Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just another medical or archaeological triumph, for to have dented the news with a non-disaster item for so prolonged a time during the Watergate hearings was a tough task. Other non-unique stories that echoed the past passed with barely a ripple of eyebrows--Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton, Atlantis was rediscovered off Cadiz, Spain. Other biographies of Monroe had been done before and passed out of print without a whimper, and many questioned what Mailer had brought to the task that gave it such notoriety...
They were back in Rome where it all started eleven years ago during the filming of Cleopatra. This time it was quits for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. After a 17-day separation and brief reconciliation, the Burtons were filing for a "friendly" divorce in Switzerland, their legal residence. In spite of rumors about Peter Lawford, Warren Beatty and Helmut Berger, Liz denied that there were any other men involved. Richard was equally insistent that he had no new loves. Meanwhile, Liz began work on her new film The Driver's Seat. Her comment to those who tried...
Down the steps of the private jetliner that had landed near Rome came the secretaries, a hairdresser and a pair of Pekingese dogs. Then Elizabeth Taylor Burton descended in order to rejoin her husband after their 17-day split...
Elizabeth had nothing to say to the press as she got into a car to be driven to the black Rolls-Royce where Richard Burton was waiting. Both Burtons were wet- eyed as they embraced, then sped to Sophia Loren's clay-red villa, close by in s the Alban Hills. Fans are advised to 5 stand by for the next installment...
...BILL EVENS TRIO was the tightest set and it was apparent that these musicians had played together before. They gave a polished performance in which pianist Evans virtually outshone everyone at the jam session. The duet between Vibraphonist Gary Burton and Evans was one of the most outstanding sequences of the night and Evans's finale--a vibrating crescendoing run--concluded the best set of the night...