Furious Love (60 page)

“Before I met her…”: Tynan interview,
Playboy
, and Hollis Alpert,
Burton
(New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1986), 122.

“third-rate chorus girl”: Kelley, 233.

“It's hard to believe…”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Takes Off
, 74.

“like Never Never Land…”: quoted in Lee Server,
Ava Gardner
,
Love Is Nothing
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006), 422.

“made equally unfit…”: Ibid., 420.

“She wanted to be…”: Jenkins, 142.

“You should be more careful…”: Ibid., 143.

“When she left the room…”: Ibid.

“In Mexico…”: Ibid., 143–44.

“Get this maniac off…”: Alpert, 133.

“there were more reporters…”: John Huston,
An Open Book
(New York: Ballantine, 1981), 346–47.

“the great day when…”: Ibid., 347.

“abandonment and cruel…”: Kelley, 227.

“embarrassing her publicly”: Ibid., 228.

“There is no more delectable…”: Burton, “Dauntless Travellers,”
Vogue
, October 15, 1971, 130.

“I used to spend all day”: Kelley, 239.

“Richard lives each…”: Axel Madsen,
John Huston
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1978), 204.

“Everyone was drinking…”: Server, 421.

“She can outdrink…”: Kelley, 238.

“Richard, take a drink…”: Ibid.

“with a few bottles…”: Ibid., 239.

“sex, drinks, drugs, vice”: Madsen, 206.

“a French tart”: Kelley, 227.

“the street we live on…”: “Dauntless Travellers,” 130.

“the thrilling still music…” and anecdote, Ibid.

“We must have been…”: Ibid.

“My father would never say…” and anecdote: Roddy,
LOOK
, January 28, 1964.

“Boys, our troubles…”: Ibid.

“loved my shape…”: conversation with Taylor.

“Where I was wrong,” Jenkins, 143–44.

CHAPTER 4: NO MORE MARRIAGES

“You're the one they've come to see…”: Ferris, 177.

“I say we will have no more…”: Alexander Walker,
The Life of Elizabeth Taylor
(New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990), 274.

“Mike and I hope to have…”: Spoto, 188, and
Elizabeth Taylor by Elizabeth Taylor
, original manuscript.

“He was simply splendid…”: quoted in Steverson, 58.

“I can never repay him…”: Burton's televised interview with Michael Parkinson, November 23, 1974, BFI Archive.

“so the beauty of the language…”: Steverson, 94.

“isolated, apart, in a world…”: Burton's interview with Kenneth Tynan, 1967;
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
DVD special materials.

“I do feel that on the stage…”: Ibid.

losing a thumbnail: Authors' interview with John Cullum, August 4, 2009.

“I bleed more than Laertes…”:
New York Times
, June 17, 1964.

“I've been a bleeder…”: Ibid.

“the best seat at the restaurant…”: Parkinson interview, BFI.

“had a kind of private veil…”: Ibid.

“Drink not the wine…”: Alpert, 137.

“Ghastly crowds of morons…”: Sir John Gielgud,
A Life in Letters
(New York: Arcade Publishers, 2004), 305.

“Mostly, she stayed in…”: Authors' interview with Richard L. Sterne, February 10, 2008.

“read with such enormous energy…”: Ibid.

“He had an amazing…”: Ibid.

“Is there such a thing…”: Burton's interview with Parkinson, BFI Archive.

“It's the deep, dark answer…”: Ibid.

“was very quiet…”: Interview with Sterne.

“We shall be sold out…”: Gielgud, 304–05.

“Richard adored Sir John…”: Sterne.

“directors are relatively…”: Tynan interview.

“an unmitigated disaster”:
Toronto Daily Star
, Richard Burton clipping file, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library.

“magnificent…”:
Toronto Telegram
, Academy Archive.

“The crew adore him”: Gielgud, 306.

“treated everybody…”: Sterne.

“There was one performance…”: Ibid.

“The first time I played it…”: Tynan interview.

“You never knew…”: Sterne.

“couldn't keep their hands…”: quoted in Bragg, 187.

“everybody wanted to be…”: Cullum.

“Physically, Burton was magnetic…”: Sterne.

