Books To Help You Remember The Great Elizabeth Taylor

Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

This soapy, delicious and highly literary double biography, which came out in hardcover last year (and which I hear is now being rushed to paperback by May), was excerpted for a Vanity Fair cover story along with some of the most striking pictures I have ever seen of the couple at the height of their romance. Kashner and Schoenberger make the convincing argument that to understand the complete Elizabeth Taylor story, one must understand the Taylor-Burton story: the couple never truly fell out of love with each other, and continued to circle around each other like exotic birds until Burton's sudden death in 1984. Taylor kept the last letter that Burton ever gave her by her bedside until her own death, and it is so poignant to read pieces of it now (excerpted from the book) after she has passed: "We are such doomed fools. Unfortunately, we know it. So I have decided that, for a second or two, the precious potential of you in the next room is the only thing in the world worth living for. After your death there shall only be one other and that will be mine. Or I possibly think, vice versa. Ravaged love...Rich."

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