Word: burtons
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...most famous, and the silliest, Cleopatra, long ago in the early '60s, in an apocalyptically awful movie that was at the time the most expensive ever made--much of the expense being run up in the care and feeding of Elizabeth Taylor and her dipsomaniacal Welsh Antony, Richard Burton...
...actuality of Egyptian history, Cleopatra was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. In American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, such gaudy shamelessness was still a surprise. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. The Queen of the Nile and the Prince of Denmark fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess--except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and Presidents were assassinated...
High-spirited decadence, a conspicuous consumption of beauty and talent. Elizabeth and Richard were Scott and Zelda. They divorced, remarried each other, divorced again. Burton made a procession of increasingly awful movies and finally died, at 58, of his exhaustingly bad habits...
DIED. JOSEPH BURTON DELACRUZ, 62, former president of the National Congress of American Indians; of a heart attack; in Seattle. An advocate of tribal sovereignty, he battled federal agencies over fishing and timber rights...
DIED. ALEXANDER COHEN, 79, voluble Broadway impresario who brought the Tonys to TV and Richard Burton's Hamlet to Broadway; in New York City...