“Richard belonged to…”: Ibid.

“Richard is at his most agreeable…”: Gielgud, 306.

“Richard was so energetic…”: Sterne.

“There were six of us…”: Ibid.

“He didn't like to be touched…”: Ibid.

“Elizabeth was always there…”: Ibid.

“She couldn't have been…”: Ibid.

“Elizabeth Burton and I…”:
Los Angeles Times
, March 16, 1964.

“I say, we will have…”: Walker, 274.

“We thought there was going to be…”: Sterne.

“shouting, clawing admirers”:
Herald Examiner
, March 23, 1964.

“was being pulled…to this extent”: Ibid.

“a theatrical experience”:
Los Angeles Times
, March 26, 1964.

“poetry and passion….”:
Boston Herald
, March 26, 1964.

“one of the very few actors…”: Hume Cronyn,
A Terrible Liar
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1991), 330.

“was enveloped in…Dickenliz”: Ibid., 356.

Taylor would attend…: Steverson, 83.

“a great roar…‘Fuck you—'” anecdote: Cronyn, 358.

“Mr. Burton is without feeling” and subsequent reviews: Steverson, 82–83.

“We could tell something…”: Sterne.

“I was tearing along…”: Bragg, 197–98.

“We have been playing…”: David, 149.

“I had been asking him…carry any money” anecdote: Sterne.

“It was always hard for him…”: Bragg, 198.

“If she doesn't get bad…”: Ibid., 196.

“Her makeup smeared…”: Fisher,
My Lives
,
My Loves
, 217.

“was reminded of that time…”: Sterne.

CHAPTER 5: IN FROM THE COLD

“I love not being me…”: Taylor quoted in Bragg, 192.

“how would you like to travel…”: Burton, “Dauntless Travellers.”

“professional itinerants”: Ibid.

“Travelling with Elizabeth…we separate countries into foods”: Ibid.

“a turbulent red wine…enchanting wife beside you”: Ibid.

“How would you like to…”: Ibid.

“the new Mr. Box Office”:
Time
magazine, Burton clipping file.

“For the money, we will dance”: Spoto, 300.

“From the Beginning, They Knew…”: Movie poster advertisment for
The V.I.P.s.

“one of the biggest homes…”: Peter Bart, “Picture Painting and Passion,”
New York Times
, September 1964.

“would have ended…”:
Hollywood Reporter
, December 16, 1964.

“a special unveiling”:
Hollywood Reporter
, January 1, 1964.

“soggy, woolly, maundering…silly movie” and “sense of sin”:
New Yorker
, July 16, 1965.

“the mess of windy platitudes…”:
Saturday Review
, July 24, 1965.

“nice, taut little drama…bungalow”:
Variety
, October 15, 1971.

“any poor soul”:
Saturday Review.

“It was my betrayal…”: Dalton Trumbo and Michael Wilson,
The Sandpiper
, DVD.

“men have been staring…”: Ibid.

“an elderly governess…royal visit”: Bragg, 192.

bring Jessica into their household: Authors' interview with Gianni Bozzacchi, March 21, 2009.

estimated $50 million: Bragg, 195.

“The Black Dog—”: Authors' interview with Michael York, May 15, 2009.

hiraeth…“
a longing for”: Bragg, 199.

“a chemical imbalance”: Ibid.

thirty-seven tailored suits: Cottrell, 292.

“even today I can remember…”: Claire Bloom,
Leaving a Doll's House
(New York and Canada: Little, Brown & Co., 1996), 48.

“Burton, who had an encyclopedic…”: Ibid., 45.

“I haven't looked at…”: Ibid., 87.

“Richard was tender…have received”: Ibid., 93.

shattered and humiliated: Steverson, 116.

“As Jimmy, he was able…”: Bloom, 107.

“hadn't changed at all…”: Bragg, 200.

“nervous, but all right”: Ibid.

“Burton was in the ring…”: Ibid., 120.

“Taylor was extremely upset…having me around”: Bloom, 119.

“Like the spirit…”: Ibid.

“not just Shakespeare…” quoted in Bragg, 201.

“I can't go to a pub anymore…”: Spoto, 307.

“It was without doubt…”: David, 293.

