"Furious Love"

Why are movie stars and their love lives so intriguing?  Why, more specifically, was Elizabeth Taylor's life with Richard Burton so compelling?  What made the public follow them with such rapt attention? Was it their drinking, their extreme spending, their chemistry, their make ups and break ups? Yes, it was all of those elements and more.  It was their dedication to one another and need to be themselves, which I think was ultimately their undoing.

After Elizabeth's death this March, I read "Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century" by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.   I am not sure I loved it, but I am not sure if you can love a story that is marked by excess of nearly every kind.  I am sure, however, that they loved one another till the day they died; Richard in 1984 and Elizabeth in 2011.   

Look at how gorgeous they were.