- the definitive, larger-than-life account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever -- the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. 

  

In the history of Hollywood, the marriage of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton reigns above all others.  The blossoming of their love affair on the set of CLEOPATRA gave rise to the rabid gossip and wide-eyed celebrity adoration that are staples of today’s tabloid media. Veteran reporter Sam Kashner and noted biographer Nancy Schoenberger draw upon brand-new research and interviews -- including unprecedented access to Taylor herself, to the Burton family, and to Taylor’s extensive personal correspondence – to write the first definitive account of these two classic subjects, the true king and queen of Hollywood.

 

Unsparing in its honesty and shocking on many fronts, FURIOUS LOVE covers Burton’s troubled family connections -- as the twelfth of thirteen children and the son of a poor miner from Wales -- and his horrible, literally crippling alcoholism, which threatened his acting career and eventually killed him. It covers the notorious and jaw-dropping sexual escapades and problems experienced by the couple, who were seemingly perfect and beautiful on the outside but whose travails were legion. It explores in depth the power play, struggle, and audacity of Burton’s wooing of Taylor, which began while Taylor was still married to Eddie Fisher. Thanks to the authors’ access to Taylor’s private collection of letters and correspondence, the book includes intimate and startling details about the sexual, romantic, and medical issues that plagued the couple throughout their long courtship, marriages, and bitter separations.

 

FURIOUS LOVE will be a must-read for fans of Hollywood and for anyone who appreciates glitz and glamour. No other couple in the history of Hollywood has been as equally glamorous, audacious, trendsetting, and memorable as Taylor and Burton. Their legacy endures. Their place in the pantheon of Tinseltown is hallowed.

 

O Autorze:

Sam Kashner is the author of three nonfiction books and one novel, SINATRALAND, and is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, Esquire and GQ.  Nancy Schoenberger, author of DANGEROUS MUSE: THE LIFE OF CAROLINE BLACKWOOD, is a former executive director of the Academy of American Poets and was an associate producer of the PBS film series VOICES AND VISIONS. She teaches creative writing at the College of William and Mary.

Autor: Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

Data dodania: 2010-02-24