269.
“I never looked so good…”: quoted in Walker, 325.
“Tonight…we fly to Johannesburg…”: Bragg, 397.
“I thought all through…got stoned”: Taylor, early draft of “Richard Again,” Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1976. Private Collection.
“That’s where I would like…”: Ibid.
to revivify their lives: Kay Redfield Jamison, Exuberance (New York: Knopf, 2004), 320.
“understood the consequences…”: Walker, 328.
“witnessed by two hippos”: Taylor, “Richard Again.”
“I love him, deeply…”: Ibid.
“Dearest Hubs—”: Letter from Elizabeth Taylor, B-T Archives.
“Sturm has remarried Drang…”: quoted in Maddox, 233.
“like a man who wasn’t…”: quoted in Kelley, 321.
“But I could see…”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 16: PRIVATE LIVES
“Everyone bought tickets to watch…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 98.
“I’ve never found a part as good…”: quoted in Jenkins, 242.
“You have the guts of…”: quoted in Kelley, 323.
“At this performance…”: Alpert, 235–36.
“It was the first time…”: quoted in Bragg, 437.
“Immediately, everyone in every…”: Interview with Liz Smith and Denis Ferrara.
“Why the hell did you…”: Alpert, 233.
“She came out…”: Interview with Smith and Ferrara.
“…the actor’s performance…”: New York Times, March 7, 1976.
“You must never do anything…”: Steverson, 199.
“Was it not Francis Bacon…”: Bragg, 441.
“I think Suzy Hunt…”: Palmer’s In from the Cold.
contributing to the deli
nquency: Spoto, 361–62.
“redundant…nothing to do”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 40.
“too passionate…little Republican ensembles”: Ibid., 39.
“Eating filled the lonely hours…”: Ibid., 44.
“Always a bride, never…”: Oscar Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968), 120.
“It represented a different phase…”: quoted in Spoto, 384.
“John and I never had people in…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 44.
“Little Heifer”: Spoto, 374.
“the strength to recreate…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 88.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE…: Steverson, 210.
“I want it out!” anecdote: Alpert, 248–49.
“and very un-happy”: quoted in Bragg, 453.
“the panacea of a drink…Disgusting”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 451.
“a grotesque exaggeration…I’ve gone too far!”: Ibid., 466–67.
“big ‘fuck-yous’…”: Interview with Liz Smith.
“she’ll have to get him…”: Ibid.
“I love you” anecdote: quoted in Kelley, 415.
“the most unforgettable…”: Conversation with Gabriel Byrne.
“Get out” anecdote: Kelley, 416.
smitten…“I love the woman”: Private Lives clipping file, March 2, 1982, Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
“I couldn’t take it…” and “…a figure of the past”: quoted in Kelley, 415.
“There’s nowhere to go…”: quoted in Maddox, 247.
“I knew the role…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 97.
“You’re not really…” and “…make me do it”: quoted in Alpert, 261.
“‘The Liz and Dick Show’…” and “…Nouveau York”: undated article, clipping file, Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
“He’d lost all the weight…”: Authors’ interview with John Cullum. August 4, 2009.
“E…. drinking. Also, has not…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 472.
“Elizabeth was a natural…”: Cullum interview.
“Richard started laughing…”: Ibid.
“was a circus…”: quoted in Bragg, 475.
“Elizabeth would be there…”: Cullum interview.
“This just proves it…”: quoted in Bragg, 475.
“They had lived Private Lives…”: Cullum interview.
“Poor Sibyl…. I suppose…” and all subsequent dialogue: Noël Coward, Private Lives, Act II, scene i., Collected Plays: Two (London: Methuen Publishing, Ltd., 1999), 43.
“a calculated business venture…”: New York Times, May 9, 1983.
“the clinical detachment…”: Ibid.
“the Hitler Diaries…”: James Brady, “Private Lives,” clipping file, Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
“They have become one…”: Melvin Maddocks, Christian Science Monitor, April 25, 1983.
“The Dance of Death…”: Variety, “Private Lives,” clipping file, Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
“Lizandick (‘liz n ‘dik) n. pl….”: People, May 23, 1983, “Private Lives,” clipping file, Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
“a caricature of a…”: Boston Globe, undated review, “Private Lives,” clipping file.
“she was hurt…”: Cullum interview.
“Liz & Dick: Damn the critics…”: Amy Pagnozzi and James Norman, “Liz & Dick,” New York Post, May 9, 1983.
“I wouldn’t have missed…”: quoted in Alpert, 261.
“When the hell…” anecdote: Ibid.
“It didn’t take much…”: Cullum interview.
“She can do everything…”: quoted in Bragg, 469.
“lovely Sally…”: Ibid., 471.
“I think Richard really tried…”: Cullum interview.
“I began to crack…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 98.
“Do I really look fat?…”: Marie Brenner, “The Liz and Dick Show,” New York Magazine, May 9, 1983.
“came in almost professorial…”: Cullum interview.
“It became a twenty-four-hour…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 98.
“She would just grab…”: quoted in Bragg, 477.
“That’s our girl…”: Ibid.
“The Liz ’n’ Dick Show…the audience LOVED her!”: New York Post, November 14, 1983.
“When we were able to be…”: quoted in New York Post, clipping file.
“awash in self-pity and self-disgust”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 99.
“We’ve never really…”: Jenkins, 242.
“The bond between them…”: Ibid.
“Good-bye, love”: Conversation with Elizabeth Taylor confidante.
EPILOGUE
“Richard and I lived life…”: Taylor, Elizabeth Takes Off, 85.
“You never get to be…”: Cottrell, 366.
“He was like an old…”: Authors’ interview with Michael Radford, April 1, 2008.
“We got a telegram…”: Ibid.
“Mr. Brando does not…” anecdote: Ibid.
“He didn’t drink at all…”: Ibid.
“The other thing is…”: Ibid.
“Richard had that thing…”: Ibid.
“about his childhood…”: Bragg, 483.
“He discussed many things…”: Kashner, “A First-Class Affair,” Vanity Fair, July 2003, 151.
“She still fascinates…”: Alpert, 265.
“Burton had words…” pub fight anecdote: Authors’ interview with Gianni Bozzacchi.
“was a tragedy for us…”: Bragg, 485.
“chorded and powerful…”: David Denby, “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” Premiere, February 1991.
“the Welsh voice…”: Burton’s interview with Michael Parkinson, BFI Archive.
“The multitudinous seas incarnadine…”: quoted in Bragg, 487.
“I was still madly in love…”: Anne Taylor Fleming, “Elizabeth: ACT II,” Vogue, October 1987. 434 “a queen in mourning”: Interview with Robert Hardy.
“Those are my memories”: Elizabeth Taylor on Larry King Live, May 30, 2006.
“It’s the perfect relationship!…”: Anecdote from Elizabeth Taylor’s confidante.
“the greatest film actress…”: Burton letter to Taylor, B-T Archive.
“You know, of all of my films…” Authors’ conversation with Elizabeth Taylor.
“After Richard, the men in my life…”: Ibid.
“for her history and courage”: Liz Smth, “Liz Taylor Performs Love Letters,” Variety, December 3, 2007.
She’s kept that letter anecdote: Conversation with Elizabeth Taylor confidante.
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