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...Judy Garland wore herself out and died at 47. Two sex goddesses and a gifted waif, all of them addictive messes at one time or another. Taylor had eight marriages--the doggedly repeated triumph of hope over experience. The great beauty went from man to man like Mr. Toad in his short-lived passions for boats, for the gypsy caravan, for motorcars...
BEST PLACE TO STAY: Toad Hall Bed and Breakfast, an English country home in the style of the children's classic Wind in the Willows...
There's comfort in the reliability, the seeming permanence of her presence. Taylor had eight marriages - the doggedly repeated triumph of hope over experience. The great beauty went from man to man like Mr. Toad in his short-lived passions for boats, for the gypsy caravan, for motorcars...
...encompassing research, it is his undeluded sympathy that persuades us. Chatwin "needed someone both to run away from and to come back to," Shakespeare writes, with typical shrewdness, "and he found in Elizabeth that person." In the woman who was forced to work as a cashier in a Toad Hall garden center while her now famous husband gallivanted around the world collecting lovers, the author finds a hero more enduring than her lacquered Mercutio...
Kate Winslet comes on as a dull yet impressionable girl seeking spiritual redemption in the ashram of a slightly suspect Indian maharishi. Before Holy Smoke! ends, she will be found wandering the Australian outback, naked as a jaybird and horny as a toad, seeking quite a different sort of redeeming experience...