Word: burtons
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...published that should give her a permanent place in the Gossip Hall of Fame. The first, Kitty Kelley's Elizabeth Taylor is about the lady herself. The second, Eddie: My Life, My Loves is the autobiography of her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher. The third, Paul Ferris' Richard Burton, is a biography of her fifth and sixth husband. But all are really, at least in the good parts, about...
...fact, from all the evidence here, Taylor-not to mention Burton and Fisher-spent much of the time proving just the opposite. She desperately tried to get out of a picture, Butterfield 8, that eventually won her an Academy Award. When the film was first shown to her and the ever compliant Fisher, they thought it was so bad that they threw their drinks at the screen. She felt more at home in Cleopatra, but off-camera she quickly fell under the spell of Burton, her Antony. He, in turn, held her in contempt, at least at the beginning...
These books are full of silly superlatives, but here is one they forgot: not since 390 B.C., when the sacred geese warned that invading Gauls were climbing to the top of the Capitol, had Rome heard so much cackling as it did over the Taylor-Burton affair. Taylor worked and played with Burton during the day, then came home to Fisher at night, all in full view of paparazzi. One day, Fisher recounts, "she brought Burton to the villa. Burton immediately went into some kind of act. He turned to Elizabeth and growled, 'Who do you love?' Terrified...
...Opinion Pageis a regular feature of the Crimson. It is the one place in the paper where those who are not Crimson editors can have their work published. We are now soliciting pieces from Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and members of the community. Contact Linda Drucker or Burton Jablin at the Crimson...
...five hours in meetings with Reagan before continuing on to Cancun, Mexico, for a 22-nation summit meeting to discuss economic cooperation between rich and poor countries. Last week, after engineering a devaluation of the franc (see following story), Mitterrand was interviewed by TIME Correspondents Jordan Bonfante and Sandra Burton in the gilded salon dore of the Elysée Palace. Throughout, the President exuded the confidence of someone who had occupied the office not for five months but for years. Asked what had surprised him most on coming to power, Mitterrand replied: "Nothing at all. It was just...