“It was like a fair here…”: quoted in Bragg, 187.

“I wouldn't be here now…”: Spoto, 306–07.

“He had a bottle of scotch…” anecdote: Bragg, 202.

“No one makes an entrance…”: Burt Boyar,
Photographs
, 105.

“Richard?…Yes, darling?” anecdote: Bragg, 202.

“nervous all day worrying…”: Burton notebooks entry, Bragg, 203.

“Went tramping with Michael…”: Ibid.

“an independent tornado”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Taylor
, 143.

“that lovely and loving Liza…” undated note from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor, B-T Archive.

CHAPTER 6: WHO'S AFRAID OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR?

“I
am
George.”: Kelley, 250.

“Let's face it—a lot of my life…”:
Elizabeth Taylor
excerpt,
Ladies' Home Journal
, November 1965, 81.

“all dark brightness…”: Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett,
Popism
:
The Warhol Sixties
(New York: Harvest Books, 1980), 144.

“A terrifying position…”: Authors' interview with Robert Hardy.

“the girls…in Brooklyn…”: Warhol, 36.

“She's discontent”: Edward Albee,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
DVD.

“When I saw the lines…”: Kelley, 246.

“taken an abiding dislike”: Jenkins, 157.

“You've only to read the first lines…”: Ibid., 158.

“You'd better play it…”: Kelley, 246.

“looked all wrong…” anecdote: Ernie Lehman's notebooks excerpt published in
Talk
, April 2000.

“Ernie, I'd have done this…”: Alpert, 154.

“You don't know anything…”: Ibid., 156.

“Fuck him!…But you know…”: Ibid.

“A movie is like a person…”: Leslie Halliwell and John Walker, ed.,
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies
, 15th edition (New York: HarperResource, 2003), 348.

“In fact, we later lost…”: Kelley, 248.

“somebody knows what I like”: Alpert, 166.

“was especially tough on her…”: Kelley, 249.

“a little harmless hilarity”:
Saturday Evening Post
, October 9, 1965.

“Fear no more the heat o' the sun…”: Poem and anecdote, Ibid.

“a very disturbing man…”: Ibid.

“You have to carry me…”: Ibid.

“7/6/65…A very exhilarating day…”: Lehman notebooks,
Talk.

“as much weight as she could…” anecdote:
Saturday Evening Post.

“a bit nervous…giving her a little kiss”:
Talk.

“Darling, everyone is so fantastic!” anecdote: Authors' conversation with Elizabeth Taylor.

“Elizabeth loves to fight…”: Alpert, 173, and Kelley, 251.

“It was very cathartic…”:
Elizabeth Taylor
, original manuscript.

“I am just constantly surprised…”:
Saturday Evening Post.

“I don't run out screaming…”: Ibid.

“Richard had black days…”: Ibid., 172–73.

“I can't act tonight”: Alpert, 172.

“Looking back now…”: Ibid., 172.

“it took the form of being abusive…”: Ibid., 173.

“She was constantly punching him”: Kelley, 251.

“I
am
George. George is me.”: Kelley, 250.

“as though I were George”: Alpert, 171.

“I am the Earth Mother…”: Albee,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
DVD.

“I'm loud…And I'm vulgar…”: Ibid.

“Musical beds is the faculty sport…”: Ibid.

“In a wretched part…”: quoted in Steverson, 54.

“I never had a better time in my life”: Taylor,
Elizabeth Taylor,
original manuscript.

“I'm paying her a million…”: Kelley, 253.

“…buying her a baby wolf.” anecdote: Lehman notebooks,
Talk.

“I finally know what it feels like…”:
Talk.

“no one under the age of eighteen…”:
Variety
, June 1, 1966.

gave the best performance…: Kelley, 259.

“a marvel of disciplined compassion…”:
Newsweek
, July 4, 1966.

“heroic calm…Burton simply soars…”: quoted in Kelley, 259–60.

“career had become only a way”:
Ladies' Home Journal
, November 1965, 149.

“We've got to stop moving around…”: Ibid., 152.

“No, we're terribly proud of you”: Ibid., 154.

“a perverse tease!…”: Ibid., 152.