Furious Love (63 page)

“making out”: Ibid., 390.

“so that you can feel…”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Taylor
, 173.

“with half a dozen…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 393.

“[F]irm as they are…”: Ibid., 404.

“like cats after cream…”: Cottrell, 359.

“a genius…” Tammy Grimes quoted in Cottrell, 361.

“to be done with immense…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 405.

“plays the organ…”: Ibid., 406.

“If he sold himself…”: Alpert, 204.

“both mercurial, jealous…will ever happen”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Taylor
, 135–36.

“fell in love with her…”: Taylor,
My Love Affair with Jewelry
, 50.

“He didn't make me look…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 405–06.

“We would love you to come…”: Ibid., 407.

“It cld be a step toward…”: Ibid., 410.

“Love Is Everlasting”: Walker, 314.

“by God, they're really good…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 410.

“One day somebody else…”: Taylor,
My Love Affair with Jewelry
, 73.

“Ifor is very near the end…”: Burton notebooks, Bragg, 363.

“he was the nearest to a father…”: Jenkins, 179.

CHAPTER 14: DIVORCE HIS DIVORCE HERS

“I shall miss you with passion…”: Burton letter to Taylor, B-T Archive.

“Maybe we loved each other…”: Taylor letter to Burton, July 4, 1973, Ibid.

“Richard needed their protection…”: Alpert, 207.

“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 delinquency: 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.

T
HE 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.