This Is The Richard Burton Thread

that has rapidly become my favorite thing on twitter

Aug 2 67 Elizabeth was at the bar like a real broad and a two-fisted one. In the middle of the early night Elizabeth and I exchanged insults in which I said that she was not 'a woman but a man' and in which she called me 'little girl.' A lovely charming decadent hopeless couple.

— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) August 2, 2019

Sep 17 71 E models for a furrier. I wonder what happened to the pledge that E signed in common with other famed ladies that she would never wear the furs of anything in future except pest furs and vermin. Must ask her and will record the answer tomorrow.

— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) September 17, 2019

Oct 18 66 We drank Sambuca and said nasty things to each other. We drove back in silence to Postiano. I slept most of the way. We had soup in the room and read and slept. Christ how I hate such days.

— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) October 18, 2019

14 Feb 72 I don't think however that I will get a face lift like that abject Rod Steiger who not only admits to it but makes him look like one half of a naked ass-hole.

— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) February 14, 2020

5 Apr 66 E arrived for lunch.....then Mia Farrow and Mike Nichols arrived from NY. That M. Nichols really gets the girls. I wish Farrow would put on 15lbs and grow her hair.

— Richard Burton (@BurtonDiaries) April 5, 2020

Rewatched Cleopatra the other day because I got the Bluray for almost nothing (I've seen this film off and on since I was nine, what can I say?) and Burton's veering between utter staginess and the occasional bit of quiet physical acting is both the schizophrenic story of the production and kinda why I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iO76MkyhEI

is he supposed to be drunk in the film?

looks like The Klansman, so anything is possible

via Criterion Current:

Reviewing Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century for Vanity Fair, Hadley Hall Meares calls it “the definitive book about Liz and Dick.” Kashner and Schoenberger tell the story of “the couple’s torrid beginnings and their extravagant life as ‘doomed nomads,’ drinking their way through three continents, charming and challenging everyone they met—especially each other.” After their second divorce, Taylor is said to have told a friend, “I don’t want to be that much in love ever again.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/08/elizabeth-taylor-richard-burton-marriage-furious